Washington: US authorities on Tuesday arrested 16 people on charges they participated in major cyber attacks, including an attempt to cripple eBay's PayPal website as retribution for dropping WikiLeaks as a client. FBI agents arrested 14 people in nine states and Washington, DC, for the PayPal attack, which occurred last December and was allegedly coordinated by the hacking group Anonymous. It was the biggest response by authorities tied to a...
12:53 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Washington: For years, the Pakistani spy agency funneled millions of dollars to a Washington nonprofit group in a secret effort to influence Congress and the White House, the Justice Department said on Tuesday in court documents that are certain to complicate already strained relations between the US and Pakistan. FBI agents arrested Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, the executive director of the Kashmiri American Council, on Tuesday and charged him with...
02:18 AM, Jul 20, 2011
Washington: President Barack Obama's choice for his next counterterrorism chief is Matthew Olsen, a former prosecutor with extensive experience in intelligence matters for the federal government, the White House announced on Friday. Olsen, if confirmed by the Senate, would direct the National Counterterrorism Center, an agency born in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on America. That agency is charged with analyzing and integrating information gathered across...
09:06 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Washington: President Barack Obama's choice for his next counterterrorism chief is a lawyer and former prosecutor with extensive experience in intelligence matters for the US government, the White House announced on Friday. Matthew Olsen, if confirmed by the Senate, would direct the National Counterterrorism Center, an agency born in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US. That agency is charged with analysing and integrating information gathered...
12:59 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Boston: More than 120 websites have been down for over a day after the FBI removed servers from a web-hosting company in Northern Virginia in an early morning raid on Tuesday, according to the company that runs that facility. FBI officials declined comment on the matter. The agency, which leads investigations of many cyber crimes, generally does not comment on ongoing investigations. Federal agents raided a Reston, Virginia, web-hosting facility...
12:44 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Washington: Each week brings word of another cyber attack on a major US institution, sending law enforcement scrambling and raising new questions about whether it has the ability or resources to track down cyber criminals. The FBI says it is working to bulk up its cyber division as hackers focus on higher-profile targets, but is at the mercy of a Congress struggling to cut the massive budget deficit. FBI Director...
02:30 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Chicago: FBI has launched a nationwide manhunt and alerted Interpol to locate one of its most-wanted fugitives, Indian-origin doctor Gautam Gupta whose ads promising weight loss are well-known, for allegedly defrauding US insurance companies of $ 25 million over the last decade. An FBI complaint alleges that Gupta received almost $ 25 million over the last decade when he submitted claims to Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois and Illinois Medicaid...
02:48 PM, Jun 19, 2011
Hyderabad: Union Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy's statement that he does not believe in regionalism and sub-regionalism, drew flak from BJP, which said that his statements indicate that Congress does not favour separate Telangana. National spokesperson of BJP, Rajiv Prathap Rudy on Sunday said Reddy's statements clearly indicated that Congress was not in favour of separate statehood for Telangana region. "Reddy, who has a distinction of working in different political...
10:19 PM, Jun 12, 2011
New Delhi: Canadian Pakistani businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana was found guilty of providing material support to the Lashkar-e-Toiba's attack on Mumbai in 2008. But the 12-member jury acquitted him of the more serious charge of direct involvement in the conspiracy leading to the Mumbai attacks. Rana's Lawyer Charles Swift said, "You cant expect to be excited about the fact he is got 30 years just for buying a plane ticket." ...
09:28 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Chicago: Samraz, the wife of Mumbai attacks co-accused Tahawwur Rana, said on Tuesday that India was her second home and there was no reason her husband would have planned to attack that country. Refuting LeT operative David Headley's claims that Rana was very close to him and had helped him plot the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, Samraz said, Headley was just an "Urdu speaking American friend" to her family...
11:45 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Chicago: LeT operative David Headley approached ISI to help another co-accused in Mumbai attacks Tahawwur Rana to get back to Pakistan, according to a video recording produced by FBI before a court on Monday. Headley used his personal links to favour Rana, FBI agent Jeffrey Parsons said while deposing before the US District Court during the 26/11 trial which resumed after a five day break . Parsons said he had...
09:38 PM, Jun 06, 2011
London: Nearly 180 passwords belonging to members of an Atlanta-based FBI partner organisation have been stolen and leaked to the Internet, the group confirmed Sunday. The logins belonged to members of the local chapter of InfraGard, a public-private partnership devoted to sharing information about threats to US physical and Internet infrastructure, the chapter's president told The Associated Press. "Someone did compromise the website," InfraGard Atlanta Members Alliance President Paul Farley...
01:05 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Washington: The FBI was investigating allegations by Internet giant Google that Chinese hackers were behind the hacking of hundreds of Gmail accounts, including those of senior US officials, the White House said. "US President Barack Obama is aware of it and is being updated on regularly," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters at his daily news conference. "Threats to information and communications infrastructure pose a serious economic and...
09:08 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Chicago: The Pakistani-born businessman charged with supporting a deadly 2008 militant attack on Mumbai is not likely to testify at his trial, his lawyer said on Wednesday. US prosecutors were winding up their case against Tahawwur Rana, 50, a Chicago businessman with Canadian citizenship who is charged with supporting the raid, which killed 164 people. The role played by Pakistan's government in the raid was being closely watched amid strains...
08:20 AM, Jun 02, 2011
San Francisco: Hackers likely based in China tried to break into hundreds of Google mail accounts, including those of senior US government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said on Wednesday. The unknown perpetrators, who appeared to originate from Jinan in Shandong province, recently tried to crack and monitor email accounts by stealing passwords, but Google detected and "disrupted" their campaign, the world's largest Web search company said ...
07:09 AM, Jun 02, 2011
San Francisco: Hackers likely based in China tried to break into hundreds of Google mail accounts, including those of senior US government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said on Wednesday. The unknown perpetrators, who appeared to originate from Jinan in Shandong province, recently tried to crack and monitor email accounts by stealing passwords, but Google detected and "disrupted" their campaign, the world's largest Web search company said...
07:09 AM, Jun 02, 2011
Washington: Mumbai attacks co-accused David Headley on Tuesday testified that New Delhi-based National Defence College is on the hit-list of terrorists as 26/11 mastermind Illiyas Kashmiri believes in this way he can kill more Indian brigadiers than what the Pakistan Army could not do in four wars with India. Within a few months of the Mumbai terror attacks, Kashmiri, who has now emerged as mastermind of 26/11, met Headley, and...
10:22 AM, May 25, 2011
Washington: A Florida-based imam of Pakistani origin, and his two sons are among five persons charged by US authorities for providing financial and material support to the Pakistani Taliban. FBI agents arrested Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, 76, and his son Irfan Khan, 37, in South Florida on Saturday. Both are US citizens and residents of Miami. Hafiz Khan is the imam of a mosque in Miami. One of his...
09:36 PM, May 14, 2011
Boston: With the internet abuzz with stories related to Osama bin Laden's death, the FBI is warning people not to open unsolicited links that "purport" to show photos or videos of the al-Qaeda leader's killing, saying these could be computer virus. Asking computer users to exercise caution, the FBI said people should not open unsolicited spam e-mails that claim to show photos or download software to view videos of bin...
12:39 PM, May 04, 2011
New York: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a secret US operation in Pakistan, tops the Time magazine's list of 10 most "notorious fugitives". "Though the official FBI poster listed his occupation as 'unknown,' the Saudi Arabia born leader of Al-Qaeda was widely known as the most dangerous terrorist on the planet," Time said. Osama, who was on the list of "Top Notorious Fugitives" for more than...
09:10 PM, May 03, 2011
