pornography

Spanish police bust alleged “ransomware” ring that took in $1.34M annually

Spanish authorities announced Wednesday that they had arrested 10 people who were allegedly involved in a massive “ransomware” ring. The European Cybercrime Centre estimated that the criminal operation "affected tens of thousands of computers...

Continue reading »

Tags: , , ,

Thursday, February 14th, 2013 Net News No Comments

If arrested for child porn, don’t e-mail threats to rape, kill a federal agent

Aurich Lawson On April 12, 2012, a postman carrying a package containing two DVDs of child pornography—one titled Curious Boys—walked up to a modest home in Export, Pennsylvania, some 30 minutes east of...

Continue reading »

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Child Porn in P2P Share Folder Is Smut Distribution, Appeals Court Says

Photo: bloomsberries/Flickr A federal appeals court ruled that peer-to-peer file sharers can be prosecuted for distributing child pornography by having the illicit files in their open share folders. That was the ruling by the...

Continue reading »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Monday, October 8th, 2012 Net News No Comments

FTC gets a $163 million judgment against scareware operation

A federal court in Maryland has imposed a $163 million opinion and judgment against defendants from Innovative Marketing in a massive scareware operation. The company sold the scareware under the names WinFixer, WinAntiVirus, and WinAntiVirusPro,...

Continue reading »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 Net News No Comments

German firm threatens to publish IP addresses of alleged porn pirates

A German law firm representing pornography publishers is threatening to publicly embarrass those it has accused of infringing its clients' works by publishing their contact information on its website. Der Spiegel reports (the...

Continue reading »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Automated Blogging by AutoBlogged