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Grand Theft Internet (part 5)

J. Timothy King — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:54:40 +0000

This is a true cybercrime story, which hit my friend Tom. Click here to read the story from the beginning. OR Click here to read the whole story as a single page.

Grand Theft Internet (part 4)

J. Timothy King — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:00:40 +0000

This is a true cybercrime story, which hit my friend Tom. Click here to read the story from the beginning. OR Click here to read the whole story as a single page.

Grand Theft Internet (part 3)

J. Timothy King — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:00:19 +0000

This is a true cybercrime story, which hit my friend Tom. Click here to read the story from the beginning. OR Click here to read the whole story as a single page. (If you’re looking for my usual “Friday Fun” column, it will return next week.)

Grand Theft Internet (part 2)

J. Timothy King — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:00:13 +0000

This is a true cybercrime story, which hit my friend Tom. Click here to read the story from the beginning. OR Click here to read the whole story as a single page.

Grand Theft Internet (part 1)

J. Timothy King — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:00:50 +0000

This is a true cybercrime story, which hit my friend Tom. Click here to read the whole story. Or use this page to read only chapter 1.

Grand Theft Internet

J. Timothy King — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:59:55 +0000

Like any other small businessman, he assumed his Internet account was basically safe. Instead, he found himself another victim of the latest 21’st century crime wave, when his valuable domain name, VL.com, was hijacked in a high-tech heist. Told by a first-person witness to the crime, reconstructed from forensic evidence compiled in the aftermath, this gripping account takes you inside the mind of the attacker, showing in lay terms how domain thiefs bypass security at Internet registrars, and why domain name theft is a growing problem on the Internet that could strike any of us.

This is the detailed story of how VL.com was stolen. Click here for Domain Name Wire’s report on the incident.

Also available as a free downloadable eBook:

(Last updated April 3, 2010.)

Interpretation of a Nightmare: A real-life murder turns into a dream

J. Timothy King — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:51:14 +0000

A police investigator enters the house as Mavis Phillips reacts outside the scene of a double murder, Sunday, March 29, 2009, in Milton, Mass. Phillips said she was a co-worker of Regine Revelus whose son murdered two of his sisters and injured a third before being shot by police on Saturday. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

On March 28, at about 5 PM, 9-year-old Sarafina, probably in tears, talked to the 911, while her 23-year-old brother was stabbing her two sisters with a kitchen knife.

When police arrived, less than a minute later, he was decapitating 5-year-old Bianca, the youngest of the family, while Bianca’s uneaten birthday cake still lay on the kitchen table. Then he turned on little Sarafina herself, stabbing her several times before police could put an end to his rampage, shooting him dead right in front of her.

Happy birthday, Sarafina.

She was taken to the hospital and eventually recovered from her physical wounds.

My brother was one of the paramedics who witnessed the aftermath and carried her out to the ambulance.