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Police Blotter: E911 rules aid police in tracking cell phones

February 8, 2008 Court order lets Homeland Security obtain precise location data from T-Mobile about customer's movements in real time. TAGS: E911, informant, affidavit, Police Blotter, T-Mobile, homeland security, Minnesota, U.S. District Judge, police, prosecutor, evidence, cell phone, movement, subscriber, order, location

Police Blotter: Can a cell phone camera intimidate a witness?

November 16, 2007 Court rules that trial defendant committed crime when pretending to photograph an undercover officer with his cell phone. TAGS: officer, informant, Police Blotter, defendant, cell phone, Massachusetts, photograph, camera

Microsoft reward snags suspected Sasser author

May 8, 2004 The software giant's $5 million fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks snags its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser w... TAGS: Sasser worm, informant, arrest, Brad Smith, virus attack, fund, Germany, worm, reward, virus, variant, lead, MSBlast worm, success, author, antivirus

Police blotter: FBI's 'misleading' wiretap suppressed

March 7, 2007 Appeals court upholds ruling against FBI's mobile phone wiretap of an alleged drug dealer because it was based on a deceptive affidavit. TAGS: affidavit, surveillance, wiretap, informant, Police Blotter, dealer, agent, mobile phone, Mr.

Virus writers elude Microsoft's bounty hunt

November 5, 2004 A year on, and the company's $1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust? TAGS: Sasser worm, informant, bounty, Sobig, MyDoom virus, margin, reward, MSBlast worm, virus, Graham Cluley, writer, author, antivirus, Microsoft Corp., software company

Sasser author gets suspended sentence

July 8, 2005 update Court passes sentence on German teen who admitted creating the worm that wreaked havoc in thousands of PCs. TAGS: Sven Jaschan, Sasser worm, informant, sentence, worm, author, court, damage, trial, Microsoft Corp., virus, Microsoft Windows XP, operating system, Microsoft Windows, PC

Microsoft: Sasser bounty hinges on conviction

September 10, 2004 Person who fingered alleged author of virus must cool heels while waiting for cool quarter-million-dollar reward. TAGS: Sven Jaschan, Sasser worm, Hemanshu Nigam, Netsky virus, informant, Graham Cluley, arrest, conviction, bounty, variant, virus, police, authority, MSBlast worm, author, antivirus

Microsoft: Separate trail led to second virus writer

May 10, 2004 The suspected author of the Agobot program was arrested by German police the same day they nabbed the alleged writer of the Sasser worm. Microsoft says "two different paths led to two different cas... TAGS: AgoBot, Hemanshu Nigam, Sasser worm, arrest, informant, author, variant, virus, Microsoft Corp.

Can Microsoft bounty end viruses?

May 10, 2004 Microsoft claims its reward program was responsible for the arrest of the suspected author of the Sasser worm, but some experts say money alone will not clear up security problems. TAGS: Sasser worm, reward, informant, bounty, criminal, crime, virus, Computer Associates International Inc., antivirus, Microsoft Corp., effect, vice president, security

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