The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay. ...

Spam text-messaging for PPI has reached an ‘epidemic’ level in the UK, with nine out of ten Britons having received one in the past few months, said a recent survey for the Citizens Advice Bureau. ...

Microsoft said Windows Live Messenger (WLM) would be turned off by March 2013 worldwide, with the exception of China. It reflects the firm's determination to focus its efforts on Skype. ...

Brutsch, 49, was unmasked last week as Violentacrez, the man behind a sick roll call of internet forums entitled Creepshots, Jailbait, Rapebait and Incest featuring images of the buttocks and breasts of non-consenting girls in the classroom, gym or even 'upskirt' images of women on the street. ...

The viruses were discovered when Microsoft digital crime investigators bought 20 PCs, 10 desktops and 10 laptops from different cities in China. Four of the computers were infected with malicious programs even though they were fresh from the factory. ...

BitTorrent is a method of obtaining files by downloading from many users at the same time. The logs revealed that monitoring did not distinguish between hardcore illegal downloaders and those new to it. If the content was in the top 100 it was monitored within hours. ...

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was handed a one-year prison sentence by a Swedish court in 2009 for promoting copyright infringement. He was detained in Phnom Penh last week. ...

Joel Tenenbaum must pay $675,000 (£426,000) in damages awarded to the major US music labels after his request for a retrial was turned down. Mr Tenenbaum, 25, was found guilty of illegally downloading and distributing 31 songs in 2007. ...

Three employees of China's main search engine, Baidu, have been arrested on suspicion of having accepted bribes to delete posts from its forum service. The web giant fired the three, along with a fourth person who was not arrested. Baidu's spokeswoman, Betty Tian, said the sums involved amounted to "tens of thousands of yuan" (thousands of dollars). It is not known which posts were deleted. "Baidu has alway ...

Marcinanis said that he kept the password to her account and logged her in each time himself, but he appears to have allowed her to surf the web on her own, which is when she befriended the pervert. ...