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Just a few days ago we looked at the lawsuit Gamefly is currently fighting against the United States Postal Service regarding preferential sorting treatment. Apparently, some post offices have special mail slots for Netflix and Blockbuster, which would reduce the chances that a product will be damaged during transit,... |
19 October 2009
03:44 GMT |
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The Entertainment Merchants Association, a trade group representing retailers from North America, has announced that it plans to implement a project, called Lazarus, which would see videogames being activated at the point of sale, until 2010, limiting the losses generated by theft by employees and casual shoplifting.... |
24 June 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Over the last couple of years, British beekeepers have been drawing international attention to the fact that their bees seem to be affected by a mysterious disease. Stocks have dwindled recently, which drove the price of honey up, and have made bees a rather profitable investment. Apparently, thieves caught on to tha... |
2 June 2009
19:01 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations is currently alleging that University of Florida (UF) professor Samim Anghaie, along with other family members, have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from governmental funds, which were awarded to a company the family ran, but which was illegal. Since 1999, NASA, the US Air... |
27 February 2009
03:05 GMT |
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We've talked quite a lot about the console war and how each of the three manufacturers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, are fighting for the top spot in terms of sales, and by doing so make the products more and more attractive to the average customer, but the big sales and popularity that these devices have been... |
21 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, the Swedish police announced on Wednesday that a number of Sony Ericsson mobile phone prototypes had been stolen and found in the home of a company employee. A Sony Ericsson spokesperson confirmed that some prototypes had been stolen by an employee, but gave no further details... |
15 January 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Princess Bea has, indeed, ranked so far as the smartest Royal, but her latest move has done nothing but make her feel embarrassed for being far too naive. The British media reports that the Princess had her BMW stolen the other day, as she got out of the car, left it unlocked and with the keys in the ignition, to go ... |
9 January 2009
07:09 GMT |
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If one British institution is in an embarrassing situation, it's the Police. Recently, they tracked down a stolen truck which was used by thieves to transport the stuff they robbed from a few local stores. Nothing really important, only seven pallets of games, most of them being Ubisoft's latest PlayStatio... |
30 September 2008
19:01 GMT |
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According to a recent article posted by the online edition of the Boston Globe newspaper, a former Intel employee has been accused of stealing critical information from the Santa Clara-based leading chip maker. In addition, the details have been revealed after he took a new job at Intel's long-time competitor Ad... |
12 September 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Visitors to the Financial Times web page yesterday might have noticed that there were no new articles published and that other data had not been updated either. This happened because somebody nicked (British for stole) "equipment" from 3rd party facilities where it was hosted. It has not been disclosed what type of e... |
11 July 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Those of you who think that online identity theft is the worst that can happen, here's the bad news: how about thieves that steal not only your data, but the entire web server as well? This is exactly what happened to Peter Gabriel's website yesterday morning when all the browser requests for the webpage en... |
6 May 2008
10:05 GMT |
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Laptops are small, portable and lightweight devices that can be carried almost anywhere with a minimum amount of effort. However, their greatest advantage, portability, seems to also be their weakest spot. Thieves can easily snatch your unit while you are looking away, leaving you without both your favorite toy and y... |
16 April 2008
08:55 GMT |
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Nowadays, thieves steal laptops. It's like an unwritten rule, but adopted by lots of thieves out there. Just think that many people were seriously affected after laptops containing their private information were stolen from officials who were working on them. And these are only the reported cases, there are prob... |
4 April 2008
04:57 GMT |
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We've seen lots of ID thefts and credit card scams but when they're conducted by a former pastor who's here to represent God, that's pretty shocking news. A recent report by Associated Press reveals that Rev. Raymond Clayton from Northumberland County has pleaded guilty to charges of using parishi... |
2 April 2008
08:16 GMT |
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Stealing credit cards and selling them on the web is almost a phenomenon these days as there are several ways to find such a 'merchant'. However, one of the most popular methods to sell stolen information was actually a website, apparently hosted by Google's Blogger, which gained impressive popularity ... |
26 March 2008
17:56 GMT |
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It happened in the past and it happens again: a laptop containing information about approximately 2500 patients of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute based in Bethesda, Maryland, got stolen and nobody knows for sure if the thief intends to use the details or not. The data stored on the hard-drives includes ... |
26 March 2008
07:59 GMT |
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This is something even the United States' Secret Service is looking into, so it must be really big. But, like I said in the subtitle, it's only half bad, as the information lost only included the supermarket responsible's customers credit and debit card numbers, and not the corresponding names and addr... |
19 March 2008
16:21 GMT |
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It's not a secret that, since we're living in a fully expanding virtual era, there is a major increase in virtual thefts that have, unfortunately, a real-life monetary value. Since there is no such thing as a "virtual police" that is able to solve these cases, the gamers have to contact the real police. But... |
5 February 2008
04:01 GMT |
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A while back, Yahoo! decided that it had been receiving too many complaints about people duplicating the login page to their mail service in order to steal their accounts. The one simple solution that the team saw fit to put in place was to allow its users to create something like a seal that would authenticate the o... |
1 February 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Sometimes background and periodical psychological checks of employees are in order. I know nobody's going to do it because I said so, but some have already suffered because they skipped that part and went straight to the hiring. Such is the case of Daniel Lorello, a 54-year-old New York state employee, who had a... |
29 January 2008
08:30 GMT |
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Some of them are funny like hell, others are plain stupid. All are illegal. Yes, we're talking about the ways found by criminals to steal stuff. For example, we now have the funny story of a 21 year-old Kmart employee who managed to steal electronics worth more than $7000 before being, eventually, caught.Accord... |
15 January 2008
04:48 GMT |
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They never quit, do they? Recently, a market trader was caught selling PlayStation 2 original boxed copies of Shrek the Third for just £10 each at a West Midlands market. The man was of course arrested and bailed pending further investigation.The stall of the 50 year-old man at Tamworth market was raided on 18th Dec... |
9 January 2008
07:15 GMT |
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It seems that Christmas doesn't always comes with good deeds made by good people who want everybody to have a good time. Actually, it seems things can turn to be quite the opposite when a Sony PSP is involved. And, even though this story might seem a hell lot of fun for some people, it actually isn't. Hihi... |
3 January 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Oh, God, here we go again. Another stolen laptop puts at risk the information of about 60,000 people, who requested an advice from the Citizens Advice Bureau. A public statement, published on the official page of Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland, informs the users that only the people around the Belfast area have... |
11 December 2007
10:01 GMT |
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Laptop. Theft. Lost data. Thousands of people affected. These are surely the most popular terms this season, as several officials lost their laptops containing private information about numerous persons. What the heck, man? Protect your laptops for God's sake? How hard can it be to keep an eye on a laptop, espe... |
10 December 2007
05:41 GMT |
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CA and YouGov today released a survey concerning the online security in UK, revealing that no less than 70 percent of the respondents admitted the identity theft is pretty serious and it's often changing the virtual world. The research included 2000 UK residents, 64 percent of them considering that web-companies... |
21 November 2007
06:42 GMT |
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Gregory Kopiloff, a 35-year-old man from Seattle, admitted that he used P2P file sharing application to download private documents in order to obtain credit cards. The Register reports the scammer bought stuff online up to $73,000 using the information stolen from approximately 50 people. The man pleaded guilty when ... |
7 November 2007
13:51 GMT |
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I guess all of you heard about the "identity theft" concept. There's not much to say about it because all you need to know is that hackers or attackers in general use the private information concerning a real person to conduct other web activities such as shopping or even malicious attempts to invade some comput... |
7 November 2007
10:44 GMT |
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Crime doesn't pay! Marten Casarez is a 22-year-old man from Mansfield that got involved in identity theft. But he was no small crook, he took the identities of more than 1.00 men and women from 33 states, as the Star-Telegram informs. As you might have imagined, the Police nabbed the guy and he's facing lot... |
3 October 2007
04:58 GMT |
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I always suspected it - I mean, I knew some of the "Lindsay Lohan steals everything she gets her hands onto" rumors were true, but I had no idea she had actually managed to do some drug stealing before taking her little trip into rehab. The fact is, I don't know why I'm surprised. This is classic junkie beh... |
28 September 2007
05:55 GMT |
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This is the first article in the 'security news' category this week and… it's bad news. Some hackers strive really hard to get a load of sensitive data, but sometimes, they don't need to. Some users offer sensitive data on a silver platter, just because they're negligent. Here's how thin... |
24 September 2007
03:05 GMT |
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Another laptop has been stolen and sensitive information has been exposed. This time, it's At&T that's been affected. But this has become rather common lately, I guess that we've had one of these cases every week. However, AT&T's situation is a little bit more severe than others' since all th... |
3 September 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Hackers hit the bank. Data is stolen. People's identities are in danger. Bank representatives don't care. That says it all in a nutshell. In my opinion, it's not the bank's fault that hackers exist and attack databases. It all happened in Indiana, involving the Old National Bancorp and tens of tho... |
27 August 2007
05:51 GMT |
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You can never be too secure! But if you do have well defended PCs and such, you can never know what is going to happen in real life, that will mess up something in your data base. You can get all sorts of fire-walls installed, and have anti-virus programs running all the time, but what's the use of all these whe... |
27 August 2007
03:54 GMT |
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As many of you might have already guessed, when something is being put on the Internet, that's it - it's there, and it will never disappear! How come? Well, that's an easy answer, you upload it, and before you know it, some hackers will come up with a scheme to copy it on their computers! And what'... |
27 August 2007
03:19 GMT |
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Lately, there was news about hackers stealing data, that it became something sort of common. How many were affected this time? Well, about 60.000 people, which is nowhere close to what Prg has done to Monster.com. So, the good news is that it could have been worse. It all happened in Norway, when a group of hackers h... |
21 August 2007
11:44 GMT |
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Yesterday, I wrote an article about the Prg trojan, a dangerous virus that steals data like no other while being impossible to stop by anti-viruses because of its self-mutating code. Prg is still at large and continues to wreak havoc on job search sites.I decided to write this "Part II" because I think this is a real... |
21 August 2007
04:46 GMT |
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One man from Arizona has been charged and sentenced for using stolen identities to steal cash from the original persons' accounts. You've probably heard about identities being stolen a million times before, but I for one, have never noticed a more severe case than this one. As Sophos tells us, the criminal ... |
17 August 2007
08:36 GMT |
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Any person with a computer that is connected to the Internet can access the United Kingdom Land Registry's site and once there, pretending to plan to register for a new house, one can buy a certain type of plan that costs only £3. Thus the user can access many details on where a certain house is positioned, what... |
15 August 2007
14:56 GMT |
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A police officer's computer was compromised after he installed a peer-to-peer file sharing application along with a malicious file that managed to steal the private information. The Tokyo police department sustained that no less than 12.000 persons involved in criminal investigations were mentioned in the docume... |
4 July 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Four masked men in a Subaru vehicle forced off the road a delivery truck that was shipping a load of Vertu mobile phones. They later stole the devices worth of USD 6 million.The theft took place on a link road near junction 4a of the M3 in Farnborough, Hampshire. The Subaru that was involved in the theft is actually ... |
4 June 2007
10:53 GMT |
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Apple has patented their idea for detecting when a mobile phone has been stolen and for protecting the data inside. This initiative comes as a solution for the large number of phones that are stolen on a daily basis.Apple's idea can be applied only to iPhone, as this is the only mobile communication device that ... |
21 May 2007
04:41 GMT |
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The University of Missouri was recently affected by one of the most impressive hack attempts that managed to steal no more than 22.396 social security numbers. It seems that the hacker broke into the university computer and discovered private information about the students, ex-employees and the current staff of the c... |
9 May 2007
13:26 GMT |
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As I recently said, YouTube is no more an online video sharing service because more and more users are attracted by Google's product to resolve their own cases. Today, Globe and Mail reported that YouTube is now the product that fights to find some stolen gems after their owners posted a video to identify the bu... |
4 April 2007
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From the dark and seedy streets of Liberty City's underworld to the glamorous hedonism of Vice City in the 1980s. Two towns, each brimming with limitless delights and degradation, where anything can happen. Two criminal sagas of greed and desperation that will take you into the world of Grand Theft Auto. The Gra... |
23 March 2007
09:37 GMT |
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Rockstar is back packing a lot of steam and it's the yearly (recently monthly) installment in the GTA series we all love to play. It's a pretty unusual port, this Vice City Stories, since it initially surfaced for the PSP console, getting a lot of praise from both gamers and press. While it was being ported... |
13 March 2007
07:13 GMT |
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Five years ago, Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas, a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs, and corruption. Now he's back in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Join Carl on his journey across the state of San Andreas as he fights to save his family and take back... |
5 March 2007
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