Yevgeny Kaspersky, head of mega-antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs, probably has a lot of enemies in Russia – a country where cybercrime rakes in the rubles. So it’s not entirely surprisingly that Yevgeny’s son has been kidnapped and held for ransom.
This week in Stanton, Delaware, a 12-year-old girl was confronted by a man driving a white van. He told her to get in. She held up her iPod touch and said she had dialled 911. That may have saved her life.
