New FBI boss says cyber crime, not terrorism, is top of Feds' todo list

  • 28 February 2014
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Malware cousin of fingerprint and DNA database to be shared with infosec world

By Iain Thomson, 27 Feb 2014 RSA 2014 The FBI's new director James Comey has told the RSA security conference in San Francisco that he is making thwarting online crime the major focus for his agency in the coming decade.
 
As a result, agents will shift from a reactive mode into a more forward-looking approach when tackling internet crims, by offering services with fast response times you'd expect from computers rather than their slower human builders.
 For example, the FBI has been building a database of malware samples, snappily dubbed the Binary Analysis, Characterization, and Storage System (BACSS), for its investigators. Later this year a declassified version of this, dubbed Malware Investigator, will be made available to security partners, said Comey, who was sworn in as director in September.
 
"If a company has been hacked you can send the malware back to us and, in most cases, get a report back in hours about how it works, who it might be targeting and where we've seen it before," he told the conference today.
 
"Our goal is to make BACSS the same kind of repository that we have long maintained for fingerprints, criminal records and DNA."
 
 
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Interesting in terms of the bit where the FBI will apparently offer a malware identification service...surely there are just duplicating what the likes of Webroot and other are already doing http://www.calendarofupdates.com/updates/public/style_emoticons/default/raiseeyebrow.gif

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