Net Crimes & Misdemeanors

WHOA Press Release #2008-10

For Immediate Release

WHOA-KIDS/TEENS DIVISION EMPHASIZES ONLINE SAFETY FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR

Around this time every year children of all ages are returning to schools, colleges and universities. Fall is a reminder to all of us that our kids and teens will spend less time outside riding their bikes and playing basketball in the sunshine and more time inside watching television and surfing the Internet.

The concept of “back to school safety” used to mean that our children need to wear a seat belt in the family vehicle or, if available, on a school bus, paying attention to adult crossing guards and remembering to look both ways before crossing a street. It also meant when they were home alone they should keep the doors locked and when they were in public they should not talk to strangers. Now strangers can sneak inside your home via the Internet while you are at work and your children are home from school. Jayne Hitchcock, president of Working to Halt Online Abuse (WHOA) and Working to Halt Online Abuse-Kids/Teens Division (WHOA-KTD), says “today back to school safety has to include ways to keep children protected from online bullies and predators. This means not letting a stranger lurk inside your child’s computer. Being online can be a fun and worthwhile experience for kids and teens, provided they understand how to stay safer.”

WHOA-KTD was founded in 2005 in response to a rapidly expanding need for organized online safety groups that would specifically focus on the needs of children and teens who are victimized and taken advantage of every day on the Internet. WHOA-KTD is a subsidiary division of WHOA, which is the oldest and largest all-volunteer online safety organization. WHOA has been helping adult victims of cyberstalking since 1997 and remains the only online organization to provide the most up-to-date cyberstalking statistics and cumulative trends.

WHOA-KTD’s statistics from 2007 show that 28% of students have been cyber bullied and of 395 students canvassed, 54 admitted to being an online bully towards somebody else. A significant finding is that almost half said they had been contacted by a stranger via an instant messaging program, email or at an online gaming or social networking site (such as Myspace and Facebook). Approximately half of these children did share the experience with their parents or another adult, which is what WHOA-KTD encourages them to do. What is most frightening is this means that parents and guardians of about half of the children were unaware that their child had been approached by a stranger online.

The 2007 110th Congress 1st Session – Senate 205 found that:

35,000,000 children in kindergarten through grade 12 have Internet access;
41% of students in grades 5 through 12 do not share with parents what they do online;
31% of students are skilled enough to circumvent Internet filter software;
20% of middle and/or high school students admit to meeting offline with someone met online;

WHOA-KTD advises all parents and guardians to take a proactive role in their child’s Internet activities by doing some fairly simple things (from the book Net Crimes & Misdemeanors by J.A. Hitchcock):


1. Get actively involved in your children’s online life. Know what they are doing online. If your child has created a personal Web site, what information is posted on it? How about an online journal, blog or profile on a social networking site such as Myspace or Facebook?
2. Place the computer in a den, family room, kitchen, or other high-traffic location. Don’t allow your child to keep a computer with an Internet connection in the bedroom where the door can be closed while online. If they close the door whenever they go online, regard it as a danger sign.
3. Use a filtering/screening program such as Cyberpatrol, NetNanny, SafeBrowse, or Kidsnet.
4. Set use of the computer to specific times so that your child does not spend an excessive amount of time online.
5. Monitor how frequently your child gets unfamiliar e-mail­and read it.
6. Become more computer literate. The best way to do this is to sit down with your child and ask them to show you how the Internet works. You may be surprised to find how much they enjoy the role of teacher.
7. Sit and work alongside your child while they are online.
8. Warn your children to be cautious with online strangers.
9. Monitor your long-distance phone bill for evidence that your child has been in contact with a stranger.
10. If your child receives strange phone calls or gifts from strangers, find out what’s going on.
11. If your child turns off the monitor or computer when you approach, regard it as a warning sign.
12. Know what your children are looking at on the computer. If you find that it’s pornography, it’s time for a chat. If you check the Web browser cache and find it’s already been cleaned out or that it’s empty, it’s time for a chat. If you check the Recycle Bin to see if the cache info is there and it’s not, it’s time to disconnect the computer from the Internet and have a serious chat.

Jayne A. Hitchcock is a cyber crime expert who trains law enforcement from the local to federal level, and assists the US Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime and National Center for Victims of Crime. She trains advocate groups, conducts seminars, raises awareness of cyber crime and harassment and lectures educators, librarians, parents and students at middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities about the dangers of bullies, predators, stalkers and online social networking sites. She has appeared as an expert in various media, including America’s Most Wanted, PEOPLE magazine, Primetime Thursday with Diane Sawyer, TIME magazine, the Associated Press, The Montel Williams Show, A&E’s Investigative Reports, 48 Hours, Ladies Home Journal, Campus Security Reports, Inside Edition, Good Morning America and CNN. Her latest book, Net Crimes & Misdemeanors 2nd edition (netcrimes.net), highlights online crimes, how to be safer online and what to do if you are victimized. Video Professor recently released a 3-CD tutorial based on the book.

To interview Hitchcock, please contact her via email whoa@haltabuse.org. WHOA statistics may be quoted in media and on web sites with appropriate recognition. If someone you know needs help, or if you want to learn more about WHOA or WHOA-KTD visit www.haltabuse.org.

I'm sorry, but people should get a permit to be online. Or at least a beginner course in how to use the Internet properly. I am sick and tired of getting complaints that "I've been hacked!"

No, you haven't.

Real hackers don't bother with common folk like you and me. Real hackers don't just go breaking into people's email accounts to harass them. Real hackers are smarter than you (and probably smarter than me) and look for challenges.

You probably chose a password that was either

A) Easy to guess (like your dog's name, an anniversary or birthdate, the school you graduated from, your favorite color, etc

B) You wrote it down on a piece of paper in plain view or near your computer and the person who is now harassing/impersonating you found it and used it against you

C) You openly gave the person your password and when your relationship/friendship ended, you forgot to change your password.

Examples follow of real incidents reported to me:

He got so mad at me that he hacked in to photobucket account and put up pictures that were against the Photobuckets Terms of Service to try and get the account suspended.

Turns out this guy knew the harasser through an online game and had known him for four years. Enough time for that person to know a lot about this guy and most likely guessed his password. So what does he do? Instead of going to Photobucket and changing his password to a combination of numbers/letters/symbols, he starts telling the guy "f-ck you" via Yahoo Messenger. Which just escalated things.

They hacked my aol account and my myspace.com account

She dated the guy almost 10 years previously. For a long time. So he obviously knew a lot about her. I can bet you 10-1 her password was something really easy for this loser to guess. What was worse was he and his now wife were going into her AOL and Myspace accounts and sending people in her address book nude photos taken of her by him when they were dating.

NEVER, EVER let anyone take sexually provocative photos or videos of you, no matter how much you love them. Because this is exactly what happens when you break up. Unless you don't mind having things like this eventually show up online (and believe me, they will), keep the photos and videos to normal subjects. If you do decide to do a sex tape, don't be surprised when it does who up online.

So what did this woman do? Instead of going in and changing her password to something no one could guess, she bitched about them continuing to "hack" into her accounts.

My computer has been hacked into twice in two months with two different hard drives and two different operating systems.  I am now on my third install of windows.

Now, this one was what the FBI told her a "remote hack." Ever hear of firewall/antivirus software? How about a hardware firewall? Turns out she was using some free software. You get what you pay for and if it's free, well, you need to pay the money for something that will protect your computer better.

She hacked my email account and intercepted racy emails between my wife and myself and printed them from her computer and has distributed the documents to several people.

"She" is his ex-wife. Although he claimed to change his passwords frequently, it turned out he was using easy ones he could remember. Once he changed it to something with numbers and symbols in it, the "hacking" stopped.

The person hacked into my account between 9:30pm -11:30pm on 3/9/08. My personal email address was sent out and they have since erased the texts from the online account.

Um, this isn't hacking. This is someone going into their email program and putting your email address into the FROM line so that they could send out messages pretending to be you.

First he hacked into my myspace account to steal all the settings of my profile and then made a profile on myspace that is exactly the same as mine and messaged me.

No, he didn't "hack" into your Myspace account. Your Myspace account was publicly available to everyone online and all he did was copy everything you put up there and create a new profile imitating you.

My daughter's account was hacked into and password was changed--by her daughter or daughers boyfriend- filthy e-mail is being sent to her friends and family

Again, an easy password to guess. NOT hacking.

She then, somehow, hacked into my Myspace page and began contacting my friends and family by sending rude and nasty messages about me to them.

Again, her Myspace profile was public, so all this person had to do was go to her Friends list and send everyone messages. NOT hacking.

Get a grip people. And follow these 10 pieces of advice:

1) Create hard to guess passwords. Yes, they're harder to remember, but they're harder for someone to figure out and get into your accounts online or offline. Make your password a combination of at least letters and numbers, and if you can, add some symbols to it, like $t()()p1d (which translates to stupid - see what I did?)

2) Make your Myspace, Facebook, AOL or other profile private so that only those on your Friends list can view it.

3) On that note, only approve people who REALLY are your friends, because once you make them a friend, they can view EVERYTHING you put in your profile, blog, photos, etc.

4) Put as little personal info about you in your online profiles. Don't use your first and last name together anywhere in the profile, especially as the name of your account, such as myspace.com/johndoe. Don't post your cell, home phone or address. Don't put where your work unless you want people who get mad at you, want revenge or just want to be idiots call your workplace and cause trouble for you.

5) Don't post provocative or controversial photos or videos online anywhere. This can affect you now or later in life. You could lose a job, a spouse, a potential date, a scholarship, admission to a college, etc. Get my drift?

6) Again, DO NOT let anyone take sex photos or videos of you. They WILL eventually show up online, guaranteed. I don't care how much you "love" them now. Don't do it.

7) Make sure your computer has a good antivirus AND firewall program installed and keep it updated. Pay for the renewals every year. If you're really worried about online security, consider a hardware firewall. Go to your local computer store, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc for advice on what would work best for you. An unprotected computer is an open door for the real hackers.

8) If someone does guess your password and gets into your accounts, immediately go in and change the password(s) before they do. If they've already done that, then contact the content provider or your ISP to let them know your account has been compromised.

9) You are not anonymous online. Even if you open up a free email account through somewhere like Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, etc, harassing messages can and will be traced back to you. If you're that ticked off at someone, take a step back, really think about it and realize it's not worth it. Or you'll be taken in by Internet Road Rage. Just like some people get so mad driving down the highway, snap and begin chasing someone in a road rage incident, the same thing happens on the information superhighway. And the consequences could be jail time, loss of a job, suspension from school, or a divorce or breakup. Is it really worth it to "chase" someone online because they ticked you off?

10) Finally: If you wouldn't let your grandmother view it, don't post it online; if you wouldn't say it to someone's face, don't send that email or post it online; and if you don't want things you're doing now online follow you later in life, JUST DON'T DO IT.

For more information on staying safer online, visit my book's web site, Net Crimes & Misdemeanors. If you are a victim of online harassment, cyberstalking or bullying, visit my organization's web site at Working to Halt Online Abuse and for kids/teens who are being bullied or harassed online, go to our Kids/Teens Division at WHOA-KTD - click on Need Help? and follow the instructions from there.

I'm a bit late posting this, but wanted to let you all know about the wonderful true crime panel I was part of at the Westborough Public Library in Massachusetts on August 20, 2008.

It's part of the Sisters in Crime New England Chapter, of which I am a member (as well as their national organization). You can see the schedule there - I am on quite a few panels in October.

There were three of us: Margaret Press, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith and me. I was the first to arrive and Chris decided to come along with me, even though he was exhausted from the weird hours we works at Home Depot (one day it will be 9-6 pm, the next 12-9 pm, the next 6-3pm). He carried in my box of books and settled in the back of the room. People began arriving and Donna Martel from the library talked with me for a bit. Margaret showed up, then Mary-Ann (who brough her hubby, too).

We set up our books for sale on the table next to us, then decided I'd start the panel. We had a good crowd, about 30 or so people, one of the biggest for the true crime panel so far. They were mostly senior citizens, who asked some wonderful questions.

Afterwards, I appeared to be the hit and sold quite a few books. I was pleasantly surprised. One older woman told me I'd done a good job and to keep up the good work. When we left, I was walking on air. I love events like this that go so darned well.

Chris told me that Mary-Ann's hubby was nice, but he was no Jacob. For those who don't know, we've become friends with Tess Gerritsen and her hubby, Jacob. Chris gets a kick out of talking with Jacob and Tess and I are like kindred spirits. I only wish they lived closer to us. We get together when we can and email frequently.

So all in all, it was a good night. And a reporter who attended wrote a very flattering article about us: True-crime writers tell back stories by Judy Powell of the Worcester Telegram.

WHO@ Newsletter

September 1, 2008

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .I apologize if this offends anyone, but I laughed my butt off when I read just the headline

Malaysian man gets nut stuck around penis: report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/malaysiasexoffbeat;_ylt=Ai
Sw8e7nJunHAoggc6PXKHDtiBIF

A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said Sunday.

The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection, the Star newspaper said, forcing him to seek help at a hospital in southern Johor state.

Staff from the Sultanah Aminah hospital had to drain some blood from the penis and cut away a top layer of skin before the object could be removed, the newspaper said.

It said the fire and rescue department were also involved in trying to remove the nut from the unnamed welder, who is in his 20s and hoped the nut would weigh down his penis to make it longer.

"The patient is now recovering and we hope to discharge him today (Sunday)," hospital director Daud Abdul Rahim told the Star.

On August 25, another young man in Kuala Lumpur had tried to increase his sexual prowess by slipping a steel ring around his penis, forcing the fire department to cut off the ring after doctors were unable to remove it, the newspaper said.

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Small World that may be getting too big - 09/01/08
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/01/faceb
ook.socialnetworking
It was 11.05pm and the queue outside the exclusive Embassy nightclub in Mayfair, London, was getting restless. A young man nervously adjusted his tie as a blond woman scanned the list of names on her clipboard. Two young women flounced away after being refused entry. But one phrase could guarantee immediate passage past the velvet cordon: "I'm ASW."

Internet puts personal data within reach of wrong people, Adamstown man learns - 08/31/08
http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=104192

Using social networking and other online tools can put your personal information in the wrong hands. A bit of caution can prevent some serious problems.

Russia Web site owner killed after arrest - 08/31/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080901/tc_cnet/83011357
831002979838;_ylt=AhYQnFqOe33z29Wp46ANJdb6VbIF
The owner of an opposition Internet news site in Russia's volatile Ingushetia region was shot and killed Sunday after being detained by police.

Social networks and "psychological profiling" in real time -08/29/08
http://www.popgadget.net/2008/08/sometimes_techn.phpa>
Sometimes technology can be put to really great use. Sometimes it can just be used to spy on us.

Man Sentenced For E-Mail Threats - 08/29/08
http://www.my58.com/news/17339568/detail.html
A Sacramento man was sentenced Friday for using e-mail to threaten the FBI, police and members of the rock band Korn, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott said.

Des Moines man indicted for Internet threats, ID theft - 08/29/08
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/200814
5766_threats29m.html
A Des Moines man was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Seattle in a case involving Internet threats to shoot or blow up employees at Boeing facilities and at an Anacortes oil refinery.

Missouri Internet Stalking and Harassment Law Goes Into Effect - 08/29/08
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/si
d/30246/
Legislation called for to protect children from Internet stalking and harassment in the wake of Megan Meier's terrible death goes into effect.

Stowaway computer virus sent into orbit - 08/28/08
http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=8913146
Nasa has confirmed that computer viruses have made it into space, after finding that computers on board the International Space Station were harbouring a malicious worm.

Brunswick man held on email threat - 08/28/08
http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/032186.html
A Brunswick man was arrested early today in connection with a racially charged e-mail sent to Gov. John Baldacci and at least one other member of the Maine delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, police said.

E-mail threat leads to cyberstalking charge - 08/28/08
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/charge_24245___artic
le.html/cyberstalking_leads.html
A Wilmington man faces a charge of cyberstalking after a Gastonia man told police he e-mailed death threats.

Warning to college students: Beware e-pervs - 08/28/08
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20094999&BRD
=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6
Colleges and universities in New Jersey are being asked to warn incoming freshmen and returning students about the dangers of sexual predators surfing the Internet, cyber bullying and harassment, Attorney Anne Milgram said yesterday.

MySpace threats lead to arrest - 08/27/08
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A
ID=/20080827/NEWS03/808270361/1062
Threats against a Captain Shreve High School senior that were posted on MySpace, a social networking Web site, led to an assault charge for a classmate.

Fifth suspect arrested over 'Islamic internet plot to kill Gordon Brown' - 08/27/08
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1049212/Fif
th-suspect-arrested-Islamic-internet-plot-kill-Gordon-B
rown.html
A fifth person has been arrested in connection with threats to kill the Prime Minister which were posted on an Islamic website.

Man arrested for posting Guns N' Roses songs on Web - 08/27/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080828/wr_nm/gunsnroses_d
c;_ylt=AoXwPIU3nQlfNDj3LnQtK0z6VbIF
Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of violating copyright laws for placing songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by rock band Guns N' Roses.

Fury over web film of graffiti at Palace - 08/27/08
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/royals/artic
le1611601.ece
AN internet clip in which a hoodie scrawls graffiti on Buckingham Palace was blasted by royal officials last night.

Herbal medicines sold online frequently contain 'dangerous levels of toxic metals' - 08/27/08
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23545241-de
tails/Herbal+medicines+sold+online+frequently+containa>+'dangerous+levels+of+toxic+metals'/article.do
Herbal medicines sold online frequently contain dangerous levels of lead, arsenic and mercury, a study suggests.

Apple's 'misleading' iPhone advert banned - 08/27/08
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_
web/article4618214.ece
Apple has been forced to withdraw an advert for the original iPhone after its claims that the device could access “all parts of the internet” were deemed inaccurate.

PayPal Refunds $50 Defraud, Sics Collections On You - 08/27/08
http://consumerist.com/5041902/paypal-refunds-50-defra
ud-sics-collections-on-you
Last year, Gpotato.com fraudulently took $50 from reader Adam's Paypal account. He disputed the charge, Paypal agreed it was fraud and returned the funds, and Adam closed the account.

The Seven Deadliest Social Networking Hacks - 08/26/08
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=162226&
WT.svl=news2_1
Think you know who your real online friends are? You could be just a few hops away from a cybercriminal in today's social networks

Website selling fake sicknotes for £25 each being investigated - 08/26/08
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1049315/Web
site-selling-fake-sicknotes-25-investigated.html
The NHS fraud squad is investigating a website that sells fake NHS sicknotes for £25.

You really can't hide on Internet - 08/26/08
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI
D=/20080826/OPINION01/808260324/1014/OPINION
Remember the old saying, "You can run, but you can't hide"? These days, there seems to be a lot of folks who think they can hide behind a cloak of Internet anonymity, who believe they can comment and hide without consequences.

Facebook summarily denies undeniable user-menacing security hole - 08/25/08
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/25/facebook_secur
ity_hole/
Facebook's hip new application platform contains a gaping hole that allows attackers to run malicious javascript on unsuspecting users' machines, a developer has demonstrated.

WHO@ Newsletter

August 25, 2008

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .To me it looks like a devil cat

Fame finds 4-eared feline thanks to Internet photo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080823/ap_on_fe_st/odd_fo
ur_eared_cat;_ylt=AlxG_Y_7JbJMFEQJuH4G2TftiBIF

The owners of Yoda ­ a cat with four ears ­ could use a couple extra hands to answer their telephones.

Ted and Valerie Rock said they've been inundated with television offers and media inquiries since their son posted a photo of their smoke-colored cat on a Web site. That turned the four-eared feline from a suburban animal oddity into an instant Internet celebrity.

The Rocks, from the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, have fielded calls from "Good Morning America," "Fox News" and "The Tyra Banks Show." The cat's photo has graced the London Guardian and a British tabloid. The Daily Mail said if Batman had a cat, it would be Yoda.

"It's amazing," Ted Rock said. "For the past few days, our phone has just been ringing off the hook."

Yoda's extra ears give him a hint of a devilish appearance. The Rocks said they found him in 2006 while watching a Chicago Bears game at a Blue Island bar.

Some in the bar were passing the then-eight-week old kitten around, making fun of his extra set of ears, mocking his appearance and calling him names such as "Devil Cat" and "Beelzebub."

It wasn't quite love at first sight, but the Rocks felt sorry for the cat and offered to adopt the kitten from the bar's owner, who kept the animal caged atop the bar for his customers' amusement.

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Hackers steal details of millions of Best Western hotel guests - 08/24/08
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2613095/Hackers
-steal-details-of-millions-of-Best-Western-hotel-guests
.html
Criminals have hacked into the online booking system of the world's largest hotel chain and stolen the personal data of up to eight million guests.

New NCG Report To Examine Cyberstalking - 08/23/08
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2008/08/23/cybersta
lking_repor/
A newscaster with a CBS affiliate in Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to him hacking into his co-anchor’s computer to read her e-mail.

2 charged with attempted extortion of NY executive - 08/22/08
http://www.miamiherald.com/business/AP/story/654112.ht
ml
Prosecutors say two men tried to shake down a top executive with the Blackstone Group for millions of dollars, threatening to destroy his career if he didn't pay.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office said Friday that Stuart Ross and Stuart Jackson tried to extort as much as $11 million from David Blitzer, the husband of Ross' estranged daughter and a senior managing director at the New York-based firm.

Police: Woman tries to kidnap 'virtual' ex - 08/22/08
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI
D=/20080822/NEWS01/80822022
A North Carolina postal worker not ready to end her virtual romance with a Delaware man was arrested in Maryland after breaking into his Claymont apartment in an attempt to kidnap him.

Fired Philly TV anchor admits e-mail hacking - 08/22/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080822/ap_on_re_us/news_a
nchor_charged
A fired TV newscaster admitted in court Friday that he illegally hacked into his co-anchor's e-mail accounts and leaked private information about her to gossip columnists.

Beware: Internet, vehicles can be used as weapons - 08/22/08
http://www.miltoncanadianchampion.com/news/article/200
695
Although technically not weapons, both the Internet and a vehicle can be awfully dangerous in the wrong hands.

Psychological profiling on the Web - 08/21/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080821/tc_cnet/83011009
31002274383;_ylt=Agsl50qspbt494_AMv_l60T6VbIF
Yesterday I ranted on Facebook about how annoyed I was with it. I've also had my share of emotional posts about various topics on Twitter. And I'm frequently opinionated in my blog postings on this site.

Scientists design shield to prevent deadly pacemaker hijack - 08/21/08
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/health/article-1047432/S
cientists-design-shield-prevent-deadly-pacemaker-hijack
.html
A 'cloaking' device that stops computer hackers maliciously hijacking pacemakers' radio signals could save lives, say scientists.

Car hire firm shares plummet £12m after ex-worker spreads malicious email under Bond-villain name - 08/21/08
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1047428/Car
-hire-firm-shares-plummet-12m-ex-worker-spreads-malicio
us-email-Bond-villain-name.html
A car hire firm has seen millions of pounds were wiped from its stock market value in the wake of a malicious email sent to hundreds of important contacts.

Thousands are left out of pocket and out of luck after festival ticket ‘scam’ - 08/21/08
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_en
tertainment/music/festivals/article4576827.ece
Thousands of music fans have been left angry and out of pocket this week after a suspected scam operator failed to supply tickets for three of Britain’s biggest festivals.

Google claims right to post photos from private land - 08/21/08
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080821/NEWS/106
44/0/news07
Don’t expect privacy in your front yard, even if your house is located one mile down a private, dirt road.
In a sweeping legal claim, Google recently stated it has the right to enter private roads and driveways to take photographs of people and their property, and then publish the images online.

Nelson Mandela's name hijacked in internet fraud - 08/21/08
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandind
ianocean/nigeria/2592034/Nelson-Mandelas-name-hijacked-
in-internet-fraud.html
In a statement on Wednesday night, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said it wanted to warn the public about the scheme, which appears to be a variation on the "advance fee" or "419" frauds which originated in Nigeria.

No plea yet in e-mail threat case - 08/20/08
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700252337,00.htm
l
A man who is charged with taking out his frustrations with the government by sending threatening e-mails to state leaders will wait a few more weeks before entering a plea.

Malicious Flash ads attack, spread via clipboard - 08/20/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080821/tc_cnet/83011009
31002171583;_ylt=Av7Qhc91lCYKGxJ8g5YCRdn6VbIF
A new type of Internet-based attack is spreading in which Flash-based ads seize control of a Web surfer's clipboard and paste in a link to a malicious site in the hopes that it will be spread from there into e-mails, blogs, and instant messages.

Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes - 08/20/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_f
ees;_ylt=AiZmgpCxE64zwIKswJ0qLyr6VbIF
Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are coming in the next few weeks, but this time eBay Inc. hopes it can cool tempers.

Two murders, suicide end a love triangle - 08/20/08
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/27179084.html?e
lr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQL
anchO7DiUs
A Zimmerman, Minn., man shot and killed his wife and another man before taking his own life, apparently angered over their relationship that began when they met through an online swinger's club.

Wabash man pleads guilty to harassment - 08/20/08
http://www.wabashplaindealer.com/articles/2008/08/21/l
ocal_news/local1.txt
Ryan Brown, 23, Wabash, faces a maximum jail time of 180 days in jail plus fine at sentencing in Wabash Superior Court on Sept. 17.
At that prospect, Cindy Flanagan spoke for herself and daughters Haley Flanagan and Emily Jones: "We just want to throw up." They were speaking to this reporter, just outside the Judicial Center.

Germany outraged by data theft scandal - 08/20/08
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germa
ny/2591783/Germany-outraged-by-data-theft-scandal.html<
/a>
German politicians are being urged to tighten data protection laws after a state privacy watchdog said information on the entire German population was available and being traded online.

Australian Olympics gymnastics judge target of hate mail, online abuse - 08/20/08
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/beijing_olympics/stor
y/0,27313,24216995-5016752,00.html
HATE mail and abusive online postings have been directed toward an Australian gymnastics judge at the centre of a Olympic medal tie between the United States and China, Australian gymnastics expert Liz Chetkovich says.

Family urging lawmakers to enact cyber-stalking laws - 08/20/08
http://www.wabashplaindealer.com/articles/2008/08/21/l
ocal_news/local2.txt
Emily Jones received a startling call from her pastor in March.
The pastor, who was taking a new position out of state, was adding members of his congregation to his Facebook account to keep in touch with after the move. He found a Facebook page - an Internet socializing network - that purportedly belonged to Jones.

Prison for eBay hair tong thief - 08/20/08
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_
and_east/7572248.stm
A hairdresser has been jailed after stealing almost 1,000 sets of hair straighteners to sell on eBay.

TV journalist fired after ad reported - 08/20/08
http://www.lvrj.com/news/27170089.html
KTNV-TV, Channel 13, reporter, Jeff Gradney has been fired after he and his girlfriend were accused of soliciting male partners on the Internet.

Bigfoot Hoax Could Get Cop Fired - 08/20/08
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080820-ap-bigfo
ot-hoax.html
Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice ­ handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it ­ was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.

Cops: Beware online classified flim-flams - 08/19/08
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/n
ews/1219170051189800.xml&coll=6
Three recent arrests in western Washington County underscore the need for users of online classified Web sites to be vigilant about the transactions they accept, whether as buyer or seller.

British 'cyber groomer' jailed for recruiting UK's youngest terrorist - 08/19/08
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23541687-de
tails/British+'cyber+groomer'+jailed+for+recruiting
+UK's+youngest+terrorist/article.do
A British cyber groomer was jailed for 12 years today after recruiting the country's youngest terrorist to a "worldwide" holy war against non-Muslims.

WHOA Newsletter

August 18, 2008

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .I'd hate to be the ad agency who did this

Sweet Home Alabama...England?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080814/od_nm/birmingham_d
c;_ylt=AnweiBKBBcydSzrKUYuK5lXtiBIF

Council chiefs in Birmingham were left red-faced when they mistakenly used a picture of their U.S. namesake in Alabama on thousands of official leaflets.

Pamphlets about recycling in the West Midlands bore an image showing the skyline of the city in the Deep South.

Under the headline "Thank You Birmingham!," the picture showed office blocks in the U.S. city, rather than its own distinctive Rotunda tower and the curvy Selfridges store.

The council said it had made a mistake, but had no plans to recall the leaflets.

"We accept that the wrong photo was used but the text and detail contained in the leaflet is wholly correct which is the most important message as we strive to further improve our green credentials," the council said Thursday.

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UK pedophile was "librarian" for global abuse ring - 08/18/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/wr_nm/britain_paed
ophile_dc;_ylt=AnFlEUt2caFO6hqSMOG7_qf6VbIF
A pedophile who acted as a "librarian" for a global Internet child abuse ring was jailed on Monday after one of the biggest undercover police investigations into online abuse in Britain.

Asian Countries Look to Bolster Cyber Defenses - 08/18/08
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=257
6
Reports last week that Georgia was hit by a coordinated cyber attack that compromised government Web sites offered a reminder of the additional front governments must protect when diplomatic or military hostilities break out between nations.

Play It Safe: Hackers use the back door to get into your computer; a strong, well-chosen password is your front-door lock - 08/18/08
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/aug/18/play-it
-safe-hackers-use-the-back-door-to-get-into/living/

Password security is a big deal, and if you don't think it is, then someone might be hacking into your computer even as you read this.

Murdered couple in 'scam' probe - 08/15/08
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/756158
9.stm
A Chinese couple murdered in Newcastle may have been involved in a range of internet scams, including betting and providing false visas, police said.

MySpace Deletes 146 Nebraska Sex Offender Profiles from Site - 08/15/08
http://www.nebraska.tv/Global/story.asp?S=8848456&nav=
menu605_1
Attorney General Jon Bruning announced today that social networking site MySpace deleted 146 profiles belonging to approximately 112 registered Nebraska sex offenders. The company removed the profiles during the first half of 2008.

The Legal Perils of Social Networking - 08/15/08
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/web20/64171.html?we
lcome=1219074564
There's something about the Web that makes some people just want to let it all out, compelling them to type things they'd hesitate to speak out loud. However, words on the Web can sometimes have real impact in the office -- and in the courtroom. Web or no Web, talking trash about your employer can get you fired, libeling others can get you sued, and some lies are far from harmless.

Yahoo's Fire Eagle Draws Fire from Privacy Advocates - 08/14/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080814/tc_nf/61345;_ylt=A
v.IG_F5KBeAjtJmOQHEMMv6VbIF
Yahoo's recently launched Fire Eagle has privacy advocates burning up about the new open platform that allows users to show their location on the Web and also allows developers access to users' locations.

Indiana man arrested for cyber-stalking to women - 08/14/08
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/26932289.htmla>
Police in Wabash arrested a man for cyber-stalking two sisters -- one of them underage -- and using their identities for sex for two years before he was discovered.

Brain surgeon's identity stolen for Facebook slur on gold medallist - 08/14/08
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-2353243
6-details/Brain+surgeon's+identity+stolen+for+Faceb
ook+slur+on+gold+medallist/article.do
Britain's leading female brain surgeon told today how she had her identity stolen on Facebook.
Fraudsters opened an entry under the name of Helen Fernandes, a consultant neurosurgeon at one of the country's top hospitals.

French Jewish group to sue YouTube - 08/14/08
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?
id=d912ced1-ec7a-43d6-813d-02588a086577
A French Jewish group said Thursday it is suing the YouTube video-sharing website over a clip showing a host of Jewish public figures to the soundtrack of a pre-war anti-Semitic song.

Hunters claim to have nabbed Bigfoot, Internet goes nuts - 08/14/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080814/tc_cnet/83011357
731001710236;_ylt=Ak0Fukp5iWsgkHex.za9rqn6VbIF
A couple of hunters in northern Georgia (the state, not the country) claim to have found a carcass of the legendary creature known as Bigfoot (or Sasquatch, if you prefer).

Bloggers enraged over "pretty face" fakery - 08/13/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080813/wr_nm/olympics_cer
emony_criticism_dc;_ylt=AnsnWqu8hUS4EMHHy8vFnOf6VbIF>
Bloggers were up in arms on Wednesday over China's decision at the Olympic opening ceremony to have a pretty little girl lip-synching for the real singer who had crooked teeth.

Buy evidence of my husband's adultery on eBay - 08/13/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080813/wr_nm/adultery_kni
ckers_dc;_ylt=AtHXjwrn043LmhmBrxV_TCL6VbIF
An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover's underpants up for sale on the auction site eBay.

Google Sees Massive Spam Spike - 08/12/08
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/37649
41/Google+Sees+Massive+Spam+Spike.htm
Spam is once again on the rise, and this time it's apparently being fueled by spam vendors that can't scale. That's the accusation being leveled by Google, which today revealed some surprising new spam figures.

WHO@ Newsletter

August 11, 2008

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .DOH!

Spanish shopkeeper finds Homer Simpson euro
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080808/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_
homersimpson_euro_spain;_ylt=AplrHrNyJJk.r2Q1aJwv5E3tiB
IF

A one euro coin has turned up in Spain bearing the face of cartoon couch potato Homer Simpson instead of that of the country's king, a sweetshop owner told Reuters on Friday.

Jose Martinez was counting the cash in his till in the city of Aviles, northern Spain, when he came across the coin where Homer's bald head, big eyes and big nose had replaced the serious features of King Juan Carlos.

"The coin must have been done by a professional, the work is impressive," he told Reuters.

The comical carver had not taken his tools to the other side of the coin displaying the map of Europe. So far, no other coins of the hapless, beer-swilling oaf have been found in circulation.

"I've been offered 20 euros for it," said Martinez.

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Alleged extorter to be tried - 08/11/08
http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1
9902983&BRD=1673&PAG=461&dept_id=17915&rfi=6
Emily Patterson, arraigned last month on felony theft by extortion charges after she allegedly threatened to extort $3,000 from a local woman, was ordered to stand trial in district court Thursday morning.

Logging onto Match-dot-wrong - 08/11/08
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20080811/NEWS/503472
699/1077/AROUND03&parentprofile=-1
A Texas man with a home in Aspen faces assault and domestic violence charges after an Internet date allegedly ended in an scrap at the Hunter Creek trailhead in August 2007.

Sheriff warns of Internet auto scam - 08/10/08
http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20080810/NEWS/381
266913/-1/news
Blount County Sheriff James Berrong released information Friday warning residents of an Internet scam that has already bilked local citizens out of thousands of dollars.

Web Privacy on the Radar in Congress - 08/10/08
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/technology/11privacy
.html?ref=technology
Here are some things Internet users can discover about Kiyoshi Martinez, a 24-year-old man from Mokena, Ill., from some of his recent posts online. He watched “The Colbert Report” on Tuesday night, he likes the musician Lenlow and he received bottles of olive oil and vinegar for his birthday. Mr. Martinez has Facebook and LinkedIn pages, a Twitter account and a Web site that includes his résumé.

Air China got threat to Olympics - 08/09/08
http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=co
m_content&task=view&id=14312&Itemid=31
Air China's Japan office received an email threat to bomb its aircraft and crash planes into the site of the Beijing Olympics, police at Tokyo Narita airport said yesterday.

Ex-convict indicted in cyber stalking case against woman - 08/08/08
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-stalker-i
ndict-both-09-aug09,0,1492653.story
A former Des Plaines man has been indicted by a Cook County grand jury on charges he sent threatening e-mails to a woman whom he allegedly has pursued since 2000, prosecutors said Friday.

Former Tory councillor tried to keep internet lover prisoner - 08/08/08
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2524557/Former-
Tory-councillor-tried-to-keep-internet-lover-prisoner.h
tml
Paul Peccioli, 55, "reacted badly" when Julia Pickup, whom he met online, told him she thought they should stop seeing each other, a court heard.

English "Lord" puts life up for sale on eBay - 08/07/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080807/wr_nm/britain_auct
ion_dc;_ylt=AqZnde2.Sz6Unxnc5QZj6YD6VbIF
An eccentric British millionaire has put his entire life up for sale on the Internet -- including his title of Lord of the Manor of Warleigh -- in the hope of converting his assets into cash.

Major Internet security flaw also affects e-mail - 08/07/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_hi_te/tec_in
ternet_security_hole;_ylt=AsQjRPr5_abQ5yRL3aZFakr6VbIF<
/a>
A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday.

Online social networking sites are hacker playgrounds - 08/07/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080808/tc_afp/usitintern
etcrimesocial;_ylt=Av9NmPfb402RTMh5vcu6R476VbIF
Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers who can easily take advantage of people's trust.

Yale students name alleged harasser in Web libel suit - 08/07/08
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/07/y
ale_students_name_alleged_harasser_in_web_libel_suit/a>
Two female students at Yale Law School who say anonymous, defamatory comments were made about them on the Internet identified one of the defendants yesterday in their federal lawsuit.

U.S. alleges AdSurfDaily operates 'get rich quick' scheme, seeks $35M - 08/07/08
http://newsok.com/u.s.-alleges-adsurfdaily-operates-ge
t-rich-quick-scheme-seeks-35m/article/3279976/?tm=12180
76473
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington filed a civil complaint this week seeking forfeiture of homes and $35 million in cash from a Florida man who runs a company called AdSurfDaily Inc.

Computers Inappropriate uses include gambling, porn and harassment - 08/07/08
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/city/article/37
5822
Like most other corporations with hundreds of employees who use hundreds of computers, the City of Saint John now has a policy dealing with acceptable use of the Internet.

Former Arkansas Tech University Professor Gets 10 Years for Internet Stalking 'Teen' - 08/07/08
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399627,00.html

A former chemistry professor at Arkansas Tech University has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on a charge he stalked a person he believed was a teenage girl on the Internet.

Head of U.S. Humane Society: Ban cyber-stalking of animal researchers - 08/07/08
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/
026223.html
Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, was just in for an editorial board meeting on Proposition 2, the ballot initiative meant to sharply change farm confinement practices. After the meeting, I had a few minutes to talk with him about Assemblyman Gene Mullin's proposal to protect the UC animal researchers who are under siege from animal-rights extremists who post photos of the researchers, their families and their homes on Internet hate sites -- essentially putting bullseyes on them and encouraging other extremists to attack the researchers and their families or harass and intimidate them.

Houma man accused of cyberstalking - 08/07/08
http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20080807/HURBLOG/333
01067/0/news18
A 37-year-old Houma man is charged with cyberstalking after he alleged sent several harassing emails to a 40-year-old woman.

Village of the scammed: Garage worker emptied hundreds of bank accounts by cloning neighbours' cards - 08/06/08
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1041833/Vil
lage-scammed-Garage-worker-emptied-hundreds-bank-accoun
ts-cloning-neighbours-cards.html'
A petrol station cashier was jailed yesterday for helping to defraud an entire village.
Abdul Samad Mohamed Raik cloned more than 500 debit or credit cards to steal £175,000 in a global fraud allegedly driven by links to a guerilla group in Sri Lanka.

Royal Shakespeare Company warning over David Tennant Hamlet tickets - 08/06/08
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article446657
7.ece
The Royal Shakespeare Company has warned theatregoers not to buy tickets from internet auction sites to see David Tennant, the star of Doctor Who, playing the lead role in Hamlet.

Brits fall victim to Olympic hoax - 08/06/08
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article15195
00.ece
HUNDREDS of Brits are feared to have lost thousands of pounds in an Olympic tickets website rip-off.

Jilted boyfriend sent nude pictures of nurse ex-girlfriend to everyone in her email address book - 08/06/08
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1042096/Jil
ted-boyfriend-sent-nude-pictures-nurse-ex-girlfriend-em
ail-address-book.html
When Richard Bradford suspected his nurse girlfriend of having an affair he subjected her to the ultimate revenge.

Man sentenced in e-mail threat - 08/05/08
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-threat5
-2008aug05,0,4687665.story
A Huntington Beach man was sentenced to 284 days in jail Monday after pleading guilty to sending a threatening e-mail to Orange County Board of Supervisors Chairman John Moorlach.

Exclusive: Facebook waterfight thug won't apologise to girl he hit - 08/05/08
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/08/05/ex
clusive-facebook-waterfight-thug-won-t-apologise-to-gir
l-he-hit-115875-20684621/
This is the teenage thug who punched a girl off her feet after she soaked him during a fun water fight last week. Daniel McInerney admitted he was in the wrong but refuses to apologise to his 15-year-old victim - unless she says sorry first for chucking pink liquid over his T-shirt.

WHO@ Newsletter

August 4, 2008

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .All I can say is "Wow"

Island says starfish aren't toys for dogs to fetch
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080803/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/
grenada_starfish_flying_discs;_ylt=AqWrSaRnqHpRlSdG6RI5
t1DtiBIF
Tourism officials on the Caribbean island of Grenada say they are concerned about dog owners snatching starfish out of the sea and throwing them like flying discs for their dogs to catch.

Russ Fielden is president of the local hotel and tourism association. He says officials have received several reports of the practice and are launching an education campaign to stop it.

Fielden said Saturday that treating starfish this way is "cruel and should be strongly discouraged." He said the sea creatures are being left to die on the island's popular Grand Anse beach and also are creating a foul smell.

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Essexville woman charged with cyber-stalking - Police say messages posted to a blog were threatening, harassing - 08/04/08
http://blog.mlive.com/bctimes/2008/08/essexville_woman
_charged_with.html
In an electronic age which makes every text-message, e-mail and blog entry part of cyberspace permanent record, a particularly vicious break-up can lead to criminal charges as well as broken hearts.

S. Korea moves to tighten the Net - 08/04/08
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3915
Even as China is being roundly criticized for restricting Internet access even for Western journalists during the Olympics, another Asian country is moving to restrict the net. Reuters reports that South Korea is starting to make moves to restrain the Net, as well.

Beijing Games hit by Internet ticket scam - 08/04/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080804/wr_nm/olympics_tic
kets_scam_dc;_ylt=AspujtIIaWWOFXPv17mKSWX6VbIF
Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday.

Teachers reminded of legal issues - 08/02/08
http://www.times-herald.com/education/Teachers-reminde
d-of-legal-issues--517016
Dr. Luke Cornelius, an assistant professor at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, lectured new Coweta County teachers about what to keep in mind regarding some of education's legal issues this year.

E-mail 'death threat' scam hits Central Oregon - 08/02/08
http://www.ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S=8777176&nav=men
u578_1
An e-mail "death threat" scam that has circled the globe for almost two years landed in the computer in-boxes of "numerous" Central Oregon residents Friday, demanding payment and warning in its subject line "Somebody you called your friend want you dead," police said.

Ex-defense attorney gets 5 years probation for threats, harassment - 08/01/08
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/scharf-burnett-judg
e-2111701-years-sentence
David Scharf, 46, called his ex-girlfriend a porn star and left a copy of the state's Penal Code at her home, authorities say.

Hit in the Facebook - 08/01/08
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article14998
10.ece
A GIRL was punched to the ground by a thug ­ after a public water fight organised on website Facebook spiralled into violence.

Depressed man briefly held for terror threat to Japanese embassy - 07/31/08
http://www.freshnews.in/depressed-man-briefly-held-for
-terror-threat-to-japanese-embassy-41889
A 32-year-old mentally depressed man was briefly detained Thursday evening for allegedly sending an email to the Japanese embassy here threatening terror strikes in a popular shopping area of south Delhi.

NY man arrested in baby food poison video threats - 07/31/08
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8771426
Gerber and the government say it was all just an Internet hoax. A New York man who allegedly claimed in videos that he had poisoned millions of bottles of baby food has been jailed.

Doctors fume over fake notes - 07/31/08
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24107110-38200,00
.html
DOCTORS say employees who buy fake sick notes over the internet from a website supposedly set up by Aussie backpackers could be committing fraud.

Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist" - 07/30/08
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/073008
1google1.html
Arguing that technology has ensured that "complete privacy does not exist," Google contends that a Pennsylvania family has no legal grounds to sue the search giant for publishing photos of their home on its popular "Street View" mapping feature.

Berlusconi's broadcast group declares war on YouTube - 07/30/08
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy
/2475453/Berlusconis-broadcast-group-declares-war-on-Yo
uTube.html
Mediaset, which is controlled by the billionaire media mogul Silvio Berlusconi and his family, said it was seeking damages of "at least" 500 million euros (£398 million) from YouTube and its owner Google, for alleged "illegal distribution and commercial use of audio and video files".

10 million zombies go after Google and Microsoft users brains - 07/28/08
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19681/53/
No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users brains are amongst the most sought after zombie food...

Serial Rape Suspect's Trail Of Clues Leads to Violent End - 07/28/08
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2
008/07/27/AR2008072701950_pf.html
Maj. Daniel Dusseau's head throbbed. It was 9 p.m. and nine months into the pursuit of a rapist whose attacks had haunted nearly a dozen of his detectives, sergeants and lieutenants. Only they and nine female victims knew all of the sadistic signatures of the serial rapist the police had been chasing: green rubber gloves, a ski mask, a digital camera and a .22-caliber handgun.

Pregnant Women Charged with Prostitution - 07/28/08
http://www.kspr.com/news/local/26004024.html
Two of the women arrested in a pregnant prostitution ring in Camden County have been charged.

Alleged text stalker to face additional charges from other victims - 07/27/08
http://www.newssun.com/0727-tc-vicitms
Two weeks after his initial arrest, Avon Park's Arne Jensen remained behind bars, held without bond. Jensen is accused of sending more than 40 text messages to a woman in a four-hour period, which led to his charge of cyberstalking.

WHOA Newsletter

July 28, 2008

I couldn't make this up if tried. . .Then he set fire to his pants for not unzipping properly

Angry man shoots lawn mower for not starting
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080726/ap_on_fe_st/odd_mow
er_madness;_ylt=AurrlNEaWurldvLpS2DiMPrtiBIF

A Milwaukee man was accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start. Keith Walendowski, 56, was charged with felony possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle and misdemeanor disorderly conduct while armed.

According to the criminal complaint, Walendowski said he was angry because his Lawn Boy wouldn't start Wednesday morning. He told police quote, "I can do that, it's my lawn mower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want."

A woman who lives at Walendowski's house reported the incident. She said he was intoxicated.

Walendowski could face up to an $11,000 fine and six years and three months in prison if convicted.

A call to Walendowski's home went unanswered Friday morning.

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Polish policemen barred from social networking site - 07/28/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_p
oland_police;_ylt=AoBQdGVMlGrSTamQyCAa_lztiBIF
Poland's national police headquarters has banned officers from using a popular social networking site similar to Facebook because they were spending too much time using it, a newspaper said on Monday.

‘Shank’ website is aimed at the kids who carry knives - 07/28/08
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/justice/artic
le1476976.ece
A SICK game on Facebook has been removed from the website after The Sun revealed how kids were able to STAB each other.

Colorado Spam King found dead - 07/28/08
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/news.asp?id=
49325
Convicted penny-stock spammer Eddie Davidson has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, apparently after killing his wife and 3-year-old daughter in his home town of Bennet, Colorado, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.

Is Social Networking and Blogging Bad for Business? - 07/28/08
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1498073/is_soci
al_networking_and_blogging_bad_for_business/
Blog and social networking sites continue to rise in popularity as today's tech-savvy professionals stay connected with friends, family and colleagues around the world. But, have business owners considered the impact to their company reputation when employees blur the lines between personal and professional fodder?

Players monitor social network profiles with a hawkeye - 07/28/08
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2008-07-27-socia
l-networks_N.htm
More college athletic departments are developing or publicizing online social networking policies for student athletes, experts say.

Open courts vs. privacy: Move toward online access to files sparks concerns - 07/27/08
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e
1fb5748-b208-4e9f-8071-dd7c809cdbad
The judges on the Supreme Court of Canada will decide this fall whether to post court documents online, the culmination of years of debate on whether throwing open the electronic doors threatens privacy rights in an era of Internet stalkers and identity thieves.

Scrabble makers sue Facebook over 'copycat' Scrabulous game - 07/26/08
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23521700-det
ails/Scrabble+makers+sue+Facebook+over+'copycat'+Scrabu
lous+game/article.do
The Calcutta, India-based creators of a Scrabble knock-off that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook were sued Thursday by Hasbro Inc, the company that owns the word game's North American rights.

FCC poised to punish Comcast over Web blocking - 07/26/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080726/ap_on_go_ot/interne
t_regulation;_ylt=Ai4ebKsx64bIswkCDiV__gD6VbIF
A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.

Libel: Ex-friend's Facebook revenge costs £22,000 in damages at high court - 07/25/08
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/25/law.facebookr> After Grant Raphael had a row with his old school friend Mathew Firsht, he wanted revenge. He disseminated a web of lies via Facebook, to cause Firsht stress and humiliation.

Hacker admits online shop thefts - 07/25/08
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/752
6487.stm
A man who spotted flaws in an online shop has admitted stealing equipment worth £20,000 from the firm.

Google to face charges over Down's syndrome video - 07/25/08
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_w
eb/article4397511.ece
Italian prosecutors say a video which showed four youths taunting a teenager with Down's syndrome was an invasion of privacy

Woman Gets 2 Years In Prison For Stalking By Cell Phone - 07/25/08
http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/2665888.php?
A northwest Indiana woman was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for stalking a man she met over the Internet.

The F Word - 07/24/08
http://www.rakemag.com/blogs/spazz-dad/2008/07/the-f-wo
rd
I absolutely loves me some Facebook. And I know what you’re thinking: What the hell is Todd Smith, the Spazz Dad, doing on Facebook? Isn’t he the guy with the Vagina Eye (Chop It Off) and the overactive colon? You are totally right. I have about as much right of being on the hip social networking website as I do in joining the Harlem Globetrotters. But so be it. I’m logged on and Facebookin’ the hell out of things.

Internet shopping: play your cards right - 07/24/08
http://www.liverpoolconfidential.com/index.asp?sessionx
=IpqiNwEiJpqpIDB6IHqjNwB6IA&realname=Internet_shopping_
a_guide_for_safe_webuse
In this day and age, if you're not an internet explorer, you may as well be living in the Shire with Frodo and the rest. The possibilities online are endless: you can learn, work, chat, date, play, laugh and shop, all from the comfort of your own home or office. Or even with 3G, I-phone and the rest from just about anywhere, anytime.

Myspace suicide woman 'did what loads of people do online' - 07/24/08
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/24/
myspace-suicide-aguments-heard
MISSOURI MOTHER Lori Drew’s lawyer is now arguing that if she is guilty, then so are millions of other internet users every day.

Mayor promises action on Internet abuse - 07/24/08
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--pr
intshop-interne0724jul24,0,7989956.story
Mayor L. Douglas Wilder says misuse of city computers won't be tolerated. Wilder says appropriate action, which could include termination, will be taken following an audit of the Richmond print shop's computers that uncovered misuse.

Defense Attacks Theories in MySpace Case - 07/24/08
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+art
icleid_2431947~title_Defense-Attacks-Theories.html
The attorney for Lori Drew, the woman accused of harassing a teen by creating a fake online identity on MySpace, is objecting to the prosecution's argument that his client violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Family lose Narnia web name fight - 07/24/08
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_a
nd_east/7522240.stm
An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.

U.S. newsreader faces jail after leaking saucy emails of 'anchorbabe' co-presenter - 07/23/08
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-1037314/U-
S-newsreader-faces-jail-leaking-saucy-emails-anchorbabe
.html
A veteran newsreader has been charged with hacking into his glamorous co-presenter's emails and leaking them to the press.
Larry Mendte, 51, is accused of trying to ruin Alycia Lane's career.
Insiders said Mendte and Miss Lane, 34, appeared friendly on camera, but actually loathed each other.

Phones scheme to track unwitting - 07/23/08
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7520596.stm

A university has been tracking people's whereabouts through the Blue Tooth facility on mobile phones for the past three years, it has emerged.

Do it! Do it! CriminalSearches.com your ex! - 07/23/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25820953/
“Do you really know who people are?” That’s the slogan for pay site PeopleFinders.com's freshly launched (and totally free!) companion site, CriminalSearches.com. Do you want to know? Everybody has something to hide ­ so the cliché goes. That’s where CriminalSearches.com comes in.

Asprox computer virus infects key government and consumer websites - 07/23/08
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_w
eb/the_web/article4381034.ece
Cyber-criminals have attacked key government and consumer websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites, The Times has learnt.

Scorned lover's ad brings charges, lawsuit - 07/23/08
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/07/23/Scorned_lovers_a
d_brings_charges_lawsuit/UPI-83881216844006/
A Mount Juliet, Tenn., woman whose ex-fiance blasted her in a newspaper ad said she has filed harassment charges against the man.

Palm City man's stolen credit card used to buy program to prevent identity theft - 07/23/08
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/tcoast/e
paper/2008/07/23/0723mcfraud.html
An identity thief apparently used a Palm City man's credit card to charge a program used to prevent identity theft, according to a Martin sheriff's report.

Convicted 'Spam King' gets 4 years - 07/23/08
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=13807<
br> US resident Soloway, who sent millions of unsolicited emails, pleaded guilty to fraud, spamming and tax evasion after being indicted in May 2007. It emerged that Soloway continued to spam even though he previously lost cases brought against him by Microsoft and a US ISP.

Stalker posing as prince arrested in Jeddah mall - 07/22/08
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.re
gcon&contentID=2008072312500
A Saudi man in his 30s, well experienced in Internet scamming and posing as a rich prince, was busted while stalking and blackmailing a girl.
He had set up a website that claimed to promote ‘poetry and literature.’ However, as it turned out, the website was meant to attract women visitors who the man would try to cheat by getting their pictures and blackmailing them.

Police director sues for critical bloggers' names - 07/22/08
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/22/police
-director-sues-find-identity-blogger-critica/
Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department.

There is a web site called Dating Psychos that really should be shut down. There is a difference between free speech and harassment and this is way over the line of free speech.

I have been working with a victim who dated this guy, stopped dating him and he just couldn't deal with it. He's already put up a few, I got them taken down, he called Animal Control where she lives and claimed she abused her dogs - the dogs were taken away and were going to be euthanized, but she convinced Animal Control that this guy was out to ruin her life. This guy has also called the Social Security Administration on her claiming she's a prostitute trying to get them to investigate her and some other things. It got so bad that she tried to commit suicide a week ago.

I was finally able to talk to an FBI agent in the state where the victim lives and this agent is appalled by this web site. She is going to find an agent in the bureau closest to the victim, but now the cyberstalker has put up a new profile on the Dating Psychos web site that lists her home address, home phone number, photo and more. She's been getting phone calls from men looking for sex. What does it take before one of these whackos comes to her door and forces his way in and rapes and/or kills her?

I told the victim to call the FBI agent (I also called the agent and left a voicemail) and also her local police, who have been no help whatsoever to her. She also tried her local DAs office, but he never returns her phone calls and probably thinks this is just some minor "Internet thing."

I am very concerned, not only about the victim I'm working with, but some of the other people who have had profiles put up on this web site about them. One is a woman with children and the children's photo is on the profile, along with contact information.

This site is truly frightening - the owner doesn't give a BLEEP (he's been contacted by the victim and by me and refuses to do anything); the server hosting the site won't respond to emails or phone calls and I am tearing my hair out. If the site owner does contact the victim, he demands $25 before he'll pull the profile. The last time I looked, that's extortion and is illegal.

I want to make sure this is publicly known - all means to get this profile taken down have been taken by the victim and me. The web site owner is negligent and should never have put the site up in the first place.

The FBI is doing what they can, but until an agent shows up at the victim's door to interview her, she has to live in fear for her life.

I can understand being pissed off at someone you dated, but this site goes way too far and someone will end up injured or dead as a result. If it's my victim, there will be more than hell to pay.

I am hoping the public and maybe the media will put pressure on the web site owner to pull the web site completely, or revamp it so that it's not so harassing and threatening. He's too much of a coward to list his real contact info on WHOIS (web site owner registration), but the email he lists on his web site is J-Dog.

Help me get this site to stop exposing people to harassing phone calls and possible physical injury, rape or death.

WHO@ Newsletter

July 21, 2008

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Bet this is a hot case

Men sentenced for setting friend's crotch ablaze
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_fe_st/odd_cro
tch_fire;_ylt=AgF_olZGAIENWcAPr9EnsqLtiBIF

Two practical jokers are behind bars for setting their passed-out drinking buddy's crotch ablaze while boozing in Grover Beach. Matthew Craig Pillers and Jack Brent Nicholas Keiffer pleaded no contest to a felony great bodily injury charge.

Prosecutors say the 22-year-old Pillers, a parolee, was sentenced to two years in prison and the 19-year-old Keiffer got 45 days in San Luis Obispo County jail.

Elliot Tuleja was passed out when the men poured cologne on the man's groin and set him on fire on Jan. 18. Tuleja had second-degree burns on his testicles.

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Bluetooth is watching: secret study gives Bath a flavour of Big Brother - 07/21/08

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/21/civilliberties
.privacy
Tens of thousands of Britons are being covertly tracked without their consent in a technology experiment which has installed scanners at secret locations in offices, campuses, streets and pubs to pinpoint people's whereabouts.

Web-initiated harassment of grandma continues - 07/20/08
http://herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?ewcd=60f1298572b1
0b1b&-session=HeraldZeitung:42F942F0118e43728APso1E758E
1
Web postings urging online and telephone harassment of Herald-Zeitung employees appeared Saturday morning on the Internet hours after an article was published describing similar attacks toward a New Braunfels woman.

Adults play role in Internet abuse - 07/20/08
http://www.newsobserver.com/164/story/1147589.html
Cyberbullying isn't just a problem among adolescents. Adults engage in it, too. From online vigilantism and angry blogs to e-stalking and anonymous ranting on newspaper Web sites, grownups can be as abusive as the meanest schoolhouse tyrant.

The Internet--a private eye's best friend - 07/20/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080720/tc_cnet/830110093
999520783;_ylt=AlI4ZxyxYem26IvRQ_xkspH6VbIF
For private investigator Steven Rambam, the Internet is his most valuable tool in helping to find missing persons, cheating husbands, and your competitor's dirty secrets.

Net needs tightening - 07/19/08
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080719/
LIFE/80719005/1055/LIFE&template=column
Considering that I'm a fierce believer in freedom of speech and in keeping the
government out of our private lives, what I'm about to say astounds me: We must regulate the Internet.

Facebook taunts lead hoodie gang to stab teenager yards from home - 07/19/08
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1036189/Face
book-taunts-lead-hoodie-gang-stab-teenager-yards-home.h
tml
A teenager was stabbed to death in the street in a dispute over insults traded on the Facebook website by rival gangs.

Web gets sticky for airlines - 07/18/08
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/airlines-internet-se
rvices-2098699-phone-flight?slideshow=1
Seat 17D is yapping endlessly on an Internet phone call. Seat 16F is flaming Seat 16D with expletive-laden chats. Seat 16E is too busy surfing porn sites to care. Seat 17C just wants to sleep.

Whatcom Co. fire chief faces harassment charge - 07/17/08
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_071708WAB_wha
tcom_co_fire_chief_KS.665e2ae7.html
A fire chief in Whatcom County will be arraigned on a charge of harassment Friday.
Some people are calling for his resignation.
George Henderson is chief of Whatcom County Fire District 18 and it's not the first time he's had legal troubles.

Victim testifies in Internet stalking case - 07/16/08
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/07/16/news/
top_news/doc09295c6e07621b468625748800055c3e.txt
A 16-year-old North Carolina girl testified Tuesday in Lake County Criminal Court that she endured more than a year of Internet and phone harassment from an unknown user.

Threatening e-mail gets man 4½ months in jail - 07/16/08
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/07/0716200
8_Threatening-e-mail-gets-man-4%C2%BD-months-in-jail.cf
m
A Vancouver man will spend 4½ months in jail after pleading guilty to sending an e-mail message that threatened Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard and other unnamed officials.

Woman fired over husband's email threat to Minnesota professor - 07/15/08
http://www.mister-info.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=1
1063&format=html
Professor PZ Myers, a biologist at the University of Minnesota Morris in the United States, has been receiving email threats for a post made on his Pharyngula blog in support of a University of Central Florida student who took a consecrated host from a Catholic Mass in protest of the church activities.

Privacy perils of the modern age - 07/15/08
http://lifewise.canoe.ca/SexRomance/Lovewise/2008/07/15
/6162871.html
Alicia suspected the messages weren't from Dan. They were a little too flowery, for one thing, and seemed out of context. Plus there were no misspelled words.

'Knock, knock. Who's there? Me. I kill you' - 07/14/08
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/clifton_22663___artic
le.html/christopher_cell.html
A Bessemer City man took out a criminal summons against his first cousin last week, accusing him of threatening him with a recording of a popular comedic routine sent to his cell phone voicemail.

WHO@ Newsletter

July 14, 2008

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .He must have one sore butt


Man breaks record by sitting in 39,250 seats

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080710/ap_on_fe_st/rose_bo
wl_sitter;_ylt=Aqrz39CSbzXOfjroMBZcpw_tiBIF

Jim Purol took a seat at the Rose Bowl, and then another, and then another, until he broke a world record.

The Anaheim man set a Guiness World Record on Wednesday for "Most Seats Sat in 48 Hours" by sitting in 39,250 seats.

He began the task Monday morning, and he's still going, hoping to rest his tush in each of the stadium's 92,542 seats by sometime this week.

The 56-year-old, who already holds several other world records, says he has dreamed of tackling the Rose Bowl seats for 20 years ­ ever since he sat in all 107,501 chairs at the University of Michigan's football stadium.

The feat has taken a toll on his body and his cleanliness, as soot on the seats rubbed off on his clothes. He says he loves the Rose Bowl but calls the place "filthy."

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Alleged 'I kill you' text message leads to cyberstalking charge - 07/14/08
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/cyberstalking_22637__
_article.html/clifton_charge.html
A dispute between two Bessemer City men and an alleged text message has led to a cyberstalking charge.

Wife of Victor Peirce threatened witnesses, court told - 07/14/08
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24017248
-2862,00.html
THE wife of slain gangland figure Victor Peirce threatened a witness in the trial of one of her husband's alleged killers, a court has heard.

'World's oldest blogger' dies in Australia at 108 - 07/14/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080714/tc_afp/lifestyleau
straliainternetblogging;_ylt=AlvMd2vZyF24TXUdcz94r2P6Vb
IF
An Australian woman described as the world's oldest Internet blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about singing "a happy song" in her nursing home.

Homeless man held on cyber-stalking charge - 07/13/08
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-stalker-bo
th_12jul13,0,5418983.story
The man accused of stalking a young woman for eight years first approached her in 2000 when she worked at a convenience store in Des Plaines.

Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years for MySpace Cyberstalking - 07/12/08
http://www.crime-research.org/news/12.07.2008/3450/

A Southern California man who already served federal time for hacking into Lexis-Nexis has begun a state prison term for allegedly using his skills to try and extort phone sex from an internet celebrity.

Strike Two, Jeffrey Robert Weinberg Gets Two Years for Cyber Stalking - 07/11/08
http://www.uberreview.com/2008/07/strike-two-jeffrey-ro
bert-weinberg-gets-two-years-for-cyber-stalking.htm

I could offer some inane advice as to how a geek can survive in a state penitentiary, but Jeffrey Robert Weinberg probably knows better than me. At the ripe old age of 23, he is already done 10 months in a federal penitentiary.

Woman guilty over bizarre internet murder plot - 07/11/08
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2284901/Woman-gu
ilty-over-bizarre-internet-murder-plot.html
A divorcee has been found guilty of plotting to murder her multi-millionaire partner after she hired an "assassin" on a website called www.Hitman.us.com

State employee arrested, charged with cyberstalking - 07/11/08
http://www.newschief.com/article/200807