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New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez has introduced a bill called Internet Poker and Games of Skill Regulation, Protection and Enforcement Act that will try to establish a framework for online poker gambling and similar games. The bill introduces thorough reviewing and approval processes for online poker and gambling p... |
8 August 2009
06:09 GMT |
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The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has once again declared that the Child Online Protection Act goes against the US Constitution because it stifles the freedom of speech. It seems that the law is not defined as well as it should be and consequently the use of parental monitoring and filtering softw... |
25 July 2008
05:57 GMT |
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After responding to reports of gun fire, the Sheriff's deputies of Bennet, Arapahoe County, discovered the dead bodies of Eddie Davidson, the spammer who escaped from a minimum security prison facility earlier this week, Amy Lee, his 29-year-old wife, and their 3-year-old daughter. The officers also discovered a... |
25 July 2008
03:10 GMT |
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According to the US DOJ (Department of Justice) three top brass executives from E-Gold, an online service that allows users to send and receive payments, and Gold & Silver Reserve Inc. have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to engage in money laundering and conspiracy to operate a money transferring business wi... |
22 July 2008
02:52 GMT |
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During a speech held last week at Purdue University, Senator Barack Obama has stated that the future administration must take cybercriminals just as seriously as it does terrorists. A terrorist hacker attack could put the computer networks all over the US in jeopardy, and that is why cybersecurity will be a top prior... |
21 July 2008
04:41 GMT |
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A court of law has found Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former employee of industry giant Microsoft, guilty of embezzling approximately $1 million. Consequently, she was sentenced to 22 months incarceration time but, after she is done serving her time, she will continue to be closely supervised for a period of three years... |
19 July 2008
05:18 GMT |
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A sentence has been issued in the case of the Brooklyn man who, for a period of seven days in 2005, from the 17th to the 23rd of August, managed to spam 1.2 million AOL users. The spammer's name is Adam Vitale, and he was handed 30 months of incarceration time, as well as having to pay AOL $180,000.Judge Denny C... |
16 July 2008
10:05 GMT |
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Melanie Kroll, an employee of 1-800-Flowers.com, has recently lost her job because it seems that death threatening letters originated from her account. It seems that Melanie, or someone who had access to her account, sent Paul Myers an e-mail message demanding that he quit his job or have his "brains beat in". This i... |
16 July 2008
07:12 GMT |
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Earlier this week we were reporting that Alan Soloway, better known as the Spam King, would be sentenced after having been charged with mail fraud, e-mail fraud, and tax evasion, and the honorable judge Marsha Pechman was expected to issue a sentence. Although two days have been put aside so that every witness could... |
16 July 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Comcast subscribers that wanted to share files with the aid of BitTorrent trackers found that the Internet provider had imposed a certain traffic limit. Kevin J. Martin, Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) said that the previously mentioned company will not be fined, but measures will be taken to ... |
14 July 2008
06:52 GMT |
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Today, a sentence will be issued in the case of Robert Alan Soloway, aka the Spam King, who is charged with single counts of mail and e-mail fraud and tax evasion. Soloway has already pleaded guilty as charged and risks spending the next 25 years in jail (20 for mail fraud and 5 for e-mail fraud) as well as paying a ... |
14 July 2008
06:02 GMT |
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The recently passed FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Amendments Act allows the US Government, and the NSA in particular, to eavesdrop on international telephone conversations and e-mail messages. According to privacy and human rights watchdogs such as ACLU (American Civil Rights Liberties Union), Amnesty... |
14 July 2008
04:12 GMT |
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You never think that spam, spyware, or any other form of malicious software can impact you in a truly life-altering way. Well, it definitely can and Julie Amero, a substitute teacher from Connecticut, is living proof of that. She was charged with allowing 7th grade children to view pop-ups containing adult material,... |
11 July 2008
07:08 GMT |
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At the begging of this month we were reporting that Texas adopted a new law which required all IT repair technicians to get a PI (private investigator) license if they wanted to keep doing their job, or face punitive measures (a $4,000 fine or 12 months of incarceration time). The law has of course caused a lot of st... |
10 July 2008
05:28 GMT |
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The latest flash memory device to come from Edge Tech is called the DiscGo Secure Guardian. We all know the US Government imposes certain rules and regulations when it comes to data encryption; well, the Guardian surpasses them by using a 256-bit AES hardware encryption. Amongst its most interesting features is the d... |
7 July 2008
06:26 GMT |
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We all know that Texas has the harshest laws, not matter what the crime is. This time they are targeting the IT world stating that a PI (private investigator) license must be obtained by all techs working in computer repair shops. If the law is not obeyed, the offender will be fined as much as $4,000 or he could rec... |
1 July 2008
05:12 GMT |
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