Law Enforcement Trends in Cyber Crime

This presentation will provide a law enforcement overview of trends in cyber crime with an emphasis on terrorism, intrusion investigations, and identity theft.

Chris Lester, Supervisor, Cyber Crimes Task Force - FBI
Special Agent (SA) Christopher J. Lester began working for the FBI over 16 years ago in the San Francisco Division. In 1994, SA Lester was assigned to the Minneapolis Division to work white collar crime and computer intrusion investigations. In 1995, SA Lester headed up the Minneapolis Division's Evidence Response Team, a group of agents extensively trained in the collection of physical evidence from crime scenes. He has been a member of the Computer Analysis Response Team (CART), a team assigned for the forensic collection of data from computers for almost seven years. In 2002, SA Lester was Acting Supervisory Special Agent for the high tech computer crime squad of the Minneapolis Division for six months. He has been the primary relief supervisor for more than four years. For the past six months, SA Lester has been the Acting Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI Cyber Crimes Squad.