3600 block of Perry Street: At about 10:10 pm officers responded for the report of a residential burglary. Their investigation revealed that the homeowner left for work at about 8 am returning to find the home in disarray. Sometime while the homeowner was away, person(s) unknown entered the home through an open kitchen window and stole several items of personal property. The officers were able to identify and recover latent fingerprint evidence which is being sent to RAFIS for analysis.
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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