Teacher charged with Internet crime; West Boylston kids not involved.
Byline: Jean Laquidara Hill WEST BOYLSTON - Charges brought against a teacher at West Boylston Middle/High School for allegedly using the Internet to distribute harmful material to children do not involve students at that school or anyone in town, school Superintendent Thomas J. Kane said yesterday. ...

Crime Online.
Crime Online Yvonne Jewkes (Ed.) (2007) Cullompton, England, Willan Publishing, 189 pp, ISBN 13:978-1-84392-197-4 Crime Online provides a snapshot of the current state of knowledge on cybercrime, exploring both social constructions of online criminal activities and methods of control and regulation. This book is edited by Yvonne...

Viruses all set to go mobile now.
Byline: Balaram Keelapattu HYDERABAD: The virus is all set to go mobile. With the cellular phone providing net-enabled features like e-mail, instant messages, multimedia, browsing etc, virus writers who hitherto attacked computers are readying to upload viruses onto mobile phones. In all probability, 2008 might...

PROTECTING COMPANIES FROM IDENTITY THEFT.
PROTECTING COMPANIES FROM IDENTITY THEFT By Marleah Blades Organizations must think company-wide and cross public/private barriers to prevent data breaches A man walking down an empty residential street opens a mailbox and shoves its contents -- including a credit card statement containing four...

The battle against White-Collar Crime: "The exponential growth of technology and the use of computers have triggered a purposeful rethinking of the tools needed by law enforcement organizations to address internet-related crime." (Law & Justice).
ONE IN THREE American households are victims of white-collar crime, yet just 41% actually report it. Of those reported, a mere 21% made it into the hands of a law enforcement or consumer protection agency. This means that less than eight percent of white-collar crimes reached the proper authorities,...

Course to help parents foil Internet scams and schemes.
Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard The live video that Bill Cornell sometimes sees when he logs on to popular Internet teen chat rooms cannot be described in a family newspaper. Worse still are the efforts of pedophiles to contact Cornell when he logs on, pretending...

Crime@internet.
Byline: Mohini Mehrotra After the murder of 16-year-old Adnan Patrawala, DT looks at the seamier side of social networking sites. The problem with the net, says a blogger, is that it is turning out like the real world, but without any rules or laws that...

Making scams scram: there are many surprising ways we can be deceived--when we are buying a car, lying in a hospital bed, sending a check in the mail, or even standing in a checkout line.
Scam Proof Your Life by Sid Kirchheimer 336 pages, Sterling Publishing, $19.95 "Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived," said the 18th century German author Johann Seume. Seume would feel fight at home in today's world where, thanks to the Internet, money-making...

Restiveness all around the world.
PARIS a" The street protests here remind us of similar scenes in Manila not too long ago; But the planned strike early next week has certainly not affected the inflow of tourists and convention visitors: Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is under considerable pressure from the business sector on...

Sex on the Internet: observations and implications for Internet sex addiction.
The Internet is altering patterns of social communication and interpersonal relationships. This is nowhere more true than in the field of sexuality (Cooper, Delmonico, & Burg, 2000). Furthermore, sex is the most frequently searched-for topic on the Internet (Freeman-Longo & Blanchard, 1998). Young, Griffin-Shelley, Cooper, O'Mara, and Buchanan (2000)...