One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled 1,500+ years for couple who produced child pornography.
A federal judge sentenced a Lauderdale County couple to hundreds of years in prison for sexually abusing a minor child in their custody to produce images of child pornography.
Officials said Patricia Ayers is sentenced to 1,590 years in prison. Her husband, Matthew Ayers, was sentenced to 750 years in prison.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BBC News published an article titled Paedophiles who download images ‘won’t all be charged’.
Some paedophiles with images of child abuse will escape prosecution, the head of the National Crime Agency has said.
Keith Bristow said expecting all the estimated 50,000 people in the UK who have accessed abuse images to be brought to justice was “not realistic”.
He said police would have to focus on those who posed most risk.
Source: BBC News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BBC News published an article titled Nude ‘Snapchat images’ put online by hackers.
Explicit images believed to have been sent through messaging service Snapchat were reportedly put online, with threats from hackers to upload more.
Users who had been accessing the service via a third-party app, and not the official Snapchat app, had their images intercepted.
As half of its users are aged between 13 and 17, there is concern that many of the images may be of children.
Source: BBC News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Feds arrest “most hated man on the Internet” in revenge porn hacking case.
As the founder of one of the first highly profitable sites to post nude photos of people against their will, 27-year-old Hunter Moore had already been branded the most hated man on the Internet. On Thursday, he was arrested on federal charges claiming that he paid a man to break into the e-mail accounts of hundreds of victims and steal sexually explicit images that later showed up on Moore’s notorious isanyoneup.com site.
According to an indictment filed in federal court in Los Angeles, Moore paid $200 or more per week for images that he knew were obtained by illegally accessing the e-mail accounts. To cover his tracks, he used PayPal accounts that weren’t linked to his identity and at one point created new e-mail addresses and deleted data tied to past hack attacks. Moore’s arrangement with Charles “Gary” Evens, who is now 25, began at an unknown date and lasted until about May 2, 2012, prosecutors alleged in the 15-count charging document.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt today said his company’s search engine has made it far more difficult to find images of child pornography and that Google is developing a technology that will identify children being abused in YouTube videos.
“While no algorithm is perfect—and Google cannot prevent pedophiles adding new images to the Web—these changes have cleaned up the results for over 100,000 queries that might be related to the sexual abuse of kids,” Schmidt wrote in the UK-based Daily Mail.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Des Moines Register published an article titled University of Iowa TA reportedly emailed nude photos to students.
The incident first was made public Wednesday morning on the website TotalFratMove.com, which stated the TA in the math department had accidentally emailed nude photos of herself to students. The website also posted what it claims is a copy of the TA’s email, which reads: “Hi Class, I attach the solutions for number 76 and 78 in this email.”
According to TotalFratMove, which claims it has copies of the nude images, “The images are from a video chat that is quite sexual in nature. It appears that two people are ‘cyber-sexing’ from different locations using video equipment.”
Source: The Des Moines Register
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CBS DC published an article titled Study: Vast Majority Of Homemade Porn, Private Photos End Up Online.
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – The vast majority of homemade pornography and private images on personal computers ends up on public websites called “parasites.”
Eighty-eight percent of homemade pornography, including videos and still images, finds its way onto porn sites, often without the owners’ knowledge, a new study from Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has found.
The study analyzed more than 12,000 sexually explicit images uploaded by young people and found that the great majority of images had been stolen and published to what the organization calls, “parasite” websites.
Source: CBS DC
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. NEWSER published an article titled Child Porn Suspect Takes bin Laden’s Spot on FBI List.
(Newser) – The FBI has finally replaced Osama bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, but the new addition doesn’t quite have the stature of the mass-murdering terrorist mastermind. The new face of alleged evil: Eric Justin Toth, an ex-third grade teacher who’s been on the lam since 2008, when pornographic images were found on his school camera, ABC News reports.
Source: NEWSER
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. NEWSER published an article titled Indiana Man Charged With ‘Sextortion’.
(Newser) – The FBI has arrested an Indiana man who allegedly blackmailed 14-year-old boys into uploading sexually explicit images and videos of themselves, MSNBC reports. According to chilling court documents, Richard Leon Finkbiner, 39, befriended the boys online and enticed them into uploading the explicit material. He then threatened to show it to friends or family if they wouldn’t upload more. Worse, evidence on Finkbiner’s computer suggests “several hundred” other victims of roughly the same age.
Source: NEWSER
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