Net Crimes & Misdemeanors

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Stupid criminals
Cops: Fla. thieves overheard after misdialing 911
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100224/ap_on_fe_st/us_acc
idental911_call">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2010022
4/ap_on_fe_st/us_accidental911_call
Police say two Florida teenagers are facing charges after 911 dispatchers heard them talking about breaking into cars when one teen's cell phone accidentally called 911 during a heist. Daytona Beach police say 19-year-old Stefanie Vargas and a 13-year-old boy are charged with burglary to a conveyance.

Police spokesman Jimmie Flynt says dispatchers listened as the pair discussed what was worth taking while rummaging though a vehicle parked near a Daytona Beach nightclub early Sunday.

Officers went to the area and spotted the boy inside a vehicle. A police report says the pair tried to flee in a sport utility vehicle driven by Vargas. The report says both admitted to the robbery.

It's unclear how the number got dialed.

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Missing Leicester student appeal is removed from internet - 03/01/10
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Missing-Lei
cester-student-appeal-removed-internet/article-1873100-
detail/article.html">http://www.thisisleicestershir
e.co.uk/news/Missing-Leicester-student-appeal-removed-i
nternet/article-1873100-detail/article.html
A web page being used to help find a missing student has been taken down after insensitive comments were posted on it. Nearly 9,000 people had joined a Facebook group spreading the word about the disappearance of 24-year-old Phil Dillon.

Fraud gang stole dead child's ID - 03/01/10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8538413.stma>">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8538413.st
m
The mother of a child whose ID was used in a multiple fraud 16 years after he died has spoken of her shock and anger. John Dempsey Hamilton's birth certificate was one of 44 obtained online and used to apply for driving licences with which to open bank accounts and defraud over £20,000.

Criminals use technology to track victims - 02/28/10
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20100228/ARTICLES/22
85047/1011/NEWS?Title=Criminals-use-technology-to-track
-victims">http://www.timesdaily.com/article/2010022
8/ARTICLES/2285047/1011/NEWS?Title=Criminals-use-techno
logy-to-track-victims
Instead of lurking in bushes or hiding in the shadows outside of homes, stalkers have gone high-tech, using cell phones, computers and the Internet to hunt and track their victims.

Facial recognition brings online stalking to the real world - 02/28/10
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/facial-recognit.php<
/a>">http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/facial-recognit.
php
What if you could point your cellphone's camera at someone's face, and then know that person's name, schedule, profile, and latest tweets? That's the promise of Recognizr, an Android app prototype using a 3D model to recognize facial features, find a match on its server, and then superimpose that person's social networking preferences around his or her face.

Cyber spoofs launch digital election war - 02/28/10
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/electio
n_2010/article7043919.ece">http://www.timesonline.c
o.uk/tol/news/politics/election_2010/article7043919.ece

IT’S a parallel world where David Cameron smacks his daughter, civil servants emerge from No 10 with black eyes and Tony Blair votes for the Tories because he thinks they are on the side of multi-millionaires like him.

Janitor allegedly stalked students - 02/28/10
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/28/4646819.htma>">http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/02/28/4646819.ht
m
A local school janitor faces felony charges after police said he solicited naked images of a student over the Internet, then repeatedly stalked the student and his girlfriend. Walter Edward "Wally" Lucas, 40, of Traverse City, is charged with a single count of using computers to commit a crime, five counts of child sexually abusive activity and one count of stalking a minor.

State considers new laws to deal with teen sexting separately from pornography - 02/27/10
http://www.herald-review.com/news/local/article_b042ce
63-9198-57b0-8c8e-99bd07fc943d.html">http://www.her
ald-review.com/news/local/article_b042ce63-9198-57b0-8c
8e-99bd07fc943d.html
Even for state lawmakers who have gotten used to confronting strange new societal issues spawned by technology, including cyberstalking, Internet gambling and texting while driving, this one is daunting.

Strange twist: Exonerated man still in jail while accused free on bail in trooper cyberstalking case - 02/27/10
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/gaston-44212-accused
-harassing.html">http://www.gastongazette.com/news/
gaston-44212-accused-harassing.html
Gaston County’s district attorney dropped a cyberstalking charge against a Belmont man after his neighbor allegedly confessed to borrowing his cell phone and sending harassing text messages to a state trooper.

Klahowya student arrested for posting threatening rap to MySpace - 02/26/10
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/ckr/news/85436132.h
tml">http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/ckr/news/85
436132.html
A 14-year-old Klahowya Secondary School student's future as a gangsta rapper may be put on hold after he was arrested for posting a song to his myspace.com account, complete with threats to students and school staff.

Students bully teacher on Facebook - 02/26/10
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/3377957/Student
s-bully-teacher-on-Facebook">http://www.stuff.co.nz
/world/australia/3377957/Students-bully-teacher-on-Face
book
Twenty students from a Brisbane high school have been suspended for bullying a staff member on Facebook. Education Queensland said it doesn't tolerate bullying, harassment and threatening behaviour and the students, from Springwood State High School, have been disciplined.

Craigslist prank leads to legal trouble - 02/26/10
http://www.thereporteronline.com/articles/2010/02/26/n
ews/doc4b882d7265ba2519262747.txt">http://www.there
porteronline.com/articles/2010/02/26/news/doc4b882d7265
ba2519262747.txt
A Craigslist prank that targeted a Berks woman ended with legal troubles for a Bucks County man. Kenneth Ryan Silcox, 36, of Hilltop Road, Warminster, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court to a summary harassment charge in connection with an October 2008 incident during which he allegedly created a fake Craigslist personal ad in the name of a Kutztown woman, who then received unwanted calls from strange men.

Ed Miliband latest victim of Twitter scam as sex message and viagra link sent to 7,000 followers - 02/26/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1254034/Mil
iband-falls-prey-explicit-Twitter-phishing-scam.html>">http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1254034/M
iliband-falls-prey-explicit-Twitter-phishing-scam.html
Cabinet minister Ed Miliband was left embarrassed after apparently sending saucy messages to thousands of people on social networking site Twitter.

Man Charged with Cyberstalking High School Student - 02/26/10
http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-asheboro-cybersstalkin
g-100226,0,3529909.story">http://www.myfox8.com/new
s/wghp-asheboro-cybersstalking-100226,0,3529909.story
A Randolph County man was arrested for allegedly cyberstalking and extorting a high school student for nude photographs, according to the Randolph County Sheriff's Office.

School shows off its laptop surveillance tactics - 02/26/10
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10460729-71.html
">http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10460729-71.html
"This kid looks like they're editing their MySpace page." So declares an assistant principal at Intermediate School 339 in the Bronx borough of New York, a "former technology coach" (PDF) named Dan Ackerman (but not to be confused with CNET's Dan Ackerman). You might imagine that he's wandering around a classroom looking over kids' shoulders as they fiddle about on their laptops. You might imagine, then, that storks deliver milk as well as babies.

Beauty's Facebook hijack ordeal - 02/26/10
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/ex_steals_pa
ge_torments_her_for_yzGF199miMqM9CqT4E9nzJ">http://
www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/ex_steals_page_torme
nts_her_for_yzGF199miMqM9CqT4E9nzJ
A Queens man took his girlfriend's Facebook account hostage, changed her sexual preference to gay, and demanded cash for her profile's safe return, authorities said yesterday.

'I will slash your face': Britain's most obsessive stalker jailed for terrorising student on Facebook - 02/25/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1253647/Cyb
er-stalker-ignored-restraining-order-terrorise-girl-tur
ned-Facebook-death-threats.html">http://www.mailons
unday.co.uk/news/article-1253647/Cyber-stalker-ignored-
restraining-order-terrorise-girl-turned-Facebook-death-
threats.html
A loner dubbed Britain's most obsessive cyber stalker was behind bars last night after ignoring a lifetime restraining order to continue terrorising a university student.

Gossip Gone Viral! - 02/24/10
http://www.thepacifican.com/new/index.php?option=com_c
ontent&task=view&id=2588&Itemid=100015">http://www.
thepacifican.com/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=
view&id=2588&Itemid=100015
Recent studies have indicated that Internet users with female screen names receive 25 times more malicious feedback and negative comments than those with male names. This statistic further applies to chat rooms, message boards, and networking sites, making it apparent that the Internet is becoming a free-for-all where people can make vicious, unwarranted falsities about their peers.

Her Facebook status changed to "single?" Ur dumped - 02/23/10
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100223/od_nm/us_technolog
y_relationships">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/2010022
3/od_nm/us_technology_relationships
Digital dumping is on the rise, according to a survey, with growing numbers of people preferring to use email and social networking Web sites to break up with their partners. Over one third of 2,000 people polled (34 percent) said they had ended a relationship by email, 13 percent had changed their status on Facebook without telling their partners and six percent had released the news unilaterally on Twitter.

It's a Crime: The law on harassment - 02/23/10
http://www.chestertontribune.com/PoliceFireEmergency/2
3102%20its_a_crime_the_law_on_harassmen.htm">http:/
/www.chestertontribune.com/PoliceFireEmergency/23102%20
its_a_crime_the_law_on_harassmen.htm
Here’s how a Chesterton Police officer spent part of her shifts last week. At 9:36 a.m. on Monday, according to the officer’s initial report, a woman filed a complaint against her ex-boyfriend­with whom she’d broken up on Saturday­after he “harassed her extensively via telephone over the past 24 hours” and sent her as well a total of 46 texts.

Cyber-Harassment of Children on the Rise - 02/23/10
http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/02/23/cyber-harassme
nt-of-children-on-the-rise/11637.html">http://psych
central.com/news/2010/02/23/cyber-harassment-of-childre
n-on-the-rise/11637.html
A new study has found that around 10 percent of all adolescents in grades 7-9 are victims of Internet bullying. The online stalking is pervasive and stressful.

How do you protect your kids from spying webcams? My interview with WPOR radio about the Pennsylvania case, relevant because Maine (where I live) issues school laptops w/webcams to all middle and high school students

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Underwire included?

Men risk anticlimax with anatomy-boosting pants
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_pants
Hundreds of British men are risking a Valentine's Day anticlimax for their partners by stocking up on anatomy-boosting underpants ahead of the most romantic weekend of the year.

British department store group Debenhams said Thursday it had seen a 76 percent surge in online sales of the 18 pounds-a-pair ($28) underwear in the past week.

The pants work by using a lift and hold feature at the front, like a male version of the cleavage-boosting Wonderbra.

"The briefs mean that no man ever needs to feel inadequate again on the most passionate day of the social calendar," said Rob Faucherand, head of men's accessories buying at Debenhams.

"However we can't be held responsible for what happens once the pants come off," he added.

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Brad Fittler fights to defend 'stalker' honour - 02/15/10
http://www.news.com.au/national/brad-fittler-fights-to
-defend-stalker-honour/story-e6frfkvr-1225830693206

IN ONE corner is a Macquarie Bank high flyer, in the other a woman accused of "obsessively" stalking him for five years.
Throw in rugby league legend Brad Fittler's appearance as a character witness for the accused and you have a legal battle that is as expensive as it is bitter.
The Daily Telegraph reports Kimberley Morrison, 43, is accused of "obsessively" following the senior banker, who cannot be identified on court orders, since May 2004.

Your First Amendment Right to be Mean - 02/15/10
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/valley-girl-brain/
201002/your-first-amendment-right-be-mean
People love to hate. Go through my inventory of blogs and you'll find a colorful assortment of hate comments, thinly veiled death threats, and "you're an idiot" posts.
They're my favorite bedtime reading and make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Actually, they don't. Actually they kinda hurt, and I find myself going to my friends and asking them if I really am "acting like a selfish, spoiled brat."

Workplace policies must improve to check cyber-bullies - 02/15/10
http://news.scotsman.com/comment/Workplace-policies-mu
st-improve-to.6071327.jp
CYBER-bullying is probably more closely associated with children and teenagers, but digital bullying represents an extension of traditional workplace bullying that has long been recognised as a widespread problem in UK plc.

Lawyers Look to Web in Relationship Cases - 02/14/10
http://ozarksfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=235732>
Lawyers are using social networking sites like Myspace to dig up evidence for divorce, domestic abuse and other relationship cases. People often post pictures and write comments on the sites. So, attorneys are using that information to prove their point in the courtroom.

Facebook: Keeping up with the exes - 02/14/10
http://www.mndaily.com/2010/02/14/facebook-keeping-exe
s
I couldn’t bring myself to do it. All I had to do was click the little “X” next to his name and deletion would be complete. But I tried that. And Facebook asked me, verbatim, “Are you sure you want to remove your connection to [your ex-boyfriend]?” At which point I sat and pondered the enormity of that statement. No clicks were made. Better luck next time.

Children paid to plug junk food on Facebook and Bebo - 02/14/10
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_
web/the_web/article7026293.ece
Children are being given rewards to promote Fanta, Nintendo and other products to their Facebook friends in a controversial form of stealth marketing.

Throwing the book at digital crooks - 02/14/10
http://www.projo.com/news/courts/content/CYBERCRIME_RH
ODE_ISLAND_14_02-14-10_M0HAQNB_v35.3c1cbeb.html
Pop quiz: Name a crime that doesn’t relate to computers.
Go ahead.
Still thinking?
Here’s a hint: you probably can’t.
“No matter the crime, we can come up with some angle that will show, yeah, there’s a potential that’s a computer-related crime,” said Sgt. John Killian of the state police computer crimes unit. “We’ve had fugitives on the run stay one night at a house but while they’re there, they use a computer to check their MySpace account.”

The Facebook revolution - 02/12/10
http://www.kttc.com/Global/story.asp?S=11974887
Even if you've spent the last six years with no Internet access, and avoided media altogether, you've probably heard of Facebook. And if you're one of the 400 million users of the social networking tool, you might already have an idea of how big a role Facebook plays in everyday life.  

Web Searches Serve as a Litigation Tool - 02/12/10
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN
.jsp?id=1202443215385&Web_Searches_Serve_as_a_Litigatio
n_Tool
Social networking websites and other internet forums have, to differing degrees, eroded the personal privacy of their users. Often, this erosion is unintentional; often the technology and the information it reveals is not thoroughly understood; and often a third party's ability to collect substantial and qualitatively important amounts of information is underestimated.

Chaos at Illegal Facebook Rave - 02/12/10
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2851067/Chao
s-at-illegal-Facebook-rave.html
RIOT police had to evict more than 2,000 teenagers from an illegal Facebook rave at a £15MILLION mansion over fears the roof would collapse.
Witnesses said people who had attended the rowdy bash had told them it was a squat party arranged on social networking website Facebook.

Bullying case not isolated incident - 02/12/10
http://www.newburyportnews.com/punews/local_story_0422
33105.html
A recent case of cyber-bullying involving three local teens who police say took on a schoolmate's identity to torment others is not the first case of cyber-bullying Newburyport police have seen in recent years.

IT also spells danger - 02/11/10
http://www.defimedia.info/articles/6648/1/IT-also-spel
ls-danger/Page1.html
The new social network or the Internet can be a real danger, according to IT experts.  Cyberbullying, sexting ( messages with  high sexual connotations and vulgar words)  and privacy violation are among the dangers to which children and young adults are exposed.

Former Valpak worker faces stalking charges in Pinellas - 02/11/10
http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2010/feb/11/fo
rmer-valpak-worker-faces-stalking-charges-pinell/
A 27-year-old former employee of Valpak was arrested earlier this week, accused of leaving threatening and harassing emails and telephone messages with former co-workers after he was overlooked for a promotion.

Menino condemns online harassment - 02/11/10
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/201
0/02/12/menino_condemns_online_harassment/
Mayor Thomas M. Menino plans to launch a new campaign today to warn teenagers, their parents, and school officials about the increasing threat of so-called cyberbullying. The mayor is expected to announce a new tip line for youths to report bullying; to urge Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other online social networks to increase efforts to address the threat; and to send letters to school principals and others about how to prevent students from picking on each other.

Family learns of teenage son's car crash death through Facebook - 02/10/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1
249333/Family-learns-teenage-sons-car-crash-death-Faceb
ook.html#ixzz0fcSmpPM7
Twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis logged on to Facebook expecting to read best wishes from their friends as they began celebrating their 20th birthday.
Instead, to their horror, they were confronted with R.I.P. messages about their younger brother Bobby - who, unknown to the family, had been killed in a car crash.

Japanese murder exposes world of hired marriage wreckers - 02/10/10
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/artic
le7021033.ece
He was charming and single, she was bored and stuck in a sterile marriage, and their encounter in the aisles of a local supermarket seemed like a chance for them to change their lives for the better.

Internet hoax bedevils Ohio man - 02/10/10
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/02/10/Internet-hoax-b
edevils-Ohio-man/UPI-90681265856147/
A local official in Ohio was the target of an Internet hoax that sent a string of strangers to his house to cart away his belongings, authorities say.

Fla. woman arrested for Facebook threats - 02/10/10
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews
/os-facebook-stalking-alleged-woman-arrest20100209,0,61
7023.story
A 32-year-old Central Florida woman has been jailed for making threats on a social networking Web site.
Sylvia Jennifer Hernandez faces charges of cyber stalking and violation of an injunction. She was arrested Sunday and is being held in the Brevard County Detention Center on $1,500 bond.

Craigslist Prank Leads To Felony Charge For Disgruntled Friendswood Woman - 02/10/10
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/02/craigs
list_prank_leads_to_felo.php
Police in Friendswood allege that 33-year-old Amanda Anderson got even with her former employer the new-fashioned way: via Craigslist.
They allege that she took out what must have been a very generous help-wanted ad for various contractors.

Man Indicted for Threatening Employees of Latino Civil Rights Organizations - 02/10/10
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/news/30337
An Ocean County man was arrested last Friday on a federal Indictment charging him with threatening employees of five civil rights organizations that work to improve opportunities for Latinos in the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, announced.

Steve Phillips' former flame Brooke Hundley on Facebook: Ego was ex-ESPN analyst's problem - 02/09/10
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/02/10/2010-02-1
0_exflame_sez_phillips_ego_was_problem.html#ixzz0fcZ5Ms
Rn
Skirt-chasing former ESPN sportscaster Steve Phillips is no sex addict - he's addicted to "feeding his ego."
That's what former flame Brooke Hundley claimed on her Facebook page after Phillips publicly admitted he was a sex addict and insisted therapy made him a new man.

Murder girl's tribute site hit by saboteurs: Facebook ghouls post sick taunts and photos - 02/08/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1249265/Osw
estry-murders-Facebook-tribute-site-Francesca-McFall-hi
t-saboteurs.html
Ghouls have sabotaged a website dedicated to Francesca McFall, the former head girl murdered by her father.

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .He also arrested, fingerprinted and took mug shots of himself
Wyoming suspect flees into police station
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100206/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd
_bad_escape

Police say a man suspected of stealing a bottle of Schnapps from a Wyoming grocery store didn't have the best escape route planned.

Riverton police say the 26-year-old ran out of the store after grabbing the bottle of booze and a package of cough drops Wednesday and hid in a nearby building, which happened to be the police station.

Police say the man then ran out of the police station, but not before a dispatcher had spied him on the station's surveillance camera and alerted officers.

The man, who police say was drunk, was caught soon after. He was taken into custody on preliminary charges of resisting arrest and shoplifting.

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Broadmoor Sacks 5 Nurses For Net Jibes - 02/08/10
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2843195/Broa
dmoor-sacks-5-nurses-for-Facebook-jibes.html
BROADMOOR has sacked five nurses after they were caught poking fun at patients on Facebook. Another seven staff at the top-security psychiatric hospital are under investigation.

Fraudster nicknamed 'eBay boy' ordered to pay back just  £1 after stealing more than £100,000 - 02/08/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1248948/eBa
y-boy-fraudster-stole-100-000-ordered-pay---1.html#ixzz
0exankW4B
A notorious internet fraudster who duped eBay customers out of more than £100,000 was yesterday ordered to pay back just £1.

Digital devices open door to stalking - 02/08/10
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x1919581130/Digita
l-devices-open-door-to-stalking
About once a year, Annie changes her cell phone number. Even though it’s a hassle to alert friends and family to the change, she knows it’s what’s best for her safety.

Sexting: is it a crime? Proposed PA legislation would make it one - 02/07/10
http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2010/02/s
exting_is_it_a_crime_proposed.html
Remember adolescence? Raging hormones, awkward moments, embarrassing situations? Everyone remembers those years of sexual development with a bit of angst. It was difficult to navigate then, and it is just as difficult now.

New Orleans lawyer indicted: alleged e-mail threat - 02/06/10
http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=11944143
A federal grand jury has indicted a suspended attorney on one count of e-mailing a threat to the federal bankruptcy court in New Orleans.

Dumped Lover Put Ex in Vice Ad - 02/05/10
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2839730/Dump
ed-lover-advertised-ex-on-hookers-website.html
FUMING Kath Thompson was plagued by strangers wanting sex after her ex-lover advertised her on a website for hookers.

Vodafone suspends employee over obscene Twitter update - 02/05/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/7168310/
Vodafone-suspends-employee-over-obscene-Twitter-update.
html
Vodafone has suspended a member of staff after an obscene message was posted on the mobile firm's official Twitter account.

Wealthy couple face hefty repair bill after son's Facebook party - 02/05/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7168150
/Wealthy-couple-face-hefty-repair-bill-after-sons-Faceb
ook-party.html
More than 100 youths descended on Raj and Nishi Shukla’s gated property in Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, when they left their son, Aneesh, 16, a sixth form pupil at a £21,000-a-year school, on his own at home last weekend. The gatecrashers reportedly smashed chandeliers, vandalised cars, urinated out of a window and tore up decking as Aneesh tried to contain the chaos.

Employers face new risks with online networking sites - 02/05/10
http://www.enterprisenews.com/business/x1582410743/Emp
loyers-face-new-risks-with-online-networking-sites
As workers spend more time socializing and communicating online, the risks to their employers have begun to multiply. Potential pitfalls include PR disasters, online harassment, leaks of proprietary information, exposure to libel suits and significant fines under new federal regulations.

Hawaiian Store Battles Cyber Harassment - 02/05/10
http://www.kitv.com/news/22482829/detail.html
The Internet has become profitable tool for many businesses in Hawaii, but one store found out that it can also become a major problem. Julie Nguyen of the consignment store Things and Blings spends a lot of time at work on the computer. After taking pictures of watches, jewelry and purses, she posts them on Craigslist.

Bossier City firefighter arrested for terrorizing - 02/05/10
http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=11939900
Bossier Sheriff Larry Deen says a Bossier City firefighter was arrested Thursday evening for terrorizing, cyber stalking and improper telephone communication.  He also has a warrant out of Webster Parish for domestic abuse battery.

Words can be deadly: Bullies can go digital, beyond the classroom - 02/04/10
http://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/life-out-loud/word
s-can-be-deadly-bullies-can-go-digital-beyond-the-class
room/14151.html
“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you.” I have always hated that fable. Words do hurt. Words can kill. Fifteen-year-old Phoebe Prince chose to take her own life rather than deal with what has been characterized as “relentless physical and cyber bullying.”

Noevir exec admits e-mail harassment - 02/04/10
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100204a7.ht
ml
The vice president of cosmetics maker Noevir Co. has been arrested for allegedly sending harassing e-mails to the husband of a woman he used to date.

Email threats to candidates in White Bear Lake prompt proposed change in election law - 02/04/10
http://www.minnpost.com/politicalagenda/2010/02/04/156
12/email_threats_to_candidates_in_white_bear_lake_promp
t_proposed_change_in_election_law
After filing for office last summer, three candidates for city office in White Bear Lake received threatening emails suggesting that they withdraw from the race ­ or else.

Retired Texan millionaire held after the British wife he met online is knifed to death - 02/04/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1248264/Wif
e-Texan-millionaire-Harold-Landry-stabbed-death.html>
Police were today questioning a millionaire Texan businessman over the killing of his wife, who was stabbed to death at their £800,000 British home. Lucy Landry, 38, stumbled outside to call for help after she was knifed repeatedly, neighbours said.

Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits - 02/03/10
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/hackers-steal
-carbon-credits
Credit card numbers are so passe. Today’s hackers know the real powerhouse data to steal is emission certificates. That’s exactly what hackers went after last week when they obtained unauthorized access to online accounts where companies maintain their carbon credits, according to the German newspaper Der Spiegel.

Banker red-faced over racy photo - 02/03/10
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100203/od_nm/us_australia
_banker_odd
A red-faced banker has been caught looking at racy near-nude photographs on his computer, with his actions broadcast live on Australian television.

Gothic kittens: Woman charged with animal cruelty for selling pierced cats online - 02/03/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1
248211/Gothic-kittens-Holly-Crawford-accused-piercing-c
ats-selling-online-goes-trial-animal-cruelty.html
Metal protrudes from their little bodies, pierced through their ears and necks with a 14-gauge needle - usually reserved for the thick skin of cattle.
And at least one of these 'maimed and disfigured' kittens also had an elastic band tied around its tail - an attempt to stem the blood flow so that the tail eventually falls off.

Child porn and rape victim, 19, seeks restitution from downloaders - 02/03/10
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/03/child-porn-and-ra
pe.html
Downloading a copy of "The Misty Series" is a felony. The girl whose sexual abuse began at age 4, and was documented in horrific detail in that child porn video series, is now 19. The pedophile uncle who raped her at age 8 and filmed the abuse is in jail. Now, the victim and her lawyer are now seeking monetary damages from every person who downloaded and sought pleasure from the internet videos that for her represent an inextinguishable, constantly circulating echo of the abuse.

Mother uses Facebook to 'con tens of thousands of pounds out of school friends by pretending to be dying from cancer' - 02/03/10 
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1
247631/Mother-uses-Facebook-tens-thousands-pounds-schoo
l-friends-pretending-dying-cancer.html#ixzz0exXZc9BH>
A woman has been accused of conning tens of thousands of pounds out of school friends by pretending to be dying from cancer.
Dina Leone used the social networking site Facebook to get back in contact with her former friends and cheat them out of money.

Lonely divorcee kills himself after falling for £82,000 internet dating con - 02/02/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1247774/Div
orcees-train-suicide-82-000-internet-date.html
When lonely divorcee Philip Hunt fell for a beautiful woman on an internet dating site he thought all his prayers had been answered.
She convinced him she was young, fabulously rich and if he could help transfer $2.9million from Nigeria to the UK then they could start a new life together, an inquest heard today.

Pictured: The French woman accused of stealing British war medals...and the doctored photo that proves she is a phony - 02/02/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1
247950/Pictured-The-French-woman-accused-stealing-Briti
sh-war-medals--doctored-photo-proves-phony.html
A French woman has been accused of insulting the memory of British soldiers who liberated her country by ‘stealing’ their medals.
Françoise Gondree-Anquetil, 65, is apparently posing as the founder of the world famous Pegasus Bridge museum in Normandy on a website.

Gangs using Facebook, Twitter more often - 02/02/10
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/2024451,gangs-twitt
er-facebook-recruit-020210.article
When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant. They sent a warning on Twitter that went like this: We have a snitch in our midst.

Happy February to everyone!

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .This chicken keeps crossing the street

Chicken plays chicken with drivers on busy street
http://tinyurl.com/y8r8pby">http://tinyurl.com/y8r
8pby
A chicken playing chicken? That's what's happening on a busy Glendale street where a black hen has been dodging cars, captors and coyotes for two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The chicken has drawn a growing crowd of photographers and journalists as animal control officers struggle to catch it.

A spokeswoman for the Pasadena Humane Society, which handles animal control in Glendale, said the bird either runs onto the street or flies into a tree when officers approach. Hillary Gatlin said a humane trap has not worked because the chicken doesn't weigh enough to trigger it or she isn't interested in the feed used as bait.

Gatlin said the standoff could continue awhile.

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Who was there for Phoebe? - 02/01/10
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?a
rticleid=1229670&srvc=home&position=emailed">http:/
/news.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articlei
d=1229670&srvc=home&position=emailed
It’s not known here if Phoebe Prince left any explanation when she took her life two weeks ago, but her passing certainly left a message, not only for those who drove her to despondency, but also for those who saw what was happening and did nothing about it.

British Godfather 'threatened enemies from on Facebook from maximum security jail - 02/01/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1247422/Bri
tish-Godfather-taunted-foes-prison-facebook-messages.ht
ml#ixzz0eIOhLBX1">http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/new
s/article-1247422/British-Godfather-taunted-foes-prison
-facebook-messages.html#ixzz0eIOhLBX1
A criminal used the Facebook website to threaten his enemies while he was in a maximum security prison for conspiracy to murder.

Police body urges e-crime victims to report attacks - 01/31/10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8488319.stma>">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8488319.st
m
More than half the victims of e-crime do not report the incident to police, a survey has found.
The North Wales Police Authority survey found 57% of e-crime victims reported the incident only to their bank or credit card provider.

Consumers warned as fraudulent 'tax refund' emails flood the internet - 01/31/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1247487/Con
sumers-warned-fraudulent-tax-refund-emails-flood-intern
et.html">http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article
-1247487/Consumers-warned-fraudulent-tax-refund-emails-
flood-internet.html
Consumers were today warned to be on their guard against fraudulent emails telling them they were due to receive a tax refund.

New Orleans lawyer arrested: alleged e-mail threat - 01/31/10
http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=11909431">h
ttp://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=11909431
The FBI says a suspended attorney has been arrested for allegedly e-mailing a threat to the federal bankruptcy court in New Orleans.

The £100k job sting: How designer launched 'extraordinary con to prevent rival taking up a new job' - 01/30/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1247384/The
-100k-job-sting-How-designer-launched-extraordinary-pre
vent-rival-taking-new-job.html#ixzz0eIOWOgKU">http:
//www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1247384/The-100k-
job-sting-How-designer-launched-extraordinary-prevent-r
ival-taking-new-job.html#ixzz0eIOWOgKU
When graduate Darren Bartholomew was offered a £100,000-a-year design job at the height of the recession he couldn’t believe his luck.

Powell Facebook page temporarily disappears, reappears - 01/30/10
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14302774?source=most_vieweda>">http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14302774?source=most_viewe
d
A Facebook page devoted to the case of missing West Valley City mother Susan Powell temporarily disappeared Friday, frustrating family members and friends who rely on the social networking Web site to spread public awareness about the search for the 28-year-old woman.

Internet racism pair lose appeal - 01/29/10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorks
hire/8486884.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new
s/england/north_yorkshire/8486884.stm
Two men have lost their appeals against the UK's first conviction for inciting racial hatred via a foreign website.

Idaho wolf advocate posts hunters’ names on Web - 01/29/10
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jan/29/idaho-wol
f-advocate-posts-hunters-names-web/">http://www.spo
kesman.com/stories/2010/jan/29/idaho-wolf-advocate-post
s-hunters-names-web/
A Boise wolf advocate has used a public records request to get the names of hunters who reported killing a wolf in Idaho and posted all 122 names on a Web site.
Rick Hobson also bought an ad in the Idaho Statesman that directed people to the Web site.

Facing up to the perils of Facebook - 01/29/10
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/columnists/joseph_ques
nel/2010/01/28/12655706.html">http://www.winnipegsu
n.com/news/columnists/joseph_quesnel/2010/01/28/1265570
6.html
Facebook is taking on a life of its own and Winnipeg school boards are taking notice. School officials for River East Transcona School Division discovered this the hard way.

China to block 'vulgar' text messages - 01/29/10
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014492.html?categ
oryid=1009&cs=1">http://www.variety.com/article/VR1
118014492.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1
Censorship in China is being extended to mobile phone text messages, as state-owned mobile telcos say they will block any SMS messages that do not meet the strict requirements of the country's net nannies.

Scammers exploit Apple iPad fever - 01/29/10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8486701.stm"
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8486701.stm
Cyber conmen are cashing in on hype surrounding Apple's iPad.
Security firms have come across attempts to subvert search engines to catch out those seeking more information about the tablet.

Enact stronger law on threatening Web posts - 01/28/10
http://www.bradenton.com/opinion/story/2012107.html>">http://www.bradenton.com/opinion/story/2012107.html
This is undoubtedly one case where there ought to be a law. Society must catch up to the malevolence all too prevalent on the Internet. Some should be deemed criminal.

For your eyes only: employee privacy on employer systems - 01/28/10
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6ac96655
-b101-4829-a937-974ba8293597">http://www.lexology.c
om/library/detail.aspx?g=6ac96655-b101-4829-a937-974ba8
293597
Where is the line between an employee's right to privacy and an employer's right to monitor its employees while on company time or using company equipment or networks? How is an employer charged with preventing harassment supposed to effectively monitor the large volume of communications between its employees? While the law has yet to establish bright-line answers to these questions, recent legal developments provide some guidance.

Internet enhances stalking capabilities - 01/28/10
http://www.nwmissourinews.com/news/university/internet
-enhances-stalking-capabilities-1.1089536">http://w
ww.nwmissourinews.com/news/university/internet-enhances
-stalking-capabilities-1.1089536
Advancements in technology have allowed the human race to communicate with one another easier and more effectively than ever before.
According to Charlotte Gunsolley, Victim Advocate at the Children & Family Center of Northwest Missouri, they’ve also made the art of stalking easier and more effective, as well.

Social networking breeds new degree of stalking - 01/28/10
http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/social-networking-b
reeds-new-degree-of-stalking-1.1090480">http://www.
smudailycampus.com/news/social-networking-breeds-new-de
gree-of-stalking-1.1090480
Searching out childhood friends, high school classmates, and even an old crush has never been easier. Social media sites, like Facebook, have become the modern high school reunion. Now, instead of only getting the chance to see an old pal every five or ten years to catch up on life, technology has made it a possibility in every second of every day.

Council Twitter users face rebuke - 01/28/10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/84
84919.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engla
nd/cornwall/8484919.stm
Councillors in Cornwall could face being reported to the authority's standards committee for using social networking sites.

Cyclist supporter alleges road rage incident - 01/28/10
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3270973/Cyclist-
supporter-alleges-road-rage-incident">http://www.st
uff.co.nz/the-press/news/3270973/Cyclist-supporter-alle
ges-road-rage-incident
The Christchurch editor of a sport website embroiled in an online war of words between cyclists and motorists was himself allegedly assaulted in a road rage incident this morning.

Sick Facebook Imposter Targets Dead Troops Families - 01/27/10
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/ou
r_boys/2826153/Sick-Facebook-imposter-targets-dead-troo
ps-families.html">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homep
age/news/campaigns/our_boys/2826153/Sick-Facebook-impos
ter-targets-dead-troops-families.html
THE families of dozens of soldiers killed in action have fallen victim to a sick Facebook hoaxer. The heartless imposter used the networking site to target heroes' widows and mothers.

Ex-deputy charged with office threat - 01/27/10
http://mankatofreepress.com/local/x1059041133/Ex-deput
y-charged-with-office-threat">http://mankatofreepre
ss.com/local/x1059041133/Ex-deputy-charged-with-office-
threat
A former Blue Earth County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with a felony for an alleged e-mail threat he sent to other deputies in November.

Teen sexting: Technological trend can lead to tragic consequences - 01/27/10
http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2010/01/27/news/s
rv0000007438542.txt">http://www.dailytribune.com/ar
ticles/2010/01/27/news/srv0000007438542.txt
Sexting ­ using cell phones to send explicitly sexual photos ­ is a growing teenage trend with potentially devastating results. In an effort to get teens to think before they hit that "send" button, the office of Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper has developed an informational program for local schools and parent groups.

Slimmers warned over fake weight-loss drugs - 01/26/10
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/medicine
/article7002299.ece">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t
ol/news/science/medicine/article7002299.ece
Slimmers were warned of the dangers of buying medicines from unregulated websites last night, after fake versions of a leading weight-loss drug were discovered in the US.

This past week has been one of my busiest! Monday I had an online conference w/Fairpoint to go over their Internet security software; Tuesday I flew out of Portland, Maine to head to the DoD Cybercrime Conference 2010 in St. Louis. This is my fifth year providing training for them.

Flew United, flight was on time to Chicago O'Hare. Then I had a three-hour layover, so I made some calls and it looks like I'm getting some more work - YAY! Ate lunch, talked w/Chris a zillion times (I missed him), then got on the plane to St. Louis.

Again, the flight was on time (actually, a few minutes early). Alex, who I've known as  long as I've been going to the conferences, picked me up at the airport. His mom, Diana, is my adopted "mom" and called to make sure I'd landed, then told him to bring me right up to the conference without checking into the hotel yet. So we did and as we were going up the escalator to the conference, she was on her way down. She had a glass in her hand, gave it to me, said "Apple Pie! I'll be back up in a minute." and down she went.

She was right, the drink did taste just like an apple pie. We waited for her to give me my conference badge, which had VIP, LE and Speaker on it. We hugged, I gave her a box of salt water taffy (I bring her one every year) and she just kept hugging me. She is the sweetest lady!

We went to the reception, which was held in the exhibitor's area, and she brought me to the bar to get a drink. The bartender mixed me up something that was like an apple sour. It was delish! She got me to a table w/some of the other people from Technology Forums, who helped put together the conference with the DoD and I had to hug a bunch of people. It was like old home week.

I got some food, chatted, hugged more people I hadn't seen in a year, then I snuck out to go check in. I was informed at the front desk that they upgraded me to a suite. I was psyched. Then they told me it was in the building across the street. I asked if there was a covered walkway, they said no, I'd have to actually go across the street. I asked if they had anything in the hotel where the conference was. They said they had a king "handicapable" room. I said okay. Heck, a bed is a bed. Got to my room, it was huge and the reason they call it "handicapable" is that it had no tub in the bathroom. The entire bathroom was like a big shower, with just a shower curtain separating the shower head - made for wheelchairs. It kind of reminded me of the bathrooms in Japan.

Freshened up, then headed back to the conference to go to the CYBER OLYMPICS 2010, which was divided up into a floppy disk throw and CD toss. Most of the attendees were at the floppy disk throw, which was winging 3.5 diskettes as far as they could go.

Sharla, Alex and I went over to the CD toss, which had a bunch of the CD plastic containers taped together with points printed on them. You got three CDs for $5 to try to toss into them. All proceeds went to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Sharla got some CDs for us and we began cheering each other on, really making a lot of noise. People started coming over and we would cheer them on (see the photos). Then we started getting bets going on as to who would beat who and that money went into the donation pot.

By the end, the floppy disk throw raised almost $300. Us? We raised almost $600!!!! Woohoo!



We went down to the hotel bar to unwind, then I headed up to my room to crash.

Wednesday was my day for giving my three-hour training. I spent the morning in the speaker ready room, checking my email, etc, going over my presentation (I always get nervous before I speak) and hanging out. There were several other sessions going on at the same time as mine, so although I didn't have a lot of people in the audience, I think they learned something. I also might be getting more work out of it from a woman who is putting together some training for military and LE. Woohoo!




Went to my room to change from my suit into jeans and conference sweatshirt, then back to the conference for a VIP party put on by Mandiant. In between the food and drinks, they gave a short speech about a report they'd done and I ended up getting a business card from them - I may use them in my next book!

Went down to the bar again to unwind and I ended up bailing out at 830 while the rest went bowling or stayed at the bar. "Mom" is such a hoot - she had us laughing our butts off.

Thursday morning I left my bags at the front desk, went to say goodbye to everyone, especially "Mom," took some photos and Alex took me back to the airport. He is such a sweetheart and good "brother."

The flight from St. Louis to Chicago O'Hare was again on time. And interesting. The head flight attendant was Billy Dee Williams' twin. When I first boarded the plane, I thought he was the captain - he had on a full suit w/wings on his left pocket, a white handkerchief peeking out of that pocket, a white ascot around his neck and that smooooooooth voice.

When he smooooothly announced he was Carl, our head flight attendant, I expected him to start singing or reciting Lando's lines from The Empire Strikes Back, LOL.

A short stop in Chicago, then home to Portland. Chris came to pick me up, he had Phoebe in the back seat. Someone told us that huskies don't get attached to one human. They lied! She didn't eat while I was gone and only went out when Chris made her. Joanne came over to walk her and that brightened her up, but she moped because I was gone.

The look on her face when I got in the car was precious. I thought she was going to pee in delight. We drove thru McDonald's and got her a cheeseburger and she wolfed that down when we got home, then ate her dog food. I was just hoping she wouldn't throw up from being so excited I was home.

I took a shower, we watched some TV, then all three of us went to bed. She slept most of the night with her head on my legs.

It's good to be home.

(thanks to Dawn Walker for letting me post her photos!!!)

Off to St. Louis to provide 3-hour training for law enforcement at the DoD CyberCrime Conference - http://www.technologyforums.com/10CC/

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .I guess he was trying to improve his skills

Alleged car thief found playing 'Grand Theft Auto'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100122/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd
_grand_theft_auto

Sheriff's deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the "Grand Theft Auto" video game, and they later charged him with just that.

Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango arrested 30-year-old Michael Ray Ekes on Thursday. They found the SUV outside a Haines City home. Ekes was inside in the house, playing the popular video game.

Ekes was charged with grand theft auto, burglary and drug possession. At the time of his arrest, he was out of jail on bond for another grand theft auto charge.

According to Polk County jail records, Ekes remained in custody Friday. Bond had not been set and no attorney was listed.

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Happy Days' Scott Baio Calls In FBI Over Online 'Threats' - 01/25/10
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittle
tattle/article_212280584.shtml
Former Happy Days star Scott Baio has called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (fbi) after he allegedly received a series of online threats.

School criticised for 'party' with bullies after student's suicide - 01/25/10
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/school-critic
ised-for-party-with-bullies-after-students-suicide-2010
0124-msm9.html
THE education department has defended a group ''debriefing'' session that brought together school students accused of bullying a 14-year-old boy who later committed suicide with children who had blamed them for his death.

Russian Blogger Harassed For Marrying Chinese - 01/24/10
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/24/russian-blogg
er-harrased-for-marrying-chinese/
The common notion that the Internet empowers those with democratic and liberal values is occasionally challenged by stories coming out of Russian online communities.

Schooboy arrested on suspicion of blackmail after an email threat to kill a teacher - 01/23/10
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/23/sc
hooboy-arrested-on-suspicion-of-blackmail-after-an-emai
l-threat-to-kill-a-teacher-115875-21988946/
Police arrested a schoolboy on suspicion of blackmail after an email threat to kill a teacher if a ransom of £30,000 wasn't paid.

Safety should trump style for plugged-in youth - 01/22/10
http://www.dailycampus.com/commentary/safety-should-tr
ump-style-for-plugged-in-youth-1.1081107
From the “not really beef” quesadillas served at South Dining Hall to watching Snooki on “Jersey Shore” hit the dance floor after one too many, the term “cringe-worthy” comes to mind. Nothing is quite as cringe-worthy as the increasing number of my family members joining the Facebook community.

Social Networking: A Workplace Policy - 01/22/10
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN
.jsp?id=1202439369681&Social_Networking_A_Workplace_Pol
icy
The first part of this article addressed issues surrounding the effect of the internet on hiring and firing in the 21st Century.This article discusses the laws that impact social networking in the workplace and provides guidance on developing a social networking and blogging policy.

Nurse suspended after operation pictures posted on Facebook - 01/22/10
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/nurse-suspen
ded-after-operation-pictures-posted-on-facebook-1.10005
91
A hospital worker has been suspended after photos of patients having operations were posted on Facebook.

Cybercrime: Time to face up to responsibilities - 01/21/10
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/comment/0,100000
2985,39985180,00.htm
Cybercriminals will only fear the long arm of the law if governments, businesses and the public face up to responsibilities and work together on a co-ordinated response, says Simon Lavin.     

Rising cybercrime rattles social networking world - 01/21/10
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/rising-cyb
ercrime-rattles-social-networking-world-997
The steady growth of Cybercrime, or crimes committed through the Internet, had an adverse effect among users of social networking sites particularly on the confidence and trust issues.

Father: 'Her future can be ruined' - 01/2/10
http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime_courts/82226032_
Suspect_s_father___Her_future_can_be_ruined_.html
A father of one of the four students arrested for alleged online threats to burn down or blow up Belleville High School is defending his child. In an e-mail to the Times, the parent, who asked not to be identified, states, "I just want to say these kids would never have done this. They are young, stupid kids who were just chatting and saying something that they never thought would make the mess it did."

Sexting's Pervasiveness, Dangers Detailed As Police, Lawyers Offer Ways To Shield Students - 01/20/10
http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-west
-hartford-sexting-0121.artjan20,0,1983434.story
As if booze, drugs and tell-all Facebook profiles weren't sufficiently alarming, parents should now add "sexting" to their well of worries.
That was part of the message Wednesday night at a district-sponsored public forum on technology and teens that drew about 200 people to the Conard High School auditorium.

Bellbrook man gets probation - 01/20/10
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/bellbr
ook-man-gets-probation-501945.html
Darren Casey of Bellbrook was sentenced to five years probation Jan. 7 in Greene County Common Pleas Court. Casey, who originally faced a felony abduction charge from a March 2009 incident on Possum Run Road, eventually pleaded guilty to telecommunications harassment and unlawful restraint, both misdemeanors, plus felony possession of criminal tools.

MoCity Police First To Make Arrest Using New ‘Spoofing’ Law - 01/20/10
http://www.fortbendnow.com/2010/01/20/43433
Missouri City Police Department’s arrest of a Stafford man for Internet harassment and “spoofing” was the first of its kind in Texas using a new law that went into effect Sept. 1 of last year. The crime is so new that police had to call Austin to figure out how to get the charge entered into computers because a number had yet to be assigned.

Model Web Con - 01/20/10
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2815534/A-co
nman-posed-as-a-gorgeous-female-model-on-the-internet-t
o-trick-male-admirers.html
A CONMAN posed as a gorgeous female model on the internet to trick male "admirers" into sending him gifts and money, police said yesterday.

Did Facebook Stalking Just Uncover a Mississippi State Recruiting Scandal? - 01/19/10
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/ent
ry/view/52566/did_facebook_stalking_just_uncover_a_miss
issippi_state_recruiting_scandal?_
The Clarion-Ledger has the story today on how Mississippi State admits recruits visited an "establishment deemed impermissible by our recruiting rules and regulations."
Gary Barnett has been located. He's the guy sneaking around Starkville in a big floppy sombrero and outrageous mustache, lookin' all incognito.

Man held on $100K bond in Internet stalking case - 01/19/10
http://www.newsandtribune.com/clarkcounty/local_story_
019232504.html?keyword=topstory
A former youth pastor from Clarksville appeared in court Tuesday afternoon accused of stalking and threatening harm to two teenage girls if they did not perform sexual acts for him online.

The radio interview I did on Monday w/WPOR about Haiti Relief Online Scams

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .The do say the third time's the charm

Man arrested 3 times in 3 days in Mass. towns
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100117/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd
3_arrests_3_days

A Boston man has been arrested three times in three days in neighboring Massachusetts towns. Huy Quoc Le faces a number of charges after his string of arrests began Monday in Andover. Police said the 25-year-old was arrested on motor vehicle violations. He was charged with driving after suspension, attaching improper plates, forgery of Registry documents, and driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle.

On Wednesday, Le was arrested on charges accusing him of stealing nearly $10,000 from the business account of an Andover nail salon.

Hours later, police in nearby Lawrence arrested him on allegations he broke into the home of a former girlfriend after officers found him inside.

It was unclear if Le had hired an attorney.
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Police: Woman steals co-worker’s identity - 01/18/10
http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2010/01/18/new
s/doc4b53dc1f6835e656900149.txt
A Chester woman was arrested and charged with stealing a co-worker’s identity and using the information to commit various computer-related crimes, police said.

Sky TV producer who stalked former classmate and Googled her name 40,000 times is jailed - 01/18/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1244219/TV-
producer-stalked-classmate-Googled-40-000-times-jailed.
html#ixzz0czmy6fav
An 'obsessive' TV producer who tormented a former college classmate in a seven-year campaign of harassment was jailed for just 16 weeks today.
Elliot Fogel, 34, could be free in just six weeks - despite subjecting Claire Waxman to an 'unimaginable' ordeal and Googling her name 40,000 times in a year.

Frustrated air passenger arrested under Terrorism Act after Twitter joke about bombing airport - 01/18/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1244091/Man
-arrested-Twitter-joke-bombing-airport-Terrorism-Act.ht
ml#ixzz0czbMaf4i
An air passenger was arrested under the Terrorism Act and held in a police cell for seven hours after joking on Twitter he would blow an airport 'sky high' if his flight was delayed.

Gumtree advert offered 'baby for sale' - 01/16/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandind
ianocean/southafrica/7003219/Gumtree-advert-offered-bab
y-for-sale.html
An advert placed on the classified website in South Afica allegedly offered "a beautiful eight-week-old baby boy for any reasonable offer".
It added: "Till now he has been an angel but cannot afford to keep him.

Spanish politician may sue over bin Laden photo - 01/16/10
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100116/tts-uk-spain-poli
tician-binladen-ca02f96.html
A Spanish politician said on Saturday that he was "stupefied" by the FBI's decision to use his photograph to compose its latest image of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and is considering taking legal action. "Firstly I will ask the FBI for an explanation, which they haven't given me yet, and then I will reserve the right to take legal action," Gaspar Llamazares told CNN+.

Blog attack gets brutal - 01/16/10
http://hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_story/push?articl
e-Blog+attack+gets+brutal-Website+war+of+words+spills+i
nto+real+life-%20&id=5578505&instance=secondary_stories
_left_column
Between calls and text messages, local blogger Kurt Gardiner’s phone rang almost 150 times from 7 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 2 to 11 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 3.
My life as a viral-media ‘celebrity’ - 01/15/10
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/15/my-life-as-a-viral-
media-celebrity/
When the young man in the pickup stopped to offer me a ride, I was still in shock. I was carrying my 20-month-old down an arterial street in Victoria during Friday rush-hour traffic last fall. My daughter’s sturdy legs and a laundry bag from her daycare bumped against me as I walked. A tear had plowed down my cheek. I gratefully declined the offer. “We got kicked off the bus,” I burst out. The man looked surprised, then nervous. Only louts get thrown off buses, right? Little did I know the pariah I’d soon become when my story hit the Internet.

Pornographic film shown on Moscow motorway billboard - 01/15/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russi
a/6998875/Pornographic-film-shown-on-Moscow-motorway-bi
llboard.html
Moscow drivers squinted in disbelief as an electronic motorway billboard ran a two-minute pornographic video instead of its regular advertising clips.

A mysterious email and a split-second mistake: That's all it took for internet gangsters to hijack my life... - 01/15/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1243634/A-m
ysterious-email-split-second-mistake-Thats-took-interne
t-gangsters-hijack-life-.html#ixzz0cnTmPqxe
Seven at night on the Friday before Christmas and I was rushing to meet a deadline.
With less than an hour to finish a documentary I was working on, my fingers were flying over my keyboard as I wrestled with the script, phone calls and emails with a researcher abroad while watching multiple TV screens in the cutting room and talking simultaneously to people around me.

Welcome to DarkMarket – global one-stop shop for cybercrime and banking fraud - 01/14/10
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/14/darkm
arket-online-fraud-trial-wembley
Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, is accused of being a key figure in running DarkMarket, a website where criminals exchanged information on stolen credit cards and other data.

Man arrested on cyberstalking charges - 01/14/10
http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1866594.html
Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd says the stepfather of two juveniles arrested in recent months on burglary charges was picked up this week on a charge of cyberstalking, which accuses him of threatening the sheriff's investigators who arrested the minors.

Recaptured: The convict who taunted police on Facebook during FOUR months on the run - 01/14/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1242833/On-
run-prisoner-taunted-police-Facebook-recaptured.html>
An escaped convict who relentlessly taunted police on Facebook has finally been arrested after nearly four months on the run, it was announced today.
Craig 'Lazie' Lynch, 28, was nearing the end of a seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary at Hollesley Bay prison, Suffolk, when he absconded on September 24 2009.

Hitler drinking game probed by Huddersfield university - 01/14/10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/84
58574.stm
A university in West Yorkshire is to investigate claims two students set up a Facebook group for a Nazi-inspired drinking game.

Status: Deleted - 01/14/10
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2807041/Face
book-page-of-jailed-killer-Bradley-Tucker-is-taken-down
.html
A FACEBOOK page set up from jail by the killer of Peter Woodhams has been taken down - thanks to The Sun.
Bradley Tucker, 21, had opened an account on the social networking site from his jail cell.

Mastermind behind 'eBay for criminals' is facing jail - 01/14/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6989420/M
astermind-behind-eBay-for-criminals-is-facing-jail.html

A former pizza delivery man is facing jail for masterminding an "eBay for criminals", where fraudsters traded stolen banking details.

Lawyer in YouTube murder plot video hired his own assassins – UN - 01/13/10
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/guatemala-
lawyer-youtube-suicide-conspiracy
It was the murder that spawned a macabre YouTube sensation and threatened to ­topple Guatemala's government.
Hitmen shot dead Rodrigo Rosenberg, a lawyer, in Guatemala City soon after he recorded a sombre video blaming his imminent assassination on President Ålvaro Colom and other senior officials.

Web Jibe Thug Gets Six Years For Attack - 01/13/10
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2805322/Web-
jibe-thug-gets-six-years-for-attack.html
A BRUTE who taunted his victim on Facebook after shattering his skull with a metal bar has been jailed for six years.

Is this the world's first Twitter murder? Man blasted to death with a shotgun after online argument with friend - 01/12/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1
242360/First-Twitter-murder-Man-blasted-death-shotgun-o
nline-argument-friend.html#ixzz0czjgdRgg
Police in the U.S. are investigating what they believe is the first murder carried out because of messages posted on Twitter.
Detectives in New York say a deadly confrontation between two friends came about after angry comments were posted on the micro-blogging site.

Briton kidnapped and imprisoned in Africa in 'fraud romance' - 01/12/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6975084/B
riton-kidnapped-and-imprisoned-in-Africa-in-fraud-roman
ce.html
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said the British national travelled to west Africa to meet someone they had become friends with online - but the friend was the ''fictional creation of a criminal group whose sole aim was extorting money''.
It was the first reported incident of a person being kidnapped as part of a so-called romance fraud where the victim was British, Soca said.

Anti-piracy agency's logo broke copyright - 01/12/10
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/franc
e/6974249/Anti-piracy-agencys-logo-broke-copyright.html

France's new internet agency set up to protect the rights of artists is facing legal action for using a copyrighted design for its logo.

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .I think he was massaging *his* meat

Man who said he was 'massaging' meat gets 10 years
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd
_beef_theft_sentence

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing an $80 slab of meat. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reported Thursday that 51-year-old Mark Zachary of Orangeburg received the maximum sentence after jurors found him guilty Wednesday of shoplifting. Prosecutors said the sentence was justified because the Aug. 26 theft from Reid's grocery store in Orangeburg was his ninth offense.

Authorities said when a store manager approached Zachary about the missing New York strip and the big bulk under his shirt, he fled, right into the arms of an off-duty police officer.

Assistant Solicitor Glenn Justis asked jurors "Where's the beef?" in his opening argument.

Zachary testified he was "massaging" the meat, not stealing it.

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Girl fight videos posted on internet amid violence surge - 01/12/10
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/girl-fight-v
ideos-posted-on-internet-amid-violence-surge/story-e6fr
f7l6-1225818238872
A MASSIVE spike in violent attacks by young Queensland girls has been blamed on internet "fight sites" where videos of the attacks are posted.

Hackers take aim at Facebook users - 01/11/10
http://www.eagletribune.com/punews/local_story_0110425
38.html
Kimberly Potts calls Facebook her "lifeline" to her son Justin, who is serving in Iraq with the 101st Engineer Battalion of the Army National Guard. It's helped her stay in contact with him, to see photos of his Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas.
Twitter trash talk blamed in NYC murder - 01/11/10
http://www.inquisitr.com/56414/twitter-murder/
Twitter has emerged as a source of evidence and possible catalyst in a homicide investigation in Harlem.
Two young men, Jameg Blake and Kwame Dancy, both 22, are said to have argued on the popular microblogging service before taking their dispute to the real world.

In The Age of Social Media, Can You Escape Your Ex? - 01/11/10
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/01/are
_you_facebook_stalking_your.html
It's a New Year and I am quite certain that many of you have said, "Don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya'," to those significant others who weren't -- THE ONE. You're starting fresh; you're blogging about your future goals; you're tweeting your resolutions and updating your Facebook status with things like, "I will never, ever, ever settle!"

Teen in court on Facebook racism charge - 01/11/10
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/149618-teen-i
n-court-on-facebook-racism-charge/
Youth faces two charges of racial harrassment after allegedly posting anti-Jewish comments directed at another man.

Should Law Grads Be Banned From The Legal Profession For Cyber-Stalking? - 01/08/10
http://www.businessinsider.com/should-law-grads-be-ban
ned-from-profession-for-cyber-stalking-2010-1
Lawyers jokes aside, attorneys are evaluated for their "character and fitness" before they are admitted to the bar in their state. They questions are what you would expect -- have you been expelled from any institution for an honor violation, have you ever convicted for any crime, etc.

Assault charge for fiance after Facebook page sparks alleged domestic incident - 01/08/10
http://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2010/01/ass
ault_charge_for_fiance_afte.html
The social networking site Facebook is designed to bring people together quickly and easily over the Internet. But it had just the opposite effect on a Castleton Corners couple.
Arturo Montenora, 41, slugged his fiancee in the eye and broke her shoulder blade last night when they argued over something on his Facebook page, prosecutors allege.

Autistic son who asked internet friend to kill his 'overprotective' parents detained in hospital - 01/08/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1241589/Aut
istic-son-Christopher-Monks-plotted-kill-overprotective
-parents-locked-hospital-indefinitely.html
An autistic man was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order today after plotting to kill his adoptive parents with a friend he met on a fetish website just three months earlier.
Christoper Monks, 25, persuaded Shaun Skarnes, 20, to stab the couple while they were asleep at their home in return for sexual favours.

Teacher charged with harassment - 01/08/10
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times/co
urier_times_news_details/article/28/2010/january/08/tea
cher-charged-with-harassment.html
She allegedly sent a threatening e-mail to a colleague at North Montco Technical Career Center in Towamencin.
An alleged act of cyber harassment cost a technical school teacher her job and led to her being criminally charged in Montgomery County, officials said Thursday.

Facebook threats lead to inquiry in Pine Island - 01/08/10
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/loca
lnews_story.asp?z=2&a=432849
A 17-year-old Oronoco boy allegedly threatened to bring a gun to Pine Island High School through a Facebook conversation he had with a 17-year-old female classmate Thursday afternoon.

Love in the age of social networking too much text and not enough talk? - 01/08/10
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20100108/LIFE
STYLE/1080324/Love-in-the-age-of-social-networking-too-
much-text-and-not-enough-talk
When it comes to technology, young people and relationships, the interplay can perhaps best be summarized by a phrase familiar to Facebook users: It's complicated.

Secret drives model's ex-boyfriend to plot acid attack - 01/07/10
http://www.whas11.com/featured-content/Secret-drives-m
odels-ex-boyfriend-to-plot-acid-attack-80925487.html>
Katie Piper, 26, was a model and aspiring television presenter when she was splashed in the face with sulfuric acid by a stranger on the London streets in March 2008. Police moved quickly on the trail of her assailant.

Arrests: Former Asheville bank employee charged - 01/07/10
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100107/NEWS01/1
00106066
City police charged a former Asheville bank employee with harassing and threatening his old employer. David Gregory Smith[], 49, of High Point, was charged with extortion and cyberstalking. According to arrest warrants, Smith sent e-mails to Pisgah Community Bank and threatened to expose confidential bank information unless he was given severance pay and benefits.

Man Sentenced For E-Mail Threats To Local Company, Fla. Legislator - 01/07/10
http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/article/man_sente
nced_for_e-mail_threats_to_local_company_fla._legislato
r/29581/
A 39-year-old Florida man was sentenced Thursday for emailing threats to a company in Columbus.
Kyle Jeffrey Tschiegg, of Sarasota, Florida was sentenced to 90 months imprisonment for emailing threats including threats to cause a candidate to drop out of a race for statewide office in Florida, hacking into email accounts of individuals and companies, and using stolen identity information to commit computer crimes. 

Man who 'ran pirate music site received £190,000 in donations from downloaders' - 01/07/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1241317/Man
-ran-pirate-music-site-received-190-000-donations-downl
oaders.html
A man who ran an illegal 'pirate' music site which allowed 21 million downloads had almost £190,000 in his accounts when police raided his home, a jury heard today.

Snowed-In Brits boost adultery website - 01/06/10
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100106/od_nm/us_weather_a
dultery
Britons snowed in by the wintry weather have been flocking to an extra-marital dating site in the last 24 hours.
IllicitEncounters.com, which provides a platform for married people to conduct affairs, said on Wednesday it has seen an unexpected increase in visitors over the past 24 hours, and received a record number of new profiles on Wednesday morning.

Stalking suspect faces stiffer penalty - 01/06/10
http://www.sunherald.com/local/story/1848783.html
A man arrested Tuesday on a cyberstalking charge contacted his victim “500-and-something times,” said Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd.
Vincent Salvadore Drummond is on probation in Harrison County for a misdemeanor harassment conviction involving the same woman, which gives the latest charge a stiffer penalty, Byrd said. The woman, who lives on Old Fort Bayou Road in Vancleave, contacted the Sheriff’s Department on Dec. 28 about harassing and threatening phone calls. Byrd said criminal investigators confirmed that the communications came from Drummond.

Teens arrested for posting violent online threats - 01/06/10
http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/201001
05/wpg_threats_100105/20100106/?hub=WinnipegHome
Two 14-year-old girls were arrested after posting alleged threats online about killing students at Ecole Selkirk Junior High, say RCMP.
On Dec. 31, the teen suspects allegedly posted messages on Facebook and MSN threatening to kill at least five other students and wrote about bringing guns and a bomb to the school, say RCMP.

Selling Fake Art on eBay - 01/06/10
http://trueslant.com/nickobourn/2010/01/06/selling-fak
e-art-on-ebay/
A Chicago man named Michael Zabrin recently admitted he sold fake Picassos, Lichtensteins, Chagalls, and works by several other artists on eBay. He plead guilty in court, saying that he had stolen over $1 million from unaware online buyers.

Internet stalker plagued young mum - 01/06/10
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/
story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline&category=News&tBrand=ESTOnli
ne&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED06%20Jan%202010%2009%3
A13%3A08%3A557
A delusional internet stalker who drove more than 200 miles to see his victim is today the subject of a year-long restraining order. Mohammad Irfan was also banned for a year from entering the woman's home town after admitting causing harassment with fear of violence on three separate occasions.

DA's Office investigates death threats on Utica Topix - 01/05/10
http://www.uticaod.com/news/x370512751/DAs-Office-inve
stigates-death-threats-on-Utica-Topix
Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara on Tuesday said his office is investigating two cases involving death threats posted on the Utica section of the popular Web site Topix. And those may be just the first of many such cases locally, as McNamara said he expects his office to step up its prosecution of online harassment in the future.

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .All I can say is, Wow, you need anger management
Police: Ohio woman hit window over lack of nuggets
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20100103/NEWS02/1030332
Police say an Ohio woman punched through a McDonald's drive-through window because Chicken McNuggets weren't available.

Police were called Friday to the restaurant in Toledo.

Police say 24-year-old Melodi Dushane was treated for injuries, then jailed. She pleaded not guilty to a vandalism charge. She was released on a recognizance bond and ordered not to have contact with the restaurant. The phone number for her home address isn't listed.

A manager at the McDonald's declined Monday to discuss the incident.

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Malaysia "Allah" row spills on to Facebook - 01/04/10
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100104/wr_nm/us_malaysia_
allah
More than 43,000 Malaysians protested online over a court ruling allowing a Catholic paper to use the word "Allah" to describe the Christian God, signaling growing Islamic anger in this mostly Muslim Southeast Asian country.

Hackers mimic Huffington Post's Twitter feed - 01/02/10
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_hi_te/us_huf
fington_post_twitter
A Huffington Post spokesman says the left-leaning news and opinion Web site was not hacked when a Twitter social network feed emerged in its name and began issuing insults with a conservative bent.

False Facebook page accusation - 01/01/10
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2010
/01/01/01012010waccops.html
(scroll to bottom)
A 30-year-old Lorena woman is charged with felony online harassment after McLennan County sheriff’s officials say she created a damaging Facebook account in the name of her husband’s former stepdaughter.

Van Morrison blames hackers for news he has become a father saying the story is 'completely and utterly' unfounded - 01/01/10
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-123968
8/Van-Morrison-blames-hackers-news-father.html
The showbusiness world was taken by surprise when it was announced that Van Morrison had become a father again at the age of 64.

Wenatchee man charged with cyberstalking - 01/01/10
http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/jan/01/wenatch
ee-man-charged-with-cyberstalking/
A 29-year-old Wenatchee man has been charged with cyberstalking for allegedly sending threatening messages through a Facebook account.
Jeramie P. Palmer was charged Dec. 7 in Chelan County Superior Court with three counts of felony cyberstalking. Under state law, cyberstalking is using electronic communication to threaten to injure or to kill someone.

Domestic violence and stalking victims get new legal protections - 01/01/10
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-domestic-violen
ce-lawsjan01,0,7623188.story
Victims of domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault have new legal protections available to them in Illinois starting Friday.
Most significant, experts said, are the 2010 state laws to combat stalking, a crime that affects an estimated 3.4 million Americans.

Your Space or MySpace? - 01/01/10
http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/story.jsp?storyId=3129592
55
In these days of company-issued BlackBerries or personal iPhones, employees no longer can be banned from accessing personal e-mail or Facebook at the office. Recognizing this, progressive companies are revising their Internet-use policies to govern use of social-networking sites during the work day. Simply put, the substantial benefits of responsible social networking outweigh the risks.

Craigslist Sex Ad Turns into Iowa Woman's Nightmare - 12/31/09
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/18/crimesider/ent
ry5996309.shtml
An explicit ad placed on Craigslist offering sex with multiple partners has Iowa resident Jody Karns rattled. The problem? Her phone number was listed, but she says she isn't the one who placed the advertisement.

Internet safety is a must - 12/30/09
http://www.stuttgartdailyleader.com/news/education/x16
71990576/Internet-safety-is-a-must
There are many ways we protect our children from dangers. We warn them never talk to or take candy from strangers, don’t get in a car with someone they don’t know, we set curfews and rules, tell them to choose their friends carefully and not to get mixed up with the wrong crowds. One of the more, not so obvious ways they can be in danger is through the internet and it comes in many forms.

One mother's devastating revenge on the 52-year-old paedophile who groomed her child on Facebook - 12/30/09
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-1239268/O
ne-mothers-devastating-revenge-52-year-old-paedophile-g
roomed-child-Facebook.html#ixzz0beqiomLk
Deborah Carver will never forget the moment her confused young daughter called her over to the family computer to read a message she'd been sent.
'Look at this, Mummy,' said 11-year-old Sarah who, while too young to understand exactly what it meant, felt something was not quite right.

Billions face identity fraud threat after hackers crack secret mobile phone codes - 12/30/09
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1239
298/Eavesdrop-identity-fraud-threat-billion-mobile-phon
e-users.html
Billions could have their mobile phone calls intercepted and recorded after computer hackers cracked the secret code used to protect 80 per cent of the world’s users.
The code was posted on the internet by German scientist Karsten Nohl, who said he organised the breach to demonstrate the weakness of mobiles’ security measures.

Colorado transportation worker investigated for work email depicting Obama shining Palin's shoes - 12/30/09
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20091230/UPDATES01/9
1230011/1002/NEWS01/Colorado+transportation+worker+inve
stigated+for+work+email+depicting+Obama+shining+Palin+s
+shoes
It's a reminder that the emails you send at work, can sometimes come back to haunt you. At least one Colorado Department of Transportation employee is being investigated for sending an inappropriate email featuring President Barack Obama and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

FACEBOOK THREATS MADE - 12/29/09
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.
aspx?e=2239736
A 16-year-old boy was charged after a police received a complaint about threatening messages that were sent over the Internet through MSN Messenger and Facebook, city police said.

Update: Man Posing As Panthers Player Arrested - 12/29/09
http://www.digtriad.com/sports/article.aspx?storyid=13
4892&catid=13
Police say a man posing as a Carolina Panthers[] offensive lineman and swindled people out of $25,000 has been arrested.

Scots internet rat used dating site to prey on terrified women across the world - 12/29/09
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/1
2/29/scots-internet-rat-used-dating-site-to-prey-on-wom
en-worldwide-86908-21928737/
FIVE terrorised women from different sides of the world have revealed how they fell victim to a Scots internet sex cheat.

Threatening texts lead to cyberstalking charge, report states - 12/28/09
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/woman-41960-cybersta
lking-lead.html
A Gastonia woman has been charged with cyberstalking a woman and breaking a man’s glasses Wednesday.

No internet sex please, we're Indian. Web firms observe new law - 12/28/09
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/28/sex-i
nternet-india-law
It may have given the world the Kama Sutra and the Bollywood wet sari scene, but it appears that India is not yet ready to be exposed to the delicate subject of sex on the internet.

I found my stolen kitchen... on eBay - 12/28/09
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1239025/I-s
tolen-kitchen--eBay-Burglars-caught-selling-8-000-booty
-website.html
When Tristan Brooks arrived home from a weekend away to find his brand new £8,000 kitchen stripped bare he was distraught.
Thieves had made off with everything from the £700 fridge freezer to the curtain hooks and the police said they had no leads.

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Dumbass

Flashing teen found guilty after being hit by car
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_distracted_driver>">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_distracted_driver

A New Zealand teen who was flashing her breasts at passing cars has been found guilty of disorderly behavior for the prank, which ended with her in a hospital after a distracted driver ran into her. Cherelle May Dudfield, 18, pleaded guilty to the charge when she appeared in Invercargill District Court, the Southland Times newspaper reported Wednesday.

Dudfield, egged on by her friends, was flashing passing motorists from a traffic island in the middle of a four-lane road in the southern city of Invercargill on Sept. 27.

The alcohol-fueled prank went awry when one of the vehicles crashed into her as she tried to run to the side of the road, police Inspector Olaf Jensen said.

"She was extremely lucky as the vehicle had slowed because of her behavior," he told The Associated Press. "She rolled up onto the bonnet (hood) and cracked the windscreen before she came down with some minor injuries and was taken to hospital."

The prank occurred in the city center, where a ban on alcohol use is in force, he noted.

Dudfield was fined $198.

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Probationer wanted for stalking caught after Crime Stoppers tip - 12/21/09
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/6661673/>">http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/6661673/
A probationer wanted on new charges of cyberstalking was arrested in Roanoke Rapids Friday after a tip to Crime Stoppers.

Federal jury: White supremacist guilty of making online threats - 12/21/09
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22421
">http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=
22421
A federal jury in Virginia has found a white supremacist guilty of four counts of making online threats.

Cyber 'Detectives' Irk Celebrities - 12/20/09
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/12/11
3_57621.html">http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/
nation/2009/12/113_57621.html
A growing number of Internet users are acting like private detectives in cyber space, tracing private notes and pictures of people involved in scandals with celebrities, before spreading them on the Internet. Making private information public without the consent from individuals is illegal.

Firearms officer made online death threat against sergeant - 12/20/09
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/20/firearms-offi
cer-threat-online-forum">http://www.guardian.co.uk/
uk/2009/dec/20/firearms-officer-threat-online-forum
A specialist firearms officer has been disciplined for boasting in an online forum that he could "put a bullet" between the eyes of his sergeant.

Upper Saucon man accused of sending e-mail threats to Lehigh County judge - 12/19/09
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a6_5threat.7121248
dec19,0,3261818.story">http://www.mcall.com/news/lo
cal/all-a6_5threat.7121248dec19,0,3261818.story
A Upper Saucon Township man, who was out on bail awaiting trial on domestic violence charges filed in September, has been sent back to prison after reportedly e-mailing threats to a Lehigh County judge.

Judge refuses to reduce $500,000 bond for former Faulkner student in online threat case - 12/19/09
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20091219/N
EWS01/912190325/Judge-refuses-to-reduce-500-000-bond-fo
r-former-Faulkner-student-in-online-threat-case">ht
tp://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20091219/NEWS
01/912190325/Judge-refuses-to-reduce-500-000-bond-for-f
ormer-Faulkner-student-in-online-threat-case
District Judge Sharon Yates refused to reduce a $500,000 bond Friday for a for­mer Faulkner University student ar­rested in connection with a post on Face­book.

Lowndes man facing cyberstalking charge remains in jail - 12/18/09
http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=4166
">http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=4166
A Steens man injured in what police are calling a “justified” shooting remains in jail after a Dec. 12 incident.
Michael Raymond Parker, 34, of 380 Honeysuckle Drive in Steens, was arrested Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. at Baptist Memorial Hospital–Golden Triangle on charges of cyberstalking, e-mail communication to extort or threaten harm.

Norton: ‘Sex’ A Top Internet Search Among Children - 12/18/09
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1801491/norton_sex
_a_top_internet_search_among_children/">http://www.
redorbit.com/news/health/1801491/norton_sex_a_top_inter
net_search_among_children/
Findings released by Internet security specialty firm Norton showed that sex was a hot online search topic for children in 2009, AFP reported.

Woman charged with cyberstalking mother-in-law - 12/18/09
http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/class-30461-woman-law
.html">http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/class-30461
-woman-law.html
A Burlington woman was charged Friday with five counts of cyberstalking after she sent out several e-mails accusing her mother-in-law of fraud.

Texas Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Making Threats Over the Internet - 12/17/09
http://7thspace.com/headlines/329405/texas_man_sentenc
ed_to_15_years_for_making_threats_over_the_internet.htm
l">http://7thspace.com/headlines/329405/texas_man_s
entenced_to_15_years_for_making_threats_over_the_intern
et.html
United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in San Antonio this morning, 33-year-old Steven Weste was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for making threats over the Internet.

Facebook group that mocked murdered baby shut down - 12/17/09
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/faceboo
k-group-that-mocked-murdered-baby-shut-down-1843431.htm
l">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/f
acebook-group-that-mocked-murdered-baby-shut-down-18434
31.html
A Facebook group set up to mock murdered toddler Millie Martin has been taken off the internet after concerns over its content were raised.

Congress Takes Aim at Fake Caller IDs - 12/17/09
http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/congress-takes-ai
m-at-fake-caller-ids/19282650">http://www.sphere.co
m/nation/article/congress-takes-aim-at-fake-caller-ids/
19282650
Fake caller identifications have been used to call in false alarms to SWAT teams, steal financial information and disguise those irritating dinnertime telemarketing calls.

Monitoring texts employer's right - 12/16/09
http://www.sbsun.com/editorial/ci_14012464">http:/
/www.sbsun.com/editorial/ci_14012464
The city of Ontario and its Police Department find themselves at the center of deciding a key privacy law for the Internet age.
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it would take up the case of Ontario police Sgt. Jeff Quon and three others who sued the city. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year in Quon's favor, saying that the 4th Amendment protection from unreasonable search and the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 protected the privacy of the officers' text messages sent on devices provided by the Police Department. The city appealed.

Rogue Antivirus Lurks Behind Google Doodle Searches - 12/16/09
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091216/tc_pcworld/ro
gueantiviruslurksbehindgoogledoodlesearches">http:/
/news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091216/tc_pcworld/rogueanti
viruslurksbehindgoogledoodlesearches
In Esperanto the word is "malica." It means malicious and it's the best way of describing many of the search results Google visitors got Tuesday when the clicked on Google's front-page Doodle sketch, dedicated to Esperanto's creator.

A Golf Porn Lawsuit That Has Nothing To Do With Who You Think - 12/16/09
http://deadspin.com/5427409/a-golf-porn-lawsuit-that-h
as-nothing-to-do-with-who-you-think">http://deadspi
n.com/5427409/a-golf-porn-lawsuit-that-has-nothing-to-d
o-with-who-you-think
There are many ways of getting yourself banned from exclusive country clubs. Being poor or a minority are probably the most common, but letting them film a golf-themed porno there is probably the most exciting.

Man who posted threats against BART cop gets three years - 12/16/09
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/
ci_14006435">http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtr
ibune/localnews/ci_14006435
A Virginia man who posted several Internet threats against former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Liberals remove faked PM assassination shot - 12/15/09
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091215/od_nm/us_assassina
tion">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091215/od_nm/us_
assassination
Canada's opposition Liberal Party has taken down from its website a doctored photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot and killed in which Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's face was substituted for Oswald's.

Here's the article I was in - The Weekly Sentinel

I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Tinfoil Hat Alert!!!

"Secret agent" busted in late night car chase
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_germany_agent
German police arrested a man who claimed to be a "secret agent" after a high speed chase in pursuit of a car with a blue flashing light on its roof.

Police in the southern city of Fuerth caught up with the man after he raced past them, ignored signals to pull over, and ran a red light as they gave chase.

Smelling strongly of alcohol, the 44-year-old whispered only that he was "one of them," on a secret mission and belonged to the Federal Crime Office -- a body similar to the FBI -- local police said. A check revealed he had no such credentials.

"After matters were taken care of, the would-be 'Mr. Bond' was again released," police said in a statement on Thursday.

A local police spokesman said the man in reality had "a normal job" and declined to explain his nighttime sortie. He faces charges for a variety of driving offences.

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A.M. News: Text messages leads to 'cyberstalking' charge - 12/14/09
http://www.gastongazette.com/news/text-41482-messages-
old.html
A 20-year-old Belmont man allegedly threatened a woman through the use of text messages over a phone.

Bullies use Web to spread their hurt - 12/14/09
http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/story/1214483.htm
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The old schoolyard bully who haunted the places a teacher's eye somehow never reached is increasingly taking a backseat to a new kind of bully who uses the Internet's constant playground and knows no boundaries.

Adobe Flash's security woes: How to protect yourself - 12/14/09
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20091214/tc_infoworl
d/103664
Adobe's Flash Player software is on 99 percent of Internet-connected desktops, offering up multimedia and video capabilities on a multitude of popular Web sites such as YouTube. But the Adobe Flash platform has been beset by a rash of security problems that give intruders potential access to computers running the software.

Police: Man's house broken into while he was on MySpace date - 12/12/09
http://www.freep.com/article/20091212/NEWS02/91212009/
1001/rss01
Jason Barker is a hardworking St. Clair Shores guy who thought he'd try meeting a nice girl on MySpace. Instead, as a kind 24-year-old woman from Oak Park chatted with him during their first date at a Chili's restaurant, police say her accomplice was cleaning out Barker' s Downing Street home Dec. 1.

Swedish service performs your last online wishes - 12/11/09
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091211/ap_on_hi_te/eu_swe
den_web_wills
Sunniva Geertinger was devastated when her boyfriend took his life early this year.
To make matters worse, his Facebook account proved almost impossible to put to rest, haunting her like a ghost with new wall-posts from network pals and holiday photos from the past.

FBI: Rogue Antivirus Scammers Have Made $150M - 12/11/09
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091211/tc_pcworld/fb
irogueantivirusscammershavemade150m
They're the scourge of the Internet right now and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says they've also raked in more than US$150 million for scammers. Security experts call them rogue antivirus programs.

San Francisco Woman Sues -- Well, She Doesn't Know Who -- For Posting Her Nude Pics - 12/11/09
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/12/san_franci
sco_woman_sues_-_wel.php
No need to dream of being Pamela Anderson or Paris Hilton or even former Miss California Carrie Prejean. You, too, can have your own internet sex scandal. Or nightmare. A private citizen of San Francisco has filed suit in Superior Court against some rotten anonymous internet trolls who posted photos of her topless when she was 16 on Flickr and Badongo.com with her real maiden name.

Boy, 15, charged in phone threats to his former high school - 12/11/09
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bal-m
d.BLEEP.spoofing11dec11,0,5973264.story
Howard County police have arrested a Columbia teenager they say used Internet "spoofing" software to make telephone threats to his former high school and the Howard County Board of Education.

Fears over organised child fights - 12/11/09
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/84
07277.stm
Schoolchildren are being forced to take part in street fights by at least one adult who records them and posts videos on the internet, it has been claimed.

Bereaved father charged in alleged e-mail threats - 12/10/09
http://www.telegram.com/article/20091210/NEWS/91210065
8/1101
The father of a 4-year-old Sturbridge boy who accidentally drowned in 2007 has been charged with threatening town officials in an e-mail that mentions his son’s death.

Ashanti Seeks Protection Against Sex Texting Stalker - 12/10/09
http://www.theboombox.com/2009/12/10/ashanti-seeks-pro
tection-against-sex-texting-stalker/
Singer Ashanti has a filed an order of protection against an Indiana man accused of stalking her and her family. According to reports Devar Hurd, 31, is accused of sending Ashanti's mother, Tina Douglas, 32 lewd text messages over the summer.

13 more sites expel NY sex offenders - 12/10/09
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10413499-238.html>
Sites owned by Yahoo, AOL, and Google have joined Facebook and MySpace in expelling New York sex offenders from their rolls.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that Google's Orkut.com, AOL's Bebo.com, and Yahoo's Flickr.com are among 13 additional social-networking sites to use sex offender data available through New York's Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act (E-Stop) to find and disable accounts associated with registered sex offenders.

Woman jailed in perjury case - 12/09/09
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20091209/NEWS02/9120
90313/1003/NEWS02
A woman convicted of fabricating evidence that put an innocent man in jail for three months is now serving a prison sentence of her own.
A judge sentenced Kellye Stephens, a 23-year-old former Norwich University student, to 29 to 30 days in prison at a hearing Tuesday in Vermont District Court in Barre.

Sexting: Just "Kid Stuff" or Child Porn - 12/09/09
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/crime-time/200912/
sexting-just-kid-stuff-or-child-porn
What do you call someone at the maximum level of risk-taking behavior, but due to age, has the least ability to be rational (and thus can't recognize the consequences of their actions)? The answer: a teenager.

GANG OF BULLIES USE FACEBOOK GROUP TO TARGET HOLE-IN-THE-HEART SCHOOLGIRL - 12/09/09
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/111831/Gang-of-bu
llies-use-Facebook-group-to-target-hole-in-the-heart-sc
hoolgirl/
CRUEL bullies formed a cyber gang to terrorise a hole-in-the-heart schoolgirl at home.
Beth Ellis, 13, whose condition left her smaller and weaker than pupils the same age, had toughed it out against the hate mob in the playground.

John Stamos Targeted for $680,000 Extortion Attempt - 12/08/09
http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/36596.html>
John Stamos announced he was blackmailed for $680,000, reported People Magazine.
The "Full House" star told reporters a man and a woman attempted to blackmail him with photos of, what Stamos claims, are fans posing for pictures.

Two arrested in Japan for scamming purchase reward points out of popular site  - 12/07/09
http://www.examiner.com/x-16352-Japan-Headlines-Examin
er~y2009m12d7-Two-arrested-in-Japan-for-scamming-purcha
se-reward-points-out-of-popular-site
Two men have been arrested for scamming thousands of dollars worth of purchase reward points out of a popular internet shopping site by booking tens of thousands of hotel rooms, Japanese police announce on Dec. 7th.