Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
Police in the UK are seeking authority to close domains — As first reported by the BBC, The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is seeking the authority to close domains engaged in certain “criminal” activities, which includes not just website domains, but domain registrations such as email, and perhaps phones, too*.
The victim reported that he inadvertently left the computer on a table in the waiting room when he was called into the emergency room for treatment. Police viewed the security camera footage of the area and observed a female pick up the notebook and put it …
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Dutch authorities announced Tuesday the arrest in Armenia of the alleged mastermind behind a computer-virus crime group whose server network was dismantled in the Netherlands a day earlier. “At the request of the national [Dutch] prosecution service, a 27 …
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Scam artists have gone cell phone “phishing,” said Suffolk police, who are warning area residents not to get hooked. The scammers send text messages that are “designed to trick potential victims into giving up …
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