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Jutaan komputer di seluruh dunia telah terinfeksi DNS Changer, sebuah virus yang membuat pemilik komputer kesulitan mengakses internet setelah 9 Juli 2012. Di Australia, peringatan telah diberikan kepada masyarakat, seperti dikutip Sydney Morning Herald. Biro investigasi Amerika Serikat, FBI, sampai turun tangan mengatasi program jahat yang dianggap berbahaya ini. (Kompas, 23 April 2012) Begitulah isi lead berita yang dimuat oleh media dan beragam media lain di Indonesia, memang terasa ini pasti bahaya, tapi jika melihat waktunya masih sedikit lama yakni 9 Juli mendatang atau sekitar 4 bulan lagi. Tidak tanggung-tanggung, tulisan Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Amerika Serikat dalam pelbagai media juga dimuat dibagian atas akan kemunculan virus tersebut. Jarang ditemukan isu virus-virus yang akan hadir di jagad maya tersindikasi dengan adanya FBI, namun kali ini secara terang-terangan FBI malah menghadirkan situs penjagal untuk mencegah virus tersebut terinfeksi ke perang...

Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law. With its proposed amendment, is the Obama administration merely clarifying a statute or expanding it? Only time and a suddenly on guard Congress will tell. Federal law requires communications providers to produce records in counterintelligence investigations to the FBI, which doesn't need a judge's approval and court order to get them. They can be obtained merely with the signature of a special agent in charge of any FBI field office and there is no need even for a suspicion of wrongdoing, merely that the records would be relevant in a counterintelligence or counterterrorism investigation. The person whose records the government wants doesn't even need to be a suspect. The bureau's use of these so-called national security letters to gather ...

Facebook believes 'under the radar' checks developed by its engineers are more important for keeping its site safe than public deterrents such as a Ceops 'panic button'. Photograph: Linda Nylind Facebook has developed sophisticated algorithms to monitor its users and detect inappropriate and predatory behaviour, bolstering its latest raft of initiatives to improve the safety of its users. Having launched an education campaign, an improved reporting procedure and a 24/7 police hotline on Monday, Facebook told the Guardian that it has introduced a number of algorithms that track the behaviour of its users and flag up suspicious activity, including members with a significant number of declined friend requests and those with a high proportion of contacts of one gender. Another filter, common on web publishing sites, scans photo uploads for skin tones and blocks problem images – the "no nipples" filter that caused pictures of b...

  According to the revelation by Electronic Frontier Foundation last week, an FBI or Federal Agent can make friendship with you at Twitter or Facebook to gather more information about crime investigations. The report further described that fed agents pose as "friends" and get connected with ordinary citizens on Facebook and other sites in order to gather background information for crime investigation. This will help them find out suspects on the run. Now, the question arises about the legality of this type of activities. As per AP news stories, the middle aged lady Lori Drew posed as a teen boy on MySpace and harassed a 13-year-old neighborhood girl who later committed suicide. She was arrested for violating MySpace's terms of service to pose as someone that she is not and convicted in L.A. before a higher-court judge overturned the ruling. Fed prosecutors are making similar type of violation. Facebook has terms and conditions that makes it illegal if the user gives f...

The FBI and other federal agencies are going undercover on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networks with phony profiles to gather information and communicate with suspects, according to an internal Justice Department document. FBI agents, for example, have used Facebook to determine the whereabouts of a fugitive. Other investigators can check alibis by comparing stories a suspect tells police with their tweets sent at the same time . A civil liberties group, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, obtained the 33-page document after suing the Justice Department. It makes the document public today on its website. Specifically, the 33-page confidential document says undercover operations are helpful for communicating with suspects and targets of crime, gaining access to private information, and mapping social networks. However, the presentation expresses concern that undercover use may be complicated by the court’s decision in the trial of Lori Drew, who was acquitted o...

Pihak intelijen Amerika (AS) mendeteksi adanya diskusi terkait terorisme di sebuah situs jihad. Dalam situs yang diduga milik Al Qaeda itu terdapat pembicaraan hangat rencana aksi terorisme di bandara beberapa negara dunia. Dilansir melalui CBS News, Minggu (14/2/2010), pihak intelijen AS mengatakan bahwa anggota dalam situs tersebut mengajak para pengunjung situs untuk berbagi informasi mengenai keadaan dan kondisi keamanan dalam bandara-bandara yang ada di seluruh negara di dunia. Topik yang paling menarik adalah mengenai bagaimana cara menghindari perangkat pemindai tubuh dan barang yang ada di bandara tersebut.

FBI Director Robert Mueller wants ISPs to track “origin and destination information” about their customers’ browsing habits and store them for authorities’ use for two years, according to a CNET report. That would mean monitoring the IP addresses, domains and exact websites users visit, and then storing that information for months. If officials who support this measure get their way, federal, state and local law enforcement would be able to access the information via search warrant or subpoena. Access to exact URLs would require deep-packet inspection, which could be a violation of the Wiretap Act. The courts would end up having to make a ruling one way or the other if authorities try it.

Akibat membuat dan menjual modem yang direkayasa agar bisa digunakan untuk mencuri internetan, membuat hacker asal Amerika Serikat diancam denda USD500 ribu dan atau hukuman penjara 40 tahun. Hacker asal Massachusetts ditangkap setelah terbukti mengakali modem merek Comcast, sehingga bisa dipakai untuk menggunakan internet secara cuma-cuma. Demikian yang dilansir Internet News, Rabu (3/2/2010). Dalam menjalankan aksinya tersebut, si peretas memanfaatkan MAC (media access control) palsu. Sehingga ketika pengguna modem ini ingin menggunakan internet, mereka menumpang MAC pelanggan resmi, sampai akhirnya pelanggan resmi itu mendapatkan tagihan yang tak sesuai.