Mobile phone theft is a massive and growing problem, accounting for more than 40 percent of all thefts in San Francisco in 2012. But is that a good thing for mobile carriers like AT&T and Verizon?
Editor's Pick In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture arm, is treated with reverence by business software providers.
If you decide to steal someone's smart TV, you'd think disconnecting all the accounts on it would be a smart first thing to do.
Private social network Nextdoor raised $21.6 million in new funding, led by Greylock Partners, to continue strengthening communities around the world.
Guest Post If you have a new iPhone 5, Android smartphone or other mobile device, watch out -- you may be targeted by electronic device thieves.
Last night, amid New Year's Eve revelry, armed and masked robbers looted Apple's Paris store, taking more than one million euros' worth of merchandise.
Editor's Pick With the holidays approaching, smartphone theft is on the rise -- as I discovered recently when I was mugged at knifepoint for my iPhone 5.
We love our gadgets. Unfortunately, so do thieves.
The San Francisco police department has announced the development of its very own crime-fighting “bat computer” to help keep officers on the streets for longer.
In the nation’s technological capital, it is striking how the city’s institutions have been hindered …
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A targeted and sustained cyber attack that ended up compromising hundreds of computers belonging to military personnel, aerospace engineers, activists and others has been traced back to a Chinese hacker.
The cyber criminal in question is Gu Kaiyuan, once a …
It’s the sort of gamesmanship that keeps readers turning the pages in a spy novel. The FBI says that Anonymous, the loose-knit collective of global hackers, intercepted a highly sensitive call between American cybercrime experts and their counterparts at Scotland …
Larger-than-life Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was denied bail in a New Zealand court on Wednesday morning after his hearing was delayed Monday.
Dotcom (pictured) and several other Megaupload employees were named in a 72-page indictment issued last Thursday by the …
Federal prosecuters have shut down popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged its founders with a number of felonies, according to a statement by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
The DOJ indictment alleges that a vast criminal enterprise led …
Hitachi-LG Data Storage, an entity owned by Hitachi and LG, has admitted to 15 criminal counts related to price fixing on components for consumer electronics devices.
The judge in the case sentenced the guilty parties to a $21.1 million fine.…
“Organized crime is exactly that – organized,” said Marc Goodman at this week’s O’Reilly Strata conference, “especially in the field of cyber crime.”
Goodman knows a thing or two about crime. He started off as an LAPD streetcop before starting …
Not satisfied with eliminating digital piracy from the world, two U.S. senators want to crack down on Bitcoin, an open-source digital currency.
Senators Charles Schumer and Joe Manchin are pressing officials to take action against Bitcoin, which Gawker recently claimed …
Sharing the user name and password of any streaming media account is now considered against the law in Tennessee, according to a web entertainment theft bill signed into law yesterday by state Governor Bill Haslam.
The bill makes it a …
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(Editor’s note: Chris Drake is CEO and founder of FireHost, Inc., a secure Web hosting company. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
The holiday season is critical to any customer-focused business – this year, more than ever. For start-ups, it …
