Crime Stories for 2014

FBI Monitoring Hacking Targets For Retaliation 96
Lizard Squad: Xbox Live, PSN Attacks Were a 'Marketing Scheme' For DDoS Service 139
Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats 106
Finn Linked To Lizard Squad Christmas Attack 51
Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices 420
13,000 Passwords, Usernames Leaked For Major Commerce, Porn Sites 149
Prosecutors Raid LG Offices Over Alleged Vandalism of Samsung Dishwashers 87
Russian Hackers Stole Millions From Banks, ATMs 53
UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet 360
Study: Police Body-Cams Reduce Unacceptable Use of Force 368
GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals 229
Bitcoin Exec To Spend Two Years Behind Bars For Silk Road Transactions 69
65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers 246
Staples: Breach May Have Affected 1.16 Million Customers' Cards 97
FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate 556
Did Alcatraz Escapees Survive? Computer Program Says They Might Have 89
Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC 68
RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft 110
Over 9,000 PCs In Australia Infected By TorrentLocker Ransomware 83
Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents 130
Tracking the Mole Inside Silk Road 2.0 81
Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape 180
Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? 720
Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier 388
DOJ Launches New Cybercrime Unit, Claims Privacy Top Priority 61
Every Weapon, Armored Truck, and Plane the Pentagon Gave To Local Police 191
'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City 218
UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea 216
UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database 150
Obama Offers Funding For 50,000 Police Body Cameras 262
Cyber Ring Stole Secrets For Gaming US Stock Market 37
UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas 256
Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU 342
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech 436
Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing 166
Hackers Breach Payment Systems of Major Parking Garage Operator 38
Hacker Threatened With 44 Felony Charges Escapes With Misdemeanor 219
Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" 151
Class-Action Suit Claims Copyright Enforcement Company Made Harassing Robo-calls 67
Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk 481
Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant 243
Tracking a Bitcoin Thief, Part II: Illustrating the Issue of Trust In Altcoins 46
Court Shuts Down Alleged $120M Tech Support Scam 129
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? 159
Former Police Officer Indicted For Teaching How To Pass a Polygraph Test 328
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again 356
Dealer-Installed GPS Tracker Leads To Kidnapper's Arrest in Maryland 271
Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment 716
Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco 219
Virginia Court: LEOs Can Force You To Provide Fingerprint To Unlock Your Phone 328
Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Warg Faces Danish Jail Time 89
Is the Outrage Over the FBI's Seattle Times Tactics a Knee-Jerk Reaction? 206
Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer 235
"Police Detector" Monitors Emergency Radio Transmissions 215
Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? 152
Tracking a Bitcoin Thief 64
Tech Firm Fined For Paying Imported Workers $1.21 Per Hour 286
Proposed Penalty For UK Hackers Who "Damage National Security": Life 165
Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected 398
Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK 475
As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal 407
Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook 323
FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption 284
How an FBI Informant Led the Hack of British Tabloid "The Sun" 38
Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation 314
Only 100 Cybercrime Brains Worldwide, Says Europol Boss 104
Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal" 208
Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year 155
Infected ATMs Give Away Millions of Dollars Without Credit Cards 83
Brits Must Trade Digital Freedoms For Safety, Says Crime Agency Boss 264
Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony 102
JP Morgan Chase Breach: Shades of a Cyber Cold War? 96
Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots 278
Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes In FBI's Story 191
How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI 67
DARPA Technology Could Uncover Counterfeit Microchips 35
Four Charged With Stealing Army Helicopter Training Software 46
Analyzing Silk Road 2.0 68
CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers 195
Medical Records Worth More To Hackers Than Credit Cards 78
Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe 120
2015 Corvette Valet Mode Recorder Illegal In Some States 269
Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem 460
Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot 165
London's Crime Hot Spots Predicted Using Mobile Phone Data 64
Navy Guilty of Illegally Broad Online Searches: Child Porn Conviction Overturned 286
Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers 210
CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" 462
Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes 140
Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use 264
Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash 142
The Five Nigerian Gangs Behind Most Craigslist Buyer Scams 160
New DNA Analysis On Old Blood Pegs Aaron Kosminski As Jack the Ripper 135
Should Cyborgs Have the Same Privacy Rights As Humans? 206
Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion 205
Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls 1262
FBI Investigates 'Sophisticated' Cyber Attack On JP Morgan, 4 More US Banks 98
Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards Show Up In Germany 76
U.S. Senator: All Cops Should Wear Cameras 643
California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch 233
$75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen 194
Lizard Squad Bomb Threat Diverts Sony Exec's Plane To Phoenix 131
Ross Ulbricht Faces New Drug Charges 102
33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater 465
UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime 391
Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses 200
Why Chinese Hackers Would Want US Hospital Patient Data 171
WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" 299
Selectable Ethics For Robotic Cars and the Possibility of a Robot Car Bomb 239
Feds: Red Light Camera Firm Paid For Chicago Official's Car, Condo 115
Are Altcoins Undermining Bitcoin's Credibility? 267
Fugitive Child Sex Abuser Caught By Face-Recognition Technology 232
Sniffing Out Billions In US Currency Smuggled Across the Border To Mexico 158
Chinese Researchers' 'Terror Cam' Could Scan Crowds, Looking for Stress 146
Alleged Massive Account and Password Seizure By Russian Group 126
Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police 790
A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States 419
Attackers Install DDoS Bots On Amazon Cloud 25
When Spies and Crime-Fighters Squabble Over How They Spy On You 120
The Psychology of Phishing 128
World Health Organization Calls For Decriminalization of Drug Use 474
Source Code Leaked For Tinba Banking Trojan 75
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate Firms Using Malware-Laden Handheld Scanners 93
Police Recording Confirms NYPD Flew At a Drone and Never Feared Crashing 310
Maldives Denies Russian Claims That Secret Service Kidnapped a Politician's Son 100
Judge Shoots Down "Bitcoin Isn't Money" Argument In Silk Road Trial 135
Tired of Playing Cyber Cop, Microsoft Looks For Partners In Crime Fighting 113
US Arrests Son of Russian MP In Maldives For Hacking 176
Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory 415
Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 115
Judge Frees "Cannibal Cop" Who Shared His Fantasies Online 185
Cybercrooks May Have Stolen Billions Using Brazilian "Boletos" 69
Western Energy Companies Under Sabotage Threat 86
Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze, Part II 170
Banking Fraud Campaign Steals 500k Euros In a Week 35
Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones 358
Prisoners Freed After Cops Struggle With New Records Software 128
US Marshals Accidentally Reveal Potential Bidders For Gov't-Seized Bitcoin 101
Make a Date With Fraud 61
Chicago Adding Sensors For Public Monitoring 107
Mt. Gox CEO Returns To Twitter, Enrages Burned Investors 281
Chinese Vendor Could Pay $34.9M FCC Fine In Signal-Jammer Sting 188
Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones 137
Nokia Extorted For Millions Over Stolen Encryption Keys 89
Researchers Outline Spammers' Business Ecosystem 14
Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) 100
Man Behind Hacks of Bush Family and Other Celebs Indicted In the US 65
US To Auction 29,656 Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road 232
Cybercriminals Ramp Up Activity Ahead of 2014 World Cup 90
NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin 220
Chicago Robber Caught By Facial Recognition Sentenced To 22 Years 143
Kim Dotcom Offers $5 Million Bounty To Defeat Extradition 253
Whom Must You Trust? 120
How FBI Informant Sabu Helped Anonymous Hack Brazil 59
US Marshals Seize Police Stingray Records To Keep Them From the ACLU 272
AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud 228
Life Sentences For Serious Cyberattacks Proposed In Britain 216
$10k Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At Planes Goes Nationwide 264
Local Police Increasingly Rely On Secret Surveillance 146
Justice Dept. Names ZeuS Trojan Author, Seizes Control of P2P "Gameover" Botnet 76
LAPD Gets Some Hand-Me-Down Drones From Seattle, Promises Discretion 108
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden 221
Australian iPhone and iPad Users Waylaid By Ransomware 52
The Internet Is Now Part of the Crime Scene 145
Sifting Mt. Gox's Logs Reveals Suspicious Trading Patterns 143
US Gov't Seeks 7-Month Sentence For LulzSec's Sabu 76
IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System 265
AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail 449
FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime 319
Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets 626
Almost 100 Arrested In Worldwide Swoop On Blackshades Malware 87
Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates 186
US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking 225
Robbery Suspect Tracked By GPS and Killed 450
The Lithuanian Mob Was Smuggling Cigarettes Into Russia With a Drone 81
Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Products For the Over-Equipped Household? 408
Pedophile Asks To Be Deleted From Google Search After European Court Ruling 370
Canadian Teen Arrested For Calling In 30+ Swattings, Bomb Threats 350
Feds: Sailor Hacked Navy Network While Aboard Nuclear Aircraft Carrier 43
Apple Can Extract Texts, Photos, Contacts From Locked iPhones 202
First Arrest In Japan For 3D-Printed Guns 274
As Domestic Abuse Goes Digital, Shelters Turn To Counter-surveillance With Tor 133
Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps 664
Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs 1198
FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate 427
NYPD's Twitter Campaign Backfires 173
Scammers Lower Comcast Bills, Get Jail Time 103
Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied On a Whole City 190
Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All 332
New 'Google' For the Dark Web Makes Buying Dope and Guns Easy 156
Criminals Using Drones To Find Cannabis Farms and Steal Crops 258
RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit 104
Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London 109
US Takes Out Gang That Used Zeus Malware To Steal Millions 38
UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country 386
Stung By File-Encrypting Malware, Researchers Fight Back 85
Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes 139
LA Police Officers Suspected of Tampering With Their Monitoring Systems 322
Smart Car Tipping Trending In San Francisco 371
Evidence Aside, FBI Says Russians Out To Steal Ideas From US Tech Firms 132
Chester Wisniewski of Sophos Talks About Secure Credit Card Transactions (Video) 17
Adaptation From Flash Boys Offers Inside Look at High-Frequency Trading 246
Mt. Gox Questioned By Employees For At Least 2 Years Before Crisis 134
DOJ Pushes to Expand Hacking Abilities Against Cyber-Criminals 49
China Arrests 1,500 People For Sending Spam Messages From Fake Mobile Bases 35
Anti-Game-Violence Legislator Arrested, Faces Gun Trafficking Charges 234
TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database 275
Remote ATM Attack Uses SMS To Dispense Cash 150
Big Data Breaches Give Credit Monitoring Services a Boost 48
L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation 405
NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code 287
Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences 914
Is Weev Still In Jail Because the Government Doesn't Understand What Hacking Is? 246
Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You 264
Mt. Gox Knew It Was Selling Phantom Bitcoin 2 Weeks Before Collapse 263
A Dispatch From Outside the Prison Holding Barrett Brown 95
Target Rich Environment: Mobile Malware in China 11
Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft 704
Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters 205
Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget 235
Russians Suspected of Uroburos Spy Malware 137
The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord 62
Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass 921
The Emerging RadioShack/Netflix Debacle 122
DARPA Looks To End the Scourge of Counterfeit Computer Gear 75
Indian Hustle: How Fraudsters Prey On Would-be US Tech Workers 124
Slashdot Asks: Do You Label Your Tech Gear, and If So, How? 250
South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago 467
Japan's Alleged Death Threat-Making, Cat-Hacking Programmer Says He's Innocent 69
Australian Police Deploy 3D Crime Scene Scanner 65
Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK 377
Utopia, Silk Road's Latest Replacement, Only Lasted Nine Days 83
FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft 445
Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards 731
Mac OS X Bitcoin Stealing Trojan Horse Called OSX/CoinThief Discovered 108
Florida Arrests High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers For Money Laundering 149
Cops With Google Glass: Horrible Idea, Or Good One? 192
Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht's Next Court Date Set For November 77
California Bill Proposes Mandatory Kill-Switch On Phones and Tablets 341
NYPD Is Beta-Testing Google Glass 158
Designer Seeds Thought To Be Latest Target By Chinese 164
Silk Road Founder Indicted In New York 94
Anonymous Slovenia Claims To Have Hacked the FBI and Posted Emails To Pastebin 152
Press Used To Print Millions of US Banknotes Seized In Quebec 398
David Cameron Says Fictional Crime Proves Why Snooper's Charter Is Necessary 179
Feds Grab 163 Web Sites, Snatch $21.6 Million In NFL Counterfeit Gear 133
EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 364
How the Web Makes a Real-Life Breaking Bad Possible 194
Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion 448
Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charlie Shrem Arrested On Money Laundering Charge 330

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