Crime

Sex on a Pile of Cash Sounds Great Until Your Online Date Robs You

Imagine this: You set up the perfect kinky hook-up on the Internet. You found a hot partner who wants to have sex with you, provided this sex happens on top of a pile of cash. So you find the pile of cash, you show up at the appointed time to get lucky, only to find…

The FBI Has to Give Kim Dotcom His Hard Drives Back

The High Court of New Zealand just ruled that the FBI has to give slews of Kim Dotcom’s digital property back to him. The agency—along with officials in New Zealand—screwed up pretty bad, indeed. When New Zealand authorities brutally sacked Kim Dotcom’s mansion back in January 2012 at the behest of the US government, they…

The FBI Ran a Child Porn Site for Two Whole Weeks

Last November, the FBI raided a bulletin board-style site that was known to be a home of child pornography. But rather than shutting it down, they decided to keep it running—and see just how many users they could identify. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Bureau agents posed as child porn dealers, actively distributing pornography…

Identity Thieves Caught By Instagramming Dinner

You might think it’s all fun and games when you’re Instagramming your dinner before you dig in, but former identity thief Nathaniel Troy Maye will tell you otherwise; doing just that got him arrested. Nathaniel Troy Maye and Tiwanna Tenise Thomason are now facing up to 12 years in prison after a guilty plea this…

Apple’s Got a Huge Waiting List of Cops Who Need iPhones Cracked

It’s no secret that the police aren’t very good at breaking into encrypted iPhones, but they’ve been asking Apple for help. A lot of help. According to reports by CNET the government asks for so much help that the “please decrypt this iPhone for me” waiting list is at least seven weeks long. https://gizmodo.com/ios-encryption-is-so-good-not-even-the-nsa-can-hack-it-5934234 Law…

Mom Delays Taking Gunshot-Wounded Son to Hospital to Check WebMD First

WebMd, the hypochondriac’s wet dream turned digital, is notorious for convincing invalid-hopefuls that their pounding headache is actually just a tricky little combination of diabetes and cyanide poisoning. But apparently crippling neuroticism isn’t the only negative side effect of our dependence on the site. At least, not for one mother who delayed taking her freshly…

“She Hulk” Attacks Teen Girl On Rampage Through U.K. McDonald’s

A rash of Hulk attacks continues with a “She Hulk” accused of running wild in a McDonald’s and smashing a teenaged girl. The red-haired assailant, covered in green body paint and wearing ripped clothes, was captured on closed-circuit security cameras in York, England, but police have yet to catch the monster. http://gawker.com/300-pound-drunken-monster-attacks-stormtrooper-and-ghos-493166278

Should the Fifth Amendment Stop Child Porn Suspects From Decrypting Their Hard Drive?

Forcing defendants to decrypt hard disks against their will has long been a thorny issue that may—or may not—violate the Fifth Amendment. The latest case has seen a federal judge refuse to insist that a Wisconsin child porn suspect decrypt the contents of his hard drive—but what do you think? In a court filing, Judge…

‘Self-Proclaimed’ Leader Of LulzSec Arrested

The Australian Federal Police have confirmed that they have arrested the alleged leader of notorious hacking group Lulzsec in Sydney. The alleged leader of the group, which spent its time breaching the CIA, Sony and News Corporation lives in Point Claire, NSW. He was arrested yesterday and is being charged with hacking offenses. Federal Police…

The Dark History Behind Earth Day’s Murderous, Girlfriend-Composting Co-Founder

As you step outside today to breathe in the fresh air and note our planet’s lush, life-giving fauna, take a minute to appreciate the fact that this whole day exists thanks to the hard efforts of Earth Day’s environmentally conscious, murderous conspirators. Because even though this day is founded on the vision of an Earth…

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Charged With Hacking and Fraud in Sweden

Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been charged on suspicion that he hacked into a variety of companies, as well as fraudulently withdrawing money from the Swedish Nordea bank. Prosecutors claim he—along with three others—hacked IBM mainframes belonging to tax firm Logica and the bank. The crimes are said to have occurred between 2010…

Whoa, Did Google Maps Just Reveal a Bloody Gruesome Murder?

Google Maps, the all seeing eye that can find naked pranksters, possible donkey hit and runs and other more serious crimes, may have just stumbled upon a bloody crime scene. The image shows what looks to be two people dragging a corpse and leaving a bloody trail on a pier. https://gizmodo.com/google-street-view-captured-a-couple-getting-naked-in-a-5981044 After seeing the picture,…

Watch the Police Attack and Arrest a Man for Recording Them with a Cell Phone Camera

Cameras are the new weapons, or at least that’s what it seems like in the eyes of the police. Police officers from the San Diego Police Department pretty much attacked and arrested a man for recording them with his cell phone camera. Watch the video, it’s pretty awful. How did this all happen? It started…

Wow, Watch This ATM Machine Get Blown to Bits and Pieces By Genius Thieves

If you’re looking to steal money from an ATM, what do you do? Try to wheel it to your house and smash it until it opens? Continually rob people who try to take money out of the machine? Hmm, what about just blowing the freaking ATM up to smithereens with explosives. That’s what these thieves…

New brain scan predicts criminal activity before it happens

Neuroscientists have identified a brain scan that enables them to predict whether convicted felons are likely to land themselves back in jail after they’ve been released. But have they discovered the “repeat offense area” of the brain? Far from it. Nature News’ Regina Nuzzo summarizes the researchers’ findings (emphasis in bold): Kent Kiehl, a neuroscientist…

Pocket Scale Wallets Are For Drug Dealers, Right?

DigiWeigh boasts its DW-600W Wallet Scale is the perfect tool for measuring food at a restaurant when you’re following a strict diet, ensuring a letter has the proper stamps at the post office, and weighing “other small objects.” Which is basically marketing speak for: “drug dealers, this is designed and targeted directly at you.” It…

Report: Microsoft Is Being Investigated for Bribery

The WSJ reports that the federal government is investigating Microsoft for bribery. According to unnamed sources, Microsoft paid off foreign government officials to get software contracts. According to the report, the DoJ and SEC are looking into anonymous accusations that Microsoft paid off officials in China, Romania, and Italy. Regulators believe that the company may…

13 Shockingly Creative Ways Drugs Have Crossed the Border

Let’s clear this up right now: drugs are bad, smuggling is a crime, drug lords and their traffickers are black-hearted, vicious, malignant persons. But you have to admit: they’re pretty damn creative. And the means they’ve used to get their product to their customers through the years are nothing short of extraordinary. Here are 13…

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office has been called in to investigate HP’s allegations of wrong-doing by Autonomy .

Woman’s death from a 30-year-old bullet wound ruled a homicide

In 1982, Linda J. Knauss was shot in a holdup outside a boutique in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This past week, she passed away due to complications from that old wound. That means that 30 years after being shot, Knauss perished as the result of a homicide. Photo by Ben Brown. The Lehigh County coroner ruled Knauss’…