Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean is best known for working with some of the best hip hop artists and producing some of the best hits. It turns out that he is also presently the CEO of Megaupload and was responsible for enlisting celebrities like Diddy, Kanye West, will.i.am, Alicia Keys, and Kim Kardashian to appear in a song called “Mega Song.” He filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group for having the video taken down from YouTube. Now it appears that the FBI has shut down MegaUpload.com and four people have been arrested as suspects for being online pirates.

The FBI used the Freedom of Information Act to inadvertently admit somehow being involved with Carrier IQ. Carrier IQ created network diagnostic software that was accused of collecting personal information. Government transparency blog MuckRock has filed for an FOIA release on the FBI’s use of Carrier IQ. The FBI said no and said the following:

The FBI has launched Child ID, its first ever mobile app, as a way to “provide a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your child.” TechCrunch reports that the app is currently available for iPhones and that other OS versions are on the way, and the FBI reminds everyone that a child goes missing in the US about every 40 seconds. The free app not only gives parents a quick way to show authorities the relevant information about their missing children, but also allows the parents to contact the appropriate authorities through the app. Current feedback on the new app complains that it isn’t password protected, but the FBI has been quick to update and will likely have a password lock on the app in the near future.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the apartment Wes DeSoto, a member of the Screen Actors Guild. THe FBI believes that he was the first one to upload the movies The King’s Speech and Black Swan to The Pirate Bay in January. The FBI is also looking into whether DeSoto is part of The Pirate Bay pre-release movie-uploading group that is known as TiMPE.

A lawsuit by the Council on America-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been filed on behalf of Yasir Afifi against the FBI. Afifi is a Muslim-American student that is of Egyptian descent. Last year Afifi found a strange gadget underneath his car when getting an oil change. He was scared that it was a pipe bomb so his friend posted photos of it on Reddit. The Reddit community confirmed that it was a GPS tracking device placed there by the FBI without a warrant. FBI agents learned that Afifi discovered the device and they demanded it back from him before he destroyed it since it is expensive. Below is a video discussing the lawsuit:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has executed over 40 search warrants for those involved with Operation Payback. Operation Payback was a group of hackers that took down the Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal websites using DDoS attacks out of Wikileaks retaliation. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal had dropped financial support for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange shortly after he released confidential government cables. The group behind Operation Payback is known as “Anonymous.”

The FBI raided a hosting company based in Texas as part of investigation to find out who was behind the hack attack against PayPal. The FBI took a computer server and a couple of hard drives. PayPal officials “reported that an Internet activist group using the names ‘4chan’ and ‘Anonymous’ appeared to be organizing a distributed denial of service (“DDoS”) attack against the company” to the FBI. The attack against PayPal was part of a project called “Operation Payback.” Operation Payback was an organized attack to hack companies that froze or suspended WikiLeaks accounts. The FBI traced an IP address to Tailor Made Services, a firm based in Dallas that provides dedicated server hosting. [The Smoking Gun]

According to a report by CNET, Blogetery.com was shut down for allegedly hosting al-Qaeda materials. Initially details were scarce about why WordPress platform and hosting company Blogetery.com was shut down, taking out 70,000 blogs with them. BurstNet CTO Joe Marr said that FBI agents informed executives that al-Qaeda was distributing materials on Blogetery servers that included names of American citizens targeted for assassination by al-Qaeda.