20 September 2004 (CNN)
Teen
foils bomb plot.
19 September 2004 Chatmag News.
Antispammer
sued by alleged spamming company.
17 September 2004 (CNN) Federal
bounty may nab e-mail spammers.
14 September 2004 Chatmag News.
Controversial
Online Vigilantes Track Down Missing Girl.
5 September 2004 *News Alert*
(CNN) Florida
will be ripe for fraudsters. Whenever disaster hits, some con
artists will try to make it pay off for themselves.
27 August 2004 (Security Focus)
FBI
busts alleged DDoS Mafia
12 July 2004 (PCWorld) New
Bill Aims to Fight Phishing Scams
8 July 2004 (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Airport
worker got scoop with peek at Kerry campaign jet. Credited with breaking
news of Edwards selection with Internet posting.
Posted on USAviation.com's
Forum.
Also listed in our Aviation
Chat Topic Page.
29 June 2004 CoolWebSearch
Shredder Author Steps Down
28 June 2004 (Chatmag News)
Chat
Network Operators and Users Wary of "Uniformed" Police Presence.
25 June 2004 (CNN) Iraqi
sovereignty won't extend online.
Discuss Iraq on Chatmag's Discussion
Board.
23 June 2004 (Money at CNN) AOL
worker arrested in spam scheme
9 June 2004 (CNN) Cyber-cops
to patrol Internet chatrooms
25 May 2004 Michael Woods, Toledo
Blade. With
care, chat rooms can be a positive experience.
25 May 2004 Florida Governor
Signs Bill Targeting SPAM.
5 March 2004 (CNN) Judge
resigns over online racial remarks.
17 Feb. 2004
Vigilante
Web Site Not What It's Cracked Up to Be. (moved to a separate page).
15 Feb. 2004 FOONET/CIT
Offices Raided By The FBI.
27 January 2004 MyDoom
Worm Hits Email Inboxes.
23 January 2004 False
email from FDIC asking for personal information.
23 January 2004 Lycos
to close chat, message boards, clubs, and image galleries.
14 September 2004 Chatmag
News. Controversial Online Vigilantes Track Down Missing Girl.
The controversial
Internet vigilante site Perverted-Justice.com has aided in the return of
an abducted 14 year old girl missing for two weeks from Camas, Washington.
Operators of Perverted Justice traced messages to an IP (Internet Protocol)
number corresponding to a user living in Firecrest, near Tacoma, Washington.
Police arrested 47-year-old Stanley Sadler. Sadler is charged with kidnapping,
child rape, and sexual exploitation of a minor.
27 August 2004 (Security
Focus) FBI busts alleged
DDoS Mafia.
This is a follow up to a story first
reported here regarding CIT/Foonet and their ongoing problems with the
FBI. Foonet was a host of various IRC networks, and had their servers
confiscated earlier this year. See our story at:
FOONET/CIT Offices Raided
By The FBI.
25 May 2004 The Gainesville
Sun (AP) --The subject line says it's "re: our meeting." But you open the
email and it's an offer to sell you prescription drugs or to enhance parts
of your body.
Under legislation signed Tuesday
by Gov. Jeb Bush, the attorney general could go after anyone in Florida
who sends such email with a deceptive subject line. Click
Here for the full story.
5 March 2004 CNN.
Judge resigns over online racial remarks.
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- A Virginia
judge has resigned after the disclosure of racially charged remarks he
wrote in an Internet chat room, including statements suggesting that blacks
have a biological tendency toward violence. For the Full Article,
Click
Here.
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15 Feb. 2004 FOONET/CIT
Offices Raided By The FBI. IRC Shell provider Foonet target of FBI
investigation.
From The Foonet/Cit Site:
Dear Customers of FOONET/CIT:
We regret to inform you that on
Saturday February 14, 2004 at approximately 8:35 am EST, FOONET/CIT's data
center in Columbus, Ohio temporarily ceased operations.
Here are the facts of what occurred:
The FBI executed a search warrant issued
by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio regarding
the IRC network that we host. According to the warrant, it appears that
the Bureau is investigating whether someone hosted on our network hacked
and attacked someone else.
After several hours of attempting
to track down, inspect and audit the terabytes of data that we host, the
FBI determined that it was more efficient (from their point of view) to
remove all of our servers and transport them to the FBI local laboratories
for inspection. This was completed at 7:00 pm EST same day. For the
Full Article, Click Here.
27 January 2004 MyDoom
Worm Hits Email Inboxes.
The latest worm is MyDoom, or Novarg.A.
This worm will launch a DDoS attack against SCO.com on 1 Feb. To
download the removal tool from Symantec, Click
Here.
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23 January 2004
False email from FDIC asking for personal information.
Bulletin from The FDIC
SUBJECT: Consumer Alert
Summary: Emails to financial institution
customers that fraudulently claim to be from the FDIC attempt to obtain
highly sensitive personal information, including bank account information.
These emails falsely indicate that FDIC deposit insurance is suspended
until the requested customer information is provided.
For the full text, click
here.
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23 January 2004
Lycos to close chat, message boards, clubs, and image galleries.
After February 1, 2004, Lycos Communities--including
Chat, Message Boards, Clubs and Image Galleries--will be discontinued.
For the full text, click
here.
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