Science: FBI investigation of 2001 anthrax attacks concluded; U.S. releases details. The Justice Department officially ended its eight-year investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks Friday with the release of hundreds of pages of documents that starkly portray the mental unraveling of the deceased Army scientist accused of committing the worst act of bioterrorism in U.S. history. New York Times, 2010

Technology: Intel Was Attacked at the Same Time as Google. According to the article, "Intel said that it was a victim of a 'sophisticated' cyber-attack that occurred around the same time as the much-publicized attack on Google and other companies." New York Times, 2010

Law: Program That IDs Jailed Illegal Immigrants Sought For Deportation Gets High Marks. Fairfax County is among 116 jurisdictions in the nation participating in a pilot program called Secure Communities. Under the program, authorities take an arrestee's digital fingerprint and compare it to a Department of Homeland Security immigration database. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is immediately notified if a person is an illegal immigrant. During 2009, the program identified 619 inmates as illegal immigrants in Fairfax County. Washington Post, 2010

Featured forensics-related word ... Animation (an|i•ma•tion; [an΄i mā΄shәn]—noun): A computer program that allows a reconstructionist to develop a videotape of an accident sequence to be used as an exhibit to his/her opinion of the accident scenario.