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The FBI Just Snuck Into Computers All Over the U.S. to Stop a Hacking Campaign

Security

3 days ago

The FBI Just Snuck Into Computers All Over the U.S. to Stop a Hacking Campaign

Lucas Ropek

French Police Are Investigating an International Gang of Lego Thieves

Online

2 weeks ago

French Police Are Investigating an International Gang of Lego Thieves

Lauren Rouse

Man Uses Borrowed BMW To Rob Bank, Offers To Pay For The Car In Cash

Cars

1 month ago

Man Uses Borrowed BMW To Rob Bank, Offers To Pay For The Car In Cash

Elizabeth Blackstock

A Texas man named Eric Dion Warren, 50, may have just discovered one of the wildest forms of non-traditional car financing you could imagine. He borrowed a BMW from a dealership to take it for a ride, then robbed a bank and attempted to use the money he’d stolen to…

What We Know About the Hackers Behind the Accellion Data Breach

Online

2 months ago

What We Know About the Hackers Behind the Accellion Data Breach

Lucas Ropek

Trump Hints He’s Open to Pardoning Edward Snowden

Gadgets

8 months ago

Trump Hints He’s Open to Pardoning Edward Snowden

Tom McKay

Donald Trump — who once demanded that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden be executed for leaking classified intel on dystopian surveillance of U.S. citizens — has mused that Snowden has “not been treated fairly,” spurring a call from GOP Rep. Thomas Massie to finally pardon him.

U.S. Court Rules That Researching A Platform’s Hidden Biases Isn’t A Criminal Offence

Online

1 year ago

U.S. Court Rules That Researching A Platform’s Hidden Biases Isn’t A Criminal Offence

Shoshana Wodinsky

Want To Do Crimes? Upgrade To 5G, Apparently

Mobile

2 years ago

Want To Do Crimes? Upgrade To 5G, Apparently

Jennings Brown

Automatic Wi-Fi Login Helped U.S. Police ID Teens Who Vandalised School

Online

2 years ago

Automatic Wi-Fi Login Helped U.S. Police ID Teens Who Vandalised School

Catie Keck

Four U.S. students charged with hate crimes for plastering their Maryland school in racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic words and imagery just days before their high school graduation last year were identified by school administrators because their phones had automatically connected to the campus’ Wi-Fi network, according to reports.