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- Computer Forensics (5)
- Email Scam (2)
- General (34)
- Internet Crime (19)
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- 21. April 2010: Interview with SG Star Times
- 28. March 2010: Tracking Sexual Predators by the way they use the keyboard
- 17. March 2010: IC3 2009 Annual Report on Internet Crime Released
- 6. February 2010: Indiana's "Sexting" Bill (SB0224)
- 29. December 2009: Education is key to prevention!
- 8. October 2009: So Many Local Crimes, So Few Cybercops to Help
- 21. September 2009: Place a fraud alert to protect against identity theft
- 7. August 2009: Fake Security Software Steals $34 Million Monthly
- 9. July 2009: GCSD and Nixle Announce Launch of Community Information Service
- 6. April 2009: FBI: Internet Fraud Rates Rose 33% Last Year
Archive for 13. November 2007
Social networking: What cops know
13. November 2007 by admin.
Indiana State Police Lt. Charles Cohen’s 16-year-old nephew “has seven MySpace pages, including one in which he and his buddies pretend to be Chuck Norris,” the Associated Press reports. That’s a great observation for parents to hear, echoed by many experts on Web 2.0 - that there are all kinds of blogs and social-networking profiles, from pure fiction to “reality TV” on the Web to hybrids of the two (the majority probably being in that in-between gray area). The content of Lieutenant Cohen’s talks to fellow law enforcement say something about how police work is changing, about social networkers’ use of privacy tools, and about how the Web increasingly mirrors offline life (here’s the main article. “Many police departments have computer crews that perform skillful forensic analysis on hard drives and specialize in nailing online predators.” Cohen’s talks are for everybody else - “beat cops, homicide detectives and other investigators” who are either in denial about needing to understand the Net or don’t realize what a tool it can be.
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GCSD: MySpace
13. November 2007 by admin.
Welcome! We are new to having a MySpace page, but not new to being on MySpace 
Our goal is to educate and be visible in the MySpace community. We encourage parents to play an active role in monitoring their child’s MySpace. While parents need to be involved in their children’s “online diet”, looking over your child’s shoulder constantly is not the best way to implement parental control. Having a MySpace page of your own and being added to your child’s friend’s list and communicating with them through MySpace or other electronic means(i.e. e-mail, instant messenger, etc.) will help the communication between parent and child. It will also encourage your child to share information with you that they might encounter and being listed as “Mom” or “Dad” on your child’s friend list may deter a potential MySpace predator. This is also a goal for our MySpace page. We encourage people of our community to submit a friend request and have us added to your friend’s list. If a potential child predator sees a law enforcement agency listed as a friend this is just another deterrent in helping protect your child. Please visit our website at http://www.gibsoncountysheriff.com. Our new cyber crime blog is located at http://cybercrime.gibsoncountysheriff.com. Please visit and also feel free to participate! Be safe!!
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