__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 18 November 2006 19:33 \__
> "Two 17-year-old boys were arrested for running an extortion racket
> that terrorised teenagers in the town of Crevillente, near the
> Mediterranean coast"
>
> "Etelvina Andreu, an Alicante government official, said the teenagers
> recorded fellow pupils in ?private moments inside their bedrooms? and
> ?extorted money from them to stop the images from being published on
> the web?. The going rate was ?200 (£135)"
>
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2457146,00.html
>
> Does anyone here not think there is something seriously wrong with the
> cutrrent state of cyber 'security'
He just pulled an old trick. You must be 18 to use a (Windows) PC.
Pervy hacker gets ten years
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| Thirty-six year-old Adrian Ringland of Ilkeston in Derbyshire pleaded
| guilty to forcing schoolgirls to send him explicit pictures after
| having infected their computers with a Trojan horse. The man posed
| as a teen in chatrooms and gained the trust of the girls, before
| planting malicious software onto their PCs. He masked the Trojan
| as a picture of himself, but once opened, he had full access to
| their computers and used the Trojan to blackmail the teens into
| sending explicit pictures.
|
| [...]
|
| Security folks over at Sophos are warning that it's only a matter
| of time before this happens again - "These children will not be the
| last to be abused via the internet using spyware," senior
| technology consultant for Sophos Graham Cluley said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35666
Best wishes,
Roy
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