One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Family Practice News published an article titled Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression.
With cyberbullying – a term that encompasses remote, electronic bullying done on e-mail, role-playing game sites, YouTube, Facebook, and other online venues – the perpetrator doesn’t need to be in the same room or the same town as the victim. In addition, the bully can be physically weaker than his target.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WTSP News published an article titled Foxy female con artist busted by Facebook sting.
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (CBS) – An unlikely con artist is under arrest after a California woman she ripped off helped police find her through Facebook.
Stephanie Younger says the woman she knew as Gia Hendricks came across as chic and wealthy. She claimed to be looking for an assistant to attend Hollywood events for her modeling agency.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. News.Gnom.es published an article titled Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Seven Individuals for Engineering Sophisticated Internet Fraud Scheme That Infected Millions of Computers Worldwide….
FBI Assistant Director in Charge JANICE K. FEDARCYK said: “The defendants hijacked 4 million computers in a hundred countries, including half a million computers in the United States, rerouting Internet traffic and generating $14 million in illegitimate income. The globalization of the legitimate economy was the inspiration for Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat. The global reach of these cyber thieves demonstrates that the criminal world is also flat. The Internet is pervasive because it is such a useful tool, but it is a tool that can be exploited by those with bad intentions and a little know-how. In this context, international law enforcement cooperation and strong public-private partnerships are absolute necessities, and the FBI is committed to both.”
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Newser published an article titled Divorcing Couple Told to Swap Facebook Passwords.
A judge has ordered a feuding Connecticut couple to turn their passwords for Facebook and dating sites over to each other’s divorce lawyers. The unusual order was issued after the husband claimed that his soon-to-be ex-wife’s Facebook account contained evidence that would help him win full custody of their children—and she was planning to delete it.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Symantec published an article titled The Simplest Security: A Guide To Better Password Practices.
As has already been mentioned, password cracking tools are very effective at processing large quantities of letter and number combinations until a match for the password is found, as such users should avoid using conventional words as passwords. By the same token, they should also avoid regular words with numbers tacked onto the end and conventional words that are simply written backwards, such as ‘nimda’. While these may prove to be difficult for people to figure out, they are no match for the brute force attacks of password cracking tools.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. News.au.com published an article titled Surge in cyber crime prompts action.
“Similarly to the way police patrol streets, we’ll be patrolling the internet.”
He said a 2005 report from the Australian Institute of Criminology estimated that fraud made up 40 per cent of the cost of all crime.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The BBC News published an article titled Would police use malware to catch cyber-criminals?.
Cyber criminals use Trojans to steal information, but are the same techniques of electronic surveillance being used by the agencies set up to protect us?
Internet crime “is no longer the elephant in the room. It is the room,” Sir Ian Andrews, chairman of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), told this week’s London Conference on Cyberspace.
Source: BBC News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Birmingham Post published an article titled Coventry University’s ethical hacking lab joins battle against cyber crime.
A pioneering new facility in the battle against cyber crime has been unveiled at Coventry University in the face of increasing threats against online security.
The so-called ethical hacking lab, which is part of the university’s faculty of engineering and computing, enables malicious hacking techniques to be simulated in order to find ways to combat them.
Source: Birmingham Post
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The St. Clair Times published an article titled Computer related crimes on the rise.
“Everyone leaves a digital footprint,” said Barry Matson, deputy director of the Alabama District Attorneys Association, who recently spoke about Internet safety and cyber crime to members of Leadership St. Clair County.
Matson said people begin to leave a digital footprint when they get up in the morning.
Source: St. Clair Times
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. MLive.com published an article titled Michigan Attorney General hosts cyber safety program for students at Grand Blanc’s City School.
Schuette was at the school to present the Cyber Safety Initiative, a statewide program that offers free Internet safety training to students from kindergarten to eighth grade.
In his 20-minute talk with students ages 5 to 7, Schuette stressed his “three keeps” — keep safe, keep away from bad folks and keep talking to responsible adults.
Source: MLive.com
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