Chinese Cyber Attacks Time is running out for the Obama administration to decide if China is sticking to a September deal to eradicate corporate hacking. During the past several months, American leaders have pushed back against accusations that Beijing has not dialed its hacking apparatus down. The White House insists it will take months to […]
READ MOREDangers Of Internet Dating: One Less Liar Dating Online
Many women dating over 40 think that online dating is a great way to meet people you would never otherwise meet, but there are several dangers of Internet dating. In order to successfully find someone special online, you need to be careful and smart about the things you share and with whom. Too many women […]
READ MORENinth Circuit Upholds “Border” Searches of Electronic Devices Hundreds of Miles from Border
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week issued an opinion holding that Customs agents may seize electronic storage devices, including computers, hard drives, USB sticks, smart phones and digital cameras carried at the U.S. border and search the devices either at the port of entry or at an off-site forensic laboratory under the border […]
READ MOREHackers crack more than 60% of breached LinkedIn passwords
Speed of hackers to crack passwords shows weakness of security scheme used by LinkedIn, researchers say. More than 60% of the unique hashed passwords that were accessed by hackers from a LinkedIn password database and posted online this week have already been cracked, according to security firm Sophos. It’s very likely the remaining passwords have […]
READ MOREInternet Sex Crimes
Internet sex crimes include the possession of child pornography, solicitation of a minor, providing online of sending emails or texts of nude photos via a mobile device. New York considers Internet sex crimes serious. You could be charged with a first, second or three degree felony depending on the nature of the sex crimes such as […]
READ MORECourts Face Growing Challenges Over Jurors’ Increasing Use of Internet, Computers, Cellphones, Etc.
In this age of universal access to information through computers, cellphones and other devices, there is one group the courts are increasingly opposed to having access—the jury. A March 18 article in the New York Times relates how jurors in a large criminal case in South Florida were discovered to have done research on the […]
READ MOREAn Update on Everyone’s Favorite Cravath Alum
It’s too bad we already picked a Lawsuit of the Day. This latest litigation — brought by James Colliton, the ex-Cravath tax lawyer who, in the words of theAP, “paid a woman so he could have sex with her two underage daughters” — is pretty rich. Once again from the AP: A disbarred Manhattan lawyer […]
READ MOREPolice Shop for Drugs Online
That’s right at least 21 people were stupid enough to advertise the sale of prescription drugs on Craigslist. One person even mentioned in his ad that “no law enforcement” should answer. Strangely enough NYPD, who had been working for a while on “Operation Dot Com”, ignored this plea and arrested that person and 20 others […]
READ MORENY prosecutors: Bush’s friend a target of Russian’s ID theft gold scam
NEW YORK: A Russian con artist posing as presidential pal Charles J. Wyly Jr. ordered a new checkbook from the Texas billionaire’s bank account and wrote a $7 million (€5.22 million) check for a pile of gold, U.S. authorities said Thursday. Igor Klopov orchestrated the identify theft scheme from his home in Moscow, where he […]
READ MORESarah Palin E-mail Hacking Case Goes to Jury
Knoxvillenews.com has been intensively covering and elsewhere the trial of David C. Kernell, son of Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell of Memphis and former University of Tennessee student, who was charged in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee with hacking into the electronic mail account of former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah […]
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