Just minutes after buying an iPhone 6, thieves attack a man…
Tag: crime
Former NBA player Rex Chapman accused of stealing $14,000 from Apple Retail Store
Police arrested former Phoenix Suns basketball player Rex Chapman…
Me-too Google: Uh, okay, we’ll do default encryption like Apple, too (it’ll just take several years to roll out)
The next generation of Google’s Android operating system…
Apple’s iOS Activation Lock reduces iPhone thefts, Samsung phone thefts skyrocket
In New York City, iPhone thefts and robberies dropped 29 and 19 percent…
A.G. Schneiderman, D.A. Gascón commend Apple’s new iOS 8 for enabling ‘kill switch’ by default
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón …
Journalists at China’s state-owned 21st Century Business Herald extorted millions – report
The 21st Century Business Herald this morning claimed that Apple’s iPhone 6/Plus may not hit store shelves in China this year…
iPhone thief’s mother praises victim who caught her son
The mom of an accused teen iPhone thief has a message for the Brooklyn woman…
Six Apple Retail Store employees charged in iPhone grand theft ring
Six Apple store employees at the Galleria mall…
News crew investigating SketchFactor app burglarized while looking for ‘sketchy’ neighborhoods
Among the many stolen articles was the gear of photojournalist…
Dad uses Find My iPhone, kills son’s knife-wielding iPhone thief during scuffle
A father killed a violent thug who robbed his son of his iPhone…
Russian crime ring steals 1.2 billion user name and password combinations, 500 million email addresses
A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials…
Why the security of USB is fundamentally broken and cannot be fixed
Computer users pass around USB sticks like silicon business cards…
Tampa man accused of scamming Apple out of $309,768
24-year-old Sharron Laverne Parrish Jr. of Tampa, scammed one of the biggest high-tech companies in the world
Russian hackers infiltrated Nasdaq stock exchange – report
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert…
15-year-old girl killed trying to stop iPhone robbery
Police are searching for a man accused of stealing an iPhone from a teenage girl who died…
U.S. Supreme Court ruling leaves Google open to lawsuits over Street View secretly collected personal data
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Google Inc…
Samsung and its lawyers ordered to pay Apple, Nokia $2 million for leaking secrets
Samsung, together with its lawyers, will have to fork out a little more cash…
Google, Microsoft look to catch up to Apple by incorporating ‘kill switches’ in next mobile OS versions
Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will incorporate a ‘kill switch’ into the next versions…
Car drives through Apple Store Berkeley in smash-and-grab burglary
A car was driven through the glass façade of the Apple store on Berkeley’s 4th Street…
California Senate passes mandatory smartphone ‘kill switch’ bill
California’s Senate passed a bill requiring smartphone makers such as Apple…
Will Apple’s ‘kill switch’ tamp down iPhone thefts?
The Activation Lock Apple added to iOS 7’s ‘Find My Phone’ feature functions as a kill switch…
Millions of Android devices vulnerable to ‘Heartbleed’ Bug
Millions of Google Android devices have the Heartbleed software bug…
Apple’s iOS, OS X don’t have Heartbleed bug but Android and BlackBerry’s BBM do
iOS and OS X users can breathe a sigh of relief with the knowledge…
Apple on ‘Heartbleed’ bug: iPhone, iPad, Mac and iCloud unaffected
Apple takes security very seriously. iOS and OS X never incorporated the vulnerable software…
What to do about Heartbleed, a gaping security hole affecting 66 percent of the Internet (at least)
There’s a security flaw in one of the basic encryption tools…
Android apps booby-trapped to mine virtual cash
Android apps that have been downloaded millions of times…
Good Samaritan chases down ‘scum of the earth’ who punched boy, stole his Apple iPad
A violent robbery involving an 8-year-old boy had some people shaking their heads…
Thieves stealing €70,000 of Apple products out of the back of a truck – at full speed on German autobahn
Some ‘James Bond’ thievery was reported in Germany…
Apple products made up more than 18% of all New York City grand larcenies
New York City became a much safer place in the past 12 years…
Two iPod packages at two different Target stores – both full of erasers?
A bookie might have given long odds on this one…
Yet again this year, the only tech worth stealing is Apple’s
As I have pointed out in years past…
SEC charges former Microsoft manager, friend with insider trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged…
Apple Retail Store in Berlin hit by smash-and-grab; display merchandise stolen
An Apple Retail Store located in Kurfürstendamm, Berlin was the site…
San Francisco District Attorney to Apple: Enable Activation Lock on every iPhone by default
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón released survey results…
Man arrested in copper theft at Apple’s ‘spaceship’ campus site
A Belmont man was arrested Saturday in the theft of copper pipes and wiring…
Apple’s ‘Find my Mac’ helps police arrest two murder suspects
The first big break in the case came in the form of a single keystroke…
New York City Council considers pawn shop bill to fight surging iPhone thefts
The Council held a hearing Monday on a bill that would require second hand dealers…
Woman says photos of iPhone thief’s family showing up on her iCloud Photo Stream
A Houston woman doesn’t know where her iPhone is, but…
ID theft ring scammed thousands of iPhones from Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Best Buy, and Radio Shack
In a new twist on identify theft fraud, a Michigan operation allegedly…
U.S. Feds launch predator app on Apple’s iTunes App Store to catch child sex criminals
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Thursday that it has launched…
Security researcher: Thieves may chop off iPhone 5s owners’ fingertips to gain access
Apple launched its iPhone 5S, which includes the Touch ID feature…
Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’ app catches would-be rapist in less than an hour
A would-be rapist was arrested in under an hour thanks to
