Category: Cybercrime
Sitting in court with Michelle Carter
Sitting quietly in the courtroom of Taunton District Courthouse at nine A.M. a packed audience, comprised mainly of journalists, jumps up duteously. His Honor has entered the room. Massachusetts Taunton District Court, a newly constructed building, opened in 2011. Bright, clean, sunny and spacious, the ambience seems intended to help placate its visitors; the masses of unfortunate souls who pass through the glass enclosed entrance many enduring the darkest times of their life. A trial concerning a suicide strikes a collective nerve.
Fourth day of Michelle Carter trial
Defense attorney Joseph Cataldo
Michelle Carter (in red attire) leaving court
On Thursday, June 8, 2017 the fourth day of Michelle Carter’s trial to determine whether she will be convicted for involuntary manslaughter continued. The prosecution called three witnesses, two state police electronics experts and the medical examiner.
Tweets of Michelle Carter trial for sending suicide texts
Michelle Carter is in court this week being tried for involuntary manslaughter for influencing 18-year-old Conrad Roy into committing suicide in July 2014. There is more than one reporter live tweeting the trial and some very interesting information is being shared.
One new revelation is that Carter chose to not have a jury in her trial but only a judge decide her fate. Another new insight is Carter has her own mental health issues that she was seeing a therapist for at the time of Roy’s suicide. This was new news to the prosecutor who seemed skeptical about it.
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War on Terrorism in the Dark Web
“ISIS, we will hunt you and take down your sites, accounts, emails and expose you. From now on, there is no safe place for you online. You will be treated like a virus and we are the cure.” This is the message from hacker group Anonymous reported on November 21, 2015.
Hired Cyberhacker attacks Rutgers University computer system again
It is being reported on September 28, 2015 that Rutgers University’s computer system was attacked again. On Monday, the same hacker that has taken down their system at least four other times in the past year, did it again. An unidentified person(s) who goes by the name Exfocus on Twitter has claimed responsibility for the Denial of Service attack that interrupted internet service for thousands of students.
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Officials from Sweden and Ecuador will meet Monday to discuss Julian Assange rape charges
It is being reported on August 28, 2015 that officials from Sweden and Ecuador will meet this Monday to discuss the rape charges against Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012 in an effort to avoid extradition.
Names of NASA employees who bought child porn kept secret
It is being reported on August 24, 2015 that the identities of NASA employees who were found to have bought child pornography from an Eastern European website will not be revealed. “An investigation by Daily Mail Online found 16 staff members from the space agency paid for pictures and videos of children in sexual situations, but were never prosecuted.”
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500K bounty on Ashley Madison Hacker
A news was conference held on Monday August 24, 2015 to offer a $500,000 reward to anyone who identifies the hackers that released private data from the Ashley Madison website. The repercussions of this security breach has spread all over the world. At least two suicides have been directly connected to this computer attack.
Hired Cyberhacker attacks Rutgers University computer system
It is being reported on August 23, 2015 that a cyberhacker who calls himself, Exfocus, has repeatedly attacked the computer infrastructure of Rutgers University. The disruptions have taken down their website four times in the past year. Exfocus has also taunted Rutgers on social media, saying, “I’m fairly certain I could run circles around all of you with my eyes closed, and one leg amputated.”
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True Crimes Podcast 