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Facebook glitch let spammer post to walls
by (Robert McMillan)
3 Sep 2010 at 2:21pm
A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.
HP buys 3Par, Apple rolls out new gear
by (Nancy Weil)
3 Sep 2010 at 1:55pm
Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.
Nigerian advance-fee scammer gets 12 years
by (Robert McMillan)
3 Sep 2010 at 1:12pm
A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.
Investigators find famous DJ's credit card details for sale
by (Jeremy Kirk)
3 Sep 2010 at 11:28am
Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.
Apple had two months to fix critical QuickTime bug, says researcher
by gkeizer@ix.netcom.com (Gregg Keizer)
3 Sep 2010 at 10:08am
A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said Friday.
Consumer group lampoons Google CEO over privacy issues
by jaikumar_vijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan)
3 Sep 2010 at 8:01am
Consumer Watchdog, a group that has been a sharp critic of Google's privacy practices in the past, is at it again.
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Computerworld Cybercrime and Hacking News

Nigerian advance-fee scammer gets 12 years
by (Robert McMillan)
3 Sep 2010 at 1:12pm
A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.
Investigators find famous DJ's credit card details for sale
by (Jeremy Kirk)
3 Sep 2010 at 11:28am
Armin Van Buuren is one of the world's most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.
Discover to get $5M from Heartland for '08 data breach
by jaikumar_vijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan)
1 Sep 2010 at 4:45pm
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year.
DARPA launches insider threat detection effort for military
by jaikumar_vijayan@computerworld.com (Jaikumar Vijayan)
1 Sep 2010 at 4:03pm
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched an effort aimed at finding and detecting to insider threats on Department of Defense networks.
Miami man pleads guilty in ID theft case
by (Grant Gross)
1 Sep 2010 at 3:41pm
A Miami man has pleaded guilty to two identity-theft related charges after federal agents found more than 26,000 credit card numbers stored on his computer, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Rape case against WikiLeaks founder Assange will be reopened
by (Mikael Ricknäs)
1 Sep 2010 at 5:52am
Swedish Director of Public Prosecution Marianne Ny has decided to reopen an investigation into rape charges directed at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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