One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Andalusia Star News published an article titled McCormick gets 10 years, plans to appeal.
Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan this week sentenced Samuel McCormick to 10 years in prison and ordered him to pay a $3,500 fine for his March conviction of knowingly possessing obscene matter containing visual depictions of persons under 17 years of age involved in obscene acts.
Source: Andalusia Star News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Enterprise Ledger published an article titled Classes teach students to avoid cyberbullying.
EHS Assistant Principal Ricky Britt said he participated in an internet safety course last summer that detailed laws and acts enacted in recent years to protect children when they’re online. As part of these measures, schools have been asked to help educate students about cyberbullying — using technology, often social media sites like Facebook, to publicly humiliate, harass or threaten someone.
“Cyberbullying in this day and time is getting to be worse,” Britt said. “A lot of the incidents are just not surfacing.”
Source: The Enterprise Ledger
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Facebook debuts “Groups for Schools,” includes 25MB filesharing function.
Facebook rolled out its collaborative campus tool called “Groups for Schools” today. The new feature allows US colleges and universities (and eventually more institutions across the world) to create groups for any relevant entity—dorms, classes, student organizations. Only those using corresponding .edu addresses will be able to gain access.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. NEWSER published an article titled Child Porn Suspect Takes bin Laden’s Spot on FBI List.
(Newser) – The FBI has finally replaced Osama bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, but the new addition doesn’t quite have the stature of the mass-murdering terrorist mastermind. The new face of alleged evil: Eric Justin Toth, an ex-third grade teacher who’s been on the lam since 2008, when pornographic images were found on his school camera, ABC News reports.
Source: NEWSER
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. NEWSER published an article titled Indiana Man Charged With ‘Sextortion’.
(Newser) – The FBI has arrested an Indiana man who allegedly blackmailed 14-year-old boys into uploading sexually explicit images and videos of themselves, MSNBC reports. According to chilling court documents, Richard Leon Finkbiner, 39, befriended the boys online and enticed them into uploading the explicit material. He then threatened to show it to friends or family if they wouldn’t upload more. Worse, evidence on Finkbiner’s computer suggests “several hundred” other victims of roughly the same age.
Source: NEWSER
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Thousands of New York sex offenders blocked from online gaming networks.
“By leveraging the online identity information all registered sex offenders are required to provide, we are able to help reduce potentially harmful situations,” Microsoft VP and Deputy General Counsel Rich Wallis said in a statement. “We’re supportive of Attorney General Schneiderman’s efforts to make the Internet, including online gaming environments like Xbox Live, safer for everyone.”
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Orlando Sentinel published an article titled Child-porn suspect hears loving voices of little girls, feds say.
A Central Florida man under investigation in a child-pornography case told agents this week that he hears voices of girls saying they love him, according to a criminal complaint filed in Orlando federal court Tuesday.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Orlando Sentinel published an article titled Ex-Orange teacher’s plea: I traveled for child sex.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A retired Orange County teacher has pleaded guilty to traveling to Kentucky to have sex with children.
Dale Chisena entered a plea Monday to one count of interstate travel to engage in sex with a person under 12 years of age.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Montgomery man arrested in Facebook sextortion plot.
Among the pictures that Gunn possessed were several of young girls posing in various states of undress and which appear to have been produced by the girls themselves using their cell phone cameras. These images corroborate information that the FBI’s investigation had already uncovered – that for over a year Gunn had been repeatedly using fake Facebook profiles to extort nude photos and videos from underage girls in numerous states, including Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Flawed sign-in services from Google and Facebook imperil user accounts.
Account login services that implement applications from Google, Facebook, and other commercial providers are prone to flaws that allow adversaries unauthorized access to private user profiles on the third-party Websites that use them, a team of computer scientists has concluded.
Their 10-month study found that many SSO, or single sign-on, services supplied by IdPs or ID Providers including Google, Facebook, and PayPal weren’t properly integrated into Websites that used the services. As a result, private data on RP, or relying party, sites belonging to Farmville, Freelancer, Nasdaq, Sears, JanRain, and other sites were all vulnerable to snoops.
Source: Ars Technica
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