Facebook leads to murder suspect
Police in the Philippines have arrested a suspect in the murder of nine people, including three foreigners, reveals The BBC.
The suspect, Mark Dizon, was arrested in the northern city of San Fernando after being identified through his Facebook account, police said.
He is suspected of killing an American, a Briton, a Canadian, their Filipina partners and three domestic staff in a string of robberies throughout July.
Russian gang automates cheque counterfeiting
A researcher has uncovered a sophisticated cheque-counterfeiting ring that uses compromised computers to steal and print millions of dollars worth of bogus invoices, and then recruit money mules to cash them, writes The Register.
The highly automated scheme starts by infiltrating online check archiving and verification services that store huge numbers of previously cashed cheques, Joe Stewart, director of malware research for Atlanta-based SecureWorks, told The Register.
It then scrapes online job sites for e-mail addresses of people looking for work and sends personalised messages offering them positions performing financial transactions for an international company. The scammers then use stolen credit card data to ship near exact replicas of the cheques to those who respond.
StarCraft II finally on sale
Long-awaited real-time strategy game (RTS) StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has gone on sale after a 12-year wait, states The BBC.
The game follows on from the 1998 release of StarCraft, putting the player in command of a group of humans battling for survival against an insect horde and telepathic aliens.
The title has been created by US developer Blizzard, the firm behind the popular game World of Warcraft.
Virgin gets electric
Virgin Media today claimed it would be the first ISP to deliver broadband over existing electricity poles, reports Computing.co.uk.
The Welsh village of Crumlin, Caerphilly, will benefit from an agreement between Western Power Distribution company Surf Telecoms and Virgin Media to connect residential homes in the area to Virgin Media's broadband network.
Virgin Media began trialling aerial deployment of broadband cable in the Berkshire village of Woolhampton in March. However, that was run over a purpose-built infrastructure. The company was unable to say whether or not the rollout would be optical fibre technology.
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