3400 block of Eastern Avenue: At about noon officers responded for the report of an attempted suicide. Their investigation revealed that a 22 year old female made small superficial cuts to her wrist and stated to the officers that she wanted to kill herself. They also learned that she has a history of depression and is supposed to take medications to relieve her symptoms which she had not taken for some time. The wounds were not serious or life threatening. She was taken to Prince George’s Hospital for treatment and psychological evaluation.
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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