Orange County Choppers Partners with the FBI and the Hudson Valley InfraGard Alliance to Build an FBI-Themed Chopper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OunfVnB7uUY  Youtube video of TLC OCC Paul Teutul, Sr. Dedication to InfraGard/FBI Series 7, Episode 6.

FBI Press Release - 9/9/10 - An Orange County Chopper with an FBI logo was a unique item created for a fundraising effort to support youth anti-violence in Newburgh, New York. The FBI partnered with InfraGard and Orange County Choppers (OCC)—a custom motorcycle manufacturer in Orange County, New York run by Paul Teutul, Sr.—to build a custom-made chopper in support of Newburgh youth.


The chopper, unveiled today on the waterfront in Newburgh, attracted a crowd of spectators who waited in anticipation as it made its way down Front Street accompanied by FBI agents and local police. New York State Senator Bill Larkin and Newburgh Mayor Nicholas Valentine joined the crowd along with FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Belle Chen, Chairman of the InfraGard National Members Alliance Kathleen Kiernan, InfraGard coordinator and FBI Special Agent Maryann Goldman, and members from the “Center for Hope.”  read entire press release at http://newyork.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel10/nyfo080910.htm

Recruiting

May 26, IDG News Service – (National) U.S. need to fight online
terrorism recruiting, expert says. The U.S. government lacks a plan to
counter terrorist recruiting efforts online, even though such efforts by
jihad groups are growing, one terrorism expert told U.S. lawmakers. The U.S.
government does not make an effort to engage with people who may be open to
terrorist recruiting efforts and dissuade them from joining, a professor in
the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University told lawmakers May
26. The U.K. government has a program that works with local communities to
identify possible targets for terrorism recruiting, said the professor, a
former scholar in residence at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Instead
of on-theground programs working with potential targets of terrorism
recruiting, U.S. agencies have, in some cases, tried to control terrorism
communications on the Internet. “We shouldn’t be censoring the Internet,” he
said. “I think the problem is we default toward these very intrusive
approaches.” Internet service providers should have protection from lawsuits
if they take down terrorism-related Web sites, said a former
counterterrorism official with the CIA and the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177404/U.S._need_to_fight_online_ter
roris m_recruiting_expert_says

Speaker Line up for ICCS FBI/Fordham August 2010

http://www.iccs.fordham.edu/program.htm
Confirmed Distinguished, Plenary & Parallel Speakers

•Hira Agrawal, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Telcordia Technologies
Piscataway, NJ USA
•Kevin Albano
Security Consultant, Mandiant
El Segundo, CA USA
•Panos Anastassiadis
Chief Executive Officer and President, Cyveillance Inc.
Arlington, VA USA
•Preet Bharara
United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
United States Department of Justice
New York, NY USA
•Thomas Brown
Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York
United States Department of Justice
New York, NY USA
•Carter Bullard
Chief Executive Officer / President, QoSient, LLC
New York, NY USA
•Consuelo Carver
Assistant Legal Attache
Moscow, Russia
•Jeffrey Collins
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

•Blake Cornell
Board Member, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
New York, NY USA
•Eric David
Head of Anti-Malvertising, Google
San Francisco, CA USA
•Rich DeMillo, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Georgia Tech College of Computing
Atlanta, GA USA
•Michael Dunner
Microsoft

•Robert Flaim
Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C. USA
•Cesar Gonzalez
Captain of the Spanish Guardia Civil

•Louis E. Grever
Executive Assistant Director, Science and Technology Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Quantico, VA USA
•Andrew Hoog
Chief Investigative Officer, viaForensics
St. Louis, MO USA
•Kuan-Tsai Huang, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Taskco Corporation
Chappequa, NY USA
•Kathleen Kiernan, Ph.D.
Chairperson of the Board InfraGard National Members Alliance
Jacksonville, FL USA
•Andrew Lewman
Executive Director, TOR Project
Dedham, MA USA
•Bruce Maggs, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research, Akamai Technologies
Professor, Duke University
Cambridge, MA USA
•Nick Mankovich, Ph.D.
Sr. Director Product Security & Privacy, Philips
New York, USA
•Annemarie P. McAvoy
Chairperson, Fordham Adjunct Faculty Committee
Adjunct Professor, Fordham University School of Law
New York, NY USA
•Ryan McGeehan
Incident Response Manager, Facebook
Palo Alto, CA USA
•Nasir Memon, Ph.D.
Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
New York, NY USA
•Eileen Monsma
Netherlands Police Agency, National High Tech Crime Unit
in cooperation with the University of Utrecht
Netherlands
•Petros Mouchtaris, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Internet Services Research Telcordia Technologies
Piscataway, NJ USA
•Sanjai Narain, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Information Assurance and Security Department
Telcordia Technologies
Piscataway, NJ USA
•Tom O'Hara
Emergency Manager, Suffolk County Office of Emergency Management
Yapank, NY USA
•Joseph C. Opacki
Forensic Investigator, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C. USA
•John Otero
Senior Partner, www.BlackStormCSF.com
•Jason Passwaters
Federal Bureau of Investigation
•John Pignataro
Director, Security Incedent Response Team, Citi Group
New York, NY USA
•Carol Porterfield
National Security Agency
Fort Meade, MD USA
•Chuck Rosenberg
Partner, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, former U.S. Attorney
Eastern District of Virginia
Virginia, USA
•Thomas Rushmore
President and CEO, TJR LLC
New York, New York
•Thomas Ryan
Managing Partner, Provide Security

•Ed Skoudis
Faculty Fellow, SANS Institute
Bethesda, MD USA
•Alex Southwell, J.D.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
New York, NY USA
•Eugene H. Spafford
Professor of Computer Science and Executive Director, Purdue University Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
W. Lafayette, IN USA
•Edward Stroz
Co-President, Stroz Freiberg LLC
New York, NY USA
•Akio Sugeno
Director, Internet Engineering and Operations
Telehouse International Corporation of America
Staten Island, NY USA
•Paul Syverson, Ph.D.
Mathematician, Center for Hight Assurance Computer Systems (CHACS)
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
•Kazuo Takaragi
Senior Chief Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.
Kawasaki, Japan
•John Verry
Principal Enterprise Security Consultant, Pivot Point Security
Hamilton, NJ USA
•David Weisman
PayPal.com
San Jose, CA USA
•Bill Woodcock
Research Director, Packet Clearing House
Berkeley, CA USA
•Amit Yoran
Chief Executive Officer, NetWitness Corporation
Herndon, VA USA

DOMESTIC TERRORISM - Sovereign Citizens

Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or “sovereign” from the United States. As a result, they believe they don’t have to answer to any government authority, including courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments, or law enforcement.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/april10/sovereigncitizens_041310.html

2010 International Conference on Cyber Security -Fordham University & FBI NYC

The 2010 will cover a variety of topics - Enabling Technologies, Operations & Enforcement & Real Life Experiences.

Last year more than 500 people from 40 countries gathered at ICCS to discuss the worlds greatest emerging cyber threats. This August the FBI and Fordham University will partner again to host the 2nd annual International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS 2010) in NYC, the information center of the world.

With the number of cyber threats escalating worldwide, the need for a comprehensive security analysis, assessment, and actions have reached a critical juncture. Join us at ICCS 2010 for a first-hand opportunity to discover and share crtical intelligence on issues shaping the future of cyber security.

visit www.iccs.fordham.edu - for registration and program information
contact me for sponsorship opportunities at venditti@partnerforsecurity.com or call me at 917-596-3037.

FBI cites thousands of hate crimes in '08

(CNN) -- More than 9,000 hate crime offenses -- more than half of them motivated by racial bias -- were reported last year, the FBI announced Monday.http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/23/hate.crimes.fbi.report/


.....There were 105 anti-Islamic incidents reported in 2008, about one-tenth the amount of anti-Semitic incidents, which totaled 1,103 in 2008, according to the agency.

Minneapolis FBI Agents Raid Travel Agency

FBI raids Minneapolis travel agency in connection with terror probe
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio
August 7, 2009

Minneapolis ? FBI agents raided a Minneapolis travel agency earlier this week in support of a broader investigation into the disappearances of about 20 Somali-American men.

FBI Intelligence Directorate Head - Kevin Favreau

"We need to know about the threat more than anyone else does because we need to go head-to-head with it"
-- Kevin Favreau, HEAD OF THE FBI'S INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE

FBI: Newest 'Most Wanted' Terrorist Is American

A fugitive animal rights activist believed to be hiding outside the United States has become the first domestic terror suspect named to the FBI's list of 'Most Wanted' terrorists. (April 21)
http://www.blinkx.com/video/fbi-newest-most-wanted-terrorist-is-american/r8YW17B4ppXG8TAyr5G39g

FBI looks into calls to Somalia from Erie County line

Erie County Emergency Management Agency officials say they've asked the FBI to investigate more than 120 calls placed last month from a county-owned phone to locations in Somalia.

"This is something I've never seen in my 30-year career," said Bob Hall, telecommunications coordinator for Erie County Emergency Management Agency. "These people know what they're doing."

Exactly who they are remains to be seen, Hall said. There are concerns this could be terrorism related, which is why it was turned over to the FBI.

The calls were made on at least one Sunday about seven weeks ago from a main phone line in the county's Department ofEnvironmental Services. But the calls weren't made directly from that phone.

Someone had actually called the department's phone number from an outside line at an unknown location, then entered into the voicemail system, which wasn't password-protected, Hall said.

From the department's voicemail system, the caller rerouted the call to two phone numbers in Somalia. All told, the unknown talker racked up more than 20 hours of conversation, resulting in a $212 bill, Hall said.

The bizarre incident was noticed by workers at AT&T, the county's phone-service provider, who immediately shut down the long-distance feature and notified the county, Hall said.

Hall contacted Huron police because the Department ofEnvironmental Services offices are in Huron, but he also called the FBI because the calls wereinternational.

Scott Wilson, spokesman for the FBI's Cleveland office, said FBI agents in Sandusky are aware of the phone calls.

"But we can't comment on anything that we're doing," Wilson said. "The county had supplied our office with some of thesenumbers."

AT&T's fraud department agreed to forgive the $212 charge,Hall said, adding he was expecting the bill to be closer to $1,000 or $1,500.

A 30-year employee with a phone company before his current job, Hall said it'll be almost impossible to trace the origin of the calls because they may have been rerouted through multiple locations before reaching the intended numbers in Somalia.

"It makes it virtually impossible to find out where it's coming from," Hall said.

"The call gets regenerated at one number, then regenerated, then regenerated again."

Most of the county's phones are password-protected, but the Department of Environmental Services' number wasn't until after the incident.
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2009/05/28/front/1373770.txt

FBI Explains Its CAIR Cut Off

Bureau says CAIR is not "an appropriate liaison partner"



The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is not "an appropriate liaison partner" for the FBI because of evidence linking the organization and its founders to Hamas, an FBI assistant director said in a letter to a U.S. Senator. "In light of that evidence, the FBI suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI," Richard C. Powers, an assistant director in the FBI's office of Congressional Affairs, wrote in a letter to Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ). Today, the FBI is unsure whether the relationship between CAIR and Hamas ever was severed, Powers wrote. In February, Kyl was joined by fellow senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) in writing FBI Director Robert Mueller to praise the FBI's policy toward CAIR. IPT News, May 7, 2009
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1029/fbi-explains-its-cair-cut-off

FBI Makes Arrest

Four men accused in an alleged terror plot to bomb a Jewish center and synagogue in Riverdale, Bronx could face life in prison, as they are arraigned in federal court later today.

DIFFERENCE MAKERS - Heroes in our Communities!

Director Robert S. Mueller congratulates representatives of four of the nation's largest billboard companies?Clear Channel Outdoor, Adams Outdoor Advertising, Lamar Advertising, and the Outdoor Advertising Association of Georgia. In little more than a year, their efforts in our Digital Billboard initiative have been instrumental in apprehending 18 people sought by authorities.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/march09/dcla_032009.html

Muslims in US are hopeful but wary of status under Obama

<http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2009/01/31/religion.qp-7689896.sto> ...

Thomas Nicpon, assistant special agent in charge in the FBI's New York intelligence division, said deciding which Muslim groups to work with is a " difficult ...

US Muslims hopeful but wary of status under Obama

US Muslims hopeful but wary of status under Obama: "The FBI is among the law enforcement agencies that attend the Islamic Society conventions to recruit Arabic speakers.
Thomas Nicpon, assistant special agent in charge in the FBI's New York intelligence division, said deciding which Muslim groups to work with is a 'difficult question' since within many groups, members may differ widely in their outlook. But he said the FBI 'tries to vet it out' before working with a Muslim organization — or any community group.
'The overwhelming majority of American Muslims are loyal, patriotic Americans who obviously are very upset by and very concerned about what happened on 9-11,' said Nicpon, who leads the FBI's New York outreach to Muslims. 'They're generally a lot more well-integrated in society than they perhaps are in London or Britain in general. They identify a lot more with America and American culture.'"

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Faces of the FBI - Video

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Faces of the FBI - Video: "The face of the FBI has changed over the past century, but the core mission remains the same—to protect the nation from dangerous threats."

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Congressional Testimony

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Congressional Testimony: "Increasingly, the FBI is called upon to address criminal and terrorist threats to U.S. interests in countries across the globe. Advances in technology, communications, and transportation have done more to blur international boundaries in the past decade than ever before. As a result, effectively combating transnational crime and terrorism now requires significantly greater cooperation among law enforcement, domestic security, and intelligence agencies on a global scale."

FBI CIO - Chad Fulgham

For Immediate ReleaseDecember 8, 2008

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel08/fulgham120808.htm
Washington D.C.FBI National Press Office(202) 324-3691
Chad Fulgham Named Chief Information Officer
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III today announced the appointment of Chad Fulgham as the Bureau’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), responsible for directing the organization’s overall information technology (IT) efforts.
“In today’s global environment, information technology remains key to how the FBI conducts its business—capturing information that can be instantly retrieved and shared as we build our investigations, providing the means to collaborate across distances, and keeping our information secure,” Mueller said, noting that Fulgham’s extensive experience working with multi-national corporations and cutting edge technology fit well with the Bureau’s IT needs.
Before being hired by the FBI, Fulgham worked in the Information Technology Division of Lehman Brothers, where he served as a senior vice president in various capacities over the past four years. In addition to being credited with the transformation of much of its technological infrastructure, he was responsible for performing organizational needs assessments, developing policy and instituting IT strategies, managing budgets, directing products and services selection, and overseeing technology operations. He will have many of the same responsibilities at the FBI.
Previously, he carried out many aspects of computer security and information risk management for IBM, JPMorgan Chase, and Arthur Andersen. He is a member of three Microsoft Advisory Boards and serves on the Financial Services Industry Advisory Boards for both AT&T and Verizon.
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Fulgham spent five years in the Navy where he also worked with information security, network management, and communications, ending his tour of duty at Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet.Fulgham replaces Zal Azmi, who left the FBI last October to enter private industry.

Early Departures at the Bureau

Early Departures at the Bureau: "Joseph Demarest and Joe Billy. Demarest headed the New York office’s counter-terrorism division, one of the Bureau’s most vital jobs. He oversaw top secret investigations and ran the Joint Terrorist Task Force [JTTF] of 350 or so FBI agents and NYPD detectives."

Investigating Terrorism Tips Video - CBSNews.com

Investigating Terrorism Tips Video - CBSNews.com: "New York's Joint Terrorism Task Force, JTTF, is a highly secretive facility where officers investigate tips on terrorism daily. Bob Orr interviews Tom Nicpon FBI ASAC NYC Field Office.
June 20, 2008"