Telcos yank FBI wiretaps
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'You phone bill is overdue' FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals have been repeatedly canceled by telephone companies because the bureau failed to pay their bills on time.â¦
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The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.
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The FBI has had some of its telephone wiretaps disconnected because it failed to pay its bills on time.
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Complex interception laws confuse Feds and ISPs An internal audit has discovered that the FBI overstepped the mark in intercepting communication records at least 1,000 times since 2002.â¦
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Bureau personnel who used misleading letters to obtain records from telephone companies face what could be the first criminal investigation of Patriot Act abuses.
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The FBI has effectively abandoned its custom-built Internet surveillance technology, once known as Carnivore, designed to read e-mails and other online communications among suspected criminals, terrorists and spies, according to bureau oversight reports submitted to Congress.
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The FBI was acting illegally when it used the USA Patriot Act to covertly obtain telephone, business and financial records about people living in the United States, according to an audit by the Justice Department. By the Associated Press.
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AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein breaks silence to tell ABC News' Nightline about the NSA eavesdropping on the internet, but reveals little new information. In 27B Stroke 6.
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And Huawei says 3Com espionage accusations are 'bullshit' The US Department of Justice yesterday announced further high profile arrests of Americans alleged to have acted as technology spies for communist China.â¦
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The FBI said Friday it has shut down an e-mail system that it uses to communicate with the public because of a possible security breach.
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Federal agency now turns to Internet service providers for information on people under investigation.
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Company that used pretexting to obtain and sell phone records and credit card information gives up ill-gotten gains.
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Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
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'Legislative equivalent of breaking and entering' The obsessive secrecy provided by the Patriot Act for certain domestic surveillance activities suffered a severe blow yesterday, as a federal judge struck down provisions of the Act that provided for expansive and secretive use of so-called "National Security Letters" (NSL) to obtain phone and email records.â¦
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The feds accidentally give a D.C. attorney a classified document showing that the NSA intercepted his phone calls without a warrant. When they ask for it back, they get a $2 million lawsuit along with it. By Ryan Singel.
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Software giant is taking the covers off its security intelligence.  About time.
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WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized computers, software and equipment as part of a probe into the illegal sharing of copyrighted movies, music and games over an Internet &#39;peer-to-peer&#39; (P2P) network, Attorney-General John