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Tenom: The eighth witness in the trial of preacher Ebit Irawan Ibrahim Lew or Ebit Lew told the Magistrate’s Court here that he took two days to analyse the data in the pendrive believed to contain obscene materials.

Former Christiansburg Police Department Officer Ethan Michael Havens pleaded guilty to three counts of distribution of child pornography.

Former Manassas City Police Department Sergeant Wayne Carlo Bombara Jr., 47, pleaded guilty this week to 15 counts of possession of child pornography.

Assigned to us and that attorney was kim peretti. >> in 2003 i was working at the department of justices computer crime section in washington d.c. >> kim had a very challenging job in that she had to take this information and put it in a way to convince the jury, judges and others that that case should be prosecuted. >> it was exciting and it was something we needed to figure out how to investigate. it was all new territory. so in the bunker, there was a large room with computer screens where th...

One that was anonymous. it had to have high speed internet. we had to fill it with servers and computers to record everything we wanted and we had to do this all within a certain period of time because we were worried he was going to get found out. var . so we chose a location in jersey city on an old army base, and then i needed help from other agents. >> you want to bring in people that have subject matter expertise, whether its task force related, whether its signer. >> so i basically went ar...

This is pre9/11 moment. >> the rhetoric has been matched by a reorientation of the national security state both public and private over cyber security over the last three to five years. the pentagon is dramatically expanding its cyber command and the fbi, dhs and dod have all increased their cyber security staff and budgets significantly over the past three years. del tech estimates the federal government spent nearly $10 billion on cyber security contracts in 2012. so with both of media and nat...