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.
News, Top Story
Man Originally Arrested by BCPD Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison
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.
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Man Originally Arrested by BCPD Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography
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.
On Campus
FBI Agent Discusses Gang Violence and Law Enforcement
FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Wood visited BC to deliver a lecture concerning the FBI’s approach to the growing threat of gang activities.
Top Story, Off Campus, News
Culprit Initially Taken Into Custody by BCPD Arrested in Federal Court
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.
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FBI Deputy Director, Special Agent in Charge of Boston Division Discuss Bureau’s Cyber Concentration, Recruiting Efforts
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.
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Third-Annual Cyber Security Conference Features FBI Deputy Director, Industry Leaders
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.
Features
Professor Ann Burgess is the Mind Behind the ‘Mindhunter’
“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.
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FBI Director Addresses Internet Privacy at BC Conference on Cyber Security
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray spoke at Boston College on Wednesday morning.
On Campus, News
BC and FBI to Host Boston Conference on Cyber Security on Wednesday
Last year’s conference featured then-FBI Director James Comey. He was fired by President Trump two months later, on May 9.
