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What law enforcement do you call in these situations. I imagine it would be a waste to call local police. I don't know how you would get feds to pay attention?
by wehadfun 13y ago
What law enforcement do you call in these situations. I imagine it would be a waste to call local police.
I don't know how you would get feds to pay attention?
- codazoda 13y agoAssuming the ransom request wasn't fake. It's pretty likely that the attack came from outside the US. Law enforcement will probably not be able to help at all.
- revscat 13y agoKim Dotcom would like a word.
- Xylakant 13y agoWhy not? The US. Law enforcement obviously doesn't have jurisdiction, but as long as a DOS is illegal in the country that the attacker sits in, the US Law enforcement should investigate and hand off to a partner agency in that country, acting as liaison and serving a request for extradition. It's a different matter if the attacker is based in a country where DOS are legal or that doesn't have any extradition treaty with the US, but that still needs to be established.
- citruspi 13y agoI believe that the Federal Bureau of Intelligence investigates and prosecutes cyber crimes[0]. [0]: http://www.fbi.gov/sanfrancisco/press-releases/2011/charges-in-distributed-denial-of-service-attack-against-santa-cruz-county-website http://www.fbi.gov/sanfrancisco/press-releases/2011/charges-...
- philtar 13y agoInvestigation, not intelligence. CIA does intelligence. Or you could've just typed FBI, like a normal person.