THE WEEK IN REVIEW: Keyloggers and crime fighters

July 21, 2007

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		Keyloggers and crime fighters Federal agents have a new weapon in the war on crime: keyloggers. The FBI used a novel type of remotely installed spyware last month to investigate who was e-mailing bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Wash. Federal agents obtained a court order to send spyware called CIPAV to a MySpace account suspected of being used by the bomb threat hoaxster. Once implanted, the software was designed to report back to the FBI with the Internet Protocol address of the suspect's computer, other information found on the PC and, notably, an ongoing log of the user's outbound connections. Read full story Steven Musil CNET News.com Video of the week THX turns up volume on undercover tech CNET News.com takes a look inside THX's San Rafael, Calif.-based headquarters to see what tech the company's working on for consumers. Watch this video Most popular stories Where's the SLR-style compact camera? Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead Five dirty truths about clean technology Sprint Nextel, Clearwire plan nationwide WiMax network Where the wireless gadgets roam Most discussed stories Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead Where's the SLR-style compact camera? Five dirty truths about clean technology Next version of Windows: Call it 7 Vista's growing pains leave room for XP Top photo galleries Las Vegas tunnels Ghost-hunting tech Cirque du Soleil's inner workings Getting the THX thumbs-up Bionic hand gets thumbs-up Blog Colbert swaps imaginary iPhone for real one He whined, he groused, and finally he flat-out begged, but at last Stephen Colbert is an iPhone owner. Read full story Top 10 products this week Cowon iAudio 7 (8GB) Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 2007 Pontiac Solstice GXP (2.0L 4cyl Turbo 5A) Sony Handycam HDR-SR7 JVC HA-NC250 Noise Canceling Headphones Kensington Contour Roller 2007 Mercedes-Benz ML320 CDI HTC Vox S710 (unlocked) Dell Inspiron 531s Samsung HL-T5687S Related Newsletters CNET Home Theater Weekly View preview  (Delivered Fridays.) The CNET Home Theater Weekly is perfect for anyone who cares about HDTV, home audio, TiVo, and anything else in the home-theater realm. Subscribe free More from CNET News.com:  Today on News  Business Tech  Cutting Edge  Access  Threats  Media 2.0  Digital Life  Markets  Blogs  Most Popular  Photo Galleries  Recent Videos
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