News tagged with law enforcement

Computer security firm Symantec extorted by hackers

Computer security firm Symantec on Tuesday confirmed it tried to turn the tables on hackers who threatened to release stolen source code if a demand for $50,000 was not met.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 16

Clarity needed on use of chemical weapons, says UK report

A report examining the role of neuroscience research in military and civilian law enforcement contexts, led by a Queen Mary, University of London academic, has called on the government to provide clarity on the use of chemical ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call (Update)

(AP) -- Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 81

US shoe seller says hacker compromised accounts

US online shoe seller Zappos.com was notifying some 24 million customers Monday that a hacker had gained entry to its computer network, but said credit card data was not affected.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stratfor warns hacking victims of further woes

US intelligence analysis firm Stratfor has warned its members whose emails and credit card information were hacked that they could be targeted a second time for speaking out on behalf of the company. ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

'Anonymous' hackers target US security think tank

Hackers with the loose-knit movement "Anonymous" claimed on Sunday to have stolen a raft of emails and credit card data from U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor, promising it was just the start of a weeklong, ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 96

FBI contacted phone monitoring firm about software

A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was reb ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7

New test could help track down and prosecute terrorists who use nerve gas and other agents

Scientists are reporting development of a first-of-its-kind technology that could help law enforcement officials trace the residues from terrorist attacks involving nerve gas and other chemical agents back ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook aims to help prevent suicide

Help is just a few clicks away on Facebook for people expressing suicidal thoughts.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Backpacks, not the bombs inside, key to finding DNA

Catching terrorists who detonate bombs may be easier by testing the containers that hide the bombs rather than the actual explosives, according to pioneering research led by Michigan State University.

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Law enforcement vital for great ape survival

Recent studies show that the populations of African great apes are rapidly decreasing. Many areas where apes occur are scarcely managed and weakly protected. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Concerns about teen sexting overblown, according to new research

Two new studies from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center suggest that concerns about teen sexting may be overblown. One study found the percentage of youth who send nude pictures of themselves ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The high price of data breaches

As consumers, we transmit valuable personal information to the companies with which we do business. In doing so, we trust that information will remain secure. Over the past year, however, we have learned of a number of instances ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Graphene foam detects explosives, emissions better than today's gas sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrates how graphene foam can outperform leading commercial gas sensors in detecting potentially dangerous and explosive chemicals. The ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Research team finds disk encryption foils law enforcement efforts

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint U.S./UK research team has found that common encryption techniques are so good that law enforcement, from local to highly resourceful federal agencies, are unable to get at data on ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 30 | with audio podcast report

Law enforcement agency

In North American English, a Law enforcement agency (LEA) is an organisation that enforces the law.

Outside North America, such organisations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police, others have other names (e.g. sherriff's department; investigative police services in the USA are often called bureaus (e.g. FBI, ICE, ATF, DEA, USSS, SBI, etc.).)

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