The FBI said an initial review of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, showed that the man conducted extensive online research into New Orleans before the rampage.

The FBI provided an update Tuesday on the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans, revealing new information about the attacker's online search history as well as releasing a photo showing him walking in the city just weeks before the rampage that killed 14 people.

Federal authorities announced Tuesday that they have erased Chinese malware from thousands of computers across the United States.

The FBI said today that it removed Chinese malware from 4,258 US-based computers and networks by sending commands that forced the malware to use its "self-delete" function. The People's Republic of China (PRC) government paid the Mustang Panda group to develop a version of PlugX malware used to infect,