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Feed Subscription$50 Million Lost To Online Romance Scammers Annually
A just-released report shows how fake debt collectors, fake state troopers, and fake soulmates are responsible for a new wave of highly complicated online scams.
Read More »Video: Human head found in Hollywood Hills
A human head was discovered by two joggers along one of the popular walking trails in Hollywood Hills.
Read More »MC Hammer Launches Start-up
The entertainer-turned-entrepreneur says he hangs out with 'young upstarts' and gets ideas. This is one of them.
Read More »The Warehouse Where No Crime Is Forgotten
IBM's predictive Crime Information Warehouse (CIW) technology collects data and spits out real-time, vital information for investigators.
Read More »Secret Service Reveals How It Stalks Cybercriminals
The Secret Service recently spilled the beans on their anti-cybercrime investigations. Fake accounts on underground websites? Elaborate multinational credit card fraud investigations with Turkish law enforcement
Read More »Small Study: Young Gang Members Want Dogs Mostly For Companionship
“I don’t know if you’ve ever walked a pit bull. You owe it to your life to walk a pit bull down the street, I’m telling you. It’s like a gun you can pet, it’s the only way to describe it, it’s awesome.” Comedian Bill Burr.
Read More »Funny Money: Is Bitcoin The Future Of Currency… Or A Total Scam?
Digital security firm Symantech has discovered a new type of viral exploit that tries to crack open a user's Bitcoin wallet and steal its contents--the virtual answer to the old-fashioned bank heist. But what's a Bitcoin, and why would anyone want one when there are gold bricks and paper dollars still ripe for a swindle?
Read More »Mozilla Chief: Government Alone Can’t Solve Online Privacy
"I'm smack in the middle of all of this, and it's hard to imagine legislation right now that we would know how to implement, or know what to do with," says Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation.
Read More »Out, Damned Spot: Blood-Spatter Forensics’ Newest Advance
Blood spatters are telltale marks of violent crimes, and have captured the public imagination in shows like Dexter, CSI, and Bones--shows whose cool tech may be less based in reality than special effect. For instance, it's only just now been worked out how to determine the height from which blood droplets fell.
Read More »Did Rapid DNA Analysis Verify Osama Bin Laden’s Death?
A few years ago, I worked as a Writing Department Intern for C.S.I.
Read More »FBI Crowdsources Cryptography in Murder Mystery
Investigation innovation. On June 30th, 1999, officers in St. Louis, Missouri, found the body of Ricky McCormick, 41, in a field.
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