I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI
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For 18 tense months, a computer-savvy grifter named David Thomas runs a thriving online crime hub for bank heists, identity theft and counterfeiting, with the FBI paying the bills.  Part one of a three-part series by Kim Zetter.
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SAN FRANCISCO -    For ransom: your sensitive computer files. In the latest online scam, cybercrooks are breaking into the PCs of small businesses and individuals, locking up data and demanding money in return for freeing it.
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A former FBI agent and an Internet penny stock adviser were convicted Monday of mining government computers for confidential information they used to manipulate the stock market.
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For some, replying to Internet scams is a rewarding hobby. They call themselves scam-baiters, and they have started taking justice into their own hands.
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GADFLY ALREADY the internet age has given us 'phishing', when criminals use emails to persuade you to give them your bank details.  Now it seems we have the less crooked but nonetheless enraging online experience of 'philfing'  an acronym for 'purposely hiding what I'm looking for'.
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Servers seized by the FBI from the Indymedia alternative media network have been returned.
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Following his arrest in May, the teenage computer wizard admitted to police he wrote the code for Sasser and more than two dozen Netsky viruses that wreaked havoc across the Internet during the first few months of 2004.
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Will companies that make antispyware software detect key loggers implanted by federal agents? We survey 13 companies and include their answers verbatim.
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Several incidents highlight the dangers life online presents to preserving your privacy.
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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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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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A buddy of mine who once worked as a New York City assistant DA shared the following insight with me: Most criminals are not very bright. He and I had just seen a heist movie -- something where an evil genius and his sharp-as-tacks cronies had pulled of an inordinately complex scheme to knock over a bank, grabbing millions in the process. In truth, however, most criminals are more "Fargo" than "Oceans 13," and that goes for cyber criminals, as well.
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The Secret Service targeted a Web site, shadowcrew.com, hosted outside the United States, that acted as a kind of one-stop shop for stolen information and false documents.
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In every job that must be done there is an element of fun A former worker at a nanny agency has been charged with hacking offences.â¦
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Are you nervous about viruses, worms, spyware and other threats to your computer? Wish you had the power to appoint an intelligence czar to safeguard your PC?
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The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources. The system is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law...
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Also: Scientists activate that creepy feeling. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.