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The New Scotland Yard announces that a male and a female suspected of using the Zbot trojan to perform bank fraud were arrested in Manchester earlier this month. The two are the first individuals known to be arrested in Europe for distributing the notorious computer trojan.The bust was coordinated by officers from th... |
19 November 2009
08:27 GMT |
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Rapper Method Man, real name Clifford Smith, has turned himself in after being slapped with a tax-evasion charge, and is currently awaiting arraignment. He has been charged with two counts of tax evasion. According to a press release issued just hours ago, the Wu-Tang Clan member owes the state $33,000 in personal in... |
6 October 2009
03:25 GMT |
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British singer George Michael is again involved in some kind of trouble behind the wheel after smashing his car in the rear end of the 7-ton lorry shortly after midnight last night. The star was apparently under the influence of alcohol or drugs, reports cited by Sky News say, and was taken into police custody after ... |
15 August 2009
05:22 GMT |
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New Jersey authorities have decided to charge Daniel Gonclaves with several domain theft-related felonies. The 25-year-old computer geek is accused of stealing the P2P.com domain name from Marc Ostrofsky, Lesli and Albert Angel in 2006, which he later sold to NBA superstar Mark Madsen for 110,000 dollars. Beside... |
5 August 2009
10:44 GMT |
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Back in April, Jamie Waylett, who starred in all six “Harry Potter” movies as Vincent Crabbe, was arrested on charges of possessing and producing a class B drug. The actor pled guilty last week and, just a few hours ago, got really lucky in court, as a judge ruled that the cannabis he was planting was for... |
22 July 2009
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The 1995 US skating champion Nicole Bobek has been arrested following a drug ring bust, and is currently sitting in jail on $200,000 bail. Bobek has been detained and charged with possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine, reportedly playing an important role in the drug ring, the New York Daily News inform... |
8 July 2009
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Over the weekend, a 19-year-old man learned the hard way never to mistake the reality on film for the one he sees on an everyday basis. Sean Stanley Smith was arrested for indecent exposure and resisting arrest after he ran into Harrah’s Lake Tahoe casino arcade without any clothes on, claiming to be a Terminat... |
7 July 2009
02:37 GMT |
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“You have to be an idiot to put drugs in your bag and bring them at the airport,” rapper Coolio told the paparazzi a couple of hours ago, as he returned to LAX, where, back in March, he was arrested for possession of crack cocaine and being aggressive towards the police officers. The rapper, it seems, is ... |
13 May 2009
04:40 GMT |
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The music industry is constantly changing, and so are those who make it happen. Long gone are the days when producers were just those who sat behind the desk in the studio, mixing beats, having come to mean stars who are even more famous than the artists they work with. Yet not even they are immune to the terrible di... |
16 April 2009
09:16 GMT |
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Jamie Waylett, famous as the bullying Hogwarts School pupil Vincent Crabbe in the “Harry Potter” films, has just been arrested, News.com reports. Police were tipped off as to the 19-year-old star’s activities and were shocked to discover that he had eight bags of cannabis in his car and, later on, t... |
8 April 2009
10:27 GMT |
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Rapper Coolio might have slipped a bit off radar as regards his music career, but one thing that will always get him the headlines is a certain penchant for legal trouble. Artis Leon Ivey, Jr. (real name) was arrested a couple of hours ago at LAX as a screening to get him to his Southwest Airlines plane revealed he h... |
7 March 2009
05:27 GMT |
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With Rihanna apparently moving on with her life, and past the February 8 incident in which Chris Brown attacked her and reportedly left her almost unconscious, it seems that the LAPD and the DA still have a pretty strong case against the assailant. The statement she gave on the day she was brutally beaten up as to Br... |
5 March 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Over the weekend, and almost three weeks after Chris Brown allegedly attacked girlfriend Rihanna after an altercation over a text message, the two young singers got back together to work on their problems. Rihanna has forgiven Brown and is willing to give the relationship another go, People magazine and TMZ have both... |
2 March 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Rihanna was spotted by the paparazzi at LAX, as she was presumably preparing for her birthday. Today, new photos of the singer have emerged, pinpointing her location in Punta Mita, Mexico, where she’s reportedly staying with a bunch of her closest friends and waiting for the Chris Brown scanda... |
27 February 2009
07:27 GMT |
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As if the media backlash was not enough for Chris Brown to handle at the moment in the aftermath of the February 8 alleged altercation, and the criminal charges that will possibly be pinned on him for it, he also lives in fear of losing his life. Reports are coming in from industry insiders saying that Brown has uppe... |
25 February 2009
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Some of the most shocking moments in Britney Spears’ life also included a much-mediated relationship with paparazzo Adnan Ghalib. Now with a restraining order that keeps him away from the pop star, Adnan is also facing more serious legal issues, as he has just been charged with three felonies and an arrest warr... |
25 February 2009
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Going to show that being tough is also about the attitude and not necessarily about brute force, Nicky Hilton, the frailer of the Hilton sisters, as she’s often referred to, arrested a homeless person after he pushed her to the ground. While it is not yet certain what made the man attack Nicky, it is being said... |
24 February 2009
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New reports are coming in related to the Chris Brown – Rihanna alleged February 8 domestic violence case. If, until now, the 19-year-old singer has been investigated for assault and making terrorist threats against girlfriend Rihanna, the DA could easily slap him with an attempted murder charge as well, sources... |
20 February 2009
07:48 GMT |
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As reported earlier, Rihanna was believed to be the victim in the Chris Brown domestic violence case, although the LAPD never officially confirmed it. Now, the first police photo taken at the scene of the altercation, showing a battered up Rihanna, has been leaked on the Internet, prompting a police investigation to ... |
20 February 2009
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After more than a week since word broke in the media that Chris Brown had lashed out at girlfriend Rihanna and beat her until almost senseless, the 19-year-old now-disgraced singer is finally making the first move towards clearing his image in the media. Reports are coming in that Brown has hired a professional PR fi... |
18 February 2009
10:49 GMT |
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After the incident of a week ago, when Chris Brown allegedly attacked girlfriend Rihanna after a dispute that seems to have started over a text message he received, actor Terrence Howard took it upon himself to speak in Brown’s defense. He later retracted his statements, but his words still made a powerful impa... |
18 February 2009
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Exactly one week after turning himself in and being charged with making criminal threats and resorting to domestic violence, Chris Brown has finally broken his silence regarding the alleged beating of girlfriend Rihanna. In his first statement since the episode, the 19-year-old singer professes to be extremely sorry ... |
16 February 2009
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Following the harsh media backlash against Chris Brown in the aftermath of the incident that reportedly left Rihanna with a broken nose, lip, swollen eyes and bite marks and contusions on her body, many celebrities have spoken out in Brown’s favor. Nevertheless, while some of them had not even talked to the sin... |
14 February 2009
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Just yesterday, it was revealed that the Sunday incident, in which Chris Brown reportedly lashed out at Rihanna, beat her and choked her until she was unconscious, and then fled the scene, was not the first of the kind. With rumors abounding of a history of abuse in the Rihanna-Brown relationship, Chris is now turnin... |
13 February 2009
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On Sunday, Chris Brown was arrested, booked and released on a $50,000 bail on charges of making criminal threats and domestic abuse. The victim was his girlfriend, “Umbrella” singer Rihanna, who reportedly came out of the altercation with serious injuries, as it was later revealed. Now, the police report ... |
12 February 2009
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The Chris Brown domestic violence case has just gotten a whole lot more complicated, as new reports are coming in that not only was Rihanna badly beaten up by the 19-year-old singer, but he even threatened to kill her. As the police are keeping a lid on the story until the ongoing investigation concludes, eyewitnesse... |
11 February 2009
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Until not long ago, Chris Brown was one of the most appreciated stars of the young generation, his music getting massive airplay and his name weighing heavily in campaigns from major brands. Since the Sunday incident, when he reportedly beat girlfriend Rihanna, Chris Brown has become the persona non-grata of showbiz,... |
11 February 2009
05:22 GMT |
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With almost two weeks after pictures of 8-time gold medal winner Michael Phelps were made public, the police in Columbia, South Carolina, have reacted to the entire media controversy, as promised. The reaction to all the heat seems to have been to arrest almost every person at the student party where the incident occ... |
11 February 2009
04:58 GMT |
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New details have emerged in the case of Chris Brown’s arrest on domestic abuse. Police officers on the scene of the 911 call made on Sunday night also took photos of a battered Rihanna before letting her go. They show two contusions on each side of the head, a broken nose and lip, bite marks on her arms and leg... |
10 February 2009
06:19 GMT |
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It is not uncommon for rappers to also have a criminal sheet, yet few can hold a candle to that of former golden boy DMX, real name Earl Simmons. Now in prison awaiting sentencing on several counts, including animal cruelty and drug and weapon charges, DMX is in hot waters again and on “lockdown status” a... |
10 February 2009
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On Sunday, 19-year-old singer Chris Brown turned himself in to the police after an unidentified woman named him as her attacker in an incident that took place hours earlier in Brown’s rented Lamborghini. Later on, the media confirmed, citing sources from inside the police force, that the woman was in fact Rihan... |
10 February 2009
02:46 GMT |
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On Sunday, 19-year-old singer Chris Brown turned himself in to the police following a battery complaint coming from a yet unknown woman who had identified the singer as her assailant. While the police would not reveal the name of the victim, the LA Times and TMZ can confirm that she was Rihanna, as previously specula... |
9 February 2009
11:07 GMT |
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The media has rarely been kind to the daughter of iconic rocker Ozzy Osbourne and, for once, it seems that Kelly too fought back by lashing out at one journalist who dared call her boyfriend stupid. Although the incident occurred in August last year, it was just now that she was arrested – and subsequently let ... |
20 January 2009
03:55 GMT |
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In October 2008, 23-year-old Zuniga was proudly posing for pictures, as she had just been crowned Queen of Hispanic America, a title she had undoubtedly worked hard to achieve. On Friday, she was posing again for the paparazzi, this time unwillingly, as she was dragged to police headquarters on weapons and drug relat... |
29 December 2008
07:57 GMT |
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Security forces from Iran have recently captured and arrested two dangerous pigeons that posed a huge threat to the Iranian national security by spying on one of the many nuclear facilities of the country. The pair of birds, which have just raised terrorist operations to an even higher level, were caught by the... |
3 November 2008
10:22 GMT |
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Earlier this week a German radio unmasked an FBI undercover operation on a popular underground forum used by cybercriminals to sell stolen banking information and equipment used for credit card fraud. The FBI confirmed the operation in a press release, outlining the results so far and their future plans.As we previou... |
18 October 2008
06:07 GMT |
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GameStop is one of the biggest gaming related chains of stores out there. They really have some interesting services but the most talked about is the buy-back one. Essentially, you can come with an old game you own and, in exchange, the store will buy it from you. Although many have argued that the money offered by ... |
2 October 2008
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A man is facing two years in prison after pleading guilty to sending a threatening email to a medical resort back in 2005. Andrew Burroughs, a 30-year-old Lompoc man, decided to blackmail the Catholic Healthcare West, the parent company of Saint John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard. Three years before that,... |
28 August 2008
04:33 GMT |
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A blogger has been arrested by the FBI because he was hosting, on his personal webpage, nine songs from the Guns n' Roses yet to be released “Chinese Democracy” album. In fact, the tracks were uploaded in June and they were removed that same month, both because of several server failures, caused by t... |
28 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Kimberly Jernigan, a 33-year-old woman from North Carolina, was arrested by the New Castle County Detectives after she tried to kidnap her ex-boyfriend using a gun, duct tape and a pair of handcuffs. The two had engaged in a relationship after virtually meeting in the social network Second Life. Jernigan, whose avata... |
26 August 2008
10:02 GMT |
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The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit arrested a 19-year-old man from the Netherlands, as he was trying to sell the Shadow botnet that he had created to a Brazilian. International special forces, including the F.B.I., are collaborating for the extradition of the South American, who was also arrested, to the U.S.The botnet s... |
15 August 2008
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Freedom of speech was, once again, violated by the Chinese state, as the association Reporters without Borders claims. The human rights group reports about the arrest of Du Daobin, a cyber-dissident who is accused of publishing more than 100 articles defying China on the Internet. This is not Daobin's first enc... |
23 July 2008
08:28 GMT |
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Celebrity justice strikes again. This time, the lucky offender who gets to walk away without doing any time and without trying on the famed orange jumpsuit is neither Nicole Richie, nor Lindsay Lohan, but the former O.C. alumn Mischa Barton. The actress was arrested in L.A. last December for driving under the influen... |
8 April 2008
10:19 GMT |
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If you thought supermodels with severe anger management problems had long ceased to pose a danger to air traveling around the world, think again. The Blackberry-throwing hissy fit queen Naomi Campbell once again proved that she can't possibly be reasoned with, and that it will probably take a lot more than profe... |
4 April 2008
02:58 GMT |
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Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora gives sobriety a bad name - and now it looks like the musician may have gotten himself into an even bigger mess than we originally suspected. Sambora was pulled over last night after policemen noticed his Hummer was "weaving within lanes". After failing several field sobriety tests, ... |
27 March 2008
05:36 GMT |
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Hacking has become more and more organized in the past years. Very rarely will a computer geek be seen sending spam and phishing all by himself, organizations have been formed and there's even a black market dealing with acquiring security vulnerabilities, paying up to one hundred grand depending on how severe t... |
21 February 2008
16:56 GMT |
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The numbers above might sound stellar, but let's not forget that we're talking about spam here, and the quality-over-quality rule doesn't quite apply: ask any spammer and he'll tell you that the more, the merrier. The Tokyo police found one of these merry men today and arrested him for sending nin... |
15 February 2008
15:16 GMT |
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The Hiltons must be just about the most delightful family in the world. Only trouble is, they seem to have very lax standards when it comes to drinking - or maybe they simply don't teach their children that alcohol is bad. Or maybe their children simply don't pay any attention to their parents, which would ... |
13 February 2008
03:12 GMT |
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I have a feeling 2008 will be the year of major-league celebrity trainwrecks. Britney kick-started it in style with her police standoff and taking one of her kids hostage, now there's talk of rapper Eminem spiraling out of control, Amy Winehouse has been stirring things up in Britain and now another British hott... |
11 January 2008
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Following the SEO news for a couple of years (which I'm assuming you have been doing), you must remember that at some point, in August 2005, Google publicly confirmed that they had penalized a site. What was so special about it was that it had been the first time ever when they came clean about it, in a trial ag... |
4 January 2008
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