All Posts Tagged With: "Crime"
One In Twelve PCs In The UK Are Part Of Bot Nets
After spending a whole day in a security workshop, I’ve been on the look out for security related stories and I’ve just seen one that scared the life out of me. Despite the huge amount of education we in the ISP community have provided over the last couple of years, one in twelve computers [...]
25Nov2006 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedThief Posts Mugging on YouTube And Gets Himself Arrested
I’m convinced that most thieves are stupid, rather than that the police are good at catching people. Consider this village idiot from Wrexham, Wales. He got his mate to film him mugging a charity worker, and then stupidly posted the video on YouTube. No surprises what happened next….yep, he got arrested.
The video has [...]
FACT Recruits Full-Time Detective To Combat Movie Piracy
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) in the UK has recruited a full-time detective to patrol cinemas to try and catch potential pirates in the act of recording movies, to be later made into DVDs or shared online.
The role has been created in recognition of the fact that movie copying is no longer confined to [...]
GPS Tags To Be Used To Track Criminals
I like fast cars, and I’m sometimes envious of police pursuit drivers who get to drive fast legally. Anyway, their days could be numbered if a new system being used by the NYPD gets rolled out to other forces.
The LAPD are now using air-propelled miniature baseball size “tags” equipped with GPS that are fired [...]
Proof That (Most) Criminals Are Dumb
I’ve always thought that with my strategy consulting background I would make a good thief, and that before I commit ed any caper I would do my market research, SWOT analysis etc mainly to ensure that I wouldn’t get caught.
I definitely wouldn’t make stupid mistakes like some counterfeiters in Arizona who sent a printer in [...]
WiFi stealing
Come on, own up, you’ve done it as well - connected to a WiFi network without permission. Well now you should think twice about ’stealing’ bandwidth. In the States a guy has just been convicted of unauthorised access to a computer network from doing exactly this.
I did once when my ISP was down and [...]




