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U.S. Outgunned in Hacker War

Devlin Barrett, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 27 at 6:40 pm PT

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top cyber cop offered a grim appraisal of the nation’s efforts to keep computer hackers from plundering corporate data networks: “We’re not winning,” he said.

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FBI’s “Sabu” Hacker Was a Model Informant

Chad Bray, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 9 at 12:06 am PT

As soon as he was caught, an influential computer hacker agreed to become a government informant and “literally worked around the clock” to help federal agents nab an elusive collective of alleged cyber criminals who have launched online attacks against companies, governments and individuals.

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FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy

Devlin Barrett, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 19 at 12:11 pm PT

The Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down Thursday one of the world’s most popular file-sharing websites, MegaUpload.com, and announced the arrest of four of the people behind it in a global crackdown against the suspected online pirates.

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“Stingray” Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 22, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device — a stingray — were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest.

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U.S. Probes Oracle Dealings

Joseph Palazzolo and Samuel Rubenfeld, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Enterprise on August 31, 2011 at 2:30 am PT

U.S. authorities are investigating whether Oracle Corp., one of the world’s largest software companies by sales, violated federal antibribery laws in its dealings abroad, according to people familiar with the matter.