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. [...]
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. [...]
Faisal Shahzad, the man responsible for trying to set off a bomb during a busy day in Times Square, NYC, has now been sentenced to life in prison. [...]
After socks, gloves, ladies underwear, and pretty much anything left unattended on a clothes line was being stolen, the southern English town police started to get worried. As the offenses increased, they found themselves no closer to a solution in the case of this clothing thief. [...]
A new technology that is still under development will allow your computer to actually “see” what is happening in a video feed, and describe it in text. The advantages to this are numerous as this can replace the need for having someone actually sit and monitor the video feeds. It can also help out or even replace the human aspect of searching through hours of video or analyzing it. [...]
Most of the time people see a celebrity and think autographs and pictures. But in Vince Neil’s case, a woman saw him as a target that she could extort money from. [...]
Waking up in the middle of the night hearing the sounds of his own car start, Russell Stuart, a 51-year-old UK man wasn’t sure how to react. The first thing that his instincts told him was get into the car. And that’s exactly what he did. [...]
Internet passwords: they’re easy to use, not too hard to remember, and they protect all aspects of our digital life from Facebook accounts to sensitive banking information. But the only problem with passwords is that they are still just words. Words that someone can see us typing in or use spyware to record to access aspect of our life. [...]
In hopes of stopping drug trafficking, gun running and money laundering from Mexico into Chicago, the Chicago police department wants to install 200 cameras along 1,200 miles of interstate highways to snap photos of license plates of suspected criminals. Advocates of the proposal contend there are many other benefits, such as catching other criminal activities such as speeding, and helping to locate missing children. [...]
What started out as a normal day on the job turned into a life or death experience for one Las Vegas cab driver. After driving a customer to his requested destination, the passenger acted like he was going to pay and asked the cab driver if he had change for a $50 bill. [...]
