Tag: crime

Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute

jfruh writes “One of the most potent aspects of Anonymous is, well, its anonymity — but that isn’t absolute. Eric Rosol was caught by federal authorities participating in a DDoS attack on a company owned by Koch Industry; for knocking a website offline for 15 minutes, Rosol got two years of probation and had to pay $183, 000 in restitution (the amount Koch paid to a security consultant to protect its website ater the attack).” The worst part? From the article: “Eric J. Rosol, 38, is said to have admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service attack for about a minute on a Web page of Koch Industries…” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute

Google Maps image of boy’s dead body to be removed

Google Maps is replacing a satellite image that shows the body of Kevin Barrera, a 14-year-old who was murdered in 2009 in Richmond, California. The boy’s father, Jose Barrera, apparently found out about the picture just a few days ago, commenting “When I see this image, that’s still like that happened yesterday.” Google says it will take eight days to swap it out. “Google has never accelerated the replacement of updated satellite imagery from our maps before, but given the circumstances we wanted to make an exception in this case,” Google Maps VP Brian McClendon told the San Francisco Chronicle. I don’t care to reproduce the sad image here, but the San Francisco Chronicle did. ” Google to fix map image showing slain boy ” (SF Chronicle)        

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Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners

rtoz writes “Sweden is taking steps to close many prisons due to lack of prisoners. This year alone, four prisons and a detention center got closed in Sweden. The percentage of the population in Sweden prison is significantly lower than in most other countries. … Though the Swedish Government is taking steps to close the prisons, the crime rate in Sweden has increased slightly. It seems they are planning to take steps for preventing crime rather than focusing on jailing people involved in criminal activities.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Anti-Abuse Crusaders Create Virtual Lolita to Trap Kiddie Porn Pervs

Child porn on the Internet is nothing new, but an international organization, Terre des Hommes , has adopted a novel method for busting the perverts who consume it. Meet Sweetie, the virtual Filipino girl who busted 1000 Humberts overseas. Read more…        

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Feds Seize Silk Road, Everybody’s Favorite Illegal Drug Website

Once upon a time, you could sign on to Silk Road and buy everything from LSD to Moon Rock molly with Bitcoin. That time is now over because the FBI along with a few other federal agencies have seized the domain and shutdown the drug-dealing site. The only question is, what took them so long? Read more…        

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NSA reveals that it illegally gathered thousands of phone records, to the appalled astonishment of FISA court judge

As the Snowden leaks about NSA surveillance continue to trickle out, it’s easy to miss the fact that the NSA is now releasing hundreds of pages of damning documents about its activities.        

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NSA reveals that it illegally gathered thousands of phone records, to the appalled astonishment of FISA court judge

Robbers used special effects masks to disguise themselves as white

How convincing can special effects be in real life? A trio of black men wore masks purchased from a special effects company while committing a robbery in order to make witnesses believe they were white—and it actually worked. Read more…        

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Cyber-crooks mail heroin to Brian Krebs

Brian Krebs is a security expert and investigative journalist who has published numerous ground-breaking stories about the online criminal underground, much to the consternation of the criminal underground.        

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Cyber-crooks mail heroin to Brian Krebs