Jealous ex used MySpace to plot hit: police
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New tools, old jobs An American woman has been accused of trying to hire someone to kill her ex-boyfriend's new lover after finding her details listed on his MySpace page. According to Arizona police, 22-year Heather Kane old paid an undercover officer $400, promising a further $600 once the job was done.â¦
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A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to MySpace.com in a probe stemming from the suicide of a Missouri teenager who received cruel messages on the networking site that turned out to be a hoax, a newspaper reported.
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EVERETT, Wash. -- Prosecutors have charged 30-year-old man with felony stalking, accusing him of harassing Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne&#39;s parents and violating a court order by trying to contact her.
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By DAN SCANLAN  A New Hampshire police detective posed as a 14-year-old boy in an Internet chat room on Myspace.com and "talked" with a person who called himself "Jim." It resulted in the arrest of a 51-year-old Southside man Aug.
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Seven convicted sex offenders with profiles on MySpace.com have been arrested in what Texas officials said was the country's first large-scale crackdown of registered offenders who use the social networking Web site.
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A 30-year-old man from Washington was  charged with stalking Canadian singer Avril Lavigne after  making repeated attempts to contact her and traveling to her  parents' home in Ontario, local authorities said on Monday.
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Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said yesterday that it would release information on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the social-networking Web site.
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In real life, you probably don't want to be friends with a guy   who once stole a car from a one-legged girl and faked his death in order   to break up with someone. But virtual social networking is another   story.
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There&#39;s now one more reason to be security-conscious while using MySpace.com: fake Microsoft updates.Using a hacked MySpace profile, online criminals are trying to trick victims into downloading a malicious Trojan Horse program by disguising it as a Microsoft update, according to researchers at security vendor McAfee.The attack is certainly not widespread -- McAfee has seen it used on only one MySpace profile -- but it does show how sites like MySpace can be abused by criminals.Web surfers are presented with what appears to be a popup window advising them to download the latest version of Microsoft&#39;s Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, which was just released this Tuesday. This software is distributed by Microsoft to help Windows users rid their systems of malware.In reality, the popup window is just part of a larger image that takes up most of the computer screen. If the user clicks anywhere on this image, his computer will then begin to download the Trojan program.The Trojan, known as TFactory, is a well-known piece of code that has been used by criminals for well over a year, according to Dave Marcus, a security research manager with McAfee.Hackers were able to launch this attack because they either discovered a flaw in the MySpace code or found a way of taking over user accounts, Marcus said. &quot;Our best guess is [the owner of the one MySpace profile] just got their password and user name phished,&quot; he said.Social networking sites allow their members to use an array of powerful Web programming tools that are increasingly coming under the scrutiny of hackers looking for ways to misuse them.In November, hackers found a way to serve up Web-based attack code from the MySpace profiles of Alicia Keys and a number of other musical artists.
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Blog: In what appears to be the first case of its kind, federal agents sent spyware called "CIPAV" to the owner of a MySpace account tied to e-mail bomb threats against a high school.
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Parole violations Just weeks after social network MySpace asked for advice on how to legally hand over information about sex offenders using its pages, law enforcement authorities have started to make arrests.â¦
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A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to MySpace.com in a probe stemming from the suicide of a Missouri teenager who received cruel messages on the networking site that turned out to be a hoax, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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A 17-year-old was arrested after authorities received a tip that he was making threats in an online chat room about his high school, fellow students and an
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Texas police arrested seven convicted  sex offenders after MySpace handed over identity details about  the former members of the Internet social network, the Texas  attorney general's office said on Thursday.
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The emotions of two teenage suspects in a gruesome murder are apparently chronicled on their MySpace pages
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A closer look at the privacy issue It has recently been reported that Attorneys Generals from about a dozen US States, including Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Maryland, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania have demanded that News Corporation's social networking site MySpace voluntarily deliver a list of all sex offenders who have registered for or used the MySpace social networking service.â¦
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Texas police have arrested six sex offenders who weren't supposed to be using the internet under the terms of their probation or parole, but who allegedly surfaced in MySpace's database search.