In a recent YouTube video, Anonymous makes vague threats a against alleged kidnappers. The video does not identify the missing member of its group, but says he was kidnapped while he was “doing Paperstorm,” which is a reference to posting flyers and other printed messages in public spaces.

YouTube is pretty great, but YouTube commenters? Not so much. For every smart, insightful, useful comment below a YouTube video, there are usually 25 trolls either talking about genitalia, belittling the content or belittling those smart, insightful, useful commenters. Chicago-based web developer Adrian Holovaty has put all that negativity to (relatively) good use with the [...]

People will be now able to compare their police force with others in more detail as the government’s crime mapping website is being extended. The police.uk website allows users to see offences reported in their locality by entering a street name or postcode. The website now compares all 43 forces in England and Wales with [...]

With many children expected to hit the streets next week for Halloween festivities, the state Division of Criminal Justice Services launched a Facebook application to alert residents of sexual offenders. The Sex Offender Locator Application allows users to access addresses of medium- and high-risk offenders quickly and easily.

A high-tech military contractor, which suffered an attack from hackers earlier this year, is reported to have lost sensitive data related to defence equipment including fighter jet planes and nuclear power plant plans.

The death of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has almost inevitably resulted in cybercriminals taking advantage of the news story, and the general public’s seeming interest in viewing ghoulish photos and videos of his last moments. Malicious hackers have spammed out an attack posing as pictures of Gaddafi’s death, tricking users into believing that they came [...]

Anonymous, the group of high-powered hackers famous for taking down websites belonging to Bank of America and Sony, has turned its vigilante brand of online activism to child pornography sites.

Researchers have found evidence that the Stuxnet worm, which alarmed governments around the world, could be about to regenerate. Stuxnet was a highly complex piece of malware created to spy on and disrupt Iran’s nuclear programme. No-one has identified the worm authors but the finger of suspicion fell on the Israeli and US governments. The [...]

West Yorkshire Police goes to the High Court today, accused of copyright theft by a firm that specialises in analysing mobile phone data. Forensic Telecommunications services (FTS) claims the police force illegally used and sold copyright data from a commercial mobile phone forensics application it had been using in high profile cases.

EU MEP Tiziano Motti (Italy), wants everything you do online to be logged and saved, for the sake of the children. Like a black box installed on every computer. He proposes an early warning system of criminal activity, specifically whenever an image of sexually abused children is detected, an alarm, goes to the authorities to [...]