Neowin News Feed for: Teen

Teen who attempted to hack Xbox now working with Microsoft

Brad Sams — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:41:21 +0100

Sony has had quite the PR disaster on its hands after the exposure of its PlayStation Network. While Microsoft has, so far, not had its systems compromised to the degree that Sony is currently facing,... Read more...

Teen racks up 14,528 texts in one month

Brad Sams — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:16:22 +0000

In California a 13 year old girl was able to rack up an astounding 14,528 text messages in one month. For those keeping track that's 484 a day which breaks down to 20 an... Read more...

Teen commits suicide on live video site

Damien Reynolds — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:50:57 +0000

We have all heard of Cyber Bullying where a group of users online would taunt and stalk helpless users until they break down online and even offline but this is a case where it went... Read more...

Teen Arrested For Posting Nude Pictures Of Ex On Myspace

RangerLG — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:15:22 +0100

MAY 21--Meet Alex Phillips. The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police about the two images,... Read more...

HP: Teen Edition

Horrocks — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:24:14 +0100

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HP's director of future innovations, Ameer Karim, has announced that HP will be launching a fall line of "Teen" PC products. HP has hired a council of teenagers who will help design the products,... Read more...

MySpace Bug Leaks 'Private' Teen Photos to Voyeurs

EL1TE — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:30:07 +0000

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A backdoor in MySpace's architecture allows anyone who's interested to see the photographs of some users with private profiles -- including those under 16 -- despite assurances from MySpace that those pictures can only be... Read more...

The Sims 2: Teen Style Stuff released

Todd Tanner — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:05:32 +0000

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Yet another "expansion" for The Sims 2. What is this, like 35 now? Yikes: For the first time, Electronic Arts has brought The Sims™ players a stuff pack with the exclusive intent of giving their... Read more...

Australian teen disables government's porn filter

Slimy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:49:44 +0100

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Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced a multi-million dollar pornography filter along with several other measures to make the Internet safer for children and families, including an information and education campaign and... Read more...

Teen receives $100,000 science scholarship from Intel

Slimy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:06:49 +0000

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17-year-old Mary Masterman, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, won the Intel Science Talent Search and received a $100,000 scholarship for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of... Read more...

Teen Exposes Google Security Flaw, Partially Fixed Overnight

Slimy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:07:31 +0000

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Acting very quickly, Google fixed the security hole on Jan. 1 after being notified of its existence on Dec. 30. According to reports online, however, the flaw was only partly corrected. The flaw can exploit,... Read more...

Teen Uses Worm to Promote Site

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:50:00 +0100

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Using a self-propagating worm that exploits a scripting vulnerability common to most dynamic Web sites, a Los Angeles teenager made himself the most popular member of community Web site MySpace.com earlier this month. While the... Read more...

Swedish teen suspected in Cisco source code theft

malebolgia — Wed, 11 May 2005 17:02:45 +0100

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Authorities in Sweden had detained a person for stealing Cisco Systems Inc.'s source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic around the globe, the company said yesterday. Police in Uppsala, a... Read more...

Retailer drops Manhunt after media frenzy over teen murder

Dice — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:50:28 +0100

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Grand Theft Auto makers causing media trouble again. British electronics retailer Dixons has removed Rockstar's Manhunt title from stores, after newspapers and TV news shows reported allegations that the title had influenced... Read more...

Text safety service targets teen party posse

Darren Bolton — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:56:44 +0100

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A new service has been set up to pass on people's whereabouts in case they go missing. Safetytext users can notify others of their whereabouts by sending a text message to a preset... Read more...

Teen cashes in on feud with Microsoft

NEXTY — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:59:24 +0000

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Some more Mike Rowe(soft) when will it end? A Canadian teenager who fought Microsoft Corporation over his Internet domain name has sold documents and emails pertaining to the feud on eBay for... Read more...

Parents to keep closer watch on teen music downloads

me101 — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:12:28 +0100

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When the RIAA filed 261 lawsuits against illegal Internet music downloaders earlier this week, it was a wake-up call to parents of computer-savvy teens. Those being sued include quite a few parents who either... Read more...

Teen arrested in Blaster worm case

configure — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 03:42:28 +0100

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An 18-year-old Minnesota resident was arrested and charged with releasing a variant of the MSBlaster worm, U.S. officials announced Friday. Jeffrey Lee Parson, who used the nickname "teekid," made his first court appearance in St.... Read more...

Teen abduction foiled by cell phone cam

me101 — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 18:25:32 +0100

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A quick-thinking 15-year-old boy used his Sprint cell phone camera to take pictures of a man who allegedly tried to lure him into his car, leading to the man's arrest, police said. ... Read more...

Teen used phony AOL site in US internet con

me101 — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:57:25 +0100

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US regulators said on Monday they had charged a 17-year-old boy with using "spam" e-mails and a fake AOL Web page to trick people out of their credit card information and steal thousands of dollars.... Read more...

Police: Teen hacker hit 2,000 sites

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:56:13 +0100

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A French high school student is being investigated on suspicion of breaking into and defacing some 2,000 Web sites -- including that of the U.S. Navy, police said Thursday. The 17-year-old boy,... Read more...