When Darren Kersey plugged his mobile phone charger into the power supply of a picnic shelter in Gillespie Park, Sarasota, all he wanted was a little boost of his battery level. He certainly didn’t bank on getting arrested and spending the night in a cell. More »
Breaking into the same JFK cargo building featured in the movie GoodFellas, two thieves stole two pallets of iPad Minis—about $1.5 million worth—in a slick robbery that included using the airport’s own forklifts and possibly an inside man. More »
The story of antivirus millionaire turned reclusive murder suspect John McAfee is a long, strange, sordid one. Just a few hours ago, on CBS This Morning, reporter Jeff Wise—who broke the news for Gizmodo—talked about where the McAfee saga stands today, and how we got here in the first place. More »
Cosmo the God, teen leader of a hacker collective that fell second only to Anonymous in terms of notoriety, just got a whopper of a court sentence: six years without any computers or Internet. More »
Some things just sound too good to be true, like dirt cheap Apple products for instance. It generally turns out that it’s because they are, as an unfortunate Texas woman found out after purchasing an “iPad” from a stranger at a gas station for $200. She got a pretty sweet mirror though. More »
You already know that smartphone theft is becoming super common. This is exactly how it happens. More »
Paul Ceglia, the upstate New York wood pellet salesman who claimed to co-own Facebook with Zuck, was just arrested at home on fraud charges. AP reports He could spend his next 40 years in prison. If you’re tempted—don’t. More »
Sure, it’s not the first elite cybercrime-fighting team we’ve heard of, it’s also not everyday you hear the likes of Intel, Lockheed Martin and AMD buddying up on research. The companies are looking to address the “complex problems” in cyber security, with the private, non-profit group (which also includes Honeywell and RSA/EMC) aiming to work somewhere between government-funded security research and commercial products already out there. The Cyber Security Research Alliance is already in talks with NIST, and plans to launch a security research symposium early next year. The CSRA will also start tracking cyber security R&D, “prioritize” those aforementioned challenges, and hopefully come together for the greater good.
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