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Huge Russian BitTorrent Site Has Domain Suspended
In the Western world, sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt get plenty of publicity, largely due to their size and prominence. Of course, there are other sites elsewhere that attract relatively little attention in English speaking countries and around Europe, despite being very large indeed. One such giant is Torrents.ru, a huge Russian BitTorrent site with 4 million torrents and one million users which has operated relatively trouble-free – until now.
Continue reading »Toshiba preps telly-friendly content store
Networkable media hard drive en route Toshiba is to take on LaCie, Western Digital, Seagate and all the other HDD sellers offering drives designed to be hooked up to an HD TV.… ?
Continue reading »4 Hackers Indicted in $9.5 Million Bank Card Attack
Four men have been indicted in Georgia on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company RBS WorldPay. They allegedly used an army of flunkies to steal $9.5 million in cash from ATM machines around the world in a span of hours. Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St.
Continue reading »5 More Indicted in Probe of International Carding Ring
Five eastern European men were indicted in New York on Monday as part of an international ring allegedly responsible for at least $4 million in credit card theft. The ring, which authorities dubbed the Western Express Cybercrime Group, operated between 2001 and 2007 and trafficked in at least 95,000 known stolen credit card numbers, including some belonging to victims in New York, where the case is being prosecuted by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. The five named in an indictment unsealed this week include Vasilyev Viatcheslav, 33, and Vladimir Kramarenko, 31, of Czechoslovakia, who were arrested in Prague in July 2008 and only extradited to the U.S.
Continue reading »Girl kills herself after online teasing
On Friday night, Chanelle Rae became the fourth student of the same Australian high school to commit suicide this year, “raising serious concerns about cyber-bullying and copycat suicides”. That’s the stark intro to an Australian IT story centering on the deaths. It goes on »»» The death of the 14-year-old schoolgirl, who was adored by her parents, brothers and friends, has reopened wounds at the co-educational Western Heights College in Geelong.
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