The FBI last week issued a 137-page report that offers guidelines, tips, and advice to local law enforcement agencies on how to respond to and investigate computer crime. The report offers descriptions of common computer crimes and how to detect them.

http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/210798.pdf

Reading this pdf is really motivating and fun, because the level of sophistication is at the same level it has been for years (if not decades) when it comes to investigating and apprehending hackers. I wonder if they have s00per sekr3t techniques for tracing people, or if its just that silly people brag on irc too much.

Thanks for the pdf, more of these methodology type pdfs plz

usually law enforcment does not refer to fbi,cia,nsa or any other high tech government agency.

So you could be pretty sure this is just for the usual lapd and departments like that , to at least not (filtered) up the computer and understand a little bit with wtf they are dealing.

You can bet your ass that fbi and other agencies got some nice toys to play with.

I don't think they have any nice toys. They prolly do low-tech tricks like having a room at AT&T where they can sift through the traffic etc. (see
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619 ). They have echelon taps a bunch of places (like the one on the fiber cable at the atlantic oceans bottom that connects the US and Europe together). Not very useful unless they have a very specific keyword in the packets data, which means clear text connections are quite unsafe if they know the exact data you viewed/downloaded. I doubt the evidence gathered using these dirty tricks is admissible in other countries courts. Extradition to america would suck if one were to get caught...

I bet they do. In order to analyze that much traffic I guarantee you they have some fast servers dedicated to them...I guarantee you...if you knock on the FBI's door with a scan or something stupid like that, they'll knock right back on yours with something a little less discreet.

I would have to agree with Truth, government agencies would have a budget of millions if not billions of dollars dedicated for I.T and its associated security and communication. Think of a building with 1000+ Kevin Mitnick Black Hats and you would be getting close.

Nice fine Skydriver, look forward to seeing more articles of the same topic appear in the future, happy researching

All the budget in the world won't be able to take the place of a properly inquisitive mind.
You'd be amazed at what you can accomplish using old hardware and a 'left field' approach to things.

Well put, from my experaince it is not always down to the amount of cash you have to spend, but the people and process that sit behind the tech. It is these boys and girls that do the real work of analysis and threat profiling.

Well I guess you have to be actually raided to know a bit more, I've been raided twice, FBI(june 2001) and USSS(may 2003). I can explain more if you guys want, gotta love the government.

I used to be a "Cyber Policeman" as they say... Until I had to disappear. You make enemies this way, and lots of them... ;-)

But still, the PDF is great stuff. Thanks.

great man
thanks for the pdf

Please explain more ryan...

Btw. Hi all

shows how much the government knows they say there are 1 trillion and some odd ip addresses when in reality there is only around 3.5 billion, not to mention most class A addresses are government addresses themselves.

good stuff tho