crime

According to a recent report on cryptocurrency money laundering from CipherTrace, "bad actors" stole or scammed about $1.7 billion US dollars of cryptocurrency in 2018. $950 million was stolen from "cryptocurrency exchanges an infrastructure," while "ICO exit scams, phony exchange hacks, and...

A computer engineer was sentenced to 121 months in prison after launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a children's hospital and a residential treatment facility. The hacker was protesting a custody battle involving a teenage patient receiving treatments at the...

After being hit with a number of charges by the feds last month, notorious swatter Tyler Barriss entered guilty pleas to "count one (making a false report resulting in a death), count two (cyberstalking) and count 12 (conspiracy) of a superseding indictment" in a Witchita, Kansas court. Tyler...

Researchers from RMIT University in Australia used data from social media platforms to predict crimes more accurately than existing models. The researchers used check-in data from Foursquare to generate a model of where potential victims will be, and then looked for areas where that routine...

In a report from Nashville, 3 armed men robbed a liquor store near the Alabama state line in Jan. 2017. Police investigating the robbery had surveillance video, but that showed no identifying features as the suspects were wearing masks, and no idea what vehicle they were in. Police decided to...

How do you steal Bitcoin with a gun? Break into the guy's house that you know is part of the crypto-wealthy, tie up his wife, take away their baby, then give your mark the option of trading all his crypto over to you or deal with consequences that are likely to make you very amenable. Not many...

This actually all stems from the Oracle v. Rimini case filed ack in 2012. Rimini is actually an Oracle competitor on some fronts, and was using scripts to download documents on Oracle's servers that are offered up to Oracle users for support. Oracle's complaint boils down to the Rimini...

Judges have often been criticized for locking up nonviolent offenders while awaiting trial and missing clues on potential violent offenders that hurt more citizens when allowed back onto the street. Sometimes issues of race, economic status, and more come into play at sentencing or a parole...