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The Secret Service Agent Who Collared Cybercrooks by Selling Them Fake IDs

Wired: From late 2007 until March 2011, if you were an identity thief or credit card fraud artist in need of a fake ID, your best bet was “Celtic’s Novelty I.D. Service.” From its base in Las Vegas, the online storefront manufactured driver’s licenses for 13 states and shipped them to buyers around the world. No questions asked.

In2iti0n3929d ago

Total criminals caught plus total crime stopped
- total total criminals enabled plus total crime enabled
= zero.

Zero - millions of taxpayer dollars spent
= millions of tax payer dollars spent

Draper3929d ago

"a four-year investigation resulting, so far, in four federal grand jury indictments against 55 defendants in 10 countries" and "with half the defendants unaccounted for"

...those stats concern me as well.

Not only are half unaccounted for but they are running around with excellent fake IDs. And of those accounted for only 4 grand jury indictments?

So after 4 years we have zero convictions?

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The CIA and NSA use ad-blockers because they're just as vulnerable as you are

Online advertisements have become so dangerous that even the U.S. Intelligence Community blocks them.

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Hold your shock, the NSA has been collecting even more call records than they told us

From documents obtained by the ACLU, it turns out that the NSA illegally collected call records after it promised to stop collecting them.

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Senior NSA official says tech is wondrous -- and risky in a world of cyberspace foes

In an exclusive interview with chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge, the new head of NSA cybersecurity discusses evolving threats.