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ID Theft Bill Set To Become Law
The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act has passed Congress and is on its way to the President to be signed into law. The US is about to have and identity theft law. Known as the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act, it?s passed Congress and is due to be signed into law the by President.
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Aerosmith Lead Steven Tyler Sues His Cyber-Impersonators
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has filed a legal suit against a group of people who are pretending to be him and his girlfriend, Erin Brady, on blogs. According to the papers filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, the 60-year-old rocker claims that the identity thieves have been posing as him and his girlfriend since 2007.
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Congress sending child porn bills to president
Congress is sending President Bush several bills that would tighten laws on child pornographers' use of the Internet. The House on Friday passed by 418-0 a measure clarifying that images obtained over the Internet were subject to federal interstate commerce laws.
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US and China are world's worst countries for cybercrime
SecureWorks, a "Security-as-a-Service" provider, says its analysis has revealed that the US ranks at the top of the list for the number of attacks made on other computers on the internet. With 20.6 million attacks attempted from within its own borders, it has a huge lead over China, the runner-up with only 7.7 million such attempts.
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TJX Computer Hacker pleased guilty (Credit Card Hacking Case)
Damon Patrick Toey has become the first person to be brought to justice after the hacking of TJX, which was one of the biggest cases of its kind. More than 40 million credit card details were stolen in the attack, which went on for 18 months. Toey is the first to plead guilty and will be sentenced shortly. Charges have been filed against another 10 people.
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Police: State Employee Sent Objectionable Photos To Teen
A state employee from St. Petersburg has been arrested on charges he sexually solicited a young Pinellas County teen. Parris Woods, a corporal employed by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, was arrested following an investigation initiated by the school resource officer at Boca Ciega High School.
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Europe
1. Arrest made over personal data-filled hard drive sold on eBay
Police have made an arrest in connection with the eBay sale of a computer hard drive containing personal data. The security lapse follows last week's eBay sale of a computer containing one million people's banking details.
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2. Brampton man charged with London cyber crime
A Brampton man is facing Internet-related charges after a swift investigation conducted by the London police Cyber Crime Unit.
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3. ISP: Its Impossible For Us to Stop Illegal P2P
An ISP which was ordered by a court to stop illegal file-sharing on its network, says it simply can not. The Belgian ISP Scarlet says the court?s verdict is unworkable and after trying to slow traffic and also filter it, it says it's not possible to stop the flow of illicit files since Audible Magic doesn't work.
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4. EU law to stem data leakage in light of security blunders
Most British IT administrators would steal company data if they were laid off tomorrow, according to a new report. The stark warning comes at torrid time for European IT security specialists as a seemingly never-ending roll-call of personal data blunders lengthens every month and EU legislation looms.
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5. Turkish Net closures spark doubt over freedoms
A Turkish court decision to ban the website of a renowned British atheist academic has stirred fresh doubts about the European Union candidate's commitment to freedom of speech.
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6. Linking to P2P Downloads Confirmed Legal in Spain
A court has ruled that a site providing links to P2P downloads is operating legally. The Provincial Court of Madrid ruled that Sharemula.com, a site offering eDonkey links to movies, music, software and games does not break the law.
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Asia
1. Saudi Arabia Announces Arrest of Five Cyber Jihadis
Saudi Arabia announced the arrest of five "cyber Jihadis" lasty month. The five men, three of whom Saudis the others foreigners, were active on the Internet under different aliases, according to Saudi government officials.
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2. Bangladeshi 'Rapid Action Battalion' website hacked
Bangladesh's elite security force, the Rapid Action Battalion, has arrested a student and three of his friends for hacking into its website... RAB intelligence officers traced computer science student Shahi Mirza, 21, after he hacked into their website and taunted the battalion with messages that he signed in his own name.
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3. Seoul wants tougher cyberspace laws
A 16-year-old teenage girl received nasty feedback after being interviewed on a television show about losing weight. Popular Internet portals were flooded with taunts that she looked like a skeleton and would never get a boyfriend.
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4. First ever P2P Movie Pre-Releaser arrested in Japan; fined and faces 10 years
In Japan, a guy named Kazushi Hirata was arrested on the charges of pre-releasing the Hollywood movie ?Wanted? in the country. The arrest was made by the cyber crime police. The 33 year old has made the movie available in Japanese subtitles.
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5. Domain Registration Scam picks up in volume
Cyveillance has recently observed an increase in the volume of spam email related to a domain registration scam. This scam typically targets individuals in Fortune 500 companies and attempts to create a sense of urgency around the need to register country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) before a fictitious holding company purchases them, making them unavailable.
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6. North Korean Mata Hari in alleged cyber-spy plot
South Korea has accused its neighbour North Korea of cyber-espionage during the trial of a suspected Mata Hari-style spy. However some political commentators are suggesting that the case against alleged spy Won Jeong Hwa is unsupported by evidence and riddled with inconsistencies.
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Australia & Africa
1. Nigerian Banks Lose N7.3 Billion to Cybercrime Annually
It has been revealed that Nigerian banks lose over N7.3 billion annually to cybercrime related activities, even as available data estimates that the global economy loses more than $200 billion annually in direct and related damages to cybercrime and threatens world peace and security.
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2. Cyber-crooks sting South Africa for A$26m
A cyber-crime syndicate is believed to have defrauded the South African government of more than 12.8m (A$26m) in a series of spyware frauds. The crimes were revealed by the South African Minister for Finance and Economic Development, and have resulted in 32 arrests in connection with more than 80 separate fraud counts.
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3. Nigeria: Fight against cyber crime rests largely on government
Out of 39 managers of cyber cafes interviewed in a survey over a broad spread of the Lagos area recently, 37 believed that the capacity to launch a successful fight against cyber crime rests largely on both the federal and state governments.
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4. New Zealand Judge's online ban was never going to work
What's the point of stopping websites from publishing the names when newspapers are allowed to? It appears it may be that the judge is worried about potential jurors Googling the names but those potential jurors are just as likely to crank up Google and search for info on the accused after reading the names in their local newspaper.
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5. NZ: Cyber bully still free to lure teens into online suicide pacts
A teenage girl exposed as luring her classmates into online suicide pacts still has access to computers and cellphones at school.
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Security & Privacy
1. Nigeria needs cybersecurity reforms, says Programos boss
Amos Emmanuel, Chief Software Architect of Programos Software, a leading indigenous (finanial services) software developer has called for the harmonisation of cyber security reforms in the public and private sectors, in furtherance of efforts to curb the growing menace of cybercrime in the country.
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2. GS Caltex Leaked Personal Data of 11 Mln Customers
Two multimedia discs containing the personal information of 11.1 million customers of GS Caltex, one of the nation`s largest oil refineries, was found on the street, police said yesterday.
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3. ISPs Hand Over Details of Several Thousand Pirates
Two major UK ISPs have been ordered by the High Court to hand over the identities of several thousand alleged file-sharers. BT has confirmed it is involved while Virgin Media was less direct in admitting that lawyers Davenport Lyons, working with Topwear Inc., are about to start threatening thousands more people.
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4. Anti cyber crime measures are 'a threat to privacy'
The world's leading international telecommunications organisation thas been slammed by privacy advocates for trying to stem the number of DoS attacks by limiting the amount of anonymity on the web.
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5. Password Stealing Worm Attack NASA Laptops
A worm that steals online gamers' user names and passwords has been running rampant on laptops on the International Space Station (ISS).
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6. LHC Web site defaced was the particle detector really at risk?
The Telegraph is reporting that attackers have defaced a Web page on the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Monitoring (CMSMON) system that monitors the fallout from the big bang experiment presently taking place beneath CERN.
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