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State House Passes Bill On Online Child Porn
The Illinois House of Representatives Judiciary Committee last Thursday unanimously passed Senate Bill 697.
Senate Bill 697 holds five components.
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State House unanimously passes 'cyber-stalking' bill
US passes anither Cyber Law enactment... to prevent Cyber Stalking .... "A bill designed to prevent Internet "cyber-stalking" by sexual predators on popular social networking Web sites like MySpace by forcing them to reveal their e-mail addresses won unanimous state House approval"
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Statewide Operation Targeting Online Predators Nets 126 Arrests
In an intensive statewide effort, local, state, and federal law enforcement officials arrested 126 people on charges involving online enticement of minors for sex and possession and distribution of child pornography.
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Cyber Attack Hits Pentagon
The US Defense Department took as many as 1,500 computers off line because of a cyber attack, Pentagon officials said. Few details were released about the attack, which happened Wednesday, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the computer systems would be working again soon.
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Governor Signs 5 Law Enforcement Bills
A separate cyber crime law also affects sexual offenders and sexual predators. It requires them to register e-mail addresses and instant-message names with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and increases penalties for those who misrepresent their ages when soliciting children on the Internet.
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Increase in cyberthreats spurs feds, industry
A reinforced cadre of federal cybercrime prosecutors and technicians at the third annual GFirst conference marshaled new deterrents and defenses against the rising level of cyberattacks, as industry executives forecast increases in the market for security products.
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Europe
1. Romania a global hotspot for eBay fraud
eBay has taken the extraordinary step of calling a press conference in Australia to discuss the problem posed by Romanian fraudsters.
eBay said it was shocked to discover that many Romanian police stations, prosecutors and magistrates had never used a computer.
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2. Google Shortens Data Retention Time To Comply European Privacy Norms
Google is shortening the length of time that it is keeping search logs tied to easily identifiable user information from 18 to 24 months to 18 months in response to concerns from a European privacy panel, the company announced late Monday night.
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3. Bloggers send cyber stalker to jail
An online appeal has helped finally catch a 'cyber-stalker' who spent 14 months harassing a survivor of the July 7 terror attacks.
Felicity Jane Lowde had been wanted for bombarding blogger Rachel North with abusive messages.
But after a police investigation that included anxious appeals across cyberspace, Lowde has been tracked down to an internet cafe and arrested.
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4. University warns students over Facebook libel
A British university has warned its students that they face disciplinary action if they post messages attacking staff on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.
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5. EU search engine probe expands beyond Google
European privacy regulators will expand their investigation into Google's privacy practices to all search engine companies, it has said.
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Others
1. Japan in the grip of Cyber Extortion
A series of cyber crimes has been confirmed in Japan in which a perpetrator attacks and paralyzes a company's computer server--and then demands money to fix the problem. The National Police Agency is warning that this type of cyber extortion, using a method known as a DoS attack, is catching on in Japan.
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2. Colombo admits to cyber terrorism
The Free Media Movement (FMM) unequivocally condemns the outrageous statement by Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, as reported by the BBC’s Sinhala Service and by AFP today, that he would love to hire hackers to disable Tamilnet, but had not found anyone yet for the job.
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3. South Korea enforces new law to curb cyber bullying
South Korea on Thursday started enforcing a new law aimed at curbing the country's notorious cyber bullying by preventing Internet users from hiding behind false IDs. Under the "Internet real-name system," the country's major portals and news media websites will be compelled to record the real IDs of users when they post entries.
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4. Alarm sounds on cyber piracy as online banking rises
THE rapidly expanding ranks of people banking online has raised questions over whether consumers can deal with the growing threat from cyber pirates.
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5. China Taking on U.S. in Cyber Arms Race
According to General Robert Elder, an Air Force military man setting up a 'cyber command' in Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base, the nation of China is already in the process of developing their own 'cyber warfare' techniques.
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Security
1. Majority of Trojans Are Designed To Steal Money
“Trojans help their authors make a financial profit in many different ways: from stealing bank passwords to modifying the server’s DNS to redirect users to spoofed websites. In fact, Trojans are currently the most widely used malware, due to their flexibility to carry out these types of crimes,” explains Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs.
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2. Over a million potential victims of botnet cyber crime
The Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber security awareness of botnets.
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3. Airline passenger data must be restricted, say Lords
Airline passenger information collected by US authorities must not be used for general law enforcement activities and must be deleted after three-and-a-half years, the House of Lords has said.
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4. New ways to pay in fight against cyber fraud
A new technology will help to protect the VISA card holders by use of two new tools, which will help to cut down on the fraudulent use of credit cards.
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Trademarks & Patents
1. U.S. Cracks Down on Copyright (with Australia FTA)
Australia's amended trade law allows more criminal prosecutions for intellectual property violations.
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2. YouTube copyright fight hinges on whether it controls its content, says US court
The first stage in the first copyright infringement suit against video sharing giant YouTube has ended in stalemate. Both sides in the fight applied for an initial judgment against the other, but neither was granted and the case will now proceed further.
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3. DVD ripping to be rendered impossible?
Buying a DVD and then copying it for use on your PSP, iPod or laptop could soon become impossible, if the DVD Copy Control Association gets its way. The association wants to amend the licence underpinning the use of its DVD copy-protection technology, CSS (Content Scrambling System).
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4. Google's AdSense For Domains Program Contributes To Trademark Infringement
Google Sued in Domainer Lawsuit--Vulcan Golf v. Google from Eric Goldman covers a new lawsuit in which Google is being sued for allegedly violating trademarks by helping domainers monetize "typosquatter" domains.
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5. ICANN goes native, as new TLDs proliferate
Tuesday brought more on the expansion of the top-level domain (TLD) landscape - namely a discussion of what are referred to somewhat jokingly as geoTLDs. These are really two distinct kinds of TLDs - one for information about cities or purely geographic regions, and another for linguistic and cultural preservation.
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