This Guy Turned Himself in for Child Porn Because Malware Told Him To

This Guy Turned Himself in for Child Porn Because Malware Told Him To

We’re already well aware of the damage malware can do to your machine, but apparently, guilty consciences don’t fare all that well, either. At least not for one 21-year-old man who, after getting a fake pop-up demanding a fine for the child pornography on his computer, decided to take his laptop straight to the police—and was then promptly arrested on three counts of possession of child pornography.

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SOPA’s Back From the Dead and This Time It’s a Virus [Sopa]

If you thought SOPA was dead, well, you’d be mostly right. Its bloated corpse, however, has been resurrected by hacker puppeteers for the valiant purpose of scamming people out of their cash. More »