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December 30, 2007
December 21, 2007
Sexual Spam Emails
Sexual Spam Emails
A businessman alleged to be the source of millions of emails offering sexual enhancement pills has become the first person in New Zealand to be raided under tough new anti-spam laws.
The Christchurch man had been identified by a Danish spambuster.
Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) said the department had been investigating the international spam operation but was forced into action when the BBC in Britain identified the New Zealand connection in a news report on Friday.
On Monday, DIA inspectors obtained search warrants and made four simultaneous raids on Christchurch properties, seizing 22 computers and boxes of documents.
The alleged spammer, then described as a father of two and former hospitality worker, said he had 15 different types of American-made penis-enlargement pills, with the spam emails being channelled through servers in Poland and Pakistan.
He said he had had “plenty of death threats”, but was unapologetic about the impact on recipients, adding: “If you don’t want to receive spam, don’t connect to the internet, or don’t have an email address.”
The BBC claimed the method he used was to place an order for penis-enlargement pills, but to include a secret piece of computer code that would get through the slave or zombie computers used to hide the originator.
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December 12, 2007
New Era Crime Law and Justice Innovation Required
New Era Crime Law and Justice
The legal community must enable formulation of progressive and innovative laws for the digital economy, according to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President.
He said economic prosperity by 2020 will mean that many of the Indians will be doing business in the digital world on the Web.
In this new era, crime, law and justice will be completely different. The crime may originate from a strange place, even outside own shores, and damage organisational wealth, which will be in the digital form from multiple locations, Kalam pointed out.
Indian judicial system has to build its capacity to define jurisdictions in a way that any crime committed against India or its assets by anyone from anywhere shall be punishable by Indian law.
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December 10, 2007
Hacking Wireless Internet Connections Australia
Hacking Wireless Internet Connections Australia
A Rockhampton man who reportedly used his neighbours’ wireless internet connections to send dubious emails in an effort to extort money has been arrested in an undercover sting.
For several months, the 22-year-old man allegedly accessed other Rockhampton residents’ wireless connections and sent emails that could not be traced back to him, via his handheld computer or PDA, also accessing a “masking” service that allowed him to send the alleged threats to a variety of people using a magazine editor’s email address, Queensland police reported.
Police in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria – as well the Australian Federal Police – were involved in investigating the emails.
Rockhampton police said investigators thought they had traced the offender’s IP address to a home in the city’s north last week, however when officers arrived at the home, they discovered that the elderly couple living there had their wireless internet accessed by someone else.
The breakthrough in the case reportedly came when the man allegedly demanded money to be dropped off at a certain location and was arrested by undercover officers there.
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December 1, 2007
Cyber Crime New Zealand and Teenager
Cyber Crime New Zealand and Teenager
Police in New Zealand are investigating eighteen-year-old who is alleged to be the leader of a ring which has skimmed £10 million from bank accounts around the world
Investigators in New Zealand, the US and the Netherlands believe the youth, who cannot be named but goes by the online name ‘Akill’ – wrote software used to attack more than a million computers.
The software was allegedly used to bring down the computer server at the University of Pennsylvania last year.
Police described the teenager as the ringleader of a ‘botnet’ – a network of computers infiltrated by a programme that surreptitiously installs itself to allow a hacker to control it.
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