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Mahalo Employs Botnet Criminal

An employee in Mahalo's IT department, John Schiefer, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for launching a botnet attack. He was charged and agreed to plead guilty back in 2007. In the meantime, he got a job at Mahalo and has been working there up to his sentencing.

Police Take Unsolved Murders To Internet

The Internet is certainly maligned enough as a place of general depravity and poor etiquette, but all shadows have a lighter side. The Toronto Police, for example, have launched a website where visitors can check out cold homicide cases and provide new clues.

Man in UK Sentenced for Facebook Slaughter

Back in February a man named Wayne Forrester murdered his wife Emma in cold blood (and a cocaine and alcohol-fueled daze) by stabbing her in the head and neck with a kitchen knife and meat cleaver. The reason he did this he said, was because she changed her Facebook profile to "single" shortly after he moved out of their home. Today, Forrester was sentenced to life in jail, and ordered to serve a minimum of 14 years. BBC News reports:

It's Criminal: Old Bailey Trials Online

Trial documents dating back as far as 1674 recorded for cases heard at London's Old Bailey arrived online thanks to the work of a group of universities.

YouTube Used By Police For Leads

The Arlington County Police Department in Virginia is using YouTube to help catch criminals. Surveillance video from crime scenes is being uploaded to the Web site in an effort to receive leads and identify suspects. A two- minute video of a bank robbery received more than 1,000 hits and could be responsible for providing a lead in the case.

Google Helps Burglars Crack Safe

They thought they had everything planned out, and if you let your imagination go, you can imagine the conversation in their parents' basement: No spray paint, but we got some WD-40. They didn't know they would need Google to help them crack the safe.

Google, VW Become Partners In Crime

Google and Volkswagen have been pals for over a year, but that once-pure relationship appears to have recently devolved into a criminal partnership.  It turns out that the Volkswagen home page - which is powered by a Google Search Appliance, and was also recently featured in the Google Enterprise Blog - contains some hidden text.

CEO Says SEO A Waste Of Time

Is search engine optimization a waste of time? According to one man in the UK it is. Anthony Fallon, CEO of Warrington Web Works, a UK Web Publishing company says that search engine optimization is both a waste of time and money to businesses and he can support his argument with proof.

YouTube: Taking a Bite Out of Crime?

Canadian authorities have been feverishly searching for a man believed to be responsible for murdering one person and seriously injuring another. Thanks to the popular video-sharing site, YouTube, their search may be over.

YouTube: Cracking Down On Crime

Ontario police use the popular video sharing site YouTube to help catch a killer.