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Two Russian students arrested for threatening CIA
Students were charged with "Deliberately False Report
of an Act of Terrorism" (Article 207 of the Criminal
Code of Russia). As reported, night February 26-27
they sent an email to the CIA official website from
the Internet cafe in Barnaul, Russia with threats
of explosions in American subway. Messages in
English ended by words "You all will die. Allah
akbar!"
http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.03.2004/112
Internet is a target for terrorists
http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.03.2004/116
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Ukrainian pirates arrested
Officers of Poltava regional Department of the
Security Service of Ukraine and State Department
of Intellectual Property seized the most large-scale
consignment of counterfeit audio, video tapes and
compact disks for last years. Their value is about
85 thousand UAH (about $17000). But the main thing
here is that law enforcement managed to wind up an
underground workshop that manufactured counterfeit
(unlicensed) production.
http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.03.2004/110
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Sparks man sentenced for trying lure girl for sex
A Sparks man was sentenced to three years in prison
for using a computer to lure a child for sex. The
victim turned out to be an undercover sheriff's
detective. Jeremy Troy Wilson, 23, must serve at
least one year before becoming eligible for parole
under the sentence handed down Tuesday by Washoe
District Judge Janet Berry.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2004/mar/03/030310122.html
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Former prosecutor, judge sentenced for possessing child porn
A former deputy prosecutor and district court judge
was sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in prison after
pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.
Ralph L. Perkins, 54, admitted in U.S. District
Court documents that he got hooked on child
pornography while researching the topic as part
of his job as Okanogan County's chief criminal
prosecutor. Perkins told federal investigators
he initially downloaded the images in work-related
research while prosecuting child pornography cases,
but that it later turned into sexual gratification.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Prosecutor%20Child%20Porn
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Rented PC leads to porn charges
A 26-year-old Brooksville man pleaded not guilty
Tuesday to distributing child pornography over
the Internet, charges that grew out of an
investigation Kentucky State Police launched
after a rental store employee found images of
children in sex acts on a recently returned
rental computer. Bradley Allen Smith, of Hackett
Ridge Road in Bracken County, is charged with
two counts of distributing materials portraying
a child in a sex act.
http://www.kypost.com/2004/03/03/brack030304.html
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Unknown Pornographers to Be Seen on TV, Internet
The FBI announced a new effort Wednesday to
disseminate photographs of unidentified child
pornographers on television and the Internet
in hopes they will be recognized. The first two
suspects arrested were identified after their
photos aired recently on the "America's Most
Wanted" television show. The FBI also will post
images on its website and possibly through other
TV and print media, officials said.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/03/fbi.porn/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-porn4mar04,1,3192847.story
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Virus Feud: All's Fair in Spam and War
Competing Internet virus writers have begun
updating their wares as often as three times daily
and sending them forth in an escalating battle
for control of hundreds of thousands of computers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28548-2004Mar3.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-spam4mar04,1,3852794.story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3532009.stm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040304/80/ennp7.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1620&ncid=1212&e=3&u=/sv/20040304/tc_sv/viruswriterslaunchcompetingattacks
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Worm_Writers_Continue_Verbal_Warfare&story_id=23291
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-03-03-worm-wars_x.htm
Springtime for hackers and computer viruses
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040304.gtrvirus04/BNStory/Technology/
Bugwatch: The wrong type of virus
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153239
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Updates aim to defuse Bagle ploy
Security companies have started updating their
products with more sophisticated techniques aimed
at getting inside the encrypted attachments in
which the Bagle worm has spread.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5170007.html
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Second Anti-Copying Ruling Is Issued
Viacom Inc. and News Corp. won a second court
order to force DVD-copying products off the
market, two weeks after a California judge
ruled that the products violated federal
copyright law.
(LA Times article, free registration required)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup4.9mar04,1,3737782.story
New blow to DVD copying
http://news.com.com/2110-1025-5169891.html
Some Like It Hot
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/lessig.html
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Sharman's raided evidence ruled admissible
Sharman Networks has failed in its efforts to have
evidence in an Australian case against it dismissed,
forcing the company to face up to the music copyright
infringement charges over its peer-to-peer file-
sharing software, Kazaa.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5169201.html
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62532,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-03-04-kazaa-denied_x.htm
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Senators: Hands Off Kids' Data
Two lawmakers introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate
Wednesday to prohibit corporations from selling
the personal information of children under the
age of 16 without their parents' consent. Sens.
Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
introduced the Children's Listbroker Privacy Act
to limit the sale of personally identifiable
information for purposes of marketing to children,
as part of a larger package of legislation
intended to help parents combat commercial
attacks on their children.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62522,00.html
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Security Official Warns of Internet Gambling
The use of illegal steroids is on baseball's front
burner this spring, but it's not the only issue
causing concern in the commissioner's office.
In a meeting with the Angels on Wednesday morning,
Kevin Hallinan, baseball's senior vice president
of security, warned players of the dangers of
Internet gambling and gave them a brochure on
the subject.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-sp-angels4mar04,1,2645648.story
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Senate Cyber Spy Argues No Crime, No Foul
An international business lawyer by training,
Manuel Miranda doesn't fit the mold of a
maverick computer hacker. Too old, at 44,
to have grown up with computers, he possesses
only rudimentary skills.
(LA Times article, free registration required)
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-hacker4mar04,1,889947.story
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Justice could get privacy boss
The Justice Department may soon have a new
privacy officer to make sure technology does
not invade the privacy of the average citizen,
privacy advocates said today. The House Judiciary
Committee passed the department's reauthorization
bill late last month that includes the creation
of a senior privacy officer, much like the position
created last year for the Homeland Security Department.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0301/web-doj-03-04-04.asp
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Ukrainian government to shift state institutions to legal software
Ukrainian government continues to appropriate
measures on shifting executive power bodies
to legal software, Vladimir Dmitrishin, Deputy
Chairman of the State Department of Intellectual
Property during discussion of development scenarios
of Ukrainian software market held by GfK-USM
company in frames of Ukrainian software market
research carried out by request of Coalition
for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR).
http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.03.2004/111
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Blended approach urged for emerging IM threats
Fast-growing instant messaging is "ripe for abuse"
and represents an emerging security and privacy
threat within enterprises, according to industry
experts.
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci953571,00.html
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China bans new Internet cafes near schools
Claiming that ``harmful cultural information''
online was hurting children, China said Thursday
that Internet cafes may not open within 660 feet
of schools. The official China News Service did
not say whether those already operating would
be affected.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8106359.htm
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Camera phones could threaten company security
Businesses are concerned that camera phones
can compromise their security and employees'
privacy, and many businesses are trying to ban
camera phones from their offices. According to
Gartner, an outright ban of camera phones is
short-sighted and will be hard to enforce.
http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=128876
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Does open source software enhance security?
Analysis There are several reasons why open-source
software provides for superior computer and network
security, but the computing public seems confused
about why this is so.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36029.html
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Is metered e-mail a viable anti-spam tactic?
If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for
free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over
with more credit card offers, sweepstakes entries
and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much
junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send.
So Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among
others, is now suggesting that we start buying
``stamps'' for e-mail.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8106743.htm
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You Can't 'Secure' What You Can't Even Find
On this past Friday morning, one headline at the
Cryptonomicon.net site read, "Text of Bill Gates
RSA Keynote Available." Running down the left
margin of that page were Google-generated sponsored
links, including "Automatic gates"; "Iron gates and
fence, no welding"; even "Custom aluminum gates."
If I were paying for one of those supposedly context-
driven links to my own retail site, I'd want my money
back.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&ncid=1208&e=4&u=/zd/20040304/tc_zd/120830
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Ridge: Border agents will get access to fingerprint databases this year
A majority of the nation's border agents will be
able to access key FBI fingerprint databases by
the end of 2004, Homeland Security Secretary
Tom Ridge said Thursday.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0304/030404c1.htm
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How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web
The terrorism investigation code-named Mont Blanc
began almost by accident in April 2002, when
authorities intercepted a cellphone call that lasted
less than a minute and involved not a single word
of conversation. Investigators, suspicious that
the call was a signal between terrorists, followed
the trail first to one terror suspect, then to others,
and eventually to terror cells on three continents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/international/europe/04PHON.html
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Online crime reports are a success in Finland
A police Web site allowing Internet-savvy Finns
to report crimes has been a huge success, with
some 23,000 reports filed in 12 months, the
government said Thursday.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8106482.htm
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I'm Sorry, Dave, You're Speeding
At the Melbourne Motor Show last week, Toyota
unveiled a controversial concept car that would
very closely monitor, and in some cases restrict,
the actions of its driver -- including refusing
to turn on.
http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,62503,00.html
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SenseCam among Microsoft's prototype gadgets
As Lyndsay Williams trudged along snow-covered
paths and passed by shop windows one recent day
in Cambridge, England, so too did her SenseCam --
automatically snapping hundreds of photos along
the way. Later that day, Williams could have used
those pictures to figure out where she'd left her
car keys, or to show a friend the sweater she
saw in a window.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8105877.htm
Does SenseCam Make Any Sense?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62540,00.html
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