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Is Cyber Crime Really the FBI's No. 3 Priority?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:45:30 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Krebs: [snip] The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that its No. 3 priority is protecting the United States "against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes." Given the increasing pervasiveness and costs associated with such crime, FBI Director Robert Mueller should be commended for giving anti-cyber crime investigations such high status, second only to terrorism and espionage/counter intelligence investigations. But according to an analysis by Security Fix, cyber crime remains a distant third priority for the federal law enforcement agency, at least in terms of resources applied to the problem. That assessment is based on information from the Justice Department itself, based on a reading of a 203-page document [.pdf] justifying its fiscal year 2008 budget request to Congress. The cyber portion of the 2008 request includes a request for $258.5 million in funding for some 659 field agents, a 1.5 percent increase over 2007 levels. That's 659 out of a total of 11,868 FBI agents nationwide, which would mean the FBI is on track to dedicate roughly 5.5 percent of its agents to cyber crime investigations. But as we'll see later, the true number may actually be lower. [snip] Much more: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/09/is_cyber_crime_a_distant _3rd_p.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFG+BPWq1pz9mNUZTMRAtRoAKDr62tKutHhtHi96zGXMrxMH4uzgQCeMSK4 T2lx/s8GSgKTNq5sXjrxwkY= =MHqe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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