Ah, power. You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the nerdiest crime in recent memory. His abuse of power: computer-based.
Have you recently been offered a $100 Apple iTunes card over the net as a result of your loyalty to the Apple brand? The chances are good that you’ve just been phished. Remember: If it’s too good a deal, it’s probably a scam.
“Hey! Buddy! Wanna buy a cheap parking lot iPad?” Sounds like a bad joke, doesn’t it? After all, there’s plenty of actual scams in technology, but the old, tried and tested “buying a box of unknown goods from a parking lot” (which always used to be speakers back in the day) scam couldn’t work in this day and age — could it?
In yet another demonstration of the never-ending hacking possibilities of the ASUS Eee PC laptop, three criminals in Brazil rigged an ATM with the little low cost computer to grab credit card information and personal information numbers to clone cards. Smart, except that one of them was a total moron.
