Mar 29
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
The state attorney general’s office wants lawmakers to ramp up penalties for thieves who use computers to steal personal or financial information. If approved, the proposed legislation would turn e-mail solicitations asking for personal information and spyware-type programs into felony-level offenses – for both first-time and repeat offenders. Under current state law, offenses in which less than $500 is stolen are misdemeanors.
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Mar 29
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Bombarded by spam, e-mail users are eager for tools like a “report fraud” button that would help weed out unwanted messages that litter inboxes, according to a survey by the Email Sender and Provider Coalition released on Tuesday. More than 80 percent of e-mailers already use tools such as “report spam” and the “unsubscribe” button to manage their in-boxes, the survey found.
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Mar 28
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
In the last decade, computer forensics has quietly resolved cases that would otherwise have gone unsolved. Considering that computers and digital devices capable of retaining data are ubiquitous in modern society, and that criminals are using these devices with greater frequency and facility, it shouldn’t be a surprise that computer forensics is being used in more investigations. Computer forensics can provide evidence of motivation, a chronology of events, insight into an offender’s interests and activities, and links among multiple offenders.
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Mar 28
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Cyberspace has been found to be less law-abiding than the real world. In India, there is a need to help police investigators acquire the skills to detect and prosecute computer crimes. This is in tune with the approach of mending broken windows in real-world policing.1 The collaboration of different stakeholders will facilitate this process and prevent larger cybercrimes by attending to smaller ones.
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Mar 28
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
The United States is responsible for nearly half of the world’s spam email, claims security firm Symantec. In a study of spam received over the second half of 2006, Symantec found that roughly 45 per cent of the messages were sent from computers within the US. The volume of spam coming from the US was more than seven times as much as the second-largest offender, China.
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