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Who posted naked photos of Md. high school girls online?

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An investigation is under way into who posted nude photos online of Harford County, Md. high school students.

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(CBS) EDGEWOOD, Md. - An investigation is under way to determine who posted nude photos online of Harford County, Md. high school students, CBS Baltimore reports.

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Man charged in attack on Gene Simmons' website

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(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES - A Connecticut man affiliated with a hacking group was arrested Tuesday on federal charges for an attack on a website belonging to Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, authorities said.

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Scotland Yard nabs suspected LulzSec spokesman

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(CBS/AP) LONDON - Officials said Wednesday that Scotland Yard's cybercrime unit has arrested a teenager they suspect of working as the spokesman for a hacking collective known as Lulz Security.Continue »

Britain's Royal Navy Website Hacked

Britain's Royal Navy Website Hacked, Shut Down

A screengrab of the home page of the Royal Navy website. (AP)

LONDON (CBS/AP) The British Royal Navy's website was shut down Monday after the site's security was breached in a hacker attack.

A message on the site says it has been shut down for "essential maintenance" and asked users to "visit again soon."

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New Identity Theft Scheme Targets Kids

New ID Theft Targets Kids' Social Security Numbers, Could Threaten Credit System

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KANSAS CITY, Mo (CBS/AP) The latest form of identity theft doesn't depend on stealing your Social Security number - now thieves are targeting your kid's number long before the little one even has a bank account.

Hundreds of online businesses are using computers to find dormant Social Security numbers - usually those assigned to children who don't use them - then selling those numbers under another name to help people establish phony credit and run up huge debts they will never pay off.

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Cyber Bullies Target Girl, Even After Suicide

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NEW YORK (CBS/WCBS/AP) West Islip High School senior Alexis Pilkington appeared to have it all. She was a popular 17-year-old and a well-liked athlete who had already landed a soccer scholarship to college.

But none of that stopped Alexis from becoming the target of nasty online comments - even after the Long Island girl committed suicide.Continue »

Police to Chatroulette Users: "If You're a Predator, We're Coming After You"

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PHOENIX (CBS/KPHO) The popular online chat service Chatroulette offers video chatting with a twist - the website randomly hooks up strangers. But not everyone is obeying the site's rules and police in Phoenix fear there could be predators on the site.

Users must be 16-years-old or older to chat, and sex and nudity are prohibited; however, chances are that if you've used the site, you've run across multiple examples of those rules being broken.Continue »

Is Michael Jackson Hoax Video Off the Wall?

BERLIN (AP) A hoax video purportedly showing Michael Jackson emerging from a coroner's van was an experiment aimed at showing how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories can race across the Internet, German broadcaster RTL said Tuesday.

YouTube: Michael Jackson alive?! Seen coming out of coroner's van!

The video was posted by RTL on YouTube for a single day a week ago and received 880,000 hits. The broadcaster has since removed the video from YouTube, but it has been picked up by other Web sites around the world.

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"SoupNazi" With $1M Buried In Backyard Pleads Guilty to Biggest Hack in US History

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MIAMI (AP) A computer hacker accused of masterminding one of the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history agreed Friday to plead guilty and serve up to 25 years in federal prison for his crimes.

Albert Gonzalez of Miami was charged with conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in federal courts in New York and Boston. Court documents filed in federal court in Boston indicate the 28-year-old Gonzalez agreed to plead guilty to 19 counts and combine the two cases in federal court in Massachusetts.

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Don't Click on Jessica Biel! OK Maybe Just This Once

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Actress Jessica Biel at the 3rd Annual Elyse Walker Pink Party in Santa Monica, Calif. on Sept. 8, 2007.

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Jessica Biel the "most dangerous" celebrity on the Internet. How you may ask?

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