Researchers seek cyber-stalking victims

A new survey has been introduced in an effort to find out the true level of cyber-stalking in the UK, reveals The BBC.

It comes a day after the Crown Prosecution Service unveiled new guidance to prosecutors and promised to get tough on cyber-stalkers.

More than one million women and 900 000 men are stalked in the UK every year, according to the British Crime Survey.

Neelie Kroes, European commissioner for digital agenda, has called for the EU Commission's review of roaming regulation to tackle the issue of mobile operators charging vastly inflated rates for international phone calls, writes Computing.co.uk.

She said this is necessary in order to promote a truly competitive single market for all aspects of telecoms services in Europe.

Acting minister for enterprise and streamlining policy Vincent Van Quickenborne, and Austrian MEP Paul Rubig recently both declared their support for banning roaming charges outright within Europe on 4G mobile networks.

Two of the three men convicted of commandeering the comcast.net domain name have been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, says The Register.

Christopher Allen Lewis, 20, of Delaware, and Michael Paul Nebel, 28, of Michigan, were also ordered to pay $89 778.13 in restitution each, according to federal prosecutors in Philadelphia.

Part of a hacking crew called Kryogeniks, the men previously pleaded guilty to tricking a Comcast employee into turning over information that allowed them to access an e-mail account used to maintain IP addresses for the comcast.net domain name.

Iran's official news agency said today that a sophisticated computer worm purportedly designed to disrupt power grids and other such industrial facilities had infected computers at the country's first nuclear-power plant, but had not caused any serious damage, reports News.com.com.

The Stuxnet worm, which some see as heralding a new era of cyber-warfare, appeared in July and was already known to be widespread in Iran. In fact, its high concentration there, along with a delay in the opening of the Bushehr plant, led one security researcher to hypothesise that Stuxnet was created to sabotage Iran's nuclear industry.

In addition to emphasising the threat posed by the worm, which could be used to remotely seize control of industrial systems, today's news could well add to speculation about Stuxnet, the sophistication of which has caused some to suspect that a nation state, such as Israel or the US, might be behind its creation.