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Hidden Relics
Downloads Priceless antiques have been stolen and hidden throughout Europe. The Professor calls upon her star student Adrianna to help her retrieve stolen antiques. You will help Adrianna evade the evil thief as she travels Europe to locate the stolen antiques.
[January 7, 2008, 7:00]
Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
Talkback I have just had my credit card cloned and £600 stolen! On April 26th the chip and PIN machine was stolen from my local Shell petrol station counter in the Bath road in Speen, Newbury. Apparently someonen has designed chip and pin machines in such a...
[May 12, 2006, 13:37]
Scam tricks users into 'stealing'
News So just what do computer criminals do with stolen credit cards? The intricate scam, which ends up at a Latvian Internet-only bank, can net the scam artist over $1,000 (£620) each time and leave the victim holding stolen merchandise.
[January 26, 2000, 9:24]
Hackers go after charitable Web users
News Hackers have stolen the personal details of thousands of donors to a Christian charity Web site and tried to extort money from the victims. The charity does not yet know how much money the criminals have stolen but the addresses of more than 2,000...
[December 12, 2005, 9:25]
Tracking down the laptop thieves
News Notebook computers are small, powerful, increasingly affordable -- and easily stolen. Looking to stem that problem -- and to gain some badly needed revenue -- leading notebook makers IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell are offering software with their...
[August 23, 2002, 8:40]
Govt's lack of laptop security 'alarming'
News An increasing number of government laptops containing unprotected sensitive information are lost and stolen every year, while government employee security practices suggest that data on the lost machines is ill-protected, according to a security...
[September 15, 2003, 8:05]
Gov't departments reveal laptop losses
News Ministers have revealed the number of laptops lost or stolen from their departments, with the Department for Work and Pensions mislaying 41 laptops last year. Work and pensions minister Jim Knight said that out of around 9,700 laptops used by his...
[July 14, 2009, 8:42]
Hackers steal user data from Monster job site
News User information, including passwords, has been stolen from job site Monster, the company has announced. The information that was stolen did not include CVs or sensitive information such as financial data.
[January 27, 2009, 8:15]
Microsoft angered by game-code piracy
News Microsoft threatened severe penalties on Thursday for those who circulate a stolen copy of "Halo 2", the hotly anticipated Xbox game set to go on sale next month. Media giant Vivendi Universal was forced to delay release of its highly anticipated...
[October 15, 2004, 12:25]
Microsoft's anti-piracy plan condemned
Talkback Let's say your car was stolen, would you be obliged to provide auto repairs for that car. It seems this is the same problem Microsoft faces, someone steals Window XP and we think Microsoft should continue to supply fixes for the stolen property.
[February 1, 2005, 11:36]
Consumers warned over growing Internet card fraud
News Careless shoppers are contributing to an annual £110m fraud bill from criminals who use stolen credit card details to purchase high-value goods over the Internet and phone. A spokesman for the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said it is pleased at...
[November 11, 2003, 14:45]
Patient details lost after NHS laptop theft
News Patient records which link to images of individuals' retinas were held on a laptop stolen from a GP's surgery in Wales. Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust has admitted that a laptop computer was stolen from St Julian's GP surgery in Newport, Wales on 5...
[December 17, 2007, 15:25]
Enigma code machine swiped from Bletchley Park museum
News One of only three existing Enigma machines -- used by the Nazis to encrypt messages during the second world war -- has been stolen from the code-breaking museum at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. The stolen machine was brought to the Bletchley...
[April 3, 2000, 12:07]
MoD admits loss of over 11,000 ID cards
News The Ministry of Defence has admitted that more than 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen in the past two years. The government has suffered many data-security breaches over the past five months, including the MoD having three laptops...
[March 14, 2008, 7:31]
MobiWee for Blackberry
Downloads Locate lost or stolen devices: simply click to find your misplaced or stolen phone on a map. Whether on the bus, at the airport, or simply left at work, with the MobiWee location service, you're never left guessing.
[December 21, 2009, 3:48]
Biggest hacking fraud ever
News A malevolent computer hacker claims to have pulled off the greatest information technology heist in history after temporarily posting credit-card numbers stolen from a large US e-commerce firm. American online CD-retailer CD Universe, admitted that...
[January 12, 2000, 9:19]
News Burst: Biggest hacking fraud ever
News A malevolent computer hacker claims to have pulled off the greatest information technology heist in history after temporarily posting credit-card numbers stolen from a large US e-commerce firm. American online CD-retailer cdUniverse, admitted that...
[January 11, 2000, 16:00]
Ransom negotiations for WWII code machine begin
News Bletchley Park museum, devoted to displaying some of the earliest computer technology in the world, began negotiations over the weekend to rescue a stolen wartime cryptography artefact for £28,000 ransom.
[October 9, 2000, 15:04]
Enigma machine sent to Jeremy Paxman
News Jeremy Paxman got a bit of a shock when he opened his post Tuesday: the UK's top TV journalist was sent the stolen Enigma machine in a parcel, which, according to reports, sat for days waiting to be opened on a Newsnight desk.
[October 18, 2000, 9:13]
Australia bans mobile 'rebirthing'
News The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) has lauded legislation passed by the Senate this week making it a criminal offence to "rebirth" stolen mobile phones by illegally modifying a phone's electronic serial number.
[September 2, 2004, 11:10]
