On August 16, Texas local government became the latest victim of the expanding global racket that is ransomware.
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Three women indicted for allegedly stealing identities from people’s passports
The three allegedly cooked up counterfeit documents and got others to borrow money to buy iPhones, iPads and other gadgets.
Judge chided for Facebook posts that triggered mistrial in “boy in the box” case
A Texas judge has been chewed out for making Facebook posts about a case that resulted in a mistrial, and has been ordered to get trained on “proper and ethical use of social media” by judges.
Facebook slapped with $123 million revenge-porn lawsuit
For months, Facebook hosted a revenge-porn page dedicated to humiliating one Texas woman with Photoshopped clips of her face pasted onto porn shots, a US woman from Texas is claiming. Facebook’s report abuse procedure got her nowhere; only a police subpoena got through. Is that Report Abuse button actually hooked up to anything, or is it buzzing in an empty room? 
Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email
A 41-year-old resident of Houston, Texas has been arrested after Google tipped off police that they had spotted child abuse images in his emails.
Tor Project is NOT getting sued for enabling revenge porn site PinkMeth
A Texas revenge-porn victim is suing the operators of revenge-porn site PinkMeth.com and was (until her lawyer figured out just what, exactly, the anonymising service Tor actually is) suing The Tor Project for helping PinkMeth to operate anonymously. 