Intel Intelligencer Part II: Asset Forfeiture as Intel Funding Source
In Part I of this two-part Intel Intelligencer, I talked about how our two-part article and podcast with Patrick Ryder of the Nassau County Police Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Intelligence Unit...
View ArticleFBI (sort of): Chinese Scammers Nab $11m in ACH Fraud
When we wrote a couple of weeks ago about how the FBI still – still – doesn’t count ACH fraud and corporate account takeover (these are, we believe, crimes that affect banks and their customers) in its...
View ArticleMetric of the Week: Europol Crime Report
We might end up running some of this again in the Intel Intelligencer, because the release by Europol last week of its EU Organized Crime Threat Assessment has both a treasure trove of new metrics and...
View ArticleMetric of the Week: Smoke, Cyber Crime Fighting, and the 2012 FBI Budget
Slide from my SecTor 2011 presentation on cyber crime fighting The best part of the new FBI budget request, if you’re a Libertarian, is that the total budget request this year is $200m lower than for...
View ArticleFederal Court: Location Tracking via Cell-Phone Pinging is Kosher
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that police may track the signals eminating from wireless devices, such as cell phones, owned by a person. In United States v Skinner,...
View ArticleCBKB Nominated for Innovating Justice Award
This morning I saw that the folks over at the Cost-Benefit Knowledge Bank for Criminal Justice (CBKB) have been nominated for an Innovating Justice Award. Before I talk about the IJA, let me just...
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