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FBI Director Discusses Preventing Chinese, Russian, and Foreign Cyberattacks

Olivia Joung • June 6, 2022

FBI Director Christopher Wray explained how the agency thwarted a cyberattack last year on the Boston Children’s Hospital by the Iranian government during the sixth annual Boston Conference on Cyber Security in Gasson Hall on Wednesday.

Man Originally Arrested by BCPD Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

Megan Kelly • June 9, 2021

A Dorchester man who was originally arrested by the Boston College Police Department in 2018 was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison and five years on probation for possession of child pornography in U.S. District Court on May 13.

Man Originally Arrested by BCPD Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography

Megan Kelly • January 16, 2021

Eric Tran Thai, a 36-year-old man from Dorchester, Mass., was originally placed under investigation after two BC students reported that Thai videotaped them while they were using the men’s restrooms on BC’s campus.

FBI Agent Discusses Gang Violence and Law Enforcement

Matthew Ma • January 27, 2020

FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Wood visited BC to deliver a lecture concerning the FBI's approach to the growing threat of gang activities.

Culprit Initially Taken Into Custody by BCPD Arrested in Federal Court

Jack Goldman • March 18, 2019

Eric Tran Thai, a 36-year-old man from Dorchester, Mass., was arrested by the FBI on Monday for covertly recording male students at Boston Latin High School in the school’s bathrooms, according to a justice department statement.

FBI Deputy Director, Special Agent in Charge of Boston Division Discuss Bureau’s Cyber Concentration, Recruiting Efforts

Jack Goldman • March 11, 2019

FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said that the younger generation emerging from universities is exactly what the FBI needs at the moment and that adding the expertise that younger generations have gained in the cyber field is vital to keeping the FBI ahead of the curve.

Third-Annual Cyber Security Conference Features FBI Deputy Director, Industry Leaders

Jack Goldman • March 11, 2019

The third Cyber Security Conference at BC featured a remarks from FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich and special agent in charge of the Boston division Joseph Bonavolonta.

Professor Ann Burgess is the Mind Behind the ‘Mindhunter’

Olivia Tobin • March 18, 2018

“My uncle was in a kind of rural area in Maryland, and I’d go out with him, out to the houses, and he’d deliver babies ... The next week there’d be a basket of apples or potatoes on the back porch—that’s how he got paid,” Burgess said of her family's longtime success in medicine.