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Chemistry World June 3, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Biosafety blunder as US sends live anthrax to labs around world Revelations that the US Department of Defense accidentally shipped live anthrax samples to at least 24 labs in 11 states and two foreign countries has prompted a congressional committee to demand answers.
Chemistry World December 5, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Physicist turned politician to head AAAS Retiring US congressman Rush Holt, who happens to have a physics PhD, prepares to become the next chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Funding for government science agencies is on his radar screen.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Prachi Patel-Predd	Cybercrime At A Glance But just how much damage can cybercrime cause? About $67 billion to U.S. companies last year, according to an estimate based on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2005 Computer Crime Survey. Here's more statistics.
InternetNews May 10, 2005 Tim Gray	Teen Held For Allegedly Swiping Code Reports say stolen Cisco source code was used to infiltrate military computers.
Wall Street & Technology June 13, 2006 Cory Levine	Former FBI Man to Lead BofA Security The financial firm lured Chris Swecker from the FBI to head its corporate security efforts. This will be Swecker's first foray into the private sector.
Wired April 24, 2007 Vince Beiser	One Database Under the Law Within the next few years the Justice Department will build an unprecedented network of databases from the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, the Bureau of Prisons, and the US Marshals Service.
Chemistry World August 30, 2011 Rebecca Trager	EPA's laboratory management weaknesses persist A new report by the congressional Government Accountability Office finds that the agency's failure to respond to multiple calls to reorganize its 37 labs could be resulting in duplication and waste.
Chemistry World February 25, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US opens up home DNA screening The US Food and Drug Administration has, for the first time, authorized a genetic test to be sold directly to consumers. The agency plans to ease the regulatory path for similar screening tests.
InternetNews January 14, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	FBI's Virtual Case File Flops The FBI is ready to scrap Virtual Case File (VCF), an automated case management system, to replace an antiquated method of gathering information that relied heavily on paper.
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Larry Barrett	FBI Says Cybercrime Skyrocketing A new report from the FBI says the rate of cybercrime incidents is growing rapidly at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Managed Care November 2006 Maureen Glabman	Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems Whether a person is likely to develop diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia, or stroke will be reasonably well predicted, and tests can also determine whether a patient will respond to a given therapy. That's the good part.
InternetNews March 13, 2009 Alex Goldman	Federal CIO Kundra on Leave After FBI Raid Vivek Kundra, who President Obama officially named as federal Chief Information Officer just eight days ago, is now on a leave of absence following an FBI investigation into his former workplace, according to reports.
Salon.com August 4, 2000 Daryl Lindsey	"Hollering fire in a crowded theater" The FBI's chief negotiator during the Waco siege says critics and conspiracy theorists are sowing dangerous discord.
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Ed Sutherland	FBI: Twilight For Bank Phishermen U.S. and Poland hackers had targeted a major financial institution.
Chemistry World December 11, 2014	Freedom Industries' president arrested for fraud Gary Southern's arrest followed a criminal complaint from the FBI, which accuses him of making numerous false statements about his role at Freedom and his knowledge of conditions at the facility where the leak occurred.
Fast Company March 15, 2007 J.J. Brazil	Mission: Impossible? The FBI is battling to transform itself in an age of technology and terrorism. It may be the toughest, most important change effort of our time.
Reactive Reports Issue 58	Anthrax Detector Researchers have developed a detector for anthrax spores based on a monoclonal antibody that recognizes a specific sugar on the bacterium. It might be possible to use this discovery to develop a passive immunization method.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	A Better Anthrax Screener? A newly marketed anthrax detector that originated in the U.S. space program promises to halve the detection time of the system currently used by the U.S. Postal Service.
Reason April 2008 Brian Doherty	Mint Condition In November the FBI raided the Indiana offices of the company that sells the privately minted metal coins known as Liberty Dollars.
PC World March 7, 2001 Jennifer O'Neill	FBI Battles Computer Crime 'Epidemic' Bureau works to balance tough stance with privacy rights, director says...
The Motley Fool May 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Is It Time to Make Money Investing in Genetic Testing? Easier said than done.
Popular Mechanics January 15, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	Researchers Decry Proposed Rules to Secure Bio Research Labs New proposals put forward by Congress and supported by a recently released federal study are roiling researchers at labs that work with biological agents.
IEEE Spectrum September 2005 Harry Goldstein	Who Killed the Virtual Case File? How the FBI blew more than $100 million on case-management software it will never use.
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Adam Aston	Sniffing Out Danger in the Mail USPS has already installed anthrax sniffers in 104 sorting sites and it's on track to outfit all 282 centers by yearend, completing a $525 million effort. When all the machines are in place, USPS plans to scan the mail for other threats.
RootPrompt.org July 17, 2000	Calling the Cops I have had a lot of questions concerning the police and the cracker that I have written about in the Cracked! articles. With these questions in mind I have written this article that explains several incidents involving the police and system administrators and attempts to answer some of these questions....
Chemistry World October 25, 2007 Arthur Rogers	European Ethical Guidelines Weigh in Against Mail Order Genetic Tests The Council of Europe (CoE) has come out against mail-order and over-the-counter genetic tests in new ethical guidelines that seek to address dilemmas faced by health services without hobbling scientific progress towards 'personalized medicine'.
Chemistry World February 15, 2008 Rebecca Trager	Security of US Nuclear Research Facilities in Doubt Nuclear facilities at US universities and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come under fire from a US congressional watchdog for lax security and breaches of safety rules.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Genetic Testing Every day the prospect of individualized genetic testing is slowly becoming commonplace, and certain questions about genetic testing are apparent: What kinds of tests are available? Where can I get them? How accurate are they? And what are the costs?
InternetNews August 24, 2005 Jim Wagner	MSN Billing Phisher Arrested The FBI arrests an Iowa man they believe responsible for a number of phishing attacks targeting MSN customers.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	FBI: PC Crime is Common, Costly With computer security issues mounting, the typical response is to just add more security. But does it matter?
CIO July 15, 2003 Sarah D. Scalet	Why the FBI Didn't Get Its Man One of FBI Director Robert Mueller's most prominent appointments after September 11, Darwin John's mission as CIO was to transform the burdensome bureaucracy into an IT-powered hive of supersleuths. He lasted just 10 months.
Reason June 2006 Jeff A. Taylor	How the FBI Let 9/11 Happen The smoldering gun was right there all the time. It was bureaucratic hierarchies and power trips that let the Federal Bureau of Investigation ignore the carefully gathered evidence of an attack.
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports.
InternetNews August 30, 2005 Roy Mark	GAO: Feds Not Protecting Citizen Privacy Government agencies are making progress, but are still not completely complying with federal rules regarding data mining and personal information.
National Defense October 2007 Breanne Wagner	Computer Crimes Keep Government and Industry on the Defensive The complexity of new malicious code and the elusive nature of cyber attackers have become significant impediments to detecting or preventing most intrusions.
Reason June 2007 Jeff Taylor	Letters of the Law A report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine confirmed what many critics of the PATRIOT Act had long suspected: Under the law, warrantless searches and seizures have skyrocketed, especially via the FBI's national security letters.
InternetNews April 10, 2009 Alex Goldman	FBI Throws Data-Sharing Tech at Serial Killings The Internet allows law enforcement agencies to collaborate in tracking highly mobile criminals who have escaped detection for years - sometimes for decades.
Chemistry World September 2, 2008 Rebecca Trager	Chemical safety board falls short The US government agency charged with investigating chemical accidents is failing to investigate even the most serious leaks and blasts, according to congressional watchdog the Government Accountability Office.
Chemistry World June 6, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Large-Scale Gene Scanning for Common Diseases A multi-center genome scanning project that has analyzed half a million genetic markers in thousands of healthy people and people with a range of common diseases has revealed previously unknown genetic variants of the diseases.
Chemistry World July 2010 Anna Lewcock	Medicine made to measure Healthcare tailored to suit the genetic makeup of the patient is finally coming to fruition.
National Defense June 2011 Stew Magnuson	When it Comes to Cybersecurity, the 'Who is Responsible for What?' Debate Continues Most experts seem to agree that the U.S. government's collective efforts to secure the Internet from large-scale attacks and other nefarious activities are lacking.
Reason January 2006 Matt Welch	Sorry, Wrong Number Under the PATRIOT Act, the FBI has unprecedented authority to eavesdrop on all phone and Internet communications of individual American citizens, as long as agents obtain approval from a secret court.
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005	Meet Cyberspace's Head Fed Nailing the Internet's most wanted takes a combination of tech wizardry and good, old-fashioned police work.
Fast Company September 2000 John Ellis	The Secret of Life The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning.
CIO January 27, 2011 Kim S. Nash	FBI CIO's Mission: Modernize When he joined the FBI from Lehman Brothers, Chad Fulgham inherited an obsolete IT infrastructure and major project on the brink of failure. Two years later, agents have BlackBerrys and SharePoint, but the work isn't finished.
Bank Systems & Technology July 12, 2007 Larry Greenemeier	Link Between Data Breaches And ID Theft Unclear, GAO Reports A U.S. Government Accountability Office report indicates that while the amount of information lost or stolen is disturbing, it's difficult to prove that these breaches lead to identity theft.