"Local authority computer systems are riddled with errors and so details of non-payers are often sent to the magistrates' courts when perhaps legal action isn't appropriate," she said.
Cartel del Norte del Valle breaks up and Varela's lieutenant "Beto" Marin takes over splintered operations. 1 March 2008: Colombian authorities retrieve computer files of the Farc leader Raul Reyes during a military operation in Ecuador, in which Reyes is killed.
That same month, five other suspected leaders of Anonymous, all them alleged to be LulzSec members as well, were charged by US authorities with computer hacking and other offences.
Law enforcement authorities and computer security specialists warn that new breeds of white-collar criminals are on the prowl: corporate stalkers who are either computer-savvy extortionists, looking to shake down companies for large bribes, or malicious competitors who are trying to gain an upper hand in the marketplace.
The terminals have remained untouched, Mr. Riverso claimed, saying that the construction authority's computer system showed no evidence that the terminals were ever used to check the authority's financial records.
At the homes of other defendants, the authorities recovered computers and printers they said were used to forge checks.
In 1988, the electoral authority's computer mysteriously broke down when the PRD's candidate was leading Carlos Salinas of the PRI, who was then declared president.
Federal authorities searched computers in six locations yesterday in an attempt to disrupt a network used to trade copies of movies, software, games and music.
According to Milo E. Riverso, president of the construction authority, two computer terminals were set up three years ago on the 11th floor of the Board of Education's headquarters in Brooklyn specifically to allow the seven board members to track the construction authority's progress in building new schools.
An accountant has warned that the change could cause difficulties for the UK tax authority's computer system and leave some people paying the wrong amount of tax.
CMU also houses the CERT Coordination Center, a partner of CyLab and a principal authority on computer system vulnerabilities, which monitors live cybersecurity threats and incidents.
