Articles tagged "crime"

Some bitcoin services are more likely to comply with authority than your wish for privacy.

In the gang world, social networks and YouTube are just another tool in the arsenal.

At least, the Feds are willing to talk about how they want to spy on Americans.

United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz has had a rough year so far.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel here.

Crime syndicates are in the process of driving rhinos, elephants, and tigers into extinction. Can the latest anti-poacher tech save their hides?

If your'e going to steal an iPad, do it right. Don't gank one of an unsuspecting subway passenger or stash it in your pants before sprinting out of an Apple store. Go to the airport hangar where the expensive little devices are kept after they arrive…

Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter are a great way for people with great ideas to get money while circumventing the traditional hurdles of appealing to venture capitalists. Turns out they are also a great way for people with stolen money to get arou…

Generally, my assumption of the ins and outs of crime scene forensics is a mythicism of field detectives performing high-tech feats in order to solve a mystery with some encrusted semen. I'd only expect that investigation units have access to some aw…

Everybody loves an election year. The campaign volunteers are out and about, wearing matching T-shirts, holding clipboards and sticking lawn signs into the dirt. The TV is buzzing with the latest scooplet about this candidate's silly gaffe or that ca…

Two Romanian hackers have fessed up to their involvement in a three-year-long credit card conspiracy that targeted over 150 Subway sandwich shops and as many as 146,000 of their unsuspecting customers. From 2008 to 2010, Iulian Dolan and Cezar Iulian…

We learn this weekend that a 19-year-old college student is looking at 15 years in jail after robbing one of his classmates at gunpoint. He wasn't after money or jewels or anything like that, though. Humza Bajwa just wanted more "magic" coins for hi…

Paul Chambers off the hook after winning a U.K. High Court appeal against a 2010 conviction for — get this — tweeting. To be fair to the establishment, the tweet was in pretty bad taste. After showing up at the Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire o…

Last time we heard about wildlife smuggling, it was the curious case of a Chinese man attacked by a piranha, despite piranhas not being native to China. It served to highlight that Asia is the world’s driver and epicenter of wildlife smuggling, which…

Vandals used a Sawzall to cause a hundred grand in damages to First Solar's AV Solar Ranch One.

The company that long ago vowed not to be evil is now confronting it head on. Google just announced a new initiative in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Tribeca Film Festival geared towards combatting violent illicit networks…

Baltimore doesn’t get enough credit as a green city, speaking as someone that lives here and frequently looks for good reasons to continue living here. We’re ringed by big parks full of swimming holes and secret places, are cut by several wooded rive…

So, we've had the internet for a good while now. Has it changed you? Maybe. At the very least its exposed more of you; or, it's coerced you into exposing more of yourself. Some of that information is new information -- maybe information you didn't ha…

One of the buzzier things this weekend is the story of a young Irish coke mule busted at an airport in Brazil with 72 thumb-size packets of cocaine totaling 830 grams.

_Sometimes there is beauty in tragedy. Killing your child for a video game isn't one of those times._ h3. ONE: Apple hires iPhone jailbreak notification developer for iOS team ("Apple Insider":http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/06/03/apple_hi…

While Nigeria's 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what's going on in Ghana. Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes…