4700 block of 31st Place: At about At about 8:30 pm PGPD received a call for a citizen robbery that had just occurred in the 2400 block of Queens Chapel Road. MRPD power shift officers responded to assist County units with the call. The power shift officers were the first to arrive and obtained a lookout for a man who had just robbed a woman at knife-point. The officers broadcast the lookout for the suspect to responding PGPD units and immediately started to look for the suspect who was last seen running towards the Queens Manor area. After about a 15 minute search the power squad officers located the suspect hiding behind a garbage dumpster in the 4700 block of 31st Place. The victim positively identified the suspect and he was arrested.
There is a new spam campaign in circulation using the Boston Marathon bombings that occurred on April 15, 2013 as a lure. Users are sent an e-mail encouraging them to a watch a video of the explosion. When the user clicks on the enclosed link to watch the video malware is installed on the user’s computer. The following URL patterns have been found in these e-mails: http://[IP-address]/boston.html http://[IP-address]/news.html When the user clicks on one of the links the Kehlios worm is installed on the user’s system which has the capacity to send spam; carry out Distributed Denial of Service Attacks; and steal online currency such as bitcoins. Most major anti-virus vendors have signatures for detecting this malware so users should keep their antivirus programs up-to-date. In addition to the Boston Marathon spam campaign, a West, Texas plant explosion spam campaign has also sprung up. This spam campaign uses similar exploitation techniques as the Boston Marathon spam campaign p
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