SF Mayor's aide fakes Net postings
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Jumps on online Astroturf craze A spokesman for the San Francisco mayor admitted he faked his identity when posting comments favorable to his boss on a blog covering local politics.â¦
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London Mayor suggests Dispatches programme attempted to sabotage his bid for re-election
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An obscure government website that became an Internet conflagration
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A few weeks ago, San Jose Councilman Forrest Williams was outraged when his fellow members started talking about censuring colleague Terry Gregory because he allegedly took freebies from developers.
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A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldn't authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates and others.
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A Firefox 'flaw' revealed at a hacker conference over the weekend was a joke, hacker admits.
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Also: Dating faux-pas: Stealing other people's profiles. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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It would be impossible, in a short letter, to counter every argument made in your newspaper over the past few days lambasting Mayor Rocky Anderson. The short response is that Mayor Anderson is beholden to the constituents who elected him.
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Blog: A San Francisco Craigslist posting offers to divert peoples' attention so others can cut in front of them in line.
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Prosecutors want to know whether the business development company obtained the phone records of a critic through impersonation.
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An e-mail disguised as a Red Hat patch update is a fake designed to trick users into downloading malware, the Linux vendor warned in a message on its Web site.
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By Greg Miller, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Sep. 23--Sabrina McDonnell knew that online crime was bad before Internet scoundrels flooded inboxes with phony e-mails trolling for First National Bank & Trust Co. account information.
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Beware of any e-mail claiming to come from "frauddep@ftc.gov"--it carries a nasty payload.
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Blog: Spammers appear to defeat Captcha and use fake Microsoft and Yahoo Web mail addresses to spread spam.
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Anonymous online posts from the CEO? That ain't cool.
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Former board member Tom Perkins alleges the computer giant hired consultants to pose as himself and other board members to fraudulently obtain private phone records. By Kim Zetter
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Email scams from fake foreign officials are still a potent Internet problem.