San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is asking major smartphone manufacturers Apple and Google to combat the growing problem with a beautifully simple suggestion: Give all phones a remote-activated kill switch.
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How Exactly Do Cyber Criminals Steal $78 Million?
Let’s say you’re a cyberthief who just compromised hundreds of bank accounts worth millions of dollars. Congratulations! You’re now the scourge of the global community. Now, all you need to do is get your hands on that money. How do you do that?
via Cyber Crime: How Thieves Steal $78 Million from Bank Accounts | Moneyland | TIME.com.
Muggers Demand iPhone, Turn Down Android
Here’s some unconventional market research. According to NBC New York, a pair of robbers stopped three different people recently, each near Columbia University in Manhattan. In each instance they demanded that the person hand …
Burglars Now Using Twitter, Facebook Against You
Next time you leave your home for any appreciable length of time, whatever you do, don’t tell the Internet. A new study has revealed that an unsettling 78% of burglars use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare to choose just where they’re going to break in next.
That’s not the only way that burglars have started using …
Two Killed in Mexico over Gang-Related Social Media Posts
Watch what you say on the Internet, because it really could get you killed.
Two dead bodies were discovered hanging from a bridge in the Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo this week, accompanied by a placard with the message, “This is going to happen to all Internet snitches. Pay attention, I’m watching you.” It’s believed the two were …
Santa Cruz Police Can Predict the Crimes of Tomorrow, Today
The future of law enforcement is…the future.
Cops in Santa Cruz, CA have started using a mathematical algorithm that predicts when and where crimes will occur, the aim being to have police officers on the scene before anything actually happens. Somewhat surprisingly, five people have been arrested as a result of the program and …
California Now Reports Prisoner Facebook Accounts for Deletion
First off, did you know the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has its own daily newspaper? It’s called CDCR Today and it’s a wonderful read! Actually it’s a blog and it’s not daily but, hey, sometimes ideas start small and then snowball into major media empires.
Man Hacks Neighbors’ Wi-Fi to Frame Them for Child Porn (and More)
A Minnesota man just got sent down for 18 years for breaking into his neighbors’ Wi-Fi network and trying to “frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds or professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mails to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden,” reports Wired.
Angry with his neighbors, Matt …
Man Behind Phishing Scheme Gets 13 Years in the Slammer
“Phishing”—or the act of following jam-band Phish across the country tricking people into handing over private data via e-mail—is a serious offense. So serious, in fact, that a 27-year-old Los Angeles man who was found guilty of running a major phishing operation just got sentenced to 13 years in prison.
To be fair, he got 11 …
Fired IT Guy Sticks Porn into CEO’s PowerPoint Presentation
It may have been the most unexpectedly sexy PowerPoint presentation about a substance abuse center’s achievements ever witnessed. But then, most PowerPoint presentations about substance abuse don’t feature pornographic images, to the best of my knowledge.
Walter Powell, a 52 year old former director of management information systems …
Find Your Stolen Camera with Stolen Camera Finder
What can you do if your camera’s been stolen?
Not much, to be honest. Apple’s iPhones and iPads might have built-in locate-me technology, but the same cannot be said of most cameras, even the expensive DSLR ones.
A website called Stolen Camera Finder might be able to help, though.
It makes use of the data that your camera saves …
Father Live-Updated His Facebook Status While Killing His Daughter
You know what’s sick and disgusting? As much as I’m a little nauseous about the ZOMG KATE BIN LADEN-MIDDLETON fiasco on my Facebook Newsfeed, this story over status updates makes me want to seriously hurl into the nearest bin.
Ramazan Acar, a 24-year-old father in Melbourne, Australia, announced to Facebook and the rest of the …
