CyberCrime & Doing Time

Jörg Ziercke, the chief of the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) in Germany, was quoted in a press release on the BFK website, following a simultaneo...

Last week the media lit up with speculations that 24 year old Ukrainian hacker, Maksym Yastremskiy, who had been arrested in Turkey on Augus...

Music collectors on the Internet got a mixed message this week as a Russian court found that Denis Kvasov, the head of AllofMP3.com was inn...

How far would you travel for $7 million in gold bars? For Igor Klopov of Moscow, Russia, the answer was "all the way to Manhattan...

There are so many interesting angles to the story this week about a case in Tucson, Arizona. The conviction actually went down in March 200...

Today I heard the news that the "AffPower" drug network is being shut down, starting with 18 arrests in Texas, Florida, Colorado, ...

Last week the online media went nuts over the sentencing of Christopher William Smith, known to anti-spam researchers as "Rizler"....

On July 20, 2007 I began my first day of work at The University of Alabama at Birmingham as the Director of Research in Computer Forensics....

Its time to rally the troops on the political front once again. Those of you who know me know that I believe we have primarily not a lack o...

In a press release issued July 13 (or 13 luglio 2007, if you're in Roma), the Commanding General of the Financial Guard of Milan announc...

Kaleidoscope, the UAB Student Newspaper, interviewed me on Identity Theft for their July 10, 2007 issue . Adrian Thurstin did a very nice jo...

Just wanted to let my loyal readers (yes, both of you!) know that I have taken a new position. I am now the Director of Research in Computer...

Just a note to say I have updated the Birmingham-InfraGard blog with a couple entries that might be of interest to readers here.

I couldn't believe this one. The Associated Press reported yesterday that Italian high court says file-swapping is not illegal . In this...

Although its not the first conviction under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, the AOL phisher conviction this week is still newsworthy. At test? ...

Just a link to another article where I blog on Birmingham InfraGard: Best Practices in Electronic Evidence _-_ gar

FAL$E HOPE$ was a Federal Trade Commission operation announced on December 12, 2006, which cracked down on Bogus Business Opportunities. C...

We all know that the most annoying spammers on the planet today are the ones who are sending out the image based Stock spam that seems to be...

Today I had a pretty typical law enforcement interaction. Before I get into that, I want to say that I have great admiration and respect for...

Today I had a pretty typical law enforcement interaction. Before I get into that, I want to say that I have great admiration and respect for...