If you find the FBI’s cybercrime webpage can you let them know?

404 – Webpage not found.

Graham Cluley @ 5:05 pm, July 19, 2016

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I wanted to find the list of resources the FBI provide for reporting a data breach.

So, naturally, I used a search engine.

“FBI cybercrime”, I googled.

Watch my video to see what happened next.

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What's happened to the FBI's cybercrime webpage? | Graham Cluley

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Of course, it’s unlikely that hackers have caused the FBI’s main cybercrime page to disappear.

It’s much more likely that someone on the FBI web team has screwed up, and not put a redirect in place.

It is embarrassing though, and hardly helpful for people – like me! – who were trying to legitimately find information on the FBI’s website.

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Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley is an award-winning keynote speaker who has given presentations around the world about cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. A veteran of the computer security industry since the early 1990s, he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows, makes regular media appearances, and is the co-host of the popular "The AI Fix" and "Smashing Security" podcasts. Follow him on Bluesky and Mastodon, or drop him an email.

7 comments on “If you find the FBI’s cybercrime webpage can you let them know?”

Squint19

July 19, 2016 at 6:30 pm

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber

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1. Graham Cluley · in reply to Squint19
  
  July 19, 2016 at 6:33 pm
  
  Yup. So all they need to do is add a redirect from https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber (which was working a few days ago, and which Google clearly still feels is correct!)
  
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james carr

July 19, 2016 at 9:06 pm

you are an idiot. if you search – FBI cyber crime – tons of links show up.

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1. Graham Cluley · in reply to james carr
  
  July 19, 2016 at 9:52 pm
  
  Thanks. I'm aware of that.
  
  We're in the process of writing an article for the site about how to report cybercrime. Which is how we know that the relevant page on the FBI site *was* https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber but now it's changed.
  
  FBI hasn't put in a redirect. Google still thinks people should be taken to the old URL, which they offer as the first search result.
  
  Which means folks get a page not found.
  
  I could have said all this in the video. Presumably then you wouldn't have said I was an idiot, but more importantly no-one would have found the video funny.
  
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Bill Dillo

July 20, 2016 at 1:10 am

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber. Didn't take that long.

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Matthew Parkes

July 20, 2016 at 11:49 am

Can we report James Carr to the FBI cyber crime unit for being an intolerant individual who missed the point completely?

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graphicequaliser

July 21, 2016 at 10:43 am

I went to https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber and, frankly, I was seriously disappointed by their "skimming" of the subject. Not one mention of MITM attacks, eavesdropping, and other techniques (UART hacks, Intermediate Certificate forgeries…) The FBI are absolutely useless because of their lack of technical prowess, and their huge inertia from being such a large and publicly-accountable organisation, means that they cannot change quickly enough to keep up with IT developments.

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