A Philippines actor-director was stabbed several times by his Facebook buddy early Monday.
Rivero and Hans Ivan Ruiz met over Facebook about five months ago.
According to the Inquirer, Ruiz stabbed Rivero 10 times in the chest area while he was asleep, and tried to choke him with a towel when the latter escaped into the toilet.
Rivero managed to escape and drive himself to Philippine Heart Center.
Ruiz was apprehended at Rivero’s home with the actor-director’s bag, containing several personal items including a laptop and cell phones, by the police. However, Ruiz is reportedly maintaining that he took no part in the crime. He added that he did not know where the knife came from and even offered to take the victim to the hospital. As for the bag he was caught with, he explained that Rivero had instructed him to get valuables from his home before heading to the hospital.
Two teenage burglars were castigated by a judge for mocking his judgment in social networking site (Facebook). Liam Cunliffe befor his sentence bragged on facebook stating that he was just “a happy bunni” adding “I’m only looking at 6 months, haa bring it on easy!” Bad move! Cunliffe with his co-accused Louis Corbett both 18, were facing manslaughter trial since their victim, 80 year old Pauline Reddick, who has a record of high blood pressure, died of a stroke hours after the break-in. But the manslaughter charges were dropped because the death could not be directly linked (hard scientific evidence) with the symptoms of her stroke to the high blood pressure owing to the raid.
Judge Ford pronounced in Bristol Crown Court that they could only be jailed for buglary but stated “What is most distressing in your case is your perceived attitude that you have done nothing wrong. I cannot sentence you for a lack of moral fiber and decency but I am of the view you have shown no remorse”
Cunliffe and Corbett were sentenced to 27 and 24 months respectively in young offenders’ institutions. However Corbett also posted on Facebook that “I’m not goin Prison. I refuse.” But then Corbett is already behind bars regardless of his unwillingness.
Shouldn’t We need to keep our private matters on social networking sites. Really these kits will think before they brag on Facebook
A 26-year-old citizen of U.K was charged for hacking Facebook and arrested on Thursday.
The case is still under investigation while Facebook maintains that no information of users has been compromised. Facebook is reportedly taking the matter under the assistance of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), London’s Metropolitan Service and Scotland Yard.
The man was arrested from North Yorkshire on Thursday and is now released on bond. The motive behind the attack is not clear at the moment. Facebook being popular and having command over large network of of users is often targeted by spammers tricking users into clicking on links or installing harmful software.
For Facebook, being the world’s largest social-networking site with almost 700 million users, such incidents are not unexpected. But, do you think Facebook is doing enough to keep it’s users safe?
A freshman of Chisholm high school, Minnesota was expelled for allegedly posting a hit list on his Facebook page.
The Facebook hit list listed 30 names that include school staff, students, and graduates that the student wanted to see dead.
School Superintendent James Varichak told Duluth News Tribune that there was no threat in the post other than the heading, but decided to expel the student after a special board meeting.
“We have to prove that it was a substantial disruption to the education process, and we believe it would be if he was to return (to school)”, Varichak told the newpaper.
The St. Louis Country Attorney’s Office is reportedly considering whether to press criminal charges.
Because of the incident, the teen is now enrolled in an alternative education program, while the school is holding a seminar for all student and their parents on the proper use of social media.
Do you think the student deserve criminal charges? Do you think Facebook should close down the accounts of users who post such things to prevent similar incident?
A man from Albany, New York was sentenced to 13 years in prison for raping four teenage girls he met on Facebook.
David Bradt used Facebook to meet more than 700 girls, mostly between the ages 15 and 20.
According to the Times Union, he would first ‘friend’ one teenager on Facebook, then send friend request to all her friends.
He was arrested after the mother of a 16-year-old girl became concerned over unusual text messages her daughter received from him.
Albany County District Attorney David Soares told reporters Bradt targeted high-school cliques and exploited them.
“When he was ‘friending’ one girl and he was able to see her list of friends, he was basically using those girls as leads, like you would in a business…That’s how he was venturing into these other networks and was able to identify and find all of his prey,” Times Union quotes Soares.
Bradt pleaded guilty to four counts of third-degree rape for having sex with underage victims.
This isn’t the first time sexual offenders have use Facebook to find their prey. Users should exercise more caution in their judgments when accepting/making friends on social networks.
Do not think your secrets are safe from a person once you defriend them on Facebook.
Richard Leon Barton Jr. thought so, but learnt it the hard way.
The 34-year-old Michigan man was arrested for polygamy, after he posted wedding photos of his second marriage after defriending his first wife on Facebook.
According to The Grand Rapids Press, Barton met his first wife online and married her in 2004. But they quickly became estranged after Barton was taken back to Michigan and imprisoned for violating his parole and the couple fell out of touch.
They eventually reconnected on Facebook about a year ago after Barton’s release. But, Barton abruptly ended their online friendship.
Wife no. 1 became suspicious and began snooping around still-public sections of his Facebook page and discovered photos of Barton’s marriage.
Barton reportedly told wife no. 2 that he was divorced.
Wife no. 1 somehow managed to communicate with Barton and convinced him to file for divorce – and eventually contacted authorities when he failed to do so.
Barton, who claimed that he thought he signed divorce papers in 2007, has been charged with polygamy, a four-year felony.
The hacker who stole around 400bn virtual poker chips by breaking into Zynga mainframe has been jailed for two years.
British hacker, Ashley Mitchell, 29, of Paignton, stole the identity of two employees and transferred the chips to his fake Facebook accounts. He then, sold the chips through Facebook to other gamers and used the money to fund his £1,000-a-day online gambling addiction.
According to BBC, Mitchell, a former council accounts clerk, pocketed around £53,000 in two months by selling about a third of the stolen chips.
Zynga initially suspected the two employees when the theft came to light in August 2009. However, investigation revealed the work of external hacker for pulling off the heist.
Investigators narrowed the search to Paignton and seized the computers of Mitchell’s neighbors as Mitchell was piggy-backing on their insecure Wi-Fi connection. He was eventually identified because he used his own Facebook profile during one of his attempts to hack into the system.
Mitchell has been jailed for two years after admitting to five charges of hacking and theft, and an extra 30 weeks for breaching a 40-week suspended sentence imposed in 2008 for hacking.
A high school smut list, titled “Westchester SMUT List,” posted on Facebook is receiving a lot of attention.
Around 100 girls from seven Westchester Country high schools and Greenwich High School in Connecticut ranked by their alleged sexual encounters was apparently posted on Facebook after being circulated through mobile devices.
The incident has been reported by several news group and concerns about cyberbullying have sparked local police investigations.
Students, parents, and school authorities are outraged by the list.
According to Daily Mail, 18-year-old Sergio Saiano of Yonkers, New York claimed responsible for posting the list on Facebook. He said, “I didn’t make the list/ I made a Facebook page with the list on it because people kept asking me to message them the list and I got tired of it. If anyone is mad at me because of this, then be angry because I’m not apologizing,” to told local news RyePatch.
Investigations are on to identify the people in connection with creating and distributing the list.
With Facebook and other social networking sites so popular today, bullying extends beyond schools making it impossible to escape. The list might have been created as a joke with no intentions to hurt anyone. School authorities should take such unfortunate incidents to emphasis more on awareness about cyberbullying in today’s age.
Facebook apart from what it is meant to be – a social networking place, can be used by people for and against crimes.
A college student used it against, and managed to thwart an armed robbery.
Nitesh Bhakta spotted masked burglars in his living room. He slipped into the attic when the gun-wielding burglars were tying up his grandmother and sister.
He grabbed his laptop as he slipped into the attic, and updated his status with an SOS message, “HELP, ROBBERS, NO PHONE”. He reportedly left his cell phone back in Athens, and was unable to call for help.
Most of his friends too his message as a joke, but his best friend John Salter didn’t, and immediately called the Bartow County Sheriff’s Department.
The miscreants took off when they heard the sirens. Police manage to nab one of them, and the remaining two wouldn’t be out for long, as they reportedly dropped their cell phones at the scene.
And that is how, with the right tools and some loyal friends, one can turn tables on misfortunes
Corey Christian Adams, a 19-year old from West Chester was arrested last July after a woman accused him of raping her following a party. The victim confronted Adams about the incident and the accused, in turn, went to Facebook seeking a hitman.
“I got 500 on a girls head who wants that bread?” Adams wrote in one status. “Hit me up anyway possible.”
Borough Detective Stan Billie, who was on Adam’s case, offered his services posing as a potential hitman. Adam allegedly set up a meeting with the undercover agent but didn’t keep up with it. However, according to the detective, the accused updated his status saying he “needed this girl knocked off right now.” In addition, officers investigating the allegations against Adams found DNA evidence linking him to the rape.
The accused eventually admitted that the status updates were directed at the victim and has accepted a plea bargain. He now faces 11 to 22 years in state prison.
