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July 20th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer In a cybersecurity advisory released on Monday, July 19, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Chinese state-sponsored cyber activity poses a major threat to U.S. and...
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July 12th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer A total of 1,864 suspects in matters involving violations of federal hate crime statutes were investigated by U.S. attorneys during the fiscal years 2005 to 2019, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) said in a report published last...
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July 7th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind It's been more than three decades now since two men dressed as Boston Police Department officers ended up pulling off what's still considered the single largest property theft in the United States, and possibly the world. Despite this unprecedented...
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June 28th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind Child abductions are, thankfully, rare in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in its "Inside the FBI" podcast on May 25, Missing Children's Day. But when it does happen, the statistics tell a terrifying story:...
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June 25th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer Since the start of this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has received around 3,100 reports of unruly behavior by passengers, including about 2,350 reports of passengers refusing to comply with the federal mask mandate. In January, the...
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June 16th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Deepti Govind "The true art in art theft is not in the stealing, it’s in the selling," Robert Wittman, who led the FBI’s Art Crime Team, told NBC News after the discovery of two stolen paintings by Dutch master Vincent van...
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June 15th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer It was in April that cybersecurity firm FireEye said on its Threat Research Blog that Chinese hackers suspected to be state-backed had exploited widely used networking devices for months to spy on dozens of high-value government, defense industry,...
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June 9th, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh In what is being called the “largest and most sophisticated” operation ever against encrypted criminal activities, Europol, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and law enforcement agencies in 16 countries across the world have managed to take down hundreds...
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May 5th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Mark Pooley June 1, 2018 was a day I’ll never forget. That was the day I received my cancer diagnosis for something called multiple myeloma, an uncommon kind of blood cancer in which a group of cancerous plasma cells eat away...
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April 21st, 2021category: Feature StoriesIn 2020, just 5,030 of 18,514 law enforcement agencies active in the United States that year provided use-of-force data to the FBI between January and August (we do not have data details as yet for the period post August). In 2019, that number was marginally higher...
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April 19th, 2021category: News ReportsBy Anand Vasu Last week, San Jose-based videoconferencing platform Zoom made a big announcement, which it labeled, “On Academic Freedom for our Higher Education Users.” The crux of the statement was that in the case of Zoom meetings and webinars hosted by...
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April 16th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned on April 16 that actors of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) were exploiting five known vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities listed by the FBI were: CVE-2018-13379 Fortinet FortiGate VPN CVE-2019-9670 Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite...
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April 2nd, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy Anand Vasu A substantial surge in March, a month which had several mass shootings as the United States began returning to business as usual, resulted in the FBI conducting more background checks for individuals wanting to buy firearms in the first...
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March 19th, 2021category: News ReportsBy a Biometrica staffer On March 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released new information and videos of suspects in the U.S. Capitol Hill riots, and is seeking the public's help to identify them. It has been two months since violent extremists...
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March 17th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica Staffer Image Source: Screengrab from the FBI's latest quarterly Uniform Crime Report showing the percentage increase/decrease in all violent crimes reported, over four consecutive quarters. On March 15, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published its latest quarterly assessment...
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March 10th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released new footage on March 9 seeking information from the public in identifying a man who placed pipe bombs near the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters and Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters on...
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March 4th, 2021category: Feature Stories
By a Biometrica staffer Jan. 6 2021: It's a day that's been forged into the memory of an entire nation. A day that ended up bearing witness to an act of domestic terrorism the likes of which stunned the entire world. Hundreds...
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February 24th, 2021category: Feature StoriesIt’s been in the works for five years-going-on-35, but it’s all finally official. On Jan. 1, 2021, the National Incident-Based Reporting Program officially replaced the Summary Reporting System as the UCR’s data standard. We take a look at the history of the...
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February 3rd, 2021category: Feature Stories
By Gaétane Borders, Ed.S. If you're a missing African American child, you're very likely to get less media coverage, and be an oft forgotten statistic, than a missing white girl. Girl at play photo: © Akesin - Dreamstime.com African American children make...
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October 8th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Six men were arrested and charged federally with conspiring to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. They planned to kidnap Whitmer from her vacation home in the Western...
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August 24th, 2017category: Feature StoriesThe heartbreaking stories of multiple victim events, including human trafficking and homicide, and their implications for investigators and first responders, among others, will be the focus of the 2017 Annual National Missing and Unidentified Person’s Conference (MUPC) in Atlanta in September. We...