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.
Crime
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 …
Rockstar Games’ ‘L.A. Noire’ Goes Full Frontal at Tribeca Film Festival
I didn’t think video games could shock me anymore. I also thought I had a good sense of just how lurid Rockstar Games’ upcoming detective thriller was going to be. Watching the game get played in a movie theater last night proved me wrong on both counts.
Last night, the makers of Red Dead Redemption and the GTA games broke new ground …
Double the Fun: New Taser X2 Packs Two Shots in One
Those of you who find yourselves tased on a fairly regular basis may be in for double the trouble soon. The new Taser X2 packs two shots into a single pistol-looking “electronic control device.”
The 11.5-ounce X2 has been “designed by law enforcement for law enforcement” to include the “back up shot capability for multiple targets or …
Zynga Poker Hacker Gets Two Years in Jail
A 29-year-old former UK council accounts clerk was just sentenced to two years in prison, plus a 30-week suspended sentence. His crime? Impersonating two employees, Ashley Mitchell repeatedly hacked into Zynga’s database and transferred more than $12 million worth of in-game currency to his own accounts. He then went on the Zynga black …
Man Arrested Over ‘Inciting’ Facebook Comment
Be careful what you post: A man from Zimbabwe was arrested for a comment he posted on Facebook. The offending remark?
I am overwhelmed, I don’t want to say Mr. or PM what happened in Egypt is sending shockwaves to dictators around the world. No weapon but unity of purpose worth emulating, hey.
Unfortunately Vikas Mavhudzi posted it on …
Whac-A-Mole Machines Sabotaged by Orlando Programmer
An Orlando man faces charges for planting a virus in the popular Whac-A-Mole game and other titles, effectively shutting down machines all around the world. The best part: He plotted this scheme so he could have a steady stream of repairs and a constant paycheck.
Marvin Wimberly created a program that shut down Whac-A-Mole machines …
It Only Takes Six Minutes To Steal Stored Passwords on the iPhone
For those of you who think that your iPhone will thwart any criminal, we’ve got news for you: Someone can find your password in less than six minutes without any password cracking.
Researchers Jens Heider and Matthias Boll at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT) performed a fast jailbreak and …