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Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News A spokesperson from the Attorney General's Department (AGD) today said it was aware of the attack planned by a group which calls itself "Anonymous". The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been called in... [09 Sep 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News The days of tracking down software counterfeiters in other countries who are selling pirated CDs are numbered as companies increasingly distribute software and store data online via hosted computing services, Matthew Parrella, an... [13 Jul 2009]
Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado de Queretaro Increases Service and Responsiveness
White Paper The Attorney General directs the office and presides over the public ministry, which includes investigating police and law enforcement experts. The Procuraduria General de Justicia del Estado de... [12 Jun 2009]
UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat
News The government has committed itself to funding such a unit and indicated it could be part of the proposed National Fraud Reporting Centre, under the Attorney General's Office, while the Metropolitan... [02 Sep 2008]
National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year
News A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said: "A proof-of-concept model is being developed and will be tested from the summer, for six months, with aim to identify what information is not being compared currently... [28 Apr 2008]
ISP data retention issue heading for Congress
News US attorney general Alberto Gonzales said he is continuing to explore such legislation, pertaining not to "data retained by government but [to] data retained by ISPs that could be accessed with a court order", and told a... [19 Jan 2007]
FBI chief bangs drum for ISP data retention
News Attorney general Alberto Gonzales, for instance, told Congress last month "this is a national problem that requires federal legislation". Mueller said in a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of... [18 Oct 2006]
Fresh calls for ISP data retention laws
News US attorney general Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday stepped up his efforts to lobby for federal laws requiring ISPs to keep track of what their customers do online. Those logs, often routinely discarded after a few months,... [20 Sep 2006]
Sex sites facing law to clean up their act
News Attorney general Alberto Gonzales said in a statement on Tuesday: "America's children will be better protected from every parent's worst nightmare - sexual predators - thanks to passage [of the legislation]. [26 Jul 2006]
UK police collar "violent jihad" website operator
News Another alleged member of the group, Babar Ahmad, faced similar charges from the US Attorney for the District of Connecticut in October 2004. UK police have arrested a British citizen on charges he... [21 Jul 2006]
ID theft 'passport' mooted
News To receive an Identity Theft Passport, a person would have to file a police report and then send it, along with an application form, to the Iowa Attorney General's office, according to the proposed bill. [22 Mar 2006]
Criminal Justice IT director-general John Suffolk
Comment It is hard to truly reflect the scale of the job of joining up and modernising the UK's criminal justice IT systems and the myriad agencies and departments involved but Suffolk has to deal with four different ministers, the Home... [06 Mar 2006]
Data thief gets eight years in the clink
News US attorney Bud Cummins of the Eastern District of Arkansas said: "This sentence reflects the seriousness of these crimes. That investigation led federal police - including the FBI and Secret Service -... [23 Feb 2006]
Opinion: The weak point of wikis
Comment The 78-year-old Seigenthaler - a former assistant attorney general working under Bobby Kennedy - got Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to delete the defamatory information in October. The hope is that the collective wisdom... [05 Dec 2005]
Pirate hit with $1m fine for software giants
News Microsoft worked with Symantec to support the Houston police and FBI in this case, said Bonnie MacNaughton, a senior attorney at the Redmond, Washington, software giant. The case came to court after a... [29 Sep 2005]