Articles Tagged with ''FBI''

By pretending to be executives at a well-known financial institution, the alleged scammers created a bogus line of credit and spent upwards of $220,000. 

The U.S. Senate approved President Obama’s nomination of James Comey with a 93-1 vote as the new Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Director, Monday, July 29. 

The statute of limitations on the 11-year-old crime is past, the FBI reports, and the armored car company heist has never been solved. 

The two departments are expanding their shared biometrics databases by adding iris scans.

FBI officials have arrested 13 people on charges that they participated in gang activity that exploited a loophole in the cash-advance kiosks to steal more than $1 million.

Tracking cyber crimes back to the source has long been the road block in the FBI Cyber Crime division's path, but new partnerships, tools and talent aim to overcome those issues. 

By 2014, the FBI will be testing a database for searching iris scans nationwide to track repeat offenders.

A two-year operation involving a fake website for hackers culminated in the arrest of 24 people across the globe.

Evidence suggests that the crash of an SUV into a downtown Washington office building last Friday may be linked to a plan to blow up the vehicle inside the building.

An FBI effort to clean up damage done by an international hacking scheme ends on July 9, and any infected computer remaining will no longer be able to access the Internet.