Feds launch Internet crime crackdown
249104
Federal agents armed with search warrants conducted raids in three states Wednesday as part of a nationwide crackdown on the theft of copyrighted materials through the Internet, the Justice Department announced.
578888
The FBI is adding more Internet crime suspects to its top lists of wanted criminals, signaling a growing interest in cracking down on cyber-crime. -washingtonpost.com
721211
For the first time outside London, Welsh businesses join workshops to speak to police about internet crime.
610339
In an attempt to stem the growing tide of online scams, identity theft and the proliferation of junk e-mail, the Justice Department and state law enforcement officials have initiated what
369150
Among the more than 150 cybercrime arrests and convictions announced Thursday by the Department of Justice was an original: the nation&#39;s first case alleging denial of service attacks against competitors to knock them offline.
329805
WASHINGTON - A summerlong effort targeting Internet crime has resulted in 103 arrests and 53 convictions on charges including use of &quot;spam&quot; e-mail to steal credit card numbers, computer hacking and online fraud, Justice Department officials said Thursday.
317662
Federal agents have initiated a two-pronged attack against online crime by arresting dozens for alleged cyberfraud and raiding a file-sharing network that allowed users to download copyrighted movies and music for free.
312753
US agents busted an online network suspected of allowing the illegal trading of hundreds of movies, songs, video games and software programs over the Internet, the first such federal action taken
741134
LONDON, Oct 9 (IPS) - Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of  Investigation (FBI) on Thursday seized two Internet servers in  Britain that host the web sites of the global news network  Indymedia. Two days later there was still no clarification of why  the computers were confiscated or who is holding them.
355666
WASHINGTON - Moving against Internet crime, the Justice Department on Wednesday disrupted a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted files and was engaged in a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam."   In the copyright case, search warrants were executed by the FBI in Texas, New York and Wisconsin targeted at computer servers that allowed users to illegally share music, movies, software and games.    The case marks the first federal criminal copyright action taken against a peer-to-peer, or P2P, network in which users can access files directly from the hard drives of fellow users' computers...
450538
Police in China's capital said yesterday that they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user's browser and walk, bike, or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
201276
The FBI seized computers and software as part of an investigation into illegal sharing of copyrighted materials over peer-to-peer networks, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced.
185120
More than 100 people have been arrested following the US law enforcement agencies&#39; latest offensive against Internet related crime.
333934
Tens of thousands of legitimate Web sites now function as weapons for Internet criminals, security vendors said Monday.
629579
The Department of Justice says dozens of people have been arrested or convicted for online crimes this summer, as part of its effort to show that the internet is not 'off-base for law enforcement,' according to Attorney General John Ashcroft.
89497
US authorities arrested at least 103 suspects and filed 117 criminal complaints since June 1 in a crackdown on various forms of online fraud, Attorney General John Ashcroft said.
188504
Several online journalists have been arrested, raising fears of a government crackdown on internet dissidents.