Sgt. Matt Bowman of the University of California Police Department says that in the 12 years that he has worked for the UCPD, bike theft has become the biggest crime. But how do you try to catch a bike thief or a group of thieves on a college campus where almost everyone rides a bike? [...]
Even if your phone is protected with a passcode, experts found a security glitch on the iPhone 4 operating system 4.1 that lets a snoop access your call records, voicemail, look through the phonebook, and even make calls without the any knowledge of the passcode. [...]
When you go to a reputable website, you expect it to be secure. This is especially true when visiting a cyber security website, right? Wrong. Recently, Kaspersky.com, one of the web’s top anti-virus distributors proved that even high security sites are vulnerable when it comes to getting hacked.
Recently, a Swedish university professor described the man that stole his laptop as “compassionate,” not exactly a word most would associate with a thief. The thief robbed the professor of his laptop, which had about ten years of personal and work data. Seeing all of the work on the laptop the thief backed up all of the data and dropped it off at the professor’s home.
A new Facebook privacy investigation shows popular apps such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, and some quizzes have been selling user information to advertisers along with details like the user’s name. Advertisers mainly seek user information so they can build advertising campaigns around personalized information like what types of websites you visit, what type of products you “like,” etc. The other alarming aspect of this blatant invasion of privacy is that advertisers are choosing to sell personal information to sites that allow others to search for your personal information like address and e-mail address.
DNA evidence has widely been used to connect criminals to crimes where forensic evidence was left behind. This evidence is typically collected after a crime is committed in an attempt to tie the offender to the crime forensically. Recently, scientists rethought the way we could use DNA not only to link an offender to a crime, but to actually deter them from committing the crime in the first place; it’s called DNA mist. [...]
Stuxnet has been a major topic of conversation among Internet security and malware researchers, and for good reason. This new form of malware is designed to attack a physical entity, such as a power plant or nuclear reactor and cause it to destroy itself. And if that wasn’t alarming enough, this form of malware can be tailored to target a specific system for customized destruction. [...]
According to a recent study carried out in the UK, nearly half of all home WiFi networks can be hacked in under 5 seconds and almost a quarter are not password protected at all. And the shocking part is that 82% percent of these people believed that their networks were secure from hackers. [...]
The FBI is working on getting a new law passed that will give them almost full access into an American’s life. And no, it’s not the ability to wiretap phone calls, this time it’s the Internet. [...]
A Philadelphia school district has been found guilty for using school-issued laptops for spying on students inside their own homes. The laptops would capture all activity within the home with their built-in web cams and send footage back to the school, without the consent or knowledge of the students or parents. [...]
Most hackers come up with devious and complex schemes to break into people’s computers and steal their personal information. They send out trojans designed to look like PDF files or games, or maybe they’ll just send a link to a website that installs malware just by opening the website. But in the case of a teenage girl from Niceville, FL, the hacker used a much simpler approach. This hacker gave a young girl directions over the phone of how she could help him hack into her computer. [...]
With social networks like Facebook and Twitter becoming more and more common, many school administrators are worried that a student’s tendency to overshare may attract the unwanted attention of a criminal or predator. Besides the most obvious stories we’ve heard about people oversharing and thus inviting hackers or thieves into their homes or personal information, but now these administraos warn that this could create a stalking situation. [...]
Most of the time, students absorb themselves in projects or study groups, but this group of Russian hackers had much bigger ideas. Recently, the FBI detained 20 Russian students on suspicion of working with an international group of hackers guilty of stealing over $70 million from personal bank accounts. [...]
According to security firm Sophos, Facebook is being plagued by a scam circulating around, telling users that if they click and “allow” a link access to their Facebook page, they will receive a free iPhone. The second the users clicks “allow” application, their status is updated to: “Just testing Facebook for iPhone out 
Received my free iPhone today, so happy lol… If anyone else wants one go here” with a link to a Facebook app. [...]
