Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
VICTIM OF INTERNET CRIME? Consider Filing A Complaint With FBI IC3.GOV
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
FBI: Victims of Internet Crimes, File A Complaint with IC3.GOV
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
POLICE: Body of Missing New Hampshire Girl Found In River
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Remembering Celina Cass (personal Facebook photo)
UPDATE: Investigators say the body of missing 11-year-old Celina Cass was located in a river Monday, less than one mile from her home. New Hampshire Fish and game Department divers located her body near a hydroelectric dam. Authorities are considering Celina’s death suspicious and no persons of interest or suspects have been named in this case. The investigation will continue while an autopsy is performed to determine her official cause of death.
BACKGROUND: The FBI is now assisting New Hampshire State Police in the search to find Celina Cass. Investigators say Celina, 11, went missing around 9 p.m. one week ago.
Celina’s parents told authorities she was last seen on her computer and the next morning when they woke up, she was no where to be found. Celina and her family live one mile from the Canadian border.
Celina is tall for her age standing at 5 feet 5 inches and she weighs about 95 pounds and was last seen wearing a pink shirt, pink pullover, blue shorts and shoes.
National Center For Missing and Exploited Children’s New Internet Program
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) says 73% of teens between the ages of 12 to 17 have social networking profiles and around 86% of teens comment on the pages and walls of their friends. A new game launched by NCMEC called, “Tad’s Profile Panic” is a way to educate children before they reach their teen years of safe practices on social networking sites. Tad’s Profile Panic targets children between the ages of 8 and 12 and players are able to teach Tad clean up his profile by collecting the information that should be kept private.
“Today, children rely more on the Internet than ever before in history. The majority of households today have at least one computer, and we know that most teens access the Internet from multiple locations,” said Ernie Allen, president and CEO of NCMEC.
Tad’s Profile Panic was created by the NSTeens.org and is an extension of the popular NetSmartz workshop program.
RISKY BUSINESS FOR CITIES
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Seattle, Washington
Norton Symantec is one of the leading software compaies to protect consumers on the web. Norton’s Security Response group researched and compiled a list of the riskiest cities for web surfing. Norton says they analyzed 50 of the largest cities in the U.S. by population, and the goal is to expose cybercrime, educate the public, and protect victims. According to an article posted on their site, Cybercrime affects one in five online shoppers and costs citizens $560 million. An independent resarch firm joined forces with Symantec (Nasdaq:SYMC) to expose cybercrime.
These are the results of those findings of the TOP 10 Riskiest Online Cities:
1) Seattle, Washington
2) Boston, Massachusetts
3) Washington, D.C.
4) San Francisco, California
5) Raleigh, North Carolina
6) Atlanta, Georgia
7) Minneapolis, Minnesota
8) Denver, Colorado
9) Austin, Texas
10) Portland, Oregon
The study shows Detroit, Michigan as the least risky city
Top 3 Safety Tips from Norton
No matter where your city ranks on the list, people everywhere can benefit from online safety tips to help prevent becoming a victim of a cybercrime:
NYC BOMB SUSPECT ARRESTED
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010An arrest has been made in the weekend bomb incident in New York City. Investigators say Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested as he attempted to board a flight late last night. Shahzad is an American citizen who was living in Connecticut, and paid cash for the SUV he used as a homemade bomb on wheels.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. said in the middle of the night at a press conference, “It was clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans.” Official charges have not been brought down against Shahzad yet, but he will appear in court later today to face formal charges. The key to cracking this investigation so quickly appears to be the vehicle, and the sale of the SUV. Authorities say Shahzad allegedly purchased the car based off an Internet listing.
WIRELESS AMBER ALERTS
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Do you want to be alerted when a child is abducted? I encourage you to sign up for free via wireless Internet. It is easy, all you have to do is text the word AMBER followed by a space and your 5-digit zipcode to 26237. If you don’t feel comfortable texting, you can sign up on-line.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited children, the first three hours a child is abducted are the most critical to recovery efforts. This is a fantastic initiative to reach 200 million wireless subscribers. About 200-250 Amber Alerts are activated each year, and more than 400 children have been safely recovered because of the program.
