Mike Tyson Pleads Guilty In Arizona Drug Case

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson pleaded guilty Monday to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence stemming from a traffic stop last year.

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Peer-to-Peer Technology called "National Security Threat"

Several lawmakers called peer-to-peer networks a potential "national security threat," as some users may, and in some cases have, inadvertantly made sensitive or classified documents on their computers available for sharing with others.

The Government Reform Committee tested file-sharing software Lime Wire, and said it was able to find "personal bank records and tax forms, attorney-client communications, the corporate strategies of Fortune 500 companies, confidential corporate accounting documents, internal documents from political campaigns, government emergency response plans and even military operation orders,".

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Man sues energy drink 'Boost Plus' for endless erection

A man from New York City has sued the maker of the energy drink Boost Plus.

According to court papers, the man said that he woke up the next morning "with an erection that would not subside" and sought treatment for the condition, which is called priapism.

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65,000 state workers personal info stolen

The names and Social Security numbers of every state employee were stolen earlier this week, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday.

He said, however, the information was contained on specialized electronic files, making it hard for a thief to access.

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Paris Hilton to go to jail?

Paris Hilton will be attending a hearing Friday for allegedly violating the terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction. Prosecutors have asked that she be jailed for 45 days,stay away from alcohol for 90 days, wear a monitoring device. They also seek to have her license suspended for an additional 4 months.

City Attorney said Hilton is being treated the same as anyone else.

"Anyone who would have conducted themselves in a way that resulted in this set of facts, we would have made the same recommendation of 45 days in county jail, regardless of whether they were a celebrity or not," he said Thursday.

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Virginia massacre gunman named

A 23-year-old South Korean student carried out at least 30 of the 32 murders in the Virginia Tech university shootings, US authorities said today.

The gunman was identified as Cho Seung-hui, an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at the university, in south-west Virginia state.

Yesterday's massacre was the worst mass shooting in US history.

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Is Google-DoubleClick Merger Safe?

Well, many advertsiers are not too sure. According to PC World: "...some rivals calling for regulatory intervention -- but for customers, trust may be of greater concern than antitrust."

Google follows users through cookies and through their user names when they log on to Google services. DoubleClick tracks visitors through cookies associated with the banner advertisements served up on the Web sites they visit.

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School Principal Sued Students for MySpace Fake Profile

A high school principal sued four former students for a fake MySpace page they had created about him. Among his many alleged vices, the profile said the principal “smoked pot, kept beer at school and liked having sex with students"

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Law Enforcement utilizes social networking resources

There are over 300 known social networking sites on the internet. Myspace.com has over 110 million users and Facebook.com adds 20,000 new users each day. Too often, investigators overlook or underutilize this valuable resource.

This one day (8 hour) course provided by our Cyber Crime Training Division, is designed for police officers, detectives, and criminal analysts.

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Spammers, hackers target sites such as MySpace and Facebook.

Because of MySpace, Facebook, YOuTube incredible growth in recent years, many spammers, hackers and other crooks are trying to take advantage of it. "What happens in the virtual world . . . is very (similar) to what happens in the physical world," ... Where a lot of people congregate, at some point you're going to have a bad element that shows up and tries to do bad things."

Scammers often set up fake profiles on MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and similar sites and then go about inviting people to become their Internet "friends."

In doing so, they can glean personal information about their potential targets — like their ZIP codes, age or gender — that can be used to fashion legitimate-sounding spam or phishing attacks.

So, watch out!


P.S. Tips for safe networking

• Limit the information you give about yourself.
• Don't automatically assume something sent from a 'friend' is legitimate.
• Be careful about adding strangers to your friends list.
• Don't use links in embedded e-mails to go to any unfamiliar site.
• Set limits on what people can see, you profile, etc

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Robbing bank with a smile

Two young women, possibly teenagers, robbed a supermarket bank branch, laughing as they held up a teller with nothing but sunglasses to disguise their faces. They could be young as 16.

P.S. I don't think they are laughing now. Cops are searching for them... and that is not fun.

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DirectRevenue Pays $1.5 Million to Settle FTC Charges

Adware distributor DirectRevenue will have to pay $1.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it used unfair and deceptive methods to install its software on users computers, and then obstructed them from easily removing it.

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YouTube Wrongful Viacom Copyright Claims

The YouTube's filmmaker page bore a notice that said: "This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner Viacom International because its content was used without permission."

"That note said to anyone looking for my trailer that I violated someone's copyright. And that isn't true. That's where they defamed me," filmmaker said.

Viocom said it regrets its errors.

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Canada Added to List of Piracy Havens

The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which represents U.S. software, music, movie and video game firms, has asked the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to add Canada to the U.S. "priority watch list" of countries considered havens for piracy, which includes China, Russia and Venezuela.

The IIPA said that Canada must update its copyright laws and increase enforcement.

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Social Networking sites to be banned in schools, libraries?

A new bill introduced by Illinois Senator Matt Murphy (R) proposes that schools and libraries to block access to social networking sites.

Murphy considers his bill as a "proactive" move to "protect kids" from potential new threats such as sexual predator looking for victims on sites such as MySpace.

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