Australia's biggest casino was taken for £22 million, when its own security cameras were used against it by a high-roller who managed to hijack the surveillance systems. Read More >>
Featured comment by ScyBy:
"Baccarat can have pretty high stakes, and it looks like he was playing in a VIP area.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-15/crown-casino-rocked-by-..." More »
It's one of the oldest tricks in the book; if you can't earn money, why not make it? With your printer. Now that doesn't actually work. Making counterfeit notes is really hard. But that won't keep idiots from trying it, apparently. A man took it a step further though, by trying to return his copier/printer with failed copies still inside. Read More >>
Fun fact for you: in 2012, 653 people were charged with various offences relating to stuff published on Twitter and Facebook. There's a whole range of laws you can fall foul of when joking about on social media, and some of them can even land you with jail time. Read More >>
Meet Zendesk. Chances are, you've never heard of it -- that's ok, it just provides support for some of the biggest tech companies going, including Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vodafone and Disney. And, in what seems like the latest spate of the hack-happy February we're going through, some anonymous hackers have had their dasterdly ways with Zendesk, nicking details relating to some of its big-name customers in the process. Read More >>
Ok, so I know that the UK's rich history means we've got a backlog of slightly quirky laws, but most of them (like the infamous "you can shoot a Welshman with a crossbow in the bounds of York") have long-since been revoked. There's a fair few still on the books, though, so some (presumably) students with too much free time and a GoPro took it on themselves to break ten of the most ridiculous. Read More >>
Featured comment by warrmr:
"I used to work in a bar but never got round to getting my licence, but I was having a laugh with my manager one evening over a few bevvies and she sai..." More »
Are the Chinese after everyone? According to a new report, yes. Security firm Mandiant has detailed the exploits of a Chinese cyber espionage group it calls APT1. Mandiant claims to have evidence that APT1 has stolen "hundreds of terabytes of data" from 141 American organisations. Evidence that includes this video of an elite Chinese hacker in action. Read More >>
Featured comment by otaviokz:
"So the guy recorded all his action? And Mandiant was able to get the video? How the hell can we know it is legitimate?
It's all sounding more and m..." More »
Are you one of the UK's 16 million (!) Tesco Clubcard users? Because if so, you might want to check your account -- police are investigating a probable fraud, after hundreds of people have reported that their loyalty card accounts have been hacked. Read More >>
Featured comment by DangerousDac:
"It was my mums vouchers, and she shopped there an awful lot a few years back...that was treble voucher price thought." More »
In another case of police resources being put to good use, five coppers -- two armed with sub-machine guns -- battering on the door of poor Ian Driscoll, thinking that his fancy new profile pic featuring an Action Man and toy mortar, was real. Read More >>
With Photoshop's ubiquity, it's actually surprising that we haven't heard about more scenes like the following: Greek police may soon be under investigation for attempting to airbrush out evidence of police brutality in the mug shots of four young men. And it was a terrible 'shop job, at that. Read More >>
When Rebecca Gallanagh was fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet after being arrested, she thought it was boring — so she decorated it using fake diamonds. Sadly, that didn't play very well with the authorities. Read More >>
Featured comment by tw@panda:
"It probably says "you can't damage the device in any way" somewhere. Decorating or modifying it in any way would constitute damage. I'm sure she'll be..." More »
In 2009, Edward Sobolewski was passed over for a raise in his job at market research firm Frost and Sullivan. So he spent the next three years of his life destroying the company's servers using cleaning supplies. That's what you call a long con. A very long, very sad con. Read More >>
Whether you chalk it up to the hyper-realism of today's video games or an overzealous neighborhood watch program, it's hard to blame the Swedish police who responded to a frantic call reporting what sounded like a brutal massacre. The ten-man team raided the apartment to find a group of teenagers in the midst of a gratuitous and abhorrent bloodbath. Just another friendly night in playing Call of Duty. Read More >>
Featured comment by hughes82:
"lol well i hope they paid for damages if they broke the kid door down etc since its their mistake not the boys fault" More »
It's bad enough when overworked Chinese adults are killing themselves and rioting because of our Apple lust—adding kids under 16 is just awful. But Apple says it's cutting these industrious, exploited kiddos out of the supply chain. Read More >>
Featured comment by mikeo:
"Never mind tech. Look at the clothes we wear and the food we eat. I bet a lot of those used child labour along the line. At least Apple are doing some..." More »
Featured comment by jaggedspike:
"There are some methods to minimize it, but everything is vulnerable. But large companies would probably be able to take a typical DDOS attack and its ..." More »
This is so incredible that I think I've seen this in a movie before.* And if I didn't, it should be put in a movie immediately. Genius bank robbers dug a 100 foot tunnel from a parking garage across the street to the bank's safe deposit room and walked away with over £11,000,000 in goods. Read More >>
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