UK suspects arrested in Internet paedophile crackdown
News The investigation, dubbed Operation Landmark, has successfully identified 12 suspected paedophiles in the UK. Police forces across England and Wales took part in the biggest ever international operation against Internet paedophiles on Wednesday...
[November 28, 2001, 11:31]
Police use face-mapping tools to identify abuse victims
News A source close to the international investigation, which is dubbed Operation Landmark, told ZDNet UK that the new software was designed to help trace the whereabouts of the victims and their abusers. Detective superintendent Peter Spindler, leading...
[November 28, 2001, 14:12]
Police u-turn on ISP server logs
News The National Crime Squad (NCS) on Thursday denied that it had access to the traffic logs of Demon Internet for Operation Landmark, despite implying on Wednesday that it had "imaged" the servers of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for 16 days.
[November 29, 2001, 17:53]
Exclusive: Case sets precedent for Internet crime
News In a landmark ruling Judge Christopher Hardy ruled the images were uploaded from the UK and were therefore subject to British law. Graham Waddon, a 29-year-old businessman from Surrey was given an 18-month suspended sentence for running the UK's...
[September 6, 1999, 13:36]
Precedent-setting Internet verdict delayed
News Defence claims he was free from prosecution because the porn sites were hosted in the US were thrown out in a landmark ruling. Waddon, a 28-year-old businessman ran a multi-million pound porn operation -- the largest in the UK to date -- from his...
[July 30, 1999, 15:21]
Opera boss starts Atlantic swim
Talkback The place where the two guys "lands" after the unfortunate "accident" looks very much like a well-known landmark of the inner Oslo Fjord, probably close to where they embarked on their "trip" in the first place.
[April 26, 2005, 11:49]
Euro high-tech business reacts to AOL-Time Warner deal
News Industry analysts said that Time Warner's landmark merger with America Online will send shock waves through the European Internet business, possibly inspiring similar deals and raising the stakes for service and content providers.
[January 10, 2000, 17:30]
AOL-Time Warner merger validates Internet euphoria
News The ramifications of this landmark merger go far beyond the prospects of the two companies involved. This isn't to say every publicly traded .com operation will find the success or validation that AOL now enjoys.
[January 11, 2000, 8:39]
Stanford to appeal email intercept conviction
News This is a landmark legal case as this is the first time anyone has been prosecuted for this offence under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), according to the defence counsel. Stanford will attempt to defend his involvement in...
[September 16, 2005, 13:45]
Samba 'pleased' with Microsoft co-operation
News Microsoft and the developers of the open-source Samba protocol are co-operating much more effectively since a landmark settlement late last year, according to the software's original developer. In December, Microsoft agreed to make documentation...
[January 31, 2008, 7:45]
News Burst: Porn ruling sets UK precedent
News Businessman Graham Waddon appeared at Southwark Crown Court this week charged with running the U.K.s largest porn operation. Waddon set up a series of hard pornography sites in the U.S.and charged UK customers £25 a month for access.
[July 1, 1999, 10:56]
'Wardriver' first to be convicted under US anti-spam law
News The Tombros case is one of four such investigations involving 802.11b technology reported by the agency as part of its joint law enforcement project known as Operation Web Snare. An alleged phishing operation in Atlanta that used open wireless...
[October 1, 2004, 9:35]
