Comment Law enforcement staffing (Score 2, Interesting) 721
To begin with, like many previous posts are stating, the FBI doesn't handle individual cases of home intrusion or even very small business intrusions.
The best place to call would be local law enforcement (eg. county or state). Depending on their practices, you may or may not get a response. However, the unfortunate reality is most law enforcement agencies are too understaffed and underfunded in their computer crimes departments to be able to give an effective response to individuals. This goes for organizations from the FBI all the way down to your local PD.
All of the money being currently allocated to cyber crime is more geared toward terrorism (Since that's the buzzword these days), or general attacks on public infrastructure, government and large businesses. Furthermore, attacks on individuals are so prolific that I don't think any PD would even know where to begin.
As if that wasn't enough, there is such a shortage of law enforcement professionals who understand and can perform an effective incident response, that even if such PDs and agencies had the cash, they couldn't hire many more quality people. The best security professionals often tend to make their way toward the private sector (Again serving big business or big government contracts) where they'll make real money.
Sadly, you're just not going to get much help these days from government. Someone earlier mentioned posting your problem on slashdot or somewhere else (Does anyone know of a good site to post for home incident response advice), and that's probably the best idea, because you're better off just defending yourself.
The best place to call would be local law enforcement (eg. county or state). Depending on their practices, you may or may not get a response. However, the unfortunate reality is most law enforcement agencies are too understaffed and underfunded in their computer crimes departments to be able to give an effective response to individuals. This goes for organizations from the FBI all the way down to your local PD.
All of the money being currently allocated to cyber crime is more geared toward terrorism (Since that's the buzzword these days), or general attacks on public infrastructure, government and large businesses. Furthermore, attacks on individuals are so prolific that I don't think any PD would even know where to begin.
As if that wasn't enough, there is such a shortage of law enforcement professionals who understand and can perform an effective incident response, that even if such PDs and agencies had the cash, they couldn't hire many more quality people. The best security professionals often tend to make their way toward the private sector (Again serving big business or big government contracts) where they'll make real money.
Sadly, you're just not going to get much help these days from government. Someone earlier mentioned posting your problem on slashdot or somewhere else (Does anyone know of a good site to post for home incident response advice), and that's probably the best idea, because you're better off just defending yourself.
