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http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/01/2
A spurned lover has covered buildings in a British town with graffiti messages addressed to an ex-girlfriend named "Danielle."
The 16 messages, which include "We were the best" and "Remember the good times we loved and missed," were discovered in various locations around Weston-Super-Mare, England, and signed with the initials "SF," The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
The messages are addressed to a woman named "Danielle" with the initials "DP."
"It's a bit of a mess. Maybe if he does get his girlfriend back he can go and clean it all up," said David Gould, 36, whose office was one of the buildings targeted by the former lover.
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Net stalker sending men to my house for sick sex games ...was my ex - 01/30/12
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe
AMY LEES answered a knock at her front door and a man burst in, grabbed her by the throat and threatened to rape her. The sicko fantasist had been led to believe she was keen to take part in a sordid sex game. She fought him off but he was just one of hundreds of strangers who kept turning up on her doorstep for months demanding that she had sex with them.
Strange Bedfellows: Democracy And The Internet - 01/30/12
http://www.wbur.org/npr/145926123/stran
While the Internet may aid the spread of democracy, democracy doesn't necessarily mean a free and open Internet. In her new book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, Rebecca MacKinnon, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and co-founder of Global Voices, a citizen media network, investigates the corrosion of civil liberties by the governments and corporations that control the digital world.
More caution needed against cyber stalking - 01/29/12
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2012/01/mo
Attention, Facebookers: It’s not always necessary to let the world know what you’re doing. I would rather not know you’re updating your status from the toilet and you regret slathering so much hot sauce on your California burrito. I would rather not know you just had sex with your girlfriend and that this escapade was significantly more experimental than the last. Believe it or not, there is such a thing as over-sharing.
Five Ways Twitter Is Changing Media Law - 01/28/12
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-f
While technology companies always outgrow the laws that govern them, Twitter’s 140-character message system is proving to be particularly disruptive. At the same time, the microblog has been more aggressive in defending free speech than established companies like Facebook and Google.
'Shadow' log-in of Facebook chief in bogus ID crackdown - 01/28/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A Facebook director who told a public inquiry last week that the company had cracked down on ‘multiple identities’ was himself operating a ‘shadow’ log-in on the social networking site. Richard Allan, Facebook’s director of policy for Europe, told the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics that the company enforced a strict ban on people who did not represent themselves under their real identity.
Family's stalking story prompts state House Bill - 01/27/12
http://www.cleveland.com/broadview-heig
An incident of repeated cyberstalking and harassment has garnered the attention of Rep. Marlene Anielski, R-17, of Walton Hills. Throughout 2005 and 2006, resident Lori Siwik, of Broadview Heights, said she and members of her family were victims of harassment and stalking by a fellow resident. “He created a site to stalk and harass my husband and me,” Siwik said. “He had a picture of me and my husband hanging. When we went to the police, they advised there was nothing they could do.”
Teens used CNN computers for Facebook - 01/27/12
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/0
Atlanta police said they arrested two teenagers accused of breaking into the CNN newsroom and using computers to check their Facebook pages.
Student, 20, counts cost of cheap drink promotion after video of her dancing naked in nightclub paddling pool goes viral on internet - 01/27/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A student is counting the cost of cheap drinks promotions today after video of her dancing naked in an inflatable paddling pool at a nightclub went viral on the internet. The university student - who MailOnline has chosen not to identify - woke up this morning to find that a 10-minute video of the incident at Oceana nightclub in Cardiff had been circulated widely on Twitter.
'You ruined her life': Sky Sports producer who Googled stalking victim 40,000 times is jailed for two years - 01/27/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
An obsessed television producer who stalked his ex-classmate for nearly a decade was jailed yesterday after he sent her an anniversary card marking the sixth year of her restraining order against him.
Labour MP Tom Watson sorry over Twitter 'imposter' - 01/26/12
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-1
Labour MP Tom Watson has apologised after an intern sent a message on Twitter pretending to be him. The tweet said: "I should log out of my twitter so that my intern doesn't twit-rape me..." Shortly afterwards, the intern sent another message to say the West Bromwich East MP was in a meeting and apologising for "a terrible mistake".
Why crimes on Skype leave witnesses but no evidence - 01/26/12
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1650
A woman is in custody in Norway accused of murdering her child while her boyfriend allegedly watched on Skype in the UK. It is the latest in a series of incidents allegedly witnessed on Skype or webcams. But how much does this help investigators?
Google and Bing accused of directing users to illegal copies of music - 01/26/12
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20
Google and other search engines "overwhelmingly" direct music fans to illegal copies of copyrighted tracks online, a coalition of entertainment industry groups has told the government. In a confidential document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, lobbying groups for the major rights holders claimed Google and Microsoft's Bing are making it "much more difficult" for people to find legal music and films online.
UCF alumna still worried after cyber stalker’s sentencing - 01/26/12
http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/mob
UCF alumna Kristen Pratt never thought she would be the victim of cyber stalking. Then, she met now 24-year-old Patrick Macchione. Pratt recently appeared on Good Morning America to talk about the ordeal. "I thought it would be a good way to help other people in this situation because I knew I wasn't the only one going through this," Pratt said. It all started two years ago when Pratt, a sophomore philosophy, religion and pop culture major, received a Facebook message from Macchione. He said he knew her from a dual enrollment class they had taken together.
Man charged with online harassment - 01/25/12
http://www.ctpost.com/policereports/art
A Bridgeport man once again faces charges for stalking a woman in Fairfield, and this time police said he used a fake name and Facebook and Twitter accounts, police said. Dawer Gilani, 32, of Atlantic Street, was taken into custody by Fairfield police Monday at his home and charged with 10 counts of violation of a protective order and violation of his conditions of release. He was held on a $250,000 bond and was scheduled to appear Tuesday in Bridgeport Superior Court.
Prison for juror who researched GBH trial defendant on the internet - 01/24/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A juror who caused a trial to be stopped because she researched a defendant’s past on the internet was jailed for six months yesterday. Lecturer Theodora Dallas, 34, turned to the web while trying a man for grievous bodily harm.
Asbo to halt OAP harassing his vicar - 01/24/12
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
A PENSIONER has been given an Asbo barring him from contacting his local vicar. Retired teacher Christopher Perry, 65, targeted Rev Robert Amos with a poisonous blog. He investigated Rev Amos's "lifestyle" after being "let down" by him, a court heard. He told the vicar, of Driffield Methodist Church, East Yorks: "I'll bring you down by the power of journalism." He also branded the local mayor a Nazi because his dad had been a Luftwaffe mechanic.
#McFail! McDonalds' Twitter promotion backfires as users hijack #McDstories hashtag to share fast food horror stories - 01/24/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
They certainly don't seem to be lovin’ it. The Big Mac has come under attack, after McDonald's became the subject of an outburst of vitriolic hatred on Twitter when critics hijacked a promotional hash-tag created by the fast-food giant. Opponents accused the burger franchise of making customers vomit, serving pig meat from gestation crates and dishing up a burger containing a finger nail.
'Triple murderer' caught after one of his alleged victim's posted on her Facebook page moments before he shot her - 01/24/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A suspected triple killer was caught after one of his alleged victims posted on her Facebook page moments before she was shot dead. Octavia Barnett posted a message on the social network site that said her ex-boyfriend Lineten Belizaire was at the door of her home in Florida.
British pervert who blackmailed teenage American girls with naked internet pictures is jailed for six years - 01/24/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A pervert who blackmailed young teenage girls into sending him naked images was today jailed for six years. Jonathan Murphy, from Wirral, told his victims that if he did not receive the snaps that he would make a personal visit to the U.S. and kidnap them. The 35-year-old also sent incriminating footage of the girls to their friends, via Facebook in a bid to bolster his threats.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/2
They no longer speak the same language, but two brothers separated nearly 60 years each think the other hasn't changed a bit.
Japanese-American Minoru Ohye celebrate his 86th birthday Monday with his only brother after traveling to Japan for a reunion with him.
The brothers were born in Sacramento, California, but were separated as children after their father died in a fishing accident. They were sent to live with relatives in Japan and ended up in different homes.
The reunited brothers hugged in a hotel room and exchanged gifts of California chocolate and Japanese sake. The American brother wore his trademark baseball cap and jeans. The Japanese bother wore a suit and tie.
But the same bright eyes and square jaws were a dead giveaway that they were brothers. They both loved golf and had back pains. They thought the other hadn't changed a bit.
"If we miss this chance, we may never meet. You never know," said Ohye, energetic except for a sore knee. "Either he may die, or I may die."
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'Execution imminent' for Canadian tortured into 'confessing' he ran a pornography website in Iran - 01/22/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
A Canadian Iranian software engineer is facing imminent execution in Tehran for allegedly operating a pornography website after the Iranian Supreme Court rejected a final appeal from his lawyers. Saeed Malekpour, 35, says he was tortured into making a confession about the website on live TV and Iranian officials used the broadcast to give him the death sentence.
Crucified by vigilantes of the internet: MoS proves that innocent young man was falsely branded a thief on the world's biggest websites - 01/22/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
An innocent student who had his name blackened on the internet has comprehensively cleared his name thanks to the Irish Mail on Sunday. Dublin student Eoin McKeogh, accused of dodging a €50 taxi fare, has laid bare how the internet can destroy a blameless person's reputation in seconds and put people in the horrifying position of either leaving vile allegations in the public domain or pursuing a difficult and costly legal battle through the courts that will attract more attention from the media.
Report: UCF student's cyberstalker sent to prison - 01/21/12
http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/20
He’s accused of threatening to kill a young woman over Twitter and sending her YouTube videos showing him touching his private parts and demanding she loves him or else. Now, 24-year-old Patrick Macchione is in prison. The alleged stalker was sentenced Friday on several counts for cyber stalking, but he won’t be behind bars for very long. Macchione will be in jail for 48 months and will then have a 19-year-long probation. The victim said after all of the online stalking and the hundreds of calls, she will never be able to live in peace unless the accused stalker is behind bars for the rest of his life.
Gary Glitter Twitter a fake - 01/21/12
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
A TWITTER user posing as Gary Glitter has admitted the account is FAKE - and claimed he started it to highlight the dangers of the internet. The imposter sparked fury when the account @OfficialGlitter appeared on Wednesday purporting to be the shamed glam rock star.
Crackdown on Facebook 'burn' pages used for bullying by teenagers as vile trend spreads across country - 01/21/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
Schoolchildren have been setting up special Facebook 'burn' pages to post vile and abusive messages about their peers. Police have now said they are cracking down on the phenomenon and have warned pupils to start removing their names and comments - many of them sexual - off the pages. Officers estimate as many as 700 students are involved in the sites - which are inspired by the cult film Mean Girls - in which students write hurtful and often fabricated gossip in a 'burn book'.
Facebook threat leads to arrest - 01/21/12
http://www.njherald.com/story/16541
A 20-year-old Sparta man was arrested Monday and sent to Sussex County Jail after he posted a death threat on a juvenile girl's Facebook page, township police said. Angel N. Robles was charged with a third-degree count of making terroristic threats. Bail was set at $7,500 with no 10 percent option. On Sunday afternoon, the 17-year-old Sparta girl, with her father, provided Sparta Township Police a printout of her Facebook page, which had an entry from Robles stating that he was sending someone to slit the girl's throat, police said.
Dispatcher case in hands of prosecutor - 01/20/12
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/p
The case of a police dispatcher who was arrested on misdemeanor harassment charges is now in the hands of prosecutors. The dispatcher allegedly posted on her Facebook page text messages and photos exchanged between her husband, a Brownsville police officer, and a female officer.
Suit: Web site developer harassed Grayslake orthodontist - 01/19/12
http://newssun.suntimes.com/news/101048
A Web site developer harassed patients and emailed the alma mater of a Grayslake orthodontist after the two became embroiled in a dispute about the design of a site, a libel lawsuit filed Wednesday claims. The two-count suit claims libel and breach of contract. It seeks unspecified damages. Dr. Michael Stosich hired Zenman Productions, Inc., to develop a Web site for his orthodontist practice, a suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court claims. The contract called for Zenman to provide search engine optimization so the Internet site would be displayed on various search engines, including Google.
Cyber-bullying warning after Australia named world's worst - 01/19/12
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/new
Kiwi parents should be worried by a study naming Australia as the world's worst place for cyber-bullying on social networking sites, say experts. A survey of 24 countries by Ipsos Social Research Institute found almost 9 in 10 Australian parents said their child or another they knew in their community had experienced harassment on sites like Facebook.
Ohio man sentenced for email threats to Scituate town manager - 01/19/12
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regio
An Ohio man has been sentenced in federal court in Massachusetts to five years in prison for sending threatening emails to officials in an affluent Boston suburb. Prosecutors say 49-year-old Jeffrey Clemens of Huron, Ohio sent the emails in March 2010 to a town attorney and the town manager in Scituate.
Kentucky man facing stalking charge in Colorado - 01/19/12
http://www.wtvq.com/content/statenews/s
A Kentucky man was arrested after he offered $10,000 on Facebook for help finding his ex-girlfriend and her son, and then tracked them to a Longmont women's shelter, police said. Joshua Payne was arrested Saturday on suspicion of domestic violence, felony stalking and felony to commit stalking. Police also arrested Madison Greenfield, 21, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit stalking.
Woman accused of trying to run over another woman in parking lot - 01/19/12
http://www.salisburypost.com/Crime/0119
Two women were arrested in the parking lot at Sandy’s One Stop on Tuesday after deputies said a 20-year-old try to run over another woman with her car. According to the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, Brooke Ashton Royston was charged after she followed 20-year-old Mary Beyer through Rockwell to the gas station. Royston is accused of sending Beyer threatening messages on Facebook before the clash started about 4:30 p.m.
Internet Justice: 7 Youths Charged in Brutal Assault - 01/18/12
http://hypervocal.com/news/2012/yo
Kids! Aren’t they adorable? Their cherubic little faces, their big dreams, their boundless energy oh, and the way they gang up on helpless peers, kicking them in the face repeatedly while yelling racial slurs. Such was the case in Bridgeport, a Chicago neighborhood, where six teens filmed themselves assaulting a 17-year-old Asian boy in an alley.
Jackson businessman Stuart M. Irby found dead - 01/18/12
http://leadercall.com/statenews/x158345
A prominent Jackson businessman has taken his own life, days after his former wife was released from prison by then-Gov. Haley Barbour, authorities said. Jackson Police spokeswoman Colendula Green told The Associated Press that the caretaker at Stuart M. Irby's home called for an ambulance about at 8:04 p.m. on Tuesday. She said police and the Hinds County coroner arrived shortly thereafter and the coroner pronounced Irby dead about 9:04 p.m. Green said Irby hanged himself.
Ed Miliband lookalike death threat tweeter arrested - 01/17/12
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/6
A man who allegedly posted antisemitic and threatening messages on Twitter directed at women has been arrested. Professional Ed Miliband lookalike Shereef Abdallah was arrested today "on suspicion of sending by communication network an offensive or abusive or obscene message".
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/01/1
A British man had his passport tattooed on his back and even used the image as an ID to take money out of the bank, he said.
Richard Ashton, 27, told The Sun he had his passport inked on his back while backpacking in Australia in 2006.
"I wanted something to remember my holiday by, but also wanted something patriotic," he said. "My girlfriend at the time thought I was a bit daft, but eventually she found it hilarious. That seems to be the general reaction."
The London personal trainer said when he ran out of cash on his trip to Australia, he took off his shirt at a bank to use as ID.
"The cashier gave me a strange look. She typed in my name and details after reading my tattoo and allowed me $50."
Ashton, who was born in Sydney and holds dual citizenship, said he keeps his tattoo covered up most of the time.
"I don't walk around with my top off."
British officials said Ashton couldn't use the tattoo as ID to go abroad or enter Britain.
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Daughter who attacked her Jamaican father's killers on Facebook suspended by country's tourist board - 01/15/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A BRITISH marketing rep working for the Jamaican Tourism Board has been suspended after expressing her grief on Facebook about her father’s murder on the Caribbean island.
Cyber-stalker targets women in 16,000 tweets - 01/14/12
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20
Scotland Yard is investigating what is believed to be one of the first cases of cyber-stalking involving Twitter. The Metropolitan Police confirmed it was examining claims that a 37-year-old man has allegedly been targeting two women who claim to have received offensive, racist and sexually demeaning tweets and emails.
Jenelle Evans' Accused Cyberstalker: Teen Mom 2 Star Is the Bully, Not Me! - 01/13/12
http://www.eonline.com/news/jenelle_eva
What a tangled web Jenelle Evans seems caught up in. The Teen Mom 2 star, busted earlier this week for allegedly threatening and making harassing phone calls to her ex-roommate Hannah Inman, had previously accused the guy who's now living with Inman of cyberstalking her.
Google 'improperly' accessed Kenyan rival Mocality's database - 01/13/12
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20
Web giant says it is 'mortified' to learn that people working for it used Mocality's data in attempt to sell competing product
Trenton Girl Taunted By Neighbor’s ‘Death Machine’ Has Died - 01/12/12
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/01/1
The Downriver girl who attracted worldwide attention for a neighbor’s taunting during her battle with Huntington’s Disease has died. Nine-year-old Kathleen Edward, of Trenton, died Wednesday night after a long bout with pneumonia, which is especially tough for Huntington’s patients to beat.
Female teacher arrested for sex with teen - 01/11/12
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio
Another teacher in the Bay Area is facing charges of having sex with a student. Police arrested Marie Johnson Wednesday morning when she arrived for work at Granada High School in Livermore. She has been a teacher at the school for 13 years. Johnson is now on paid administrative leave and in jail after police say she had a sexual relationship with a student.
Student wins High Court order to stop sexual photos of her being shared online - 01/11/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A student has won a High Court order to stop sexual photographs of her being shared on the internet after the phone they were taken on went missing.
Mother stole £76,000 from her company to fund online bingo addiction - 01/11/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A mother who stole over £76,000 from her employers after becoming addicted to online bingo has been jailed for 16 months. Lucienne Mainey became addicted to online gambling after her marriage collapsed, a court heard yesterday.
Alleged stalker made threats through Facebook - 01/11/12
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/16499814/201
A Fort Myers man is accused of cyberstalking two former co-workers using Facebook – and threatening their lives. Lee County deputies say the suspect created several fake Facebook accounts to make the threats. One of the victims said she feared for her life.
Haters bash Jordan Jefferson on Facebook - 01/11/12
http://www.nbc33tv.com/sports/bcs-champ
Last night's loss had some Tiger fans gunning for quarterback Jordan Jefferson blasting him at the dinner table and on the Internet. But, some fans are taking their hate messages a little too far on social media, and some even threatening to hurt Jefferson. Overnight the Facebook page listed as Jordan Jefferson was deactivated.
Trumbull CSB employee sent email threat - 01/11/12
http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/jan/11/c
The Trumbull County Children Services agency admitted Tuesday that one of its employees was responsible for the threatening message sent to Atty. David Engler’s Internet website Friday.
Bulger killer claim man receives suspended jail term - 01/11/12
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-es
An Essex man who accused a neighbour of being one of James Bulger's killers has received a 12-week suspended jail term. Spencer Payne, 44, admitted posting an offensive electronic message on Facebook saying a man in his block of flats in Dedham, was Robert Thompson.
Woman who took pictures of her boyfriend raping a schoolgirl is locked up for 10 years - 01/10/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A woman who photographed her 'dangerous paedophile' boyfriend raping a 10-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed. Nerissa Williams, 48, took the pictures of 49-year-old Neil Beecham assaulting the young girl, and he then posted the images online for other paedophiles to see, a court was told.
My 6-year hell of stalker next door - 01/10/12
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
A WOMAN last night told how she suffered six years of terrifying texts and phone calls from her next door neighbour. Hollie Townsley, 21, lived in fear after anonymous messages threatened her with rape. They indicated where she was and what she was wearing.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/01/0
Police in Florida said they arrested an armed robbery suspect after he tried to sell iPhones and iPads to his alleged victim two days later.
Miramar police said Hank Yan was robbed Monday near an apartment complex on the 2200 block of Sherman Circle South by a gunman who took two iPhones and $500 cash, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Friday.
Police said Yan received a phone call two days later from a man whose voice he recognized as the robber. Yan said the man offered to sell him an iPad and three iPhones and arranged to meet him at the apartment complex near where the robber occurred.
The accused robber, Zachary Swindle, 19, and alleged accomplice Devonte Suckie, 18, were arrested when they showed up for the arranged meeting Wednesday.
Swindle was booked on an armed robbery charge and Suckie was charged with carrying a concealed firearm. Suckie also is facing an unrelated charge of burglary of an occupied dwelling and grand theft.
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Using Smartphones to Document Stalking - 01/08/12
http://www.kmvt.com/news/local/Using-Sm
January is National Stalking Awareness Month. More than 26 million adults are stalked every year in the U.S. "There's people being stalked that don't even realize it's happening to them," said Pam Harris, Mini-Cassia Shelter. 1 in 6 women have experienced stalking at one point in their lifetime and about 1 in 19 men. That's according to the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey.
Man arrested for internet stalking of 12 minors - 01/07/12
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/m
A Branford man was arrested after trying to persuade several underage females to be his girlfriend and making sexual advances online. Michael Azzaro, 23, of 7 Avon Road, was arrested on Saturday, after a lengthy police investigation.
68 cases of online female harassment registered in 2011 - 01/07/12
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as
Incidents of online harassment of females witnessed a rapid increase during 2011, as 68 cases were registered. District court records revealed that 68 cases of cybercrime were registered with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against persons who were allegedly involved in hacking e-mail accounts of females, and sending them abusive, obnoxious and vulgar e-mails.
Baby girl is murdered live on Skype - 01/06/12
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
A MOTHER drowned her baby daughter in a bucket while her British boyfriend watched live over the internet. Norwegian Yasmin Chaudhry plunged the one-year-old girl head first into water during a 3am Skype video call. Chaudhry, 26, had said she wanted to know how to discipline her baby for waking and "disobeying her".
Saudi hacker, 19, claims he posted thousands of Israeli credit card details online in his second attack of the week - 01/06/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A hacker claiming to be a 19-year-old Saudi posted thousands of Israeli credit card numbers and other personal data online - the hacker's second politically motivated attack this week.
New PC virus doesn't just steal your money - it creates fake online bank statements so you even don't know it's gone - 01/06/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencete
A new version of the SpyEye 'trojan horse' software not only steals your money, it then offers false reassurance that it's still there. When you visit your online bank, there will be no trace of the transactions that cyber-criminals are using to empty your bank account.
Selena Gomez's accused stalker gets 3-year restraining order on day of 'Wizards' finale - 01/06/12
http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Selena-Go
A man accused of stalking and making threats against Selena Gomez recently had his restraining order extended for another three years - and he has signaled that he is OK with it. A Los Angeles judge had in November dismissed a criminal stalking charge against Thomas Brodnicki, 46, but ruled that a temporary civil restraining order issued against him should remain in place. The 19-year-old pop star and Disney Channel actress says the man, who has a history of mental illness, had threatened to harm her.
BBB lists top 10 scams - 01/06/12
http://www.salisburypost.com/News/01061
The Better Business Bureau serving the Southern Piedmont of N.C. and S.C. has released a list of the top 10 scams of 2011. Most of these scams originated online, often from foreign countries. Scammers used the anonymity provided by the Internet to victimize millions of people, efficiently and effectively. “Online, a scammer can pose as your neighbor, or someone from your bank, the IRS, the FBI, or even the BBB,” said BBB President Tom Bartholomy. “When the person who contacts you pretends to be someone you think you know, you let your guard down and miss red flags that spell scam.”
Website Posts Lead To Harassment Plea Deal - 01/06/12
http://www.swtimes.com/news/article_f7a
A Fort Smith man pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor harassment complaint made by a Greenwood alderman. Dennis Wayne McCaslin, 53, was ordered to pay a $350 fine, $120 in court costs and directed to have no offensive contact with Alderman Lance Terry or his family and commit no criminal offenses in exchange for his plea Wednesday in Sebastian County District Court in Greenwood.
Social Media Background Screening Checks of Job Applicants Becoming More Prevalent and More Controversial - 01/05/12
http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/2
Employers and recruiters have discovered a treasure trove of information about potential job applicants on social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and so-called ‘social media background checks’ are becoming more popular and prevalent than ever. However, the use of social media background checks for job applicants has become controversial and can present legal risks.
Stalker texted neighbour 'night night' for four years - 01/05/12
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/886540-stal
Holly Townley was bombarded with calls and up to 186 messages a month by Gary Wilson, 51, a family friend. Despite changing her phone number several times, the 21-year-old victim could not escape the grasp of her mystery tormentor, who regularly used violent and threatening behaviour towards her, a court was told.
Hundreds of children adopted after being abused have lives turned upside down as natural parents use Facebook to track them down - 01/05/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
Adopted children are having their lives thrown into chaos by Facebook messages from birth parents who neglected or abused them when they were younger, charities have warned. A big increase in unsolicited contact from parents who track down children who were taken into care for safeguarding has led to serious disruptions in the adoption process.
Executive 'forced out of job' over LinkedIn CV - 01/05/12
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/s
A human resources executive was forced out of his job after angering his employer by putting his CV online and advertising that he was interested in other “career opportunities”, a tribunal heard.
Fallout continues after email threat from mayor’s assistant - 01/04/12
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/30133980/det
Eyewitness News found out the Charlotte mayor's assistant who threatened a nonprofit is taking more heat. City Council member Warren Cooksey wants the mayor and city manager to sign off on anything Tracy Montross writes him from now on. Cooksey is also warning major groups around town that they may want to do the same.
Parents break age rule to help kids join Facebook - 01/04/12
http://www.freep.com/article/20120104/F
Nancy Gerstein is a marketing executive who supervises corporate Facebook pages for her company's clients. So Gerstein had no qualms when her 11-year-old daughter recently told her that she had created an account on the social media site while she was at a sleepover with a friend. She even helped her daughter finish establishing the Facebook page.
Police investigate almost 400 online ‘trolling’ attacks in 2011 - 01/03/12
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w
Almost 400 incidents of cyber harassment and bullying were investigated by police in Wales last year, we can reveal. Victims of abusive, threatening or harassing messages sent via social networks included teenagers as young as 14. The problem has increasingly hit the headlines in recent months with celebrity victims Katherine Jenkins and former Miss Wales Imogen Thomas complaining publicly about being subjected to vitriolic online attacks.
Clay Waller gets five years for Internet threat - 01/03/12
http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/Cl
A judge sentenced Clay Waller to five years in prison on federal Internet threat charges Tuesday. Waller has been under a cloud of suspicion since his estranged wife disappeared June 1. Waller was the last person known to have seen her before her disappearance.
New 'silent camera' apps cause plague of voyeurism in Japan - and some are on sale in West - 01/03/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencete
Most smartphone cameras have a built-in shutter noise to prevent the camera being used to take pictures without people's consent. But a new wave of 'silent' apps - some specifically designed for voyeurism - have been blamed for a huge rise in illicit photography in Japan.
Technically a police procedural, Kate Flora's latest book, Redemption: A Joe Burgess Mystery is a rollicking good time. I may be a bit prejudiced because I live in Maine and know Portland well, but Flora captures the flavor of Maine in a realistic way. I really hate authors who try to write about Maine and Mainers without knowing anything about it! The book starts off with a bang - a dead body in the water, then careens from there. Tossing in some of Burgess' personal life without overdoing it makes the book a good read. I definitely do not want to give away the plot, but suffice it to say that Burgess is very involved in this case and the ending was a complete surprise to me. This is Flora's third book in this series and it's the best so far (but you do need to read the other two first to get a "flavor" for Burgess).
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/01/0
The old fake $1 million bill scam failed yet again, this time with a North Carolina man allegedly trying to use one at a Walmart store, police said.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported Saturday an arrest warrant alleges Michael Anthony Fuller, 53, of Lexington tried to pay for a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items totaling $476 with a $1 million bill back on Nov. 17.
Court records show employees at the Lexington store called police and Fuller was later charged with felony counts of trying to obtain property by false pretenses and uttering a forged instrument, the newspaper said. With his bond set at $17,500, he was still in the Davidson County Jail as of Friday pending a Tuesday court appearance.
"It is kind of strange," Lexington police Sgt. Shannon Sharpe said of the case.
Every once in a while someone tries to pass off a fake $1 million bill. For the record, the largest U.S. bill now in circulation is the $100 bill. The largest denomination ever printed was a $100,000 bill printed back in the mid-1930s and used for transactions between Federal Reserve banks.
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Police probe Facebook sale of beached sperm whale teeth - 01/02/12
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie
Police are investigating claims that a man tried to sell the bones and teeth of a whale found washed up dead on a beach. The sperm whale was discovered on Old Hunstanton beach in north Norfolk on Christmas Eve and has drawn crowds of visitors. Its lower jaw and teeth were removed within hours of it washing up.
Cumbrian cop warned for harassing colleague on Facebook - 12/31/11
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/cumbr
A Cumbrian police officer was disciplined after harassing a colleague by text, email and on Facebook. He received a final written warning after breaking the force’s code of conduct. Details of the officer’s breach emerged as it was revealed that more than 200 complaints against police nationwide for comments or photos posted on Facebook have been investigated in the last four years.
West Newton teen, 17 harassed woman over Internet - 12/31/11
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsbu
A 17-year-old West Newton girl is accused of creating online accounts to harass the mother of a Yough student who died in a 2010 car crash. State police said on Friday they are prosecuting the teen, whom they did not name, through juvenile court for harassment by communication between Sept. 11 and Sept. 15.
Man accused of impersonating ex online, requesting sex - 12/29/11
http://www.oaoa.com/news/sex-78229-onli
A 34-year-old Odessa man was charged with online harassment after reportedly pretending to be his ex-girlfriend and asking for sex. Kevin Wade Johnson, 12055 W. Edith St., remained in custody Thursday on a $15,000 bond.
When Does Speech Go From Legal To Lethal? - 12/29/11
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201112
Recently, Judge Roger Titus of Maryland declared unconstitutional a federal law that made it a crime to use the internet "with the intent to harass [or] cause substantial emotional distress to a person in another state." In the wake of that decision, legislatures and courts across the country will need to rethink existing statutes on cyberharassment.
Family Says Racist Cops Aided Harassment - 12/28/11
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/12/2
A black family who moved to suburban Willowbrook claims their new, white neighbors harassed them, shot at them, drenched their driveway in animal blood to "rid the community of the coons," and that police participated in the "daily" threats and harassment. Pinkney and Maxine James sued the Village of Willowbrook, six of its police officers and two other people, in Federal Court.
Penny Arcade Goes All Internet Justice On Ocean Marketing - 12/28/11
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/6
Get ready for what's most likely your final dose of 2011 drama, this one's a doozy. A marketing firm by the name of Ocean Marketing for a new controller attachment called "The Avenger" bit off way more than they could chew when they decided to line up for a heavy dose of internet mob justice via some exposure by the Penny Arcade crew. What was originally a minor situation between a customer and the vendor involving shipping delays turned into a mess that left Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade fame claiming he'd burn down everything he had made if he can thought he could catch his rivals in the flames.
Firm gets bitter and sues Twitter flitter - 12/28/11
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
A BLOGGER is being sued for "stealing" 17,000 Twitter followers he built up while working for a mobile phone firm. In a landmark case, US-based PhoneDog wants £220,000 from Noah Kravitz. The product reviewer facing a demand for the equivalent of £1.60 a month per follower tweeted for the company as @Phonedog-Noah.
Arkansas Teen Found With An Alleged Online Predator - 12/28/11
http://www.ktbs.com/news/30090980/detai
A Southwest Arkansas teen is back home, after authorities arrested a Georgia man who she allegedly met online. Felipe Nunez-Martinez, 23, has been charged with two counts of statutory rape and one count of interference with custody in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Champaign woman arrested for cyberstalking - 12/28/11
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/c
Parkland College police arrested a Champaign woman on Tuesday for "cyberstalking" after she sent repeated emails to a male staff member at the college. Silver Damsen, 48, who listed an address in the 0-100 block of East Healey Street, Champaign, pleaded innocent on Wednesday to one count of felony cyberstalking.
Florida lawmaker seeks to toughen cyber-stalking law - 12/27/11
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/C
Tech-savvy stalkers using social media, texting and email to track or threaten their victims could face stiffer penalties under changes to Florida’s stalking law proposed by a state lawmaker. Republican state Sen. David Simmons wants to include verbal and nonverbal intimidations, including those delivered through electronic communications, as credible threats that prosecutors could use to send a cyber-stalker to prison. Simmons’ bill, SB 950, also would hike prison terms to 30 years for those convicted of stalking a minor.
Writer sorry for online shaming - 12/27/11
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/w
PROMINENT writer and radio broadcaster Marieke Hardy has issued an apology to a Melbourne man she incorrectly accused of authoring a hate blog against her. In early November Ms Hardy, a regular panelist on the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club, drew media attention for naming Joshua Meggitt as the alleged author behind a long running campaign of online harassment against her.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/2
How much is a 70-year-old fruitcake worth? For a winning auction bidder the answer is $525, which will go to help the homeless in Ohio, the cake's owner said.
The fruitcake was baked and sold by a Cincinnati-area Kroger store in 1941 and wound up back at the store in 1971. A note left with the returned fruit cake said it was one of six bought by a man named E.F. Helbing, WHIO-TV, Dayton, reported. The note said the owner had been carting it around for decades and was finally unloading it on its maker, the Kroger store.
Store manager Frank Bates, now 86, took possession of it and kept it until recently when he gave it to Elite Estate Group owner Larry Chaney, whose firm decided to auction it off for charity.
While even higher offers -- some over $1,000 -- came in later, the winning bid of $525 came Thursday night from a man in Arizona who asked to remain anonymous, WHIO-TV reported.
The money will go to a church outreach program, providing food and other items for the homeless in the Cincinnati area, the TV station said.
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Prof gets probation for stalking La. cop - 12/26/11
http://www.policeone.com/Officer-Sa
A former Anna Maria College professor was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation arising from a case in which he was accused of stalking and making Internet threats against a New Orleans police officer. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman also ordered Gary O'Bireck, of Elmira, N.Y., to pay a $5,000 fine following his guilty plea in August to concealing a crime.
The village ruined by the most gullible man in Britain: Incredible story of the chartered surveyor, an email pledging a £3m lotto win and the neighbours impoverished in a web of sheer greed - 12/24/11
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art
Arthur Stimpson, from Norfolk, was 'brainwashed' by an email scam into believing he had won £2.7million on a Spanish lottery and handed over £50,000 of his own money to conmen who claimed it was needed to release the massive windfall. When his own money ran out, Stimpson fooled those closest to him into handing over more than £1.1million in his increasingly desperate bid to get his hands on the jackpot.
Former Emerson student gets $130K for alleged harassment - 12/23/11
http://www.northjersey.com/news/educati
The Board of Education will pay $130,000 to a former student who said school officials did nothing to stop the constant bullying he endured between 2002 and 2007, state officials said Friday. Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Craig Sashihara, director of New Jersey’s Division on Civil Rights, announced that a settlement agreement had been reached between the board and the former student, identified only as J.C., Jr. in court documents.
Waxhaw man facing cyberstalking, extortion charges - 12/23/11
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/30065352/det
A Waxhaw man has been arrested on charges he tried to blackmail someone after stealing their personal information. Police first began investigating 40-year-old William Alessi in October. Authorities said he contacted a man in New York through an AOL email account and told him he had hacked the man's personal information.
Belle Glade teacher arrested for cyberstalking - 12/23/11
http://www.cbs12.com/news/glades-473755
A Palm Beach County teacher is behind bars after being accused of cyberstalking and threatening his principal. Frank Tedesco, a former teacher at Crossroads Academy in Belle Glade faced a judge yesterday.
Review website ordered to close after defaming and harassing lawyers - 12/23/11
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2
A website that allows users to 'name and shame' lawyers whose services they are unhappy with has been ordered to close after the High Court ruled its publisher had breached libel, data protection and harassment laws.
Mum barred from internet after detective threat - 12/22/11
http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/l
A THURGOONA woman charged with making Facebook threats to kill an Albury detective has been banned from using the internet as part of bail conditions imposed on her by a magistrate yesterday. Susan Cynthia Reid applied in Albury Local Court for bail after having bail refused in November over posts aimed at Detective Sen-Constable Margaret Saunders.
John Bapst senior, member of cyber security club, arrested for computer stalking, police say - 12/22/11
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/12/21/n
A John Bapst Memorial High School senior a veteran member of the school’s cyber security club was arrested Wednesday for using a computer to stalk a fellow student, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards said.
Thieves use Craigslist to sell items stolen from Craigslist meetings - 12/22/11
http://wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=23
Two men are accused of setting up appointments to buy expensive items from people advertising on Craigslist, grabbing the items from the victims, and then attempting to resell the items including an $8,000 watch, also on Craigslist, using the original ad’s photos.
Cyber threats lead to charge - 12/22/11
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/2011
Monroe police arrested a Haughton woman Wednesday afternoon accused of harassing her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend in text messages and phone calls. Danielle Amos, 24, of 314 N. Elm St., was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on a cyberstalking charge.
Son accused of killing his cheating dad - 12/22/11
http://www.correctionsone.com/arrests-a
Arunkumar Ingle had planned to fake his own death, leave his family more than $3 million in life-insurance benefits, grab a fake passport and escape Delaware County to live with his mistress in India. Instead, the 55-year-old Boeing engineer was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his Middletown home in January 2008, his blood splattered on the walls and his testicles severely bruised. That's the story told in a 31-page criminal complaint filed yesterday - nearly four years later - that accuses Ingle's son of murdering him after installing a GPS device on Ingle's car and a keystroke logger on his computer to monitor the long-running affair.
'Stalker file' found at teen's house - 12/21/11
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/internet/n
A Rotorua teenager who set up a fictitious Facebook account to send repeated friend requests to another teen also had a "stalker file'' which contained explicit stories he had written about himself, the victim and the victim's sister, a court hearing has been told.
Alleged cyber stalker used social media to threaten woman - 12/21/11
http://www.cfnews13.com/article/news/20
As if there isn’t enough to worry about already in the world, cyber-stalking has emerged as a new and dangerous trend. One man in jail right now finds himself at the mercy of an Orange County judge, accused of leaving graphic and threatening messages for a young woman on YouTube and other social media sites.
Renters knocking on wrong doors in Internet scam - 12/21/11
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-rental-s
A yellow cab wheeled into the driveway and disgorged luggage and a family of seven from Suriname, eager to start a 10-day vacation. In the million-dollar home where Steve Chase lives. A perplexed Chase watched as a woman clutching a rental contract rang his doorbell and asked for the house key. "I said, 'I hate to say it to you, but this house is not for rent,'" he recalled. "You've been scammed."
Ex-Mass. professor gets probation for Web threats - 12/21/11
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP4b2ea3c
A former Massachusetts college professor was sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation arising from a case in which he was accused of stalking and making Internet threats against a New Orleans police officer. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman also ordered Gary O'Bireck, of Elmira, N.Y., to pay a $5,000 fine following his guilty plea in August to concealing a crime.
Gang of paedophiles who subjected children to 'systematic abuse' via fake website are jailed for 27 years - 12/21/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A woman and four men who ran a global paedophile ring through a fake nudist website were jailed for a total of 27 years today. A court heard its members subjected children to 'systematic and continued sexual abuse of the worst sort.'
'Go and die': Young musician, 21, writes will and kills himself after being bullied on Facebook over unrequited love - 12/21/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A musician hanged himself after receiving a message on Facebook telling him to 'go and die', an inquest heard today. Simon Foxley, from Hyde, Gloucestershire, was left heartbroken when a girl he met on the internet deleted him as a friend on the social networking site and when he tried to contact her he received taunts from her friends.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirate jailed - 12/20/11
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertai
A New York man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for leaking 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine online, a month before its release. Gilberto Sanchez, 49, who has a previous conviction for a similar offence, pleaded guilty in March to uploading a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial release.
Nepal Police arrests Facebook mis-user for Cyber crime - 12/19/11
http://www.groundreport.com/Media_and_T
Nepal police has arrested a student Shyam Prasad Timisina against cyber crime of using fake Id’s and defaming girls on facebook by posting obscene photos and videos using fake name.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/1
A Midland Park, N.J., police officer was arrested for drunken driving after consuming alcohol during a state police class on DWI arrests, authorities say.
During the Thursday class taught by the New Jersey State Police, Midland Park police officer Joseph B. Gaeta was given measured amounts of alcohol to test its effect on his physical abilities, the Midland Park Suburban News reported
After the class, Gaeta was driven home by another officer, Wyckoff police Chief Benjamin Fox said.
Once home, Gaeta, 31, got on his four-wheel all-terrain vehicle and began driving on a residential street, which authorities said is illegal.
Gaeta was attempting to make a turn when he lost control of the ATV and flipped it.
Fox said Gaeta sustained serious facial injures for which he was hospitalized. He had surgery Saturday.
Gaeta, who had a blood-alcohol level of 0.13 percent, was charged with driving while intoxicated and given several other citations related to the illegal operation of an all-terrain vehicle.
"I've honestly never run across a situation like this in 43 years," said Midland Park police Chief John Casson. "I'm not sure at what point his status [with the department] could change."
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Stalking Privacy on Facebook, One Psycho at a Time - 12/19/11
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/john-fo
If you were asked who could harvest a trove of personal data from 10 million Facebook users in just three weeks you might guess company CEO Mark Zuckerberg over Jason Zada. You'd be dead wrong. Who is Zada? He offered something scary at Halloween and nearly 10 million strangers stepped up and provided him access to their personal Facebook information to get it. Unwittingly walking him past their privacy settings and into their policy-protected data vaults. Maybe you were one of them?
Women 'bullied, degraded' at air-traffic centre - 12/19/11
http://www.smh.com.au/national/women-bu
SENIOR managers responsible for Australia's air-traffic controllers allegedly ignored pervasive bullying, the distribution of pornography and degrading behaviour towards women, including an email threat by a manager to ''kick their [female workers'] arse till their nose bleeds''.
John Raymond Zimmerman jailed for multiple rapes and grooming online - 12/16/11
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nati
ONE of Australia's worst online sex predators, who claimed 55 teen victims, has been hit with a 12-year jail sentence in the County Court today after pleading guilty to multiple rapes, sex acts, grooming and stalking charges.
Victim of Facebook harassment shares story - 12/16/11
http://www.allenamerican.com/articles/2
An Allen realtor pleaded guilty on Dec. 8 to a felony harassment charge after accessing an ex-employee's Facebook account and using it to send insulting messages to her friends. James Patrick Delagarza, 41, owns First Premier Realty, a real estate agency that sells homes in Allen, Anna, Frisco, Garland, McKinney and Plano. He was sentenced to six years of probation and fined $2,000 after pleading guilty to one count of online harassment.
Sometimes your criminal record isn't yours - 12/16/11
http://www.telegram.com/article/2011121
A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets. Out of work two years, her unemployment benefits exhausted, in danger of losing her apartment, Casey applied for a job in the pharmacy of a Boston drugstore. She was offered $11 an hour. All she had to do was pass a background check.
Twitter stalking is protected free speech, judge rules - 12/16/11
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-med
Saying mean, terrible, even violent things about someone on Twitter or blogs is free speech protected by the First Amendment, a judge has ruled. A San Francisco judge has declared that cyberstalking on Twitter and blogs is constitutionally-protected free speech, reports The New York Times. The ruling is a victory for the First Amendment. But like all things worth fighting for, it comes at a price.
Man arrested after threatening to kill lawyer, judge - 12/16/11
http://www.thedestinlog.com/news/deputi
Okaloosa County investigators arrested a man Friday who was wanted for threatening to kill his lawyer and her husband, a judge, in Mississippi. Investigators found Jerry Woodward at an apartment on Old Ferry Road in Shalimar, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Net founders fight piracy law with 'censorship' claim - 12/15/11
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16
The founders of Google, Twitter and eBay have signed a strongly worded letter criticising controversial US legislation ahead of a debate in Congress.
Police ask for end to checkstop tweets - 12/14/11
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmo
Edmonton police are asking people not to tweet the locations of checkstops set up to catch impaired drivers. "Putting lives in danger based on the fact that you want to have more followers on your Twitter account is pretty disappointing," said checkstop co-ordinator Const. Ian Brooks.
Fight over Facebook leads to arrest - 12/14/11
http://www.wqad.com/news/wqad-fight-ove
A fight between students at Sauk Valley Community college ended with one of them being arrested for allegedly pulling a knife. David Gossage, 19, is charged with unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated assault. The charges stem from a reported argument between Gossage and a female student at the school. The argument happened just before noon Tuesday, December 13, 2011.
Officer sacked for email threat to 'hunt' Reinfeldt - 12/14/11
http://www.thelocal.se/37928/20111214/
A 47-year-old officer in the Swedish military reserves, upset about high energy prices, has been sacked after sending a threatening email to prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt suggesting it was time to hunt down politicians.
NBA fan goes from receiving email threat from 76ers to being offered job with the team - 12/13/11
http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2011/1
A Philadelphia 76ers fan who created Twitter accounts for the team’s new mascot finalists has landed a full time social media job with the team. Yep. Jerry Rizzo, 23, is a 76ers fan and social media junkie who, along with friend Hunter Coleman, 22, registered Twitter handles for two of the team’s mascot finalists, @PhilEMoose and @BFranklinDogg.
Suing Google to Remove Results About Your Alleged Orgy Won’t Work - 12/13/11
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/12/why-suin
I had never heard of Max Mosley until yesterday, when I read he was suing Google in Europe to block all search results regarding his alleged participation in some sort of Nazi sex orgy.
Amazon.com branded 'Grinch that stole Christmas trade' - 12/13/11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/de
An Amazon.com promotion, which offered customers a discount if they let Amazon know the prices of items for sale in traditional shops, has provoked widespread anger, drawing a rebuke from a senator and seeing it compared to Dr Seuss's Christmas-stealing Grinch.
Student admits Facebook hacking - 12/13/11
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/f
A student from York has admitted hacking into Facebook in what prosecutors said was “most effective and egregious example of hacking into social media that has come before a British court”.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/1
Friends of a deceased advertising executive from Pittsburgh say they got an unexpected holiday greeting from him.
"Hello, please don't call. I recently moved to a quiet neighborhood and ...," read the front of the card from Bob McCully, who died in August at age 88. Inside the card was a photo of the gates of Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville, where McCully was buried alongside his wife, with the message "My new place doesn't have a phone and our gates close after dark."
"It was the strangest feeling getting that card. It was almost eerie. But when I opened it, I laughed out loud. It was the ultimate Christmas card," David Newell, a longtime friend of McCully's, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
McCully, Ketchum Inc.'s former director of communications and advertising, had sent out humorous Christmas cards over the years, each having a different theme.
"It was dark humor, but it was very funny," Newell said of the latest card. "It had a certain whimsy that took the darkness away. Bob certainly got the last laugh."
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Stalking, the Modern Way - 12/12/11
http://www.universitytimes.ie/?p=73
I am thinking about the term ‘stalking’. It’s a word that was once used only to describe when a person physically hid in the bushes of their target stalkee, literally followed them home, went through their rubbish etc. Recently however, it has managed to nudge its way into everyday usage. Along with ‘perving’, ‘stalking’ is commonly portrayed as a standard activity for the casual internet user. But is it really ok?
Recruitment exec fired for nasty e-mail - 12/11/11
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/1
A United Kingdom recruitment executive was fired from his job at a headhunting firm after sending an expletive-filled e-mail to a job hopeful and 4,000 others.
Student phishing scam: Two men remanded over fraud - 12/10/11
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16
Two men have been charged over a £1m email scam which took money from the bank accounts of hundreds of students. Police said students on government loans were sent phishing emails urging them to provide their banking details.
Barbra Streisand 'threatens to sue' ex-Real Housewives star Jill Zarin over video post - 12/10/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/tvsho
She's a feisty sort, but even Jill Zarin should knows that she shouldn't mess with Barbra Streisand. The former Real Housewives of New York City star almost got herself into some legal hot water with the legendary actress recently. The 48-year-old reality star managed to upset the veteran singer and actress after attending a private event in Los Angeles where the 69-year-old star was performing today.
Senator Calls For Apple To Pull App That Lets Users Create Their Own Driver's Licenses - 12/09/11
http://consumerist.com/2011/12/sena
Apparently there is an app, imaginatively called "Driver's License," that allows users to create phony driver's licenses for the purposes of entertaining themselves and others (because there is nothing funnier than a bogus form of ID). But at least one U.S. Senator thinks the app can be used by ne'er-do-wells and should be pulled from the Apple app store.
Police dispatcher accused of web harassment of husband - 12/09/11
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Po
A South Texas police dispatcher is in trouble with the law after she posted photos of her husband and a female police officer on her Facebook page.
Allen realtor pleads guilty to Facebook harassment of ex-employee - 12/09/11
http://www.allenamerican.com/articles/2
An Allen realtor pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony harassment charge after hacking into an ex-employee's Facebook account and using it to send insulting messages to her friends.
Arkansas death row inmate spared by juror's tweet - 12/09/11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/de
The supreme court in the US state of Arkansas has thrown out a death row inmate's murder conviction because a juror tweeted during court proceedings. Erickson Dimas-Martinez's attorneys appealed against his 2010 murder conviction because a juror used Twitter despite the judge's instruction not to post on the internet or communicate with anyone about the case. The lawyers complained that another juror slept.
Is Your Child a Cyberstalker? - 12/08/11
http://coronado.patch.com/articles/do-y
With the dawn of social networking sites like Facebook, cyberbullying and cyberstalking have become common place among adolescents who may think posting their unchecked emotions publically doesn’t have consequences.
Franklin cyberstalking arrest - 12/08/11
http://www.katc.com/news/franklin-cyber
An arrest has been made in Franklin in a Cyberstalking case. Thrity-five year old Minerva Wiley, of Franklin, La, was arrested after a warrant was issued for her arrest on November 26, 2011. The Franklin Police Department says a complaint was filed claiming Wiley made numerous threats on Facebook to the victim. Wiley is currently released on a $500 bond.
Russian Interior Ministry Suggests Ban On Internet Anonymity - 12/08/11
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-i
Major-General Aleksey Moshkov, a top officer within the Russian Interior Ministry, has called for an end to internet anonymity. Speaking to Russian governmental newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Moshkov said “Social networks, along with advantages, often bring a potential threat to the foundations of society.”
The Dos And Don'ts Of Googling People - 12/07/11
http://www.wcyb.com/nationalnews/299408
The other week, we covered the difference between searching and stalking online. We dusted off our hands, satisfied with our ample labors, and just as we were about to sink into the deep cave of hibernation/suspended animation that we enter between columns, we received the following inquiry:
Admitted Cyberstalker To Enter Mental Facility - 12/06/11
http://www.10news.com/news/29936858/det
A jilted 30-year-old man who called his ex-girlfriend's telephone hundreds of times and tracked her movements using GPS technology must spend at least six months in a mental health facility before he is formally sentenced, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Parenting in a 'virtual world' - 12/06/11
http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-vir
Facebook friends, Twitter followers, fellow gamers on X-box live and Playstation 3. Kids have more ways to connect online than ever before. But where can parents draw the line between their children's virtual worlds, and reality.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/0
A Florida man faces theft charges after allegedly trying to walk out of a store with the makings for a candlelight dinner stuffed down his pants, police said.
Collier County sheriff's deputies said Dannial Ashley, 31, of East Naples was charged with retail theft after employees of a supermarket saw him trying to make off with four steaks and some candles.
Ashley tried to run off sans his loot, but was chased down by the grocers, deputies told the Naples (Fla.) Daily News.
Ashley was later released on bail pending further proceedings.
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Bizarre email scam boasts "hit" out on recipients - 12/05/11
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/16189
There are many scams running throughout the country, especially during the holiday season, but one Myrtle Beach man was left perplexed after an email stated someone had been hired to kill him. Sunday evening, Myrtle Beach Police responded to a home along Wild Iris Drive in reference to a harassment call. When they arrived, the victim reported he'd received an email from a person he did not know.
Carjacker foiled by victim's texting - 12/05/11
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/12/0
Police in Missouri said an accused carjacker was arrested after a passenger exchanged text messages with a friend in a following car.
Santa Wars: Groupon Deal Gaffe Sparks Grotto Chaos - 12/03/11
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
FURIOUS parents hurled abuse at Santa and his elves after a boob by discount website Groupon saw thousands besiege his grotto. Terrified kids sobbed amid mega queues for an advertised winter wonderland train ride which did not exist.
Man accused of harassing officer with fake Web page - 12/03/11
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2011/de
While driving on East Avenue L on July 14, Brian Delacruz was pulled over and given a speeding ticket. San Angelo police said the following day a Facebook page was created for Officer Glenn Gesch the officer who issued the citation.
Conn. murder victim to suspect: 'Leave me alone!' - 12/03/11
http://www.courant.com/community/middle
Less than five months before she was shot to death, a Wesleyan University student sent an angry email to the man now on trial for killing her, telling him: "Leave me alone!" Johanna Justin-Jinich was shot in May 2009 while she was working at an off-campus bookstore. Prosecutors say Stephen Morgan killed her. In a December 2008 email to Morgan, Justin-Jinich wrote, "I am so tired of you STALKING me. Leave me alone! ... YOU are the type of person that women take self-defense classes to protect themselves against."
Vale couple guilty of harassment - 12/02/11
http://www.andovertownsman.com/local/x1
Two neighbors have been found guilty of criminally harassing now State Rep. James Lyons and his wife, Bernadette, of Andover. The events took place before Rep. Lyons ran for office. William and Gail Johnson, both 53, of High Vale Lane, will both serve time in the House of Correction. William Johnson filed a false charge of abuse that brought DSS to the Lyonses' home one night, according to the district attorney's office. Both harassed the Lyons family through false postings on Craigslist, encouraging people to come to Lyons' house at odd hours and more, according to a press release today, Dec. 2, from the office of District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett.
One More Thing Goes to the Web: Subway Ogling - 12/02/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/fashi
AS a personal trainer, Ed Norman knows he has good biceps. But he didn’t realize they had their own secret admirers until he rode the London Underground earlier this year. Thanks to a Web-trawling friend, Mr. Norman, 27, learned that his photo had been taken surreptitiously on the Underground and posted on a new Web site, TubeCrush.net, under the title “Popeye Guns!” There he was (“Popeye”) in a black T-shirt with bulging arm muscles, reading a newspaper.
Groupon is hit by OFT probe into 'exaggerated' web offers - 12/02/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
Discount website Groupon is being investigated over claims its deals on everything from restaurant meals to fish pedicures are not always what they seem. It is accused of exaggerating savings offered via its daily deals, hiding key restrictions and even failing to prove the offers exist.
Fleming Island neighbor dispute leads to arrest - 12/02/11
http://www.claytodayonline.com/index.ph
A long-running dispute between Fleming Island neighbors has led to one of them being arrested on a cyber stalking charge. The incidents that led to the Nov. 28 arrest of Donna Marie Maso-Furedi, 59, have their roots in incidents that go back to 2005, according to a Clay County Sheriff’s Office incident report. Michelle Preseren, who lives next to Maso-Furedi in the 1800 block of Green Springs Circle, told sheriff’s deputies Maso-Furedi had filed multiple complaints with several state agencies against Preseren’s family.
Employers already snoop on Facebook accounts during job applications - but could they DEMAND passwords as well? - 12/01/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencete
Could employers demand your Facebook password as part of a job application? One American was shocked to find a section in an application form that demanded not only his user names - but also passwords that would give his employers full access to his account, including private messages to other people.
Torn to pieces by the cyber mob - 12/01/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/ar
What is it that makes people want to send vitriolic abuse, including death threats, to a total stranger? I can’t begin to imagine. But this year, thanks to Twitter and Facebook, I do know what it is like to be on the receiving end of such embittered hatefulness.
Homeless Men Caught Watching Porn at Laguna Beach Library, Patrons Say - 12/01/11
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-m
Laguna Beach Public Library patrons say there's a big problem with homeless people watching porn on library computers. Police found eight homeless men gathered around a computer inside the library Saturday afternoon watching pornography.
Former Stoughton High student sues school, town for sexual harassment - 12/01/11
http://www.patriotledger.com/mobile/x46
A former Stoughton High student has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the school, a former principal and former superintendent, claiming that they failed to protect her after they knew she was being harassed when another student circulated nude photos of her. Now 18, the young woman was 14 at the time. The lawsuit includes former principal Brett Dickens, former superintendent Anthony Sarno and the town. The harassment occurred in October and November 2007.
Scammers list Knoxville real estate investor's property on Craigslist - 11/30/11
http://www.wate.com/story/16156982/scam
People looking for rental property often turn to Craigslist, the popular online classified section. However, fake rentals are also posted on the site. This scam only seems to grow more popular. Con artists use a real estate agent's online pictures and descriptions of homes for sale, then post the properties on Craigslist as if they're for rent.
Tweet With Caution: The Government Is Watching You - 11/29/11
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has been rightly ridiculed for informing on a teenager who had the nerve to ridicule him on Twitter. (All she needed to say after his office turned her in to school authorities for tweeting "he sucked" was "I rest my case.")
Stay-at-home father dodged tax on £4.7million of electrical goods he sold on eBay - 11/29/11
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
A stay-at-home father who dodged tax on £4.7million-worth of electrical goods he sold on eBay was jailed today. Gregory Allnutt, who has a seven-year-old son, avoiding paying more than £420,000 in VAT.
