One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Tornado cleanup worker from Maryland charged with raping teen in Guntersville.
Investigator Doug Ware says Clatterbuck met the girl over the Internet and encouraged her to come with him to Alabama.
Source: AL.com
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Digital Life published an article titled 12-year-old gets probation for Facebook cyberstalking.
That’s right, you read the headline correctly: A 12-year-old was given probation Wednesday after being charged with cyberstalking a former “friend” on Facebook.
Source: Digital Life
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Wi-Fi-hacking neighbor sentenced to 18 years.
Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly hacked into his next-door neighbors’ Wi-Fi network in 2009, and used it to try and frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds of professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mail to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WTVR in Virginia published an article titled Police: Man poses on Facebook as Virginia college coed, contacts teenage boys for porn and sex.
Investigators say a 42-year-old Virginia man pretended he was a 19-year-old University of Virginia college coed and asked teenage boys on Facebook to send him naked pictures.
Source: WTVR
Protecting Children in Cyberspace is an article written by Greg Price (Director of the Alabama Computer Forensics Institute) that was published in a 2011 edition of Healthy Horizons Magazine. It provides an overview of why individuals should be concerned about how youth use the Internet. The link is also included in our Resources page.
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Digital Life published an article titled Twitter users spread ‘Unfollowed Me’ virus.
Clicking the link leads you to “a webpage which looks as if it’s about to reveal that information — but is actually designed to make you take an online survey instead.” The scammers make money on every survey taken. And if you have given the rogue app permission to access your account, it’ll start sending out similar tweets under your account’s name.
Source: Digital Life
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Facebook shuts down high school “slam page”.
At one point boasting nearly 450 followers, an anonymous user bashed students on the page–alleging sexual promiscuity, then asking for users to “Like” comments before they started naming names.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Digital Life published an article titled Your iPhone is secretly tracking you all the time.
Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, a pair of security researchers, recently discovered that iPhones — as well as 3G-enabled iPads — running iOS 4 constantly record and store their users’ locations in unencrypted files. These files are basically very long lists of latitude-longitude coordinates and timestamps, and they can be found on the devices themselves as well as within the software backups saved on users’ computers.
Source: Digital Life
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Facebook booting ‘20,000’ underage users per day.
According to a report by the Daily Telegraph, Facebook is kicking out roughly 20,000 underage users per day.
In a meeting with Australia’s cyber-safety committee, Facebook’s chief privacy adviser Mozelle Thompson agreed that underage users were taking advantage of the site. After all, any user no matter his or her age can register for the site by simply lying when signing up — Facebook has no mechanisms to detect whether a teen is telling the truth or not.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. al.com published an article titled Alabama sex trafficking victim leads to arrest of Atlanta drag performer.
Officials in Douglas County, Georgia, have broken up what they say was a case of “trafficking human beings for the purpose of sexual servitude” believed to have involved child victims from Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
The children were lured through social networking sites, put in a dependent situation, then forced to perform sexual favors if they wanted to leave, authorities told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Source: al.com
Alabama Computer Forensics Institute 