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FBI fears more victims from dead serial killer

The FBI is appealing for information about the travels of a suspected serial killer believed to have murdered up to 15 people over more than a decade, after his suicide in jail last weekend. Israel Keyes is thought to have murdered at least eight people between 2001 and March 2012…

FBI dad’s spyware experiment accidentally exposes pedophile principal

When Joseph Auther installed a spyware program on his 12-year-old son’s school laptop, he was hoping to keep tabs on his son’s Internet use and head off any potential trouble.  According to Kashmir Hill at Forbes magazine, that decision set in motion a chain of events that cost his son’s…

Scarborough rips FBI for taking down ‘rising star’ Petraeus with ‘fishing expedition’

Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Monday blasted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for what he said was a “fishing expedition” to take down former CIA Director David Petraeus. Petraeus, a retired four-star general, resigned on Friday after admitting an extramarital affair that had been uncovered when the FBI…

FBI: Louisiana woman staged racist attack

CHICAGO — A young black woman in the US state of Louisiana apparently staged a racist attack in which she told police that three men set her ablaze and scrawled KKK on her car, officials said Tuesday. “The wounds were self-inflicted,” Kyle Hanrahan, a spokesman for the FBI’s Louisiana bureau,…

Hulk Hogan meets with FBI over leaked sex tape

Hulk Hogan Meets With FBI Over Leaked Sex Tape (via NewsLook) Hulk Hogan has called in the FBI to investigate who leaked his sex tape. It’s now being reported that the tape was released by an “unhappy ex-employee of Hulk’s best friend Bubba the Love Sponge.” A source told TMZ…

FBI destroyed part of Hunter S. Thompson’s file

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) admitted this week that portions of a detailed file on legendary outlaw journalist Hunter S. Thompson were destroyed during the Clinton administration. Responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Argus Leader reporter Cody Winchester, the FBI explained that “records responsive” to the…

‘Anonymous’ retaliates after member arrested by FBI

WASHINGTON — The hacker group known as Anonymous on Thursday posted credit card numbers in retaliation for what it claimed was an FBI raid arresting one of its members. The group said Barrett Brown was arrested in an FBI raid while participating in an online chat Wednesday. Contacted by AFP,…

Anonymous claims hack caught FBI spying on millions of Apple customers

Hackers with the amorphous protest movement “Anonymous” and “AntiSec” said Monday night they caught the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) red-handed spying on Apple customers, and published over 1 million unique device identification numbers they allegedly pulled out of an FBI database. In all, the hackers claimed that the FBI…

Ray Bradbury was investigated by FBI for ‘communist sympathies’

Science fiction great put under surveillance by the FBI for ‘spreading distrust and lack of confidence in America’ Ray Bradbury was investigated by the FBI during the 1950s, with government agents interviewing his peers and putting him under surveillance before concluding that despite being critical of the US government in…

Online scammers using fake FBI message to demand money

WASHINGTON — The FBI warned computer users on Thursday to ignore a fake message, purportedly from its officers, that freezes people’s screens and demands that they pay a fine for visiting inappropriate websites. “We’re getting inundated with complaints,” said Donna Gregory from the US Internet Crime Complaint Center, referring to…