One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Fugitive on ‘Most Wanted’ list returned to U.S.
A suspected child predator who was a “most-wanted” fugitive when captured in Nicaragua appeared in federal court on Tuesday where he confirmed his identity and was ordered held.
Eric Toth, 31, a former private school teacher and camp counselor, entered no plea to charges of possession and production of child pornography.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Andalusia Star News published an article titled Gantt man: Age ain’t a problem.
A Gantt man isn’t laughing after being arrested as part of “Operation April Fools” after he allegedly used a computer to solicit and meet a boy for sex.
Friday, the Tallahassee Police Department released that 41-year-old David Hicks II was one of 20 arrested during the week of April 10-15 by the North Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force or ICAC. The operation was aimed at predatory online solicitation of children for sex, said Tallahassee Police Chief Dennis Jones.
Source: Andalusia Star News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Three Virginia teens face child porn charges in “sexting” trial.
On Thursday, three northern Virginia teen boys will head to trial to face child pornography charges stemming from sexting-style videos made on their cellphones. If found guilty, each faces up to 20 years in prison and the sex offender label.
Fairfax County Commonwealth’s attorney Ray Morrogh told the Washington Post that there needs to be a balance in these situations between labeling teens with sex charges and considering the impact on victims of the distributed image.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN Money published an article titled What your zip code reveals about you.
That five-digit zip code is one of the key items data brokers use to link a wealth of public records to what you buy. They can figure out whether you’re getting married (or divorced), selling your home, smoke cigarettes, sending a kid off to college or about to have one.
Such information is the cornerstone of a multi-billion dollar industry that enables retailers to target consumers with advertising and coupons. Yet, data privacy experts are concerned about the level at which consumers are being tracked without their knowledge — and what would happen if that data got into the wrong hands.
Source: CNN Money
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Enterprise church youth leader faces rape charge.
An Enterprise youth director faces a felony charge alleging he sexually assaulted a teenage girl.
According to a statement from Enterprise Police Sgt. Billy Haglund, police arrested Timothy Thomas, 25, of Enterprise, and charged him with felony second-degree rape.
Source: Dothan Eagle
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Celebrity credit reports posted by ID thieves taken from free website.
Statements issued by the other two credit agencies, TransUnion and Experian, reported similar compromises. TransUnion said perpetrators used “considerable amounts of information about the victims, including Social Security numbers and other sensitive, personal identifying information that enabled them to successfully impersonate the victims over the Internet in order to illegally and fraudulently access their credit reports.” For its part, Experian said “criminals accessed personal credential information through various outside sources, which provided them with sufficient information to illegally access a limited number of individual reports from some US credit reporting agencies.” Neither agency said how many individuals were compromised or confirmed that they were the same celebrities and political figures whose details were aired on the exposed.su.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled When teachers are the bully’s target.
Teachers reported that students were most often behind the verbal intimidation, obscene gestures, cyberbullying, physical offenses, theft or damage to personal property.
But few teachers or researchers are talking about it.
“People are very eager to talk about (teacher victimization) amongst co-workers and amongst friends, but they’re very hesitant to report it to authorities or to the media,” Tynes said. “People want to protect their students, even though they’re being victimized by them, and they’re worried about the reputations of the schools they work at.”
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams.
The woman is visible from thousands of miles away on a hacker’s computer. The hacker has infected her machine with a remote administration tool (RAT) that gives him access to the woman’s screen, to her webcam, to her files, to her microphone. He watches her and the baby through a small control window open on his Windows PC, then he decides to have a little fun. He enters a series of shock and pornographic websites and watches them appear on the woman’s computer.
The woman is startled. “Did it scare you?” she asks someone off camera. A young man steps into the webcam frame. “Yes,” he says. Both stare at the computer in horrified fascination. A picture of old naked men appears in their Web browser, then vanishes as a McAfee security product blocks a “dangerous site.”
“I think someone hacked into our computer,” says the young man.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. MailOnline published an article titled Letters by strangers from around the world save suicidal boy, 13, after troubled child announced on internet he wanted to kill himself on his birthday.
A boy who posted to his Instragram account pictures of self-inflicted cuts to his arms along with a dire warning that he planned to commit suicide on his upcoming 13th birthday spurred thousands of people from around the world to send inspirational messages to the troubled youth.
Noah Brocklebank, a seventh-grader from Columbia, Md., has been bullied by his classmates for years. He’s been called ‘fat,’ ‘ugly,’ ‘annoying,’ and loser,’ amongst other terrible names.
‘I just felt like everything was worthless,’ said Noah. ‘My life was terrible. I had no one.’
Source: MailOnline
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Sexy scammers entice men into stripping on webcam, then blackmail them.
The women “initiate cybersex” with the men over video chat, stripping for them and then encouraging them to do the same. The men are told to perform sex acts on camera for the women, and the video feeds are recorded. The men are then contacted later and told that the videos will be posted in public if the victims don’t wire money to the scammers.
This is the second time this year that Singapore authorities have issued an alert regarding this sort of cyber-extortion. In August of 2012, police issued a similar warning after having more than 32 reported cases in the first half of the year. There were only 11 reports of similar cases in all of 2011.
Source: Ars Technica
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