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The Pueblo Police Department has arrested a suspect in connection with an alleged incident of voter machine tampering that occurred at Pueblo County election headquarters approximately one hour before polls closed on June 28, 2022. Richard Patton, a 31-year-old from Pueblo, was arrested Thursday morning on suspicion of election tampering and cybercrimes. Patton is a registered Democrat, state records show. “We would like to assure the community that all voter safeguards put in place to protect the voter process were successful,” a statement from Pueblo PD said. “No information has been found to be breached at this time. This is...

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has added a veteran cyber prosecutor to his team, filling what has long been a gap in expertise and potentially signaling a recent focus on computer crimes. Ryan K. Dickey was assigned to Mueller’s team in early November from the Justice Department’s computer crime and intellectual-property section, said a spokesman for the special counsel’s office. He joined 16 other lawyers who are highly respected by their peers but who have come under fire from Republicans wary of some of their political contributions to Democrats. Dickey’s addition is particularly notable because he is the first...

Security experts are warning Web-surfing consumers about a rise in cybercrime and scams related to Osama bin Laden's death. Major news events are often accompanied by an uptick in cybercrime, as perpetrators seek to take advantage of Web searches for content such as pictures and videos. "I suppose this was just inevitable," Dave Marcus, director of security research for McAfee Labs, wrote in a blog post. "The reported death of Osama Bin Laden is just too good a lure for cybercriminals and scammers to pass up." Marcus said e-mails are circulating with links purporting to lead to photos of bin...

Perhaps the most nebulous area of national security is cyber defense. What constitutes an act of cyber war? What organization should take the lead when cyber events occur and it is unclear who is behind them? Between criminals, “hacktivists,” terrorists or rogue nation states, you really do not know when these events are unfolding so you cannot determine if it is a federal law enforcement issue or an issue for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or is it a Military (DoD) issue. For months and, in some cases years, many people and organizations involved in cyber defense and security...

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news, "MySpace has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders on its site as of July – four times its original estimate." What's further alarming is that Consumer Reports noted in its "Net Threats" (Sept. 2007) that, "13 percent of their children who were registered at the giant networking site MySpace.com were younger than 14, the minimum age the site officially allows. We also found that many parents haven't prepared their children for online risks." An Expanded Playground For Cyber Perverts We all know the Internet has become the sexual predator's playground. What's tragic...

Hey genealogy lovers: The far left foreign loonies with a bad translator have hacked a non-political site, CYNDISLIST.COM...a genealogy site. What is this world coming to when a site for genealogy lovers needs to be defaced?

Story last updated at 5:02 a.m. Friday, May 28, 2004 Wolfforth man indicted on child pornography charges An Internet company's complaint to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children led to child porn indictments this week against a Wolfforth man. Bobby J. Fulbright, 52, who faces six counts of possessing and promoting child pornography, was indicted by a Lubbock County grand jury Tuesday. Officials with the Web site Yahoo alerted the Center for Missing and Exploited Children after a user posted sexual images of young boys to a Yahoo discussion group, according to court documents. The case was referred to...