Cybersecurity: FBI goes global on threats
By Ben Bain
Jan 12, 2009 - Federal Computer Week
Law enforcement officials continue to face in the age of global
interconnectedness and criminal behavior that operates without
regard to national borders. Last May, the Justice Department
announced charges against 38 people for their alleged involvement in
a computer and credit card fraud scheme that spanned the globe. It
was a case the FBI could not have solved without close coordination
with officials in Romania, because the international crime ring had
a significant base in Bucharest. The defendants were charged with
crimes related to phishing, tricking people into revealing personal
information and passwords that allowed the criminals to defraud them
of millions of dollars. Several of the defendants have pleaded
guilty. Romanian authorities, coordinating with the FBI, conducted
several searches of homes that uncovered crucial evidence necessary
to prosecute the defendants, said Mark Filip, Justice’s deputy
attorney general. Indeed, the Romanian authorities’ active
cooperation with the FBI now serves a model when U.S. law
enforcement officials discuss international cooperation on cyber
crime. "The Romania prosecution is a good example of our ability to
deal with cyber criminal activity cutting across national borders,"
Filip said…
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Barack Obama's other war on terror
By Philip Sherwell:
The Daily Telegraph (London)
13 Jan 2009
The note left next to the severed heads of the eight soldiers and
state police chief was chillingly direct. "For each of mine that you
kill, I will kill 10 soldiers," it read.
It sounds like the sort of gruesome tactic deployed by Islamic
terrorists in Iraq. But this horrific scene occurred last month near
the main road from Mexico City to the popular tourist destination of
Acapulco on the Pacific coast. The soldiers were kidnapped as they
left a nearby military barracks and then decapitated in apparent
revenge for an army firefight with a narcotics gang in a nearby town
that left three drug smugglers dead. Mexico's rapidly escalating
drug wars claimed nearly 6,000 lives last year in a country more
commonly associated with sun, sand and ancient ruins than narco-terrorism.
Much of the bloodshed is concentrated along the US-Mexican border,
where the violence is spilling across the 2,000 miles of shared
frontier. Beheaded and mutilated corpses and mass graves turn up on
a near-daily basis, often in the heart of cities such as Cuidad
Juarez and Tijuana, once-thriving border communities that are now
the terrifying fiefdoms of the cartels. In a report last month that
sent shock waves through Washington, General Barry McCaffrey, US
drug tsar under President Bill Clinton, called for the new Barack
Obama administration to focus on the security threat along America's
southern border…
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