Archive for the ‘Computer Crime’ Category
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
A California lawmaker has introduced a measure which would require registered sex offenders to provide details about their online identities, including their online names, e-mail IDs and social networking site information to law enforcement officers.
According to Sen. Sharon Runner (Republican-Lancaster), it would not be too much of an effort to ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
California class-action lawyers had been expecting a lawsuit since Sony's hacking-related woes began. Lawyers in Canada have now announced that they will be filing a $1 billion dollar lawsuit against Sony, representing millions of users, who had sensitive data, including credit card details, stolen by hackers.
The $1 billion class-action lawsuit ...
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Your unsecured wireless routers can be used by outsiders to engage in illegal Internet activity, including child porn-related crimes, for which you might be blamed. San Diego criminal defense attorneys are learning of increasing instances across the country in which individuals have accessed child porn websites through unsecured wireless routers ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
A bill that would give U.S. authorities far reaching powers to crack down on online piracy, has received wide bipartisan support in Congress. The bill would not only crack down on websites engaged in online piracy, but also piracy of movies, television shows and music.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, Democrat-Vermont, and the ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
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A new California law that went into effect on January 1st makes it a crime for anyone to impersonate people online. California SB 1411 makes it a crime to “credibly impersonate another actual person through, or on an Internet website or by ...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
On Tuesday, federal officials cracked the largest identity theft ring in history. The group of 11 people was charged with stealing more than 41 millions credit and debit card numbers fom major retailers such as OfficeMax and Barnes & Noble. How did they do it? Wardriving.
Wardriving is the technique of ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Missouri prosecutors declined to press charges in the cyberbullying case in which a 13-year-old girl committed suicide. The girl hanged herself after receiving cruel messages through MySpace.com. St. Charles County prosecutor Jack Banas said he could not find any Missouri statutes allowing him to charge anyone in the case. Federal authorities ...
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