FBI Abandons Web Surveillance Technology
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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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A $170 million computer system intended to allow the FBI to better manage criminal and terrorism cases will have to be scrapped or require a lot of additional work, the Justice Department's inspector general said Thursday.
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Security researcher Jose Nazario says the concept of antivirus as the last line of defense has been thrown out the window. What should replace it?
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Fed up with technical excuses, FBI wants carriers to support eavesdropping capabilities for push-to-talk technology now.
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New technologies will make existing information security measures obsolete over the next five years, according to analyst Gartner.
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A website that allows whistle blowers to anonymously post sensitive  documents is taken offline in the US.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and antiwar organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.
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The FBI's Internet wiretaps after retiring "Carnivore" appear to involve compiling massive databases of information on thousands of users at a time.
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A federal judge struck down controversial portions of the USA Patriot Act in a ruling that declared them unconstitutional yesterday, ordering the FBI to stop its wide use of a warrantless tactic for obtaining e-mail and telephone data from private companies for counterterrorism investigations.
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Homeland Security ditches a 2003 data-mining program created to monitor immigration, customs, border protection and biological defense after investigators find it was tested with data about real people without meeting privacy requirements. DHS says the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement program was too time-consuming to use.
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Security service was discontinued because of compatibility problems with Windows.
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A technology expert explains how police broke up a global online porn ringâand why their methods should be a deterrent to future networks.
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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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The global nature of the Internet is posing new challenges to law enforcement agencies like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. In response, the FBI is reaching out to new partners, both in the private sector and in the international community, to help fight online identity thieves, computer hijackers, and other digital desperadoes known as &quot;botherders.&quot; The ongoing effort has been dubbed &quot;Operation Bot Roast.&quot;
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An FBI computer system that quickly screens gun buyers' backgrounds for criminal activity crashed several times over the past two days, officials said Monday.
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Plagued by regular breaches in the security of personal data, federal agencies were ordered Tuesday to eliminate the unnecessary collection and use of Social Security numbers by early 2009