If you are out for a night on the town and your iPhone is stolen, it's possible to have your digital life turned up side down. Join us today in this weeks tech tip Tuesday for ways to help prevent it.
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Volkswagen recently tried charging police $150 to enable a car tracking feature following the abduction of a young child. The company has apologized and said the rep breached the firm's processes.
You may want to lock your computer screen when you are out, so nobody can access it while you are away, should that be a concern. Join us today in this week's Tech Tip Tuesday to find out how.
One of the two Apple engineers accused of stealing trade secrets related to the firm's self-driving car project has pleaded guilty. The stolen material included plans for a circuit board.
Apple reportedly notified its retail stores and authorized service providers about policy changes prohibiting fixing iPhones reported as stolen or missing in the GSMA Device Registry.
New data from Chainalysis shows that illicit cryptocurrency funds reached an all-time high in 2021, totalling $14 billion. Scams were the largest source of these illicit funds followed by theft.
According to a report from the York police, car thieves in Canada are reportedly using AirTags in their heists. They are being leveraged to track cars so they can be stolen under conducive conditions.
Brazilian criminals are capable of accessing bank accounts using data from stolen iPhones. They don't use any modern ways or advanced tools from Cellebrite, just SIM cards to access devices' data.
Apple has told iPhone thieves to return devices to the Apple stores they were taken from. The message appears on stolen devices. Apple also disabled the phones and is tracking them.
The Bitpoint exhange in Japan has suspended its services, following a security breach in which $32m in digital currencies got stolen. Most of the funds that are lost belong to customers.
Reports are pouring in about an alleged malware attack being carried out on the government of Baltimore, Maryland. It is believed that the culprits are using a hacking tool leaked from within the NSA.
Tesla has announced that it's rolling out Sentry Mode for Model 3 vehicles in the U.S. starting today. It will bring the feature to post-August 2017 Model S and Model X vehicles soon too.
Coinrail, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, has confirmed that it got hacked with around one third of its token reserves being compromised. Consequently, the price of bitcoin has taken a tumble.
Dubbed the 'Big Bitcoin Heist' by the country's media, a group of thieves has stolen over 600 Bitcoin mining servers worth a total of $2 million over the past few months in Iceland.
Rob Joyce, head of cybersecurity at the White House, has cast doubt on the possibility of bitcoin regulation in the near term. The White House is still weighing up the benefits and risks of bitcoin.
Coincheck, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it will refund users which had their NEM cryptocurrency stolen. The company will have to pay users back around $400 million.
Apparently, bicycles meant for employees to get around the sprawling main campus have started disappearing, as many as 100-250 each week. And, when found, they are showing up in some strange places.
The popular bitcoin wallet, Electrum, has been patched to fend off a JavaScript attack that had been discovered. All users should install the updated client as soon as possible to be safe.
A new phishing scam pretending to be from Netflix has recently been discovered, telling recipients that their subscription has expired, and they have to "re-activate" to continue enjoying the service.
A recently published patent from Microsoft suggests disablement of stolen laptops, which will not require any cellular service to be turned on in the device, reducing the instances of laptop theft.
A Samsung worker has been arrested for stealing over 8,000 handsets and reselling them. The man utilized the extra money to pay off his gambling debts which amounted to roughly $800,000.
Razer is offering a $25,000 reward for "information leading to identification, arrest and conviction of a criminal suspect", following the theft of its two Project Valerie notebook prototypes at CES.
Razer's much-celebrated appearance at CES 2017 ended on a sad note, as its CEO said today that two of its prototypes were stolen from its show stand - and it hasn't ruled out industrial espionage.
Tesco Bank has had around 40,000 accounts breached over the weekend, with half of those having money stolen out of them. The bank has stopped online payments and is promising refunds for all affected.
A new report says that while malware and ransomware risks remain too high for comfort, the number of infections dropped dramatically - by 47.3% in the first half of 2016.
A new report details an organized deep web-based Russian ransomware campaign which has targeted thousands of corporations, from hospitals to hotels, and netted ringleaders exorbitant salaries.
The largest federal employee union has claimed in an internal letter that Chinese hackers in last week's attack stole the Social Security numbers and info of every single federal employee.
Chinese hackers have been blamed for an attack at the U.S. government's Office of Personnel Management which may have compromised the data of up to 4 million people in every federal agency.
If your Apple Watch gets stolen, the thief will have no trouble wiping your data and then using or selling the device, as an apparent bug in Apple's software allows a hard reset without your passcode.
It has been reported that the Sears-owned Kmart retailer experienced a security breach today that may have given hackers access to customer credit card information.
Microsoft makes the majority of its revenue by selling software and if you try to steal product keys from Microsoft, don't be surprised if they send the authorities after you like they did in India.
Microsoft will bring new anti-theft protections to Windows Phone in a future update - including the ability to render the device fully inoperable - as part of an industry-wide initiative.
Japanese Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, has revealed that it has found 200,000 missing bitcoins after searching in wallets which used an old format, but is still far from recovering the remaining 650,000.
Due to a weakness in old encryption technologies, millions of phones are at risk of being controlled by hackers, who could be able to gain control of all phone features within a few minutes.
Apple finally admitted that their Developer Center has been compromised by hackers. The Dev website went offline last week and it's still not back online due to the security breach.
George Gascó, the district attorney for San Francisco, wants Microsoft and Google to make improvements to Windows Phone and Android that would make smartphones with those system unusable if stolen
Korean police have raided Samsung's Display office in connection with allegations that employees had stolen LG OLED technology. Samsung denies that claims, while LG say they didn't inform the police.
"Apple Picking" has become such a problem that police in New York City have created a new division that is responsible for tracking down and returning stolen Apple products.
A man who had his iPhone 4 stolen on New Year's Eve managed to get it back, but only after he used alluring women to seduce the thief into a fake date via an online dating servce
New York City narrowly missed out on lower crime than in 2011, with the theft of Apple devices being just enough to push the famous city over a potential record for decreasing crime levels.
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