Man posts ex-girlfriend’s nude pics on Facebook, gets convicted
When he posted his ex-girlfriend's nude pictures on Facebook three months after their split, Ravshan ''Ronnie'' Usmanov, 20, probably wasn't thinking "Hey, this is my ticket to six months house arrest as the first social network-related conviction in Australian history!"
A similar thought probably wasn't going through the unidentified ex either when, during a happier time in their relationship, she posed for the pics: "Hey, this is my ticket to Facebook humiliation!" Read more...
Anti-Mafia Unit Raids Large Torrent Sites, Arrests 17-Year-Old Admin
Two of Bulgaria’s largest torrent sites have been raided by the country’s organized crime unit. The sites, which served in excess of three quarters of a million members, had been established for several years. Three locations were raided and two site admins, one just 17-years-old, were arrested.
As part of a ongoing campaign to crack down on Internet-based piracy, Bulgaria’s organized crime unit targeted two of the country’s largest BitTorrent trackers at the weekend.
Officers from the National Directorate for Combating Organized Crime said they raided a total of three locations in the western city of Pernik, the central northern city of Gabrovo and the capital Sofia. The aim: stop the illegal distribution of music and movies.
Although not directly named in yesterday’s Interior Ministry announcement, the action was targeted at P2PBG and Elit-BG, sites with combined userbases of at least 750,000 members. Read more...
Fake iPhone ring busted in China: report
Chinese police in Shanghai have arrested five people for making and selling fake versions of Apple Inc's iPhone, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
Police said those arrested were part of an organized gang that bought components for the phones from Guangdong in southern China and assembled them in rented apartments in Shanghai, the Shanghai Daily said.
About 200 fake iPhones were found during the crackdown. Read more...
With FBI raid, law enforcement circles LulzSec
Time may be running out for the members of LulzSec as police continue to step up their inquiries into the hacking group.
On Monday, the U.S. Federal Bureau of investigation executed a search warrant at a Hamilton, Ohio, residence -- a raid that local media has linked to the ongoing investigation of LulzSec. The raid comes two days after LulzSec ended a 50-day hacking rampage by posting internal documents belonging to AT&T and data stolen from gaming forums and a NATO website. Read more...
LulzSec calls it quits after 50 days of ‘mayhem’
The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time for it to "sail into the distance."
Its announcement came three days after LulzSec released its latest trove of internal documents, stolen from the Arizona Department of Public Safety computer network, and four days after U.K. police said they had made the first arrest of a man allegedly affiliated with the group.
"Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love," the group said in a post on the Pastebin website. Read more...
Teen arrested for slimy ranking of girls on Facebook
An Illinois teen has been arrested by police and charged with disorderly conduct after he used Facebook to post a list of 50 girls at his high school he described as both hot and promiscuous.
The boy, a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School, "was found to be responsible for an offensive list that was circulated" at the school as well, Det. Cmdr. LaDon Reynolds told the Chicago Sun-Times.
The list was posted on the social networking site in January by the boy. The list described girls using "explicit, derogatory nicknames and assessed their physical appearance, sexual desirability, Read more...