Meth and drones, meth and drones — there’s hardly a more imaginable combo that pairs better. The PB&J of espionage. At least according to a Taiwanese duo accused of an attempt to smuggle out military secrets and drugs to China.
There have been plenty of attempts to make ATM skimmers look realistic — including 3D printing — but this is perhaps the best yet. Reported by Krebs on Security, you would have to be an expert to spot it.
Nobody likes sexism or the obnoxious jerks who jeer women walking down the street. But there’s a pretty good chance that New York’s new $US20,000 “research” investment in an app to report offending males might not be the best way to do something about it.
Everyone screws up and occasionally tweets something they shouldn’t. Thanks to services like Topsy, deleting your 140-character flub has never been a foolproof way of erasing your misdeed, but we always thought it was good enough to keep us from getting busted. Now a judge says even deleted tweets can be used against you in court. Stop tweeting illegal stuff people!
If you were ever curious as to how much body parts can fetch on the black market, Medical Transcription created a snazzy infographic to show you. Some parts are shockingly cheap! Like would you want a new shoulder or a new iPad? Both cost 500 bucks.
Last week, Higinio O. Ochoa III was charged by the FBI with hacking into US law enforcement agencies and releasing phone numbers and home addresses of police officers. You’re looking at the evidence the FBI used to nail him.
Sergey Aleynikov, an ex-Goldman-Sachs programmer, spent a year in prison for downloading source code of the firm’s high-speed trading software before his sentence was overturned in February. Today the court explained why — downloading computer code doesn’t constitute stealing under the US National Stolen Property Act.
A South African man (whose name has not been released) got a lucky break on Sunday when his kidnappers stuffed him into the boot of his car with his mobile phone, which he used to send a text to his girlfriend, Lynn Peters. What Peters did next ended up saving his life.