Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: On Christmas Day 2021, royal protection officers detained 19-year-old Jaswant Singh Chail at Windsor Castle, where he scaled the grounds’ walls carrying a loaded high-powered crossbow. He intended t… Continue reading Man Who Tried To Kill Queen With Crossbow Encouraged By AI Chatbot, Prosecutors Say
Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:
While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement and a new method for encroachment on privacy, advocates say. Crisscrossing the city on their routes, self-driving cars capture a wider swath of footage. And it’s easier for law enforcement to turn to one company with a large repository of videos and a dedicated response team than to reach out to all the businesses in a neighborhood with security systems…
Continue reading Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels
Don’t do it:
Recently, the manager of the Harvard Med School morgue was accused of stealing and selling human body parts. Cedric Lodge and his wife Denise were among a half-dozen people arrested for some pretty grotesque crimes. This part is also at least a little bit funny though:
Over a three-year period, Taylor appeared to pay Denise Lodge more than $37,000 for human remains. One payment, for $1,000 included the memo “head number 7.” Another, for $200, read “braiiiiiins.”
It’s so easy to think that you won’t get caught.
… Continue reading Typing Incriminating Evidence in the Memo Field
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: One of the cybercriminals behind 2020’s major Twitter hack was sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison on Friday. Joseph O’Connor (AKA “PlugwalkJoe”), a 24-year-old British citizen, previously pl… Continue reading Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence
Inside ‘The Comm,’ a series of Discord servers where kids post about their life of crime. Continue reading CYBER: The Increasingly Violent Discord Servers Where Kids Flaunt Their Crimes
An anonymous reader shares news from Bakersfield, California:
Four men were arrested in the shooting death of a 61-year-old Bakersfield woman who died after police said she confronted suspects who reportedly stole her car, according to a news release i… Continue reading 61-Year-Old Shot, Killed After Tracking Stolen Vehicle With Apple AirTag
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: By pretending to be legitimate music rightsholders, two men managed to extract over $23 million in revenue from YouTube’s content-ID system. Both were arrested, pleaded guilty (PDF), and now face m… Continue reading US Seeks 70-Month Prison Sentence For YouTube Content ID Scammer
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: The legal research and public records data broker LexisNexis is providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with tools to target people who may potentially commit a crime — before any actu… Continue reading LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data To ICE So It Can Try To Predict Crimes
Because he targeted universities and airlines, the FBI had dubbed him the Unabomber, reports the Associated Press:
Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year … Continue reading Ted Kaczynski, Known as the ‘Unabomber,’ has Died in Prison at Age 81
I am not an information security expert (just a developer) and recently discovered this kind of vulnerability, and have a few questions (so sorry if I misinterpreted something about how the attack works).
In the product I am developing whe… Continue reading CRIME like attack and locality of randomized data