A computer hacker accessed highly personal data and controlled victims’ webcams as part of a sophisticated email scam carried out from his mother’s front room.
Matthew Anderson, 33, was a key member of an international gang, abusing his skills as a computer security expert to target businesses and individuals with spam containing hidden viruses, a court heard.
He controlled victims’ webcam devices remotely to see inside their homes, at one point boasting to a friend that he made a teenage girl cry by doing so.
Major national and international organisations, including Macmillan Publishers, the Toyota car company and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, were also targeted in what prosecutor Hugh Davies described as a “fundamental breach of security”. (more)
After secret talks in a room designed to prevent bugging, British tour operator Thomas Cook has bought a majority stake in Intourist, the Russian travel agency founded under Joseph Stalin. (
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Stalin founded a travel agency?!?!(Shrugs shoulders, walks away with a head full of jokes that will never see the light of day.) Sortalike when you’re in a Siberian… (Slaps hand over mouth.)
(US football story) For the second straight weekend, the three-year-old notion of the Patriots engaging in tactics not recognized by the rule book hovers over one of the teamās biggest out-of-division rivalries.
In his look-ahead to the coming weekend, Peter King of SI.com points out that Colts quarterback Peyton Manning fears the presence of
enemy ears in the visitorsā locker room at Gillette Stadium…
None of it means that bugs have been planted in the locker room, but thereās nothing wrong with being cautious. Even if the caution becomes paranoia. (
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Charging IAS officer Ravi Inder Singh with
corporate espionage for sexual and monetary favours, the Delhi Police Special Cell told a court on Wednesday that
Singh spoke with āmiddlemanā Vineet Kumar at least 10,000 times in the last two months and helped clear the file of telecom company Telcordia in the first week of November āabusing his official positionā. (
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