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SANTO DOMINGO. – A National District judge on Thursday sent alleged ID thief and hacker Jose A. Gomez (Jochy) to spend three months in Najayo prison to await trial, as the Office of the Prosecutor had requested.
Judge Jose Alejandro Vargas’ ruling handed down 2:50pm is based on evidence that Gomez hacked the email accounts of at least 44 businesspersons, government officials and other personalities.
The judge’s ruling comes after prosecutors filed evidence showing that the defendant had established an alleged working agreement with a company named Activehacker since 2007.
When the company’s profile was vetted, it was found that Gomez figures on its Website, with a business relationship.
Vargas’ ruling also takes into account the prosecution’s well structured evidence to show the perpetration of a serious crime, such as the hacking of a Government Website.
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Three months to cool his mouth. He will need a lot of help to avoid his Yeye bouts. LOL
Hippojosa was only in for a month and look what happened to him. LOL
In related news:
Massive Spam Botnet Taken Out By Security Teams
The four-year-old Grum botnet was believed to account for nearly 20 percent of the world's spam.
Posted Thursday, July 19, 2012, at 2:03 PM ET
Grum, the world's third largest botnet, distributed an estimate 18 percent of email spam clogging inboxes internationally
Good news for your inbox: Internet security teams say they have thwarted the third largest botnet in operation, thought to be the culprit behind some 18 percent of the world’s spam emails.
The BBC reports that security company, FireEye, and spam-tracking service SpamHaus, collaborated with local Internet service providers to track and shut down the four-year-old botnet Grum earlier this week. The takedown sends a clear message to the world’s spammers, Atif Mushtaq, a FireEye security researcher wrote, "We don’t need your cheap Viagra or fake Rolex."
Botnets, Mashable translates, are made up of two elements: "Command and Control servers, which act as a sort of of ‘mothership,’ and bot computers, which are often infected with malware that grants CnC servers access unbeknownst to the user."
The takedown of Grum was a lengthy, global goose chase. On Monday, a Dutch server that was part of Grum was shut down, followed by one in Panama on Tuesday. But, Mushtaq wrote, the bot herders reacted quickly and redirected activity to secondary servers in Ukraine, something of a safe haven for spammers.
Grum was operating using an estimated 121,000 IP addresses. Now, that figure is closer to 20,000, which are largely ineffective now that the CnC servers are shut down.
Will it make much of a difference? Analysts say yes, email junk boxes will probably be emptier as a result. “Keep on dreaming of a junk-free inbox," Mushtaq optimistically wrote.
Here is some REAL Non, "let’s divert the public attention from the PROBLEMS of the Country News:"
"Poultry will go up in price"
Very much in spite of the complaints and the protests such as the "Chicken-free Day," on Tuesday, 17 July as a way of bringing down prices, it seems that the price of chicken will go up by RD$3 or RD$4 over the coming weeks.
Technical advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture, Manuel Gonzalez Tejera, predicted that the conditions are in place for such an increase, due to the drought that is affecting the United States. His analysis is based on the fact that the soy and corn harvests, the main raw materials for pork and poultry feed on the farms, are undergoing steep drops in production in the US due to unfavorable weather conditions and therefore, there has been a constant increase in their prices since last June. The United States produces 54% of the world's corn exports and 44% of soybean exports.
continued:
"The calculations report of the costs of production as of 16 July 2012 was made based on a price of a bushel of corn at US$6.80, and today it is at US$7.79; and the price of soy beans was calculated at US$450 a short ton (2000 pounds) and today it is above US$495," he pointed out. Gonzalez Tejera added that the fact that the national inventories of these products are coming to an end will oblige the producers to purchase them again in August and September at prices as much as 30% to 40% higher, and as a consequence, they will sell the poultry, in this case, at between RD$33 and RD$34 a pound, instead of the RD$29.00 it is at right now.
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