News

Leaked FBI Report Details How Best To Get Away With Bitcoin Crime

This week, an internal FBI report was leaked, detailing the Bureau’s concern about the virtual currency Bitcoin and its potential to be exploited by criminals for money laundering and other scams.


March 29, 2012
In Real Life

The FBI Is Making Virtual Crime Scenes With The Tech Behind Gears Of War

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using the Unreal Engine to create simulations and other training programs, BBC News reports today.


January 16, 2012
In Real Life

The Fun And Games Of The FBI

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A member of the FBI is in the room but we’re not sure who or where he is. He probably already knows everything about us. Our phone lines are probably already tapped. We’ve probably been x-rayed in our sleep. We bet he loves black coffee and cherry pie, too. We keep our eyes peeled for men in suits, but the only men in suits we’ve encountered all day have been catering staff offering us more bread rolls. We’re looking for a man who we are now convinced does not exist. He is here to talk to us about video games.


November 4, 2011
PC

Second Life Winds Up In FBI Gang Intelligence Dossier

Second Life isn’t simply a virtual realm where people starve horses, troll others having sex, and traffic in counterfeit groovie-goolies sex devices. No, it’s also a network through which gangs discuss and plot their evil deeds, says none other than the Eff Bee Eye.


June 7, 2011
News

Report: Lulz Security Sony Hacker Arrested

As hacker collection Lulz Security claims it snagged Sony Computer Entertainment’s Developer Network source code, newspaper The Epoch Times reports that one LulzSec member, Robert Cavanaugh, is believed to be in FBI custody.


May 4, 2011
News

Watch The US Government Discuss Sony’s PSN Hack

Planned prior to hacker’s breach of the Playstation Network, a hearing just kicked off in the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade to discuss the threat of data theft. This is the hearing Sony declined to testify during. You can watch it live here right now.


April 29, 2011
PlayStation

FBI Cybercrimes Joins 22 US States In Sweeping PSN Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigations today confirmed to Kotaku that it is looking into the security breach that brought the Playstation Network down and exposed millions of users’ personal data to cybercriminals.


April 26, 2011
PlayStation

Despite Reports, No Arrest Yet In Playstation Network Outage

No arrests have been made connected to the Playstation outage, Kotaku has confirmed, despite a story making the rounds that claims FBI and others have issues warrants and made arrests.


April 15, 2011
PC

FBI Raids Students, Looking For Gold Farming Fraud

The FBI now is raiding homes looking for World of Warcraft gold farmers. The party van showed up March 30 at an apartment shared by two University of Michigan students (building pictured), who say the feds have got the wrong suspects.


January 13, 2011
News

FBI Pulls Online Game Records Of Accused Tucson Shooter

The FBI on Wednesday asked for communications logs from Earth Empires, the massively multiplayer online game played by Jared Loughner, accused of the shooting Saturday in Tucson, Ariz. that left six dead and 14 wounded, including a member of Congress.