Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio Unlocking a phone is not illegal, but unlocking a phone which is under contract is a breach of contract and is subject to legal action. With cyber criminals exploring the smart phones market, the business of installing top paid apps for free on mobiles is [...]
PROVIDENCE, RI—David Crisostomi, 36, of East Providence, R.I., was ordered detained by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond today on federal charges of manufacturing, possessing, and distributing child pornography, it was announced by United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police; and Richard DesLauriers, [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio Unlocking a phone is not illegal, but unlocking a phone which is under contract is a breach of contract and is subject to legal action. With cyber criminals exploring the smart phones market, the business of installing top paid apps for free on mobiles is [...]
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the indictment of Lloyd Hershey Wenger, age 45, of York, Pennsylvania. The indictment charges Wenger with distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography. According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, Wenger had contact with an undercover FBI agent and shared numerous [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio FORREST B. SMITH, age 77, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. Specifically, SMITH pleaded guilty to possessing images depicting the sexual exploitation and [...]
NEW ORLEANS—FORREST B. SMITH, age 77, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. Specifically, SMITH pleaded guilty to possessing images depicting the sexual exploitation and victimization of children. According to courts documents, SMITH downloaded [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The Florida Department of Law Enforcement created a cybercrime task force to keep up with crimes committed online. Louisiana city employees and potential outside sources will be examined in an FBI investigation into possible cyber crimes that have been committed with a computer(s) in the [...]
Millions of Americans visit online dating websites every year, hoping to find a companion or even a soul mate. But today, on Valentine’s Day, we want to warn you that criminals use these sites, too, looking to turn the lonely and vulnerable into fast money through a variety of scams. These criminals—who also troll social [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The U.S. is trying to dabble in policing the Internet again, but in a vastly different way. Meet S.1469 or the International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act. Over a period of several weeks, the Computer Crimes and Forensics Investigations Unit of the Alamance County Sheriff’s [...]
The Baltimore FBI office is receiving a large number of telephone calls concerning e-mails supposedly from the FBI Director, the Baltimore Special Agent in Charge, or other top Bureau officials. These e-mails claim that you are the “rightful beneficiary” of large sums of money wired from the Central Bank of Nigeria but intercepted by the [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The U.S. is trying to dabble in policing the Internet again, but in a vastly different way. Meet S.1469 or the International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act. Over a period of several weeks, the Computer Crimes and Forensics Investigations Unit of the Alamance County Sheriff’s [...]
At the beginning of her summer break in June 2005, a 15-year-old Florida girl logged onto her computer and received a startling instant message. The sender, whom the girl didn’t know, said he had seen her photo online and that he wanted her to send him pictures—of her in the shower. When the girl didn’t [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The former owner of a pair of Illinois-based technology companies has been sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison for her role in a scheme to bribe school officials to land federal contracts for providing Internet service in several states. An associate of Megaupload founder [...]
WASHINGTON—A former owner of two Illinois-based technology companies was sentenced today to serve 30 months in prison for her participation in a conspiracy to defraud the federal E-Rate program, the Department of Justice announced. Gloria Harper was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier. Harper was charged in U.S. District Court in New [...]
Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Janice K. Fedarcyk, Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office, today announced that Taleek Brooks was arrested last night for production of child pornography.1 The defendant is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States [...]
KANSAS CITY, KS—A Shawnee Mission man has pleaded guilty to a charge of producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. In his plea, Steven Miller, 30, Shawnee Mission, Kan., admitted that investigators found child pornography he produced on computer hard drives. The photos showed Miller sexually abusing a 3-year-old boy. The abuse took [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio The Cyber Crime Police on Saturday arrested two youths from Mumbai on the charge of making a bomb hoax call to the HSBC BPO there. A child can now be at greater risk sitting in a bedroom on a computer than outside the school gates, [...]
Listen to internet radio with nationalcybersecurity on Blog Talk Radio Last month hackers took control of passenger rail lines in the Northwest, disrupting signals twice and creating delays. Businesses list the threats they are most concerned about in 2012; leading the list: unplanned IT and telecom outages, data breaches, and adverse weather. Also check out [...]
A 41-count criminal information was filed charging David T. Tufts, age 45, and Nelida I. Velasco, age 37, both of Chardon, Ohio, with conspiracy to file false tax returns, filing false tax returns, misuse of Social Security account numbers, and aggravated identity theft, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of [...]
ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David George Smith, 47, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of wrecklessly causing damage to a computer domain, was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to pay restitution to the victim company in the amount of $4,671 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan W. [...]
