crime

It is a well organized and well orchestrated crime. Hackers have used the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing to sell phony tickets:
“Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced [...]

In the United Kingdom, the Foreign Office may have reached some milestone of security infamy. The Foreign Office has had thousands of blank passports stolen:
“Thousands of stolen passports worth millions of pounds could be used for fraudulent or terrorist activity, experts warned yesterday. The Foreign Office admitted a serious breach of security when a [...]

An eighteen year old hacker had charges dropped because he had a “potentially bright career”. Owen Walker was charged as a teen and it was not for a small crime:
“…Investigators called Mr Walker’s programme one of the “most advanced” they had seen, prosecutors said.
He did not take money from people’s accounts, but he [...]

There is universal agreement that identity theft is one of the trends in crime in the technological age. Identity theft not only can rob a person of his/her financial resources. It can destroy one’s name and reputation. In the case of medical identity theft, it can be a matter of life or [...]

Surveillance cameras are synonymous with security and preventing crime. At least, this is the common perception associated with surveillance. It is the sacrifice of some privacy for some security. In Britain, where there is so much citizen monitoring that it is called the ‘Surveillance Society’, the empirical data are contrary to common [...]