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Romanian Admits to Phishing, Could Face Five Years

A Romanian man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal fraud charge for his role in setting up fake Web sites in order to steal credit and debit card details.

Romanian admits to phishing, could face five years

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Romanian Phisher Facing Five Years

Earlier this week a Romanian man plead guilty to fraud for his part in setting up phishing websites. Hey, with any luck, he’ll be spending time up the river with his “spam king” buddies.

Man Gets Seven Years for Leading AOL Phishing Scheme

A West Haven, Conn., man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for masterminding a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users over a four-year period. Federal prosecutors had argued that he masterminded a scam in which he and five other men harvested

Man Gets Seven Years for Leading AOL Phishing Scheme

A West Haven, Conn., man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for masterminding a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users over a four-year period. Federal prosecutors had argued that he masterminded a scam in which he and five other men harvested thousands of AOL e-mail addresses and then infected victims' PCs with malicious software that would prevent them from logging on to AOL without entering their credit card numbers, bank account numbers and other personal information.

EU Plans To Extend Copyright; Turns Copyright System Into Welfare For Musicians

Just as we feared, the EU has now approved copyright extension of performance royalties from 50 years to 95 years. This is basically an approval to steal from the public. The public made a deal with musicians 50 years ago: give us music, and we'll give you performance royalties for 50 years. The musicians accepted that, and it was a worthwhile deal for them. Yet, now, the government has decided to change the deal, remove that content from the public domain and give it to the musicians for another 45 years. This is, simply, bad policy. It encourages the exact wrong behavior: telling people that the public will pay them for work they did many many years ago over and over again. This doesn't encourage musicians to continue working and it doesn't encourage them to be fiscally responsible and save for retirement or anything.

UALR Scientist Named to Romanian Nano-Medicine Institute

The newly formed Romanian Nano-Medicine Institute has named Dr. Alex Biris (photo at left), chief scientist at the Nanotechnology Center at UALR, as its honorary president. He also serves as a founding member of the organization. The Romanian Nano-Medicine Institute facilitates research in the areas of nanotechnology and medicine, targeting cancer and chronic diseases. Biris said the Romanian institute will have parallel research programs with the Nanotechnology Center at UALR. "The Institute will be sending two surgeons over here in the fall and two more in the spring to perform joint research with us at UALR," Biris said. "The Romanian government will provide funding both for the scientists' travel and research needs."

Phishing Scammer Gets Seven Years

People seem to get pretty excited whenever we have stories of spammers and scammers getting long jail sentences, so I'm sure plenty of folks will be happy to hear that a phishing scammer just got sentenced to seven years in prison. Considering that he was scamming people's passwords to use elsewhere, this seems a lot more reasonable than the folks who get long jail sentences just for spamming. But, with all of these stories about spammers and phishers getting convicted, it always seems like the punishment is rather arbitrary. There's no clear pattern at all.

Dog found after five years on the lam

ROCKFORD, Ill., July 16 (UPI) -- A collie that disappeared from his suburban Chicago owners more than five years ago has been located 85 miles away in the town of Rockford, Ill.

Dog found after five years on the lam

ROCKFORD, Ill., July 16 (UPI) -- A collie that disappeared from his suburban Chicago owners more than five years ago has been located 85 miles away in the town of Rockford, Ill.

Sony sees CEE sales doubling in five years

BERLIN — Sony sees its Central and Eastern Europe electronics revenue doubling in five years, driven by flat panel television sales, according to Tamas Lovasz, spokesman for Sony Central and Southeast Europe, based in Budapest.

Best Buy Plans to Double Sales in Next Five Years

At its annual shareholders' meeting, Brian Dunn, president and COO of Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co. Inc., announced that the company plans to double sales in the next five years to $80 billion in fiscal year 2013, according to Startribune.com. Best Buy, which has averaged an annual growth rate of about 20 percent, doubled in size from $20 billion in fiscal 2003 to $40 billion in fiscal 2008. Additionally, the management presentation at the meeting put an emphasis on the company's international growth plans.

Building our own asteroid

LIFE on Earth has had its ups and downs. Over the past 4 billion years, it has barely survived five mass extinction events, each most probably triggered by a collision with an asteroid or comet. Some 250 million years ago, nearly 90% of all sea species and 70% of all vertebrate land species suddenly became extinct. About 200 million years ago, another collision wiped out roughly half of all species, and ushered in the age of dinosaurs. Then 65 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and made room for the age of mammals — including, eventually, humans.

Building our own asteroid

LIFE on Earth has had its ups and downs. Over the past 4 billion years, it has barely survived five mass extinction events, each most probably triggered by a collision with an asteroid or comet. Some 250 million years ago, nearly 90% of all sea species and 70% of all vertebrate land species suddenly became extinct. About 200 million years ago, another collision wiped out roughly half of all species, and ushered in the age of dinosaurs. Then 65 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and made room for the age of mammals — including, eventually, humans.

50 Years of NASA

Fifty years ago this week NASA was born. On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the "National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958." NASA replaced NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, to meet the challenge of exploring beyond Earth, and in particular, to send a human into space. NASA has accomplished a lot during the last 50 years, and now its time to celebrate. To commemorate the anniversary, NASA has developed an interactive multimedia website that provides a historic tour of its first five decades of exploration. It's a fun and interesting site that offers lots of history and a little look at the future, too. The site combines historic and current video with entertaining computer animation, and the virtual exhibit takes a World's Fair approach to NASA history, with pavilions that host each decad

Researchers Face Jail Risk For Tor Snooping Study

An anonymous reader writes "A group of researchers from the University of Colorado and University of Washington could face both civil and criminal penalties for a research project (pdf) in which they snooped on users of the Tor anonymous proxy network. Should federal prosecutors take interest in the project, the researchers could also face up to 5 years in jail for violating the Wiretap Act.The researchers neither sought legal review of the project nor ran it past their Institutional Review Board. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has written a legal guide for Tor admins, strongly advises against any sort of network monitoring."

NASA, Pentagon hacker to face U.S. trial

Pentagon hacker will face music - A British computer expert lost his appeal on Wednesday against extradition to the United States where he is accused of "the biggest military hack of all time" and could face up to 70 years in prison.

Break Peter Moore's Face

Buttonmasher writes, "While previewing Face Breaker at the EA booth it was mentioned that Peter Moore's face had been scanned and entered into the game using the boxer editor. The face, which is creepily accurate, can be attached to any of the bodies and manipulated. Peter asserts that he suits a more chiseled look but the demonstration featured him as a blue monkey."

iTunes store rings up five billionth song sold

iTunes store rings up five billionth song sold The iTunes store, now the biggest selling music retailer in North America, announced today that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the store in its five year history.

India needs 5 years to catch up with China in patent filings

New Delhi: Last year, India filed patents only one-seventh in number of that done by China. And now the country stands at a level that was achieved by its neighbor as long as 10 years ago, says a study by global analytics firm Evalueserve, which says the gap will remain for up to further five years, reported Mint.

More Ways to Protect Yourself From Phishing

In my recent Editors' Notes post on Consumer Reports' recommendation that Mac users dump Safari because the Apple browser lacks the anti-phishing tools of Firefox and Opera, I focused on behavioral changes one can make that minimize the risks of phishing attempts. I didn't, however, discuss a relatively simple configuration change you can make to your Mac that will give you a real anti-phishing tool--in Safari or any other browser you might want to use.

Is There Really a Toolbar to Save Me from Phishing Scams?

Yes, there is a toolbar defense against getting phished. As you perhaps know, a "phishing" scam is a digital con game... where a convincing-looking login page lures you into typing your personal password. Commonly these phishing scams are fake versions of online banking, eBay and PayPal pages. If you are gullible or careless, you are likely to succumb and divulge your password to criminals. That is, unless you have an anti-phishing toolbar to help stop you before you get phished...

Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years

An anonymous reader writes "My kid is now 1 year old and I already have 100G of digital video (stored on DVDs, DVD quality) and photos. How should I store it so that it's still readable 10 to 20 years from now? Will DVDs stil be around, and readable, 10 years from now? Should I plan for technology changes every 5 to 10 years (DVD->Blue-ray->whatever)? Is optical storage better, or should I try to use hard drives (making technology changes automatic)? And, if the answer is optical, how do you store optical disks so that they last?"

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