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Police unveils more details about Mariposa botnet developer arrest

July 28, 2010 - 9:53am | Fraud | News

More information was released on the arrest of a Slovenian hacker suspected of developing a code behind the Mariposa botnet. The 23-year old suspect is known only by his hacker nickname Iserdo. He was arrested in Maribor, Slovenia 10 days ago. Five months earlier Spanish police arrested three suspects who alleged used the Mariposa code to create a 12 million botnet.

Iserdo was arrested alongside with two other suspects in Slovenia as part of a joint FBI-Slovenian investigation that has since focused on the 23-year-old.

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Employee’s text messages can be viewed by an employer says the Supreme Court

June 18, 2010 - 5:07am | Law aspects | News

According to the ruling brought by the US Supreme Court employers have the right to check text messages, including personal ones, sent by workers if they have reason to believe that workplace rules are being violated.

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Facebook under pressure to adopt “panic button” to call the police

March 12, 2010 - 5:48am | Law aspects | News

Facebook is being pressed by the UK officials to adopt a “panic button” after a teenager was killed by a man she was communicating with on the social networking website.

Along with other social networks Facebook is being lobbied by the British child protection agencies so that they adopt a one-click button which can allow children to get immediate police help if they suspect they're at risk.

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Minnesota police charges 11 crooks in a credit card scam

September 8, 2009 - 7:35am | Fraud | News

Eleven people were charged with fraud in an elaborate, counterfeit credit card scheme in Minnesota. Eight of these defendants are at the custody at the moment while the other three are still being searched by the police.

The criminal complaint states that the gang purchased the personal information of Capitol One Bank customers from an online source in the Ukraine, who illegally profited from the sale.

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Chinese authorities are trying executives of the largest bank on fraud charges

August 6, 2009 - 9:41am | Fraud | News

Top Chinese bank executives are being tried by the authorities on charges of the country's biggest alleged bank fraud, according to the local media source magazine. Property developers and bank officials are accused of running a fraud scheme where a sum of 9.8 billion yuan ($1.44 billion) was borrowed from Bank of Communications.

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911 now can be asked to come through an SMS message

August 6, 2009 - 2:16am | News | Other themes

In a move to provide more options to get connected to 911 service an emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa, is testing texting system when SMS messages are sent to 911 to inform about the accident. Call centers across the US are also looking to adopt similar solution.

"I think there's a need to get out front and get this technology available," Black Hawk County police chief Thomas Jennings said.

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‘Knowledgeable investors’ unprotected against boiler room scams

April 24, 2009 - 9:52am | Fraud | News

Police reported that small investors were losing hundreds of millions, due to investing into malicious stocks offered through “boiler rooms, where investors are pressured to buy worthless or bogus shares.

Usually, the victims are men in their fifties and sixties who think that they are knowledgeable about share trading, but more women and young men often with redundancy money to invest are also suffering from the fraud.

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Police’s use of Twitter may incur some risks

April 14, 2009 - 7:59am | News | Other themes

Twitter becomes extremely popular not only with ordinary Internet users. Today many police departments are using it in order to alert people of traffic disruptions, to explain why police are in a certain neighborhood or to offer crime prevention tips, reports the Associated Press.

Milwaukee's department is one of them. The department has about 900 followers, who are people signed up to automatically receive every tweet from one source. But non-followers can see the updates too.

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Australian police is hunting the criminals who stole over $500,000 from ATMs

March 25, 2009 - 6:57am | Fraud | News

Australian police is seeking for the thieves that are suspected of stealing over $500,000 from ANZ customer bank accounts. The criminals withdrew money using details obtained from a skimming device attached to a cash machine in Melbourne. As police said, an international syndicate may be responsible and have already released pictures of two men that might help with the investigation.

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First person arrested in the Madoff’s case

March 19, 2009 - 7:33am | Fraud | News

On Wednesday one more person was charged with the fraud in the Ponzi investment scheme run by Bernard Madoff. Authorities said that an accountant for the Madoff company David Friehling, 49, who ran a small storefront firm in a New York suburb, pretended to audit the company while the SEC said in its complaint that Friehling and his firm "did not perform anything remotely resembling an audit" of Madoff's money management firm or try to confirm that stocks that Madoff had purportedly bought for customers even existed.

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