January 14th, 2008
MySpace Agrees to New Safety Measures:
First let me hit you with the just the first paragraph from the AP article that’s making the rounds about MySpace’s proposed new safety measures.
Under mounting pressure from law enforcement and parents, MySpace agreed Monday to take steps to protect youngsters from online sexual predators and bullies, including searching for […]
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January 14th, 2008
By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the case of murdered pregnant Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach who was stationed at Camp Lejeune.
Thanks to LiLO and The Mickey Rat we have the MySpace of the man suspected in her murder Cesar Armando Laurean.
It’s believed that Cpl. Lauterbach was going to testify against Laurean for raping […]
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January 13th, 2008
Parents away and 500 teens play:
An Australian teen from Narre Warren South, Victoria posted an open invitation to a party at his house while his parents were on vacation. 500 kids showed up. It got so out of hand the police had to fall back and wait for back up.
The worst part? The kid isn’t […]
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January 13th, 2008
Hacked MySpace Page Disguises Trojan as Update:
Some hacked MySpaces are now carrying a Trojan known as TFactory. Here’s what you have to look out for.
Web surfers are presented with what appears to be a popup window advising them to download the latest version of Microsoft’s Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, which was just released this […]
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January 13th, 2008
More Details Emerge In Myspace Suicide Case:
Sometimes the media cracks me up. Take for instance this article by the local Fox affiliate in Kansas City about the Megan Meier case dated 1/10/08.
The Washington Post reports that someone established a Web site a few weeks ago to degrade Megan Meier’s character. The site has since been […]
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January 12th, 2008
MySpace leads to stolen signs:
Two teens from Mountain Home, Arkansas have been arrested for stealing street signs. How were they caught? Take a guess. No really guess. Ok you’re right. They posted the pics of the stolen signs on MySpace. You know what that means. These two brilliant vandals are the latest recipients of…
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January 12th, 2008
MySpace Leads Police to Suspect:
That’s 20-year-old Stephen Gardner Jr. of Winter Haven, Florida. He was nabbed by police when one of his victims recognized him from MySpace. The article has one of the better lines I’ve read…
Winter Haven police say that without a photo of Gardner downloaded from MySpace, he would still be in free […]
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January 12th, 2008
Hillsborough County man met girls on MySpace in order to have sex:
Mr. Clean over there is 37-year-old Edward Oberwise of Hillsborough County, Florida. He’s been arrested for having sex with a 12-year-old girl he met over MySpace.
Police were tipped off by the girl’s 14-year-old friend who told her parents.
So let’s hear it sex offender defenders. […]
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January 12th, 2008
Law could ban sex offenders from Myspace:
Just like his cohorts from other states Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter just doesn’t get it. Like his other counterparts he is proposing legislation that is supposed to keep registered sex offenders off of MySpace and other social networking sites.
Carter says convicted sex offenders will be required to […]
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January 11th, 2008
MySpace Profile Lands Man Unusual Sentence:
That dashing gentleman to your right who is rocking the mullet is one 19-year-old Austin Bean of Nashville, TN. Lat year he was arrested on charges of burglary and coercion of a witness.
The judge who was ruling on his case must have seen Bean’s MySpace that contained an insult towards […]
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January 11th, 2008
Man arrested for MySpace comments to ex-girlfriend:
19-year-old Robert A. Forshee of Galesburg, IL was arrested for threatening his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend over MySpace.
In one message left on the girl’s MySpace page Dec. 12, Forshee wrote the girl should get an order of protection even though a piece of paper “won’t stop me from killin u” and […]
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January 10th, 2008
Zango strikes back over reported Facebook hack:
Scummy spyware company Zango denies that it’s scummy spyware programs were being passed along through the Facebook app ‘Secret Crush’.
In the end, Fortinet is charging that Secret Crush merely “directed [users] to an external Web site inviting them to download applications such as [Zango’s], which allows for pop-up advertising,” […]
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January 10th, 2008
Okaloosa County boy arrested for MySpace threat:
This article is the definition of short on details.
Some kid from Okaloosa County in Florida threatened some other kid on MySpace back in October.
He was arrested.
The end.
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January 10th, 2008
Again, no, not John Lennon’s son.
Ravena man pleads guilty to raping teen he met on MySpace:
I originally posted about Sean Lennon here. He was arrested over the summer for having sex with a 14-year-old girl he met on MySpace. The 21-year-old from Ravena, New York pleaded guilty to to one count of Use of a […]
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January 9th, 2008
Teen sentenced for threats on another student’s MySpace page:
You may remember a story about an 18-year-old girl from Olivia, MN who hacked into another girl’s MySpace in order to make threats against Atwater-Grove City-Cosmos High School. The article doesn’t name her for some reason but we already know her as Cozy Lynn Schick.
Well she’s been […]
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