Crime

Is Your Mobile Device or Laptop Funding Conflict Mineral Wars?

Many of our electronic devices are made up of minerals like tantalum, used to make the capacitors in most cell phones, and tin, which makes up the inside lining of some cell phones and is used to solder circuit boards. Unfortunately, many of these materials come from conflict-ridden areas of the Congo, where increasing profits from …

Smash-and-Grab Apple Store Thefts Becoming Frequent

At least five hooded robbers broke a Greenwich, Conn. Apple Store’s glass windows with a brick early today and made off with over $10,000 in products in a matter of seconds, according to MyFOX NY. Just a few weeks back on December 6, thieves broke into a Woodcliff Lake, NJ Apple store and cleaned the place out. Police say there are …

Man Responsible for 32% of All Spam Mail Gets Day In Court

Twenty-three year old Oleg Nikolaenko, the leader of the world’s largest Spam e-mail ring, will appear in a Wisconsin court today on charges that he violated the CAN-SPAM act by intentionally falsifying header information in commercial e-mail messages and sending at least 2,500 spam e-mails per day.

Prosecutors say that his …

Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Sentenced To One Year In Custody

David Kernell, the former University of Tennessee student who hacked into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account during the 2008 presidential campaign has been sentenced to one year in custody.

The 22-year-old was convicted of unauthorized access to a protected computer and destroying records to impede a federal investigation, while he was …

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