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Secret Service Reveals How It Stalks Cybercriminals


From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:34:35 -0400

http://www.fastcompany.com/1764286/how-the-secret-service-nabs-cybercriminals

The Secret Service recently spilled the beans on their anti-cybercrime
investigations. Fake accounts on underground websites? Elaborate
multinational credit card fraud investigations with Turkish law
enforcement? They're doing that.

A top Secret Service official ended up spilling details about federal
anti-hacker strategy at a relatively obscure federal hearing in
Alabama. In testimony given to the House Committee on Financial
Services, assistant director Alvin T. Smith revealed just how involved
the Secret Service is in federal investigations into cybercrime ...
and told some extremely cool stories in the process.

...
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