WHO@ Newsletter - February 6, 2012
I couldn't make this up if I tried. . .Family gets $10K Internet bill for watching movies
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/02/0
A Canadian family said they unknowingly racked up a $10,000 bill while using their mobile Internet to watch movies on Netflix while on vacation.
John Gibson of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, said he recently took his family on vacation to Phoenix, where his grandchildren used his SaskTel mobile Internet to watch Netflix movies on a laptop computer, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday.
Gibson said he was shocked when his SaskTel bill arrived and the amount exceeded $10,000. He said he was told the charges resulted from heavy data usage outside of the company's service area, causing roaming charges to accumulate.
Gibson said he spoke to the company and they agreed to reduce the bill to $1,000. He said the experience was a pricy lesson.
"It's sort of my fault," he said. "I'll pay the thousand bucks and -- lesson learned."
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Snarky Facebook comments no reason to fire teacher, judge rules - 02/05/12
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/05/sn
A New York teacher fired for posting snarky online comments suggesting her unruly students should drown can go back to the classroom, a judge ruled. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Barbara Jaffe last week overturned an administrative decision to boot Christine Rubino, who taught at PS 203 in Brooklyn, for posting "repulsive" comments on Facebook.
Geotags on smartphones make cyberstalking easy - 02/04/12
http://www.ktvl.com/articles/don-120365
Many smartphone users don't realize that the pictures they take on their phones can give the exact location of where they are located through something called geotags. Lieutenant Josh Moulin works with Southern Oregon High-Tech Crimes Task Force.
Woman who 'tried to extort $10,000 from the makers of the Duggar family's reality show 19 Kids and Counting arrested by FBI' - 02/04/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar
The Duggar family, who star in the reality TV show 19 Kids and Counting, are allegedly at the centre of an FBI sting. According to RadarOnline.com the FBI arrested Teresa Hunt for allegedly trying to extort $10,000 from Discovery Communications, the company behind the series that airs on TLC. The reality show follows Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, a deeply religious couple who shun contraception and believe their 19 children are a blessing from God.
Estranged husband booked for stalking - 02/03/12
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/2012
Ouachita Parish deputies arrested a man Friday morning accused of recording video of a woman and sending them to her. Jonathan Campbell, 21, of 2700 Huntington St., Monroe, was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on charges of stalking and cyberstalking.
Facebook stalker murdered ex - 02/03/12
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
A MAN who stalked his ex-girlfriend on Facebook before stabbing her to death was today found guilty of murder. Clifford Mills, 49, attacked Lorna Smith after inviting her to his flat in Brixton, south London, in February last year.
The dark web: Guns and drugs for sale on the internet's secret black market - 02/03/12
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-1680
Out of reach of regular internet searches is the secretive online world known as the 'dark web' - anonymous, virtually untraceable global networks used by political activists and criminals alike. You have the availability of multiple dealers so you can compare products - and customers can review the dealer's product, too."
Rainbow Lake man accused of stalking - 02/03/12
http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/pa
A Rainbow Lake man was arrested Thursday for allegedly stalking a woman and her teenage daughter from Warren County. Steve D. Kolnsberg, 55, faces 10 counts of second-degree aggravated harassment, a class A misdemeanor. He was arrested by Warren County sheriff's deputies following what they said was "a lengthy investigation involving the ongoing online harassment of a Queensbury woman and her fourteen-year-old daughter."
Woman Fights Man She Met Online for Baby - 02/03/12
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc
Kristy Gaffney says she thought she’d found love when she met a man online. Now the Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania woman claims she’s in the battle of her life – fighting for the child they had. “I thought like he was Mr. Perfect, ha, ha,” Gaffney told NBC10 Investigator Harry Hairston. “There’s no words for it. I’m just so angry at him."
Internet gambling addict frittered away £400,000 from company - and now her boss can't afford to retire for another FIVE YEARS - 02/03/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
An internet gambling addict plundered almost £400,000 from her company to fritter away online. Suzan Smith, 53, was jailed after the staggering theft which meant the boss of the small business is unable to retire for another five years. Smith, who had been trusted implicitly, admitted stealing £398,651.26 from Graham Wuyts & Co Accountants in Attleborough, near Wymondham, Norfolk.
Woman describes 'sheer horror' after online impostor takes photos - 02/02/12
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10
As a former model and daughter of a photographer, Lydia Lange has been the subject of thousands of pictures. She posted many of them on her personal Facebook page and fashion blog. Little did she know, someone was copying her photos and posting them online under the name “Jenny.”
TripAdvisor reviews can't be trusted: Website fails to vet comments, says watchdog - 02/02/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
TripAdvisor can no longer claim to offer ‘trusted and honest’ reviews, the advertising watchdog has ruled. It said that because the world’s biggest travel website does not vet its 50 million users’ comments, it cannot guarantee they are genuine. The site promises to provide reliable reviews from travellers about hotels, restaurants and airlines around the world.
Threat from new virus-infected emails which take over your PC even if you DON'T open their attachments - 02/02/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science
A new class of cyber attack is threatening PCs - emails which infect PCs without the user having to open an attachment. The user will not even be warned this is happening - the only message that appears is 'loading'. The email automatically downloads malicious software into your computer from elsewhere the moment a user clicks to open it.
Net closes on personalised adverts: Internet users to be protected from 'sinister' tracking devices used for targeted ads - 02/02/12
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/arti
Internet users are to be given the power to stop companies monitoring their browsing and using the information gleaned to bombard them with targeted advertisements. Sites including Google and Facebook will have to carry a red warning triangle with an ‘i’ on all adverts which have been generated by such monitoring.
Fury at student website for 'condoning rape' - 02/02/12
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
A STUDENT website has sparked outrage with an article declaring rape was fine as long as the attacker said "surprise". The insulting feature on UniLad said the fact that only 15 per cent of rapes are reported was "good odds". The article ended with the words: "UniLad does not condone rape without saying 'surprise'."
Bogus biology teacher faked qualifications and worked as examiner for an A-Level board - 02/02/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
A bogus biology teacher forged her qualifications to work as an examiner for an A-level exam board. Julia Rawlinson, 44, duped her bosses by using a computer to forge a degree, doctorate and teaching certificates.
Blundering Met sends email addresses of 1,000 crime victims to strangers - 02/02/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
The Metropolitan Police accidentally shared the email addresses of more than 1,000 victims of crime with others, it emerged today. The mistake occurred when 'human error' led to their details being inserted in the wrong box of an email sent by the Met to distribute a quality control survey. This was sent to 1,136 people in seven batches, meaning the email addresses of those affected were seen by up to 198 people.
Vile Gary Speed internet rumours nailed - 02/01/12
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne
A RELATIVE of Gary Speed yesterday condemned Twitter users who spread vile slurs about the soccer legend after he was found hanged. Anthony Haylock who is married to Speed's sister Lesley used the website itself to hit back just hours after the inquest into the Wales manager's death.
Social networking sites fuelling stalking, report warns - 02/01/12
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20
New forms of digital technology and social networking sites such as Facebook are increasingly putting people at risk of stalking, according to a report published on Wednesday. The study, from Women's Aid and the Network for Surviving Stalking, warns that mobile phones, particularly smartphones, are increasingly being targeted. Spyware could be installed on the phone in "less than five minutes", allowing a stalker to listen remotely to the phone's surroundings, intercept calls, track text messages and the location of a device if it has GPS hardware.
Carder Forced Gang Members to Have Sex to Weed Out Undercover Feds - 01/31/12
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0
The mastermind of a carding gang in Georgia devised a novel way for weeding out undercover Feds from his operation he forced members to have group sex, according to a local police detective who helped bust the ring. Vikas Yadav, an Indian national who was deported in 2010, recruited other carders and mules through sadomasochism web sites, forcing would-be accomplices to have group sex with other men and women while Yadav videotaped them, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
Seattle library lets man watch porn, despite complaint - 01/31/12
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/art
A Seattle woman is complaining that she was at the Lake City library with her kids recently, when she saw a man watching hard-core porn on a computer, with the screen facing toward the room. She asked the librarian to move the man to a more discreet location. The librarian refused.
'Hey crazy, I read it all over the Internet': The man who told the nation's media he was dumped because he had cancer... and the girl who says he made it all up - 01/31/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
He claimed his girlfriend dumped him for having cancer -- and then still insisted he hand over Superbowl tickets worth $8,000 he bought for her. But now, a man whose story went viral on the Internet is facing claims from the woman in question that he made it all up.
Grammar school pupils expelled after Facebook smear campaign that they had sex in a store cupboard - 01/31/12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
Two grammar school pupils were expelled after a malicious gossip campaign broke out on Facebook claiming the pair had sex in a school store room and toilet. Trevor Evans and his girlfriend were 16 when they were first suspended from West Kirby Grammar School, in Wirral, where they were sixth-formers.
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