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
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled When bullying goes high-tech.
As many as 25% of teenagers have experienced cyberbullying at some point, said Justin W. Patchin, who studies the phenomenon at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He and colleagues have conducted formal surveys of 15,000 middle and high school students throughout the United States, and found that about 10% of teens have been victims of cyberbullying in the last 30 days.
Online bullying has a lot in common with bullying in school: Both behaviors include harassment, humiliation, teasing and aggression, Patchin said. Cyberbullying presents unique challenges in the sense that the perpetrator can attempt to be anonymous, and attacks can happen at any time of day or night.
Source: CNN
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN Money published an article titled Pimps hit social networks to recruit underage sex workers.
The fairy tale ended fast. Almost immediately after she arrived in Seattle, he dropped her off on a street where prostitutes troll for customers and told her she was going to “catch dates.”
Many would have run, but Nina says her deteriorating family life left her with a sense of desperation. She was smitten, and willing to do anything for the man she thought loved her. So she stayed.
Keeping the attention of her “boyfriend” required selling herself for sex, Nina learned. He was a pimp — and she was one of a growing number of women recruited on social networks for sex trafficking.
Source: CNN Money
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. NBC News published an article titled Cops: Villanova student secretly filmed women undressing, posted to porn site.
Tyler Jones admitted to police that he secretly hid his iPhone in the bathroom to record the woman and then uploaded it to a porn site from his dorm room at Villanova.
While police were investigating, they say two other victims were discovered. One of the victims was 17 years old at the time of the recording.
Source: NBC News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled FBI battling ‘rash of sexting’ among its employees.
It sounds like the plot of a bad movie: bugging your boss’ office. Sending naked photos around to co-workers. Sexting in the office. Paying for sex in a massage parlor.
But it all happened in the federal agency whose motto is “fidelity, bravery, integrity” — the FBI.
These lurid details are outlined in confidential internal disciplinary reports obtained by CNN that were issued to FBI employees as a way to deter misconduct.
Source: CNN
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