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Police found a woman’s decapitated body in a Mexican border city on Saturday, alongside a handwritten sign saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social networking site. The gruesome killing may be the third so far this month in which people in Nuevo Laredo were killed by a drug cartel for what they said on the internet.

Hackers launched another online attack Wednesday against a California transit agency that found itself in the middle of a debate about free speech after it turned off cellphone service in its stations last week to thwart a potential protest.

Two men have been jailed for four years each in northwest England for inciting disorder via social networking sites as rioting and looting erupted in London and other cities last week, police said Tuesday.

A computer hacking group Friday posted a new batch of personal details about Arizona law enforcement officers, marking a third attack on the state's police and an escalation of a spree of cyber break-ins.

Police in Taiwan investigate a self-proclaimed prophet whose doomsday warnings on a blog have caused panic.

It appears that law enforcement officers are finding it too difficult to track the Facebook messages.

A controversial Twitter user has been challenging South African authorities by alerting thousands of followers to speed traps set by traffic police.

Chatroulette has announced that it is going to take steps against the worst offenders on its service, threatening people who expose themselves to minors with the police.

An escaped British prisoner is taunting police and attracting a growing fan base from a Facebook profile page.