OAP accused of anti-social breach
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An 88-year-old man appears in court accused of breaching an anti-social behaviour order seven times.
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Facebook is suing seventeen people and a Canadian Internet porn company for allegedly trying to mine the popular social networking site for its users&#39; personal details.Facebook alleges that in June servers controlled by the defendants used automated scripts to make more than 200,000 requests for personal information stored on Facebook&#39;s site. The allegations are contained in an amended lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.The company first filed suit back in June, but amended the complaint this month after obtaining court orders to identify who controlled the servers trying to access its site.Experts have warned people against publishing too much personal information on social networking sites for fear it could be collected and then abused by fraudsters.Facebook, one of the most-used social networking sites after MySpace, said the automated scripts caused error messages to be generated, but the company did not say if user information was successfully collected.Named in the suit is Istra Holdings, which controls SlickCash.com, an affiliate advertising business that offers commissions to Web publishers for referring Internet surfers to its portfolio of adult sites.It also names Brian Fabian and Josh Raskin, both of whom the suit says work at Istra in Toronto, and Ming Wu of Markham, Ontario, as well as 14 other unidentified people.Facebook said the hacking attempts cost it at least US$5,000 to investigate. The company has requested a jury trial and is seeking to bar the defendants from accessing its computer systems in the future, in addition to damages.&#160;
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By S.L. Wykes, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 27--Teenager Austin Stewart did something a friend didn't like and the next thing she knew "a non-stop flood of hurtfulness" was posted about her on Facebook and other Web message areas.
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British officials are set to question Facebook over its data retention methods after a user complained that personal information remained on its severs after he deactivated his account.
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THE Football Association has launched an investigation after fans clashed at Liverpool&#39;s game at Millwall&#39;s New Den ground last night.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Europe Correspondent Catherine Drew. LONDON : Britain has suffered its second major security breach in less than a week after some protestors at the House of Commons, managed to break
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More than 94 million accounts were affected in the theft of personal data from TJX Cos. , a banking group alleged in court filings, more than twice as many accounts as the Framingham retailer has said were affected in what was already the largest data breach in history.
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Social workers were the target of a series of vicious and personal attacks this week -- and their bosses were found wanting when it came to offering them protection.   The attack came on the internet through a Google-owned weblog site.
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The UK Information Commissioner is investigating Facebook's data protection policies after a user complained.
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'Did you see me smack that geezer? Class, wasn't it' Forests of CCTV cameras in the UK's town centres have failed to have any impact on anti-social behaviour, an ACPO official told the House of Lords Constitution Committee yesterday.â¦
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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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LONDON -- Apple Computer&#39;s three-month-old European iTunes service came under attack Wednesday from Britain&#39;s Consumers&#39; Association, which asked the Office of Fair Trading, a business watchdog, to investigate why the service&#39;s prices are higher than
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The social news site tries to curb fraud by changing the way community members promote its stories. The move sparks protest among the site's top users. In Monkey Bites
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In spite of calls by various government officials and Internet users, proposed legislation in New Zealand suggests that spam remain a civil, not a criminal, offense. A Parliament committee suggests that an enforcement agency be founded to handle victim complaints, relieving ISPs of the burden.
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Trade association The British Phonographic Association (BPI) which last week vowed to bring 28 illegal music uploaders to justice, has secured a High Court action to force the internet service providers to come up with the identities of the alleged
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AOL denies responsibility Someone is surreptitiously adding unauthorized chat buddies to AOL instant messaging clients running across the Web. This afternoon, three separate Register employees have noticed the offending buddies, which show up under the "AIM Bots" portion of the AOL buddy list, carrying the names "Prof Gilzot," "sharethisdotcom," "Spleak," and "WSJ." In one instance, they appeared on a third-party Adium client that ties into AOLâs instant messaging network.â¦
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First it was racial profiling, now the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) is facing criticism over its policy of identifying whether donors are engaging in homosexual sex.