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KGW : We asked 86 burglars how they broke into homes What burglars said were the biggest deterrents, what didn't stop them and how y...

Laughing Squid: Dutch Filmmaker Intentionally Lets His Phone Get Stolen In Order to Follow Its Path Through Spyware Dutch filmmaker An...

Infected Cash Machines Are Giving Away Money: 'Tyupkin' Malware Lets Criminals Steal Millions From ATMs Around The World -- Daily...

Automatic Bank Robbers Making A Killing -- Tech Eye Don't even need a mask or a shooter just pray to Zeus The days of masked robbers wal...

Web domains belonging to Megaupload have been seized and shut down Police Made 'Errors' During Raid On Megaupload Boss -- BBC A poli...

Laptop LoJack Nigel Buchanan Ask a Geek: How Can I Track My Stolen Gadget? -- Popular Science Thieves make off with millions of dollars’ wor...

CT scans of a human brain. CREDIT: Dreamstime Criminal Minds Are Different From Yours, Brain Scans Reveal -- Live Science The latest neurosc...

Image: University of Abertay Dundee/Scottish Police Services Authority) Fingerprints On Fabrics Could Now Solve Crimes -- New Scientist Pict...

From The Economist: Television dramas that rely on forensic science to solve crimes are affecting the administration of justice. OPENING a n...

From ZNET: A currently ongoing ransomware campaign is using a novel approach to extort money from end users whose PCs have been locked down...

Fake virus scans often look just like the real thing. From New Scientist: ONE day in March 2008, Kent Woerner got a disturbing phone call fr...

Gerald Blanchard could hack any bank, swipe any jewel. There was no security system he couldn't steal. Illustration: Justin Wood From Wi...

From Boston.com: How do you force criminals to change their behavior? Over the last 35 years, the US criminal justice system has been specta...

Credit: Technology Review From Technology Review: The genetic makeup of microbes on a person's skin could provide crime scene evidence...

From Wired News: A ring of ticket brokers has been indicted in connection to an elaborate hacking scheme that used bots and other fraudulent...

Faces were analysed and mapped with a computer program From The BBC: We already have iris and fingerprint scanning but noses could be an eve...

From Popular Mechanics: Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of Cal...

From Times Online: The field of neurocriminology is reviving some controversial ideas. Can criminal urges really be blamed on the brain? We ...

A hand around the neck cuts off blood supply to the brain Patrick Ryan / Getty From Time Magazine: When Françoise Cochet saw the cord around...

From CNET: Citigroup denies it, but its Citibank unit was reportedly robbed of tens of millions of dollars, the victim of a cyberattack by m...