Crime

Detroit Police Have Given Up on Burglar Alarms

The Detroit Police Department has had enough. After pouring so much money and manpower into responding to false alarms, they’re finally giving up. Before they come to your door to save you, you had better be able to verify a crime is in progress. The DPD has every reason to be frustrated. According to Detroit…

Privacy & Security Kwame Opam

Australia Collar Bomb Suspect Arrested in Kentucky of All Places

Remember a couple weeks ago when some nutter strapped a bomb to a young Australian woman’s neck? Well, they think they’ve got the guy, and he was in hiding in the boonies in Kentucky. https://gizmodo.com/police-now-trying-to-defuse-bomb-strapped-to-teenage-gi-5827266 The FBI has arrested Paul “Doug” Peters, the Australian man who was the prime suspect in the captivating Collar Bomb…

Tech News Brent Rose

How To Steal $57,000 From Your Neighbors Using Facebook (Like This Asshole)

If Facebook fraudster Iain Wood has taught us anything, it’s to distrust thy neighbor. Because sometimes thy neighbor stalks you on Facebook, steals your mail, then uses your personal information to rob you. Over the span of two years, Wood stole a total of $57,000 from his neighbors in Newcastle, England to feed his nasty…

Social Media Alyssa Bereznak

Police Arrested a Man for Planning a Water Fight Over BBM

You know when the Brits said they were going to investigate the use of social networks to organize crime? They weren’t kidding. They’ve arrested and charged a 20-year-old man for planning a water fight (yes, a water fight) over BBM. https://gizmodo.com/if-youre-looting-in-the-uk-right-now-please-keep-tweet-5829131 According to The Guardian, the 20-year-old man was arrested by Essex police in the…

Tech News Casey Chan

As Another Protest Looms, the FCC Investigates BART for Last Week’s Cellphone Shutdown

After the Bay Area Rapid Transit quelled an anti-BART protest by shutting down the mobile phone system in their stations, they attracted the attention of the FCC, who will now investigate the matter. https://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-protests-in-the-social-media-age-where-gove-5830684 Being a government agency and all, BART has attracted the fury of citizens who argue that first amendement rights were being…

Tech News Adrian Covert

China Shuts Down Those 22 Fake Apple Stores

After authorities from the Chinese city of Kunming discovered 22 retail shops illegally masquerading as Apple stores and Apple filed a complaint, all 22 of those shops made their Apple branding vanish. https://gizmodo.com/china-has-a-secret-22-more-fake-apple-stores-5830250 According to TechWorld, every shop removed the logos last week: The city ordered all unauthorized Apple vendors to cease using the Apple…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle robbed a Wendy’s in Wisconsin

Police have released this photo depicting a man who held up a Wendy’s in Rib Mountain, Wisconsin last week. After brandishing a gun and tying up two employees, the Ninja Turtle bandit and an accomplice made off with money from the restaurant’s coffers. This perpetrator in a half shell is described as 5’10” and stocky.…

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Arrr! “Pirate Cultural Adviser” wanted for Euro navies

Think you know a lot about Somali pirates? Familiar with the ins and outs of the shifting pirate finance markets? Then send a résumé and cover letter on over to the European Union’s anti-piracy task force. They’re in the market for an expert on pirate culture. EU Navfor, the European Union’s naval coalition off the…

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Rapper The Game Hilariously Got His Followers to Flash Mob Police Phone Lines

Either someone’s playing a practical joke or the Game has serious internet powers. It seems that the Game tweeted containing the number for the Compton sheriff’s office yesterday. That resulted in hundred of calls to the department that apparently overwhelmed their emergency service. At around 5PM, either the Game or his associate @wackstar tweeted that…

Tech News Kwame Opam

It’s Ridiculously Easy to Steal iPads from Walmart

Californian Walmarts have got a problem on their hands, with a trio of thieves stealing iPads in a very simple ruse involving one man telling an assistant he wants to buy two iPads, which are then set aside for him under a counter. As the story goes, he then pretends to browse other products, while…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The NYPD Has Hacked Together a Social Media Taskforce

In the midst of the ongoing violence in London and after what must be boatloads of crimes stemming from online activity, the NYPD has formed a unit dedicated to sifting through Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace for information on dangerous activity. http://gawker.com/5829527/british-police-plan-a-fightback-as-three-more-die-in-riots Now, considering that Facebook and Twitter are both strangely attractive to bold, young criminals…

Social Media Kwame Opam

Using Robot Skin Will Turn Any Forensics Team Into Batmen

The jelly-like thing you see above is called GelSight. It’s a synthetic rubber substance that can measure and visualize even microscopic surfaces, and it promises to revolutionize both forensics and medicine after some more study. GelSight was originally used to give robots a sense of touch. How it works is you simply apply it to…

Tech News Kwame Opam

California Booting Inmates off Facebook

If there’s anything worse than being in a California state penitentiary, it’s not being able to check if you’ve been tagged in any photos lately. This dual fate of horror is now a reality for CA inmates, NBC reports. The state’s apparently not thrilled with social media savvy criminals, and is “working with Facebook to…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren’t the Same Thing

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Appeals recently ruled in favor of a company who claims their computer system was sabotaged by a labor union that told its members emails to their employer about a dispute. But the charge wasn’t spamming. It was for hacking. The claim, as lawyer Nick Akerman points out, says the purported crime…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Hackers Could Help Prisoners Escape

Another scary finding from the DefCon hackers’ conference: prisoners could escape from their jails, if hackers decided to lend a hand and hack into the prison’s security systems. A couple of years ago a prison’s cell doors accidentally opened after a power blackout, which led security engineer John Strauchs to make the startling discovery that…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Great Chinese iPad Zipline Smuggling Ring

You’ve got to admire the audacity of the Chinese hucksters who were illegally importing iPads and iPhones across the border from Hong Kong, by way of a rope-and-pulley system, triggered by a crossbow and desire to make some cash. The Chinese news report of the sting operation, below, shows the flying fox-style cable that crossed…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

FBI’s First Ever App Could Be a Lifesaver

If your child gets snatched, it might take some time to come up with a recent, accurate photo to provide the police. Unless you have it on your iPhone—along with all their personal information. FBI to the rescue. The Child ID app not only stores all the data on your kid you’ll want to provide…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Facebook’s Spam King Nabbed by FBI Once and For All

Our friend the Spam King has turned himself into the FBI a couple years after he was ordered to pay $711 million for spamming the shit out of Facebook. Will Facebook finally get some money out of Sanford Wallace now? Unlikely, but he’s expected to head to jail for his deeds, which involved compromising half…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Cosplay-Playing, Sex-Offending Copper Lands In More Trouble After Battlestar Galactica Facebook Post

You think you’d lay off Facebook for a while if arrested for six sex-related offences, but ex-deputy police officer Nathan James Gastineau of California found his bail rose from $150,000 to $350,000 after quoting Admiral Cain’s speech on Facebook. The Highland, California police-man had been arrested in April for three counts of lewd acts on…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Worldwide Online Child Pornography Forum Busted in Largest Prosecution Yet

72 people have been charged with their participation in Dreamboard, a members-only online forum that was created to promote pedophilia and “to encourage the sexual abuse of very young children”. What these sick perverts did was absolutely disgusting. Again, this is tough stuff to stomach, so feel free to stop reading here and know that…

Tech News Casey Chan

Detroit Police Have Given Up on Burglar Alarms

Australia Collar Bomb Suspect Arrested in Kentucky of All Places

How To Steal $57,000 From Your Neighbors Using Facebook (Like This Asshole)

Police Arrested a Man for Planning a Water Fight Over BBM

As Another Protest Looms, the FCC Investigates BART for Last Week’s Cellphone Shutdown

China Shuts Down Those 22 Fake Apple Stores

A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle robbed a Wendy’s in Wisconsin

Arrr! “Pirate Cultural Adviser” wanted for Euro navies

Rapper The Game Hilariously Got His Followers to Flash Mob Police Phone Lines

It’s Ridiculously Easy to Steal iPads from Walmart

The NYPD Has Hacked Together a Social Media Taskforce

Using Robot Skin Will Turn Any Forensics Team Into Batmen

California Booting Inmates off Facebook

Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren’t the Same Thing

Hackers Could Help Prisoners Escape

The Great Chinese iPad Zipline Smuggling Ring

FBI’s First Ever App Could Be a Lifesaver

Facebook’s Spam King Nabbed by FBI Once and For All

Cosplay-Playing, Sex-Offending Copper Lands In More Trouble After Battlestar Galactica Facebook Post

Worldwide Online Child Pornography Forum Busted in Largest Prosecution Yet

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