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Judge Janet Half of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut made history on March 31 when she sentenced Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman, a 23-year-old native of Romania to 50
months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. This is the first time a foreign national has been tried and convicted as a [...]

Internet thieves made off with $265 million last year, as Internet-related crimes rose 33 percent, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center.
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If you’re trawling the Web for information on disinfecting the Conficker worm,  be very, very careful.
Cyber-criminals are latching onto the hype around the Windows malware threat and have started registering domain names linked to Conficker and poisoning search results to trick users into installing fake anti-virus software programs.
According to this growing list maintained by the [...]

A laptop remote-kill switch has long been a fantasy of those paranoid about theft and service providers alike. And now, with the latest wave of subsidized notebooks coming out of wireless carriers, said switches are coming in the form of a new mobile broadband card from Ericsson. The card, designed to work on HSPA/GPRS/EDGE networks, [...]

AP - The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, will start ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It’s unclear whether everyday PC users will even notice, but this is as good an excuse as any to make sure your computer is clean.,Don’t fret about [...]

Spammers get botnets back up as spam levels return to normal in March, four months after hosting company McColo was shut down, Google’s Postini says.
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Last October, Google reached a $125 million settlement with book publishers and authors concerning its massive book-scanning project. The deal awaits final court approval, and one party nudging itself into the arena is an internet-issues oriented group from New York Law School. Fair enough. But what does raise an eyebrow is their sole source of [...]

Spammers get botnets back up as spam levels return to normal in March, four months after hosting company McColo was shut down, Google’s Postini says.
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Vulnerability Note VU#985449
SAP AG SAPgui EAI WebViewer3D ActiveX control stack buffer overflow
OverviewThe Siemens Unigraphics Solutions Teamcenter Visualization EAI WebViewer3D ActiveX control, which comes with SAPgui, contains a stack buffer overflow. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.
I. DescriptionSAP AG SAPgui includes an ActiveX control called EAI WebViewer3D, [...]

AP - More people have been arrested in recent years for sexually soliciting youths online, but the sharp increase comes from better enforcement, and the Internet remains a relatively safe social environment, researchers said in a new study.,Study: Enforcement spurs rise in Web sex arrests
(AP)
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