2 Teens Charged in Theft of Laptops
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NEWPORT - A pair of 14-year-olds has been accused of breaking into two local schools and stealing 10 computers, according to the police.   "It appears they had been into the schools a number of times. They had forced their way in through windows," said Lt. Michael Brennan.
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Thieves have stolen two laptops containing unencrypted Social Security numbers of 337,000 Tennessee residents.
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Two teenage boys have been charged with setting off two homemade bombs inside a Wal-Mart filled with holiday shoppers, authorities said.
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Two 16-year-old students from London are arrested in Ghana allegedly carrying cocaine worth Â£300,000.
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Three laptop computers containing campaign plans were stolen overnight from the Bush-Cheney state headquarters office, Republican officials said Friday.
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The German teenager who allegedly wrote the Sasser and Netsky computer worms has been charged. Sven Jaschan, now 18, was arrested in May this year at his parents&#39; home in Waffensen, North Germany.
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WEST BEND, Wis. - Four teens are accused of using fake $5 bills printed on a home computer to pay for fast-food restaurant meals, taxi rides and other purchases before the scam was discovered.  Police Sgt.
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A laptop computer that was stolen from the home of Robert Blake's attorney and contained information about the former "Baretta" star's murder case turned up at a pawn shop, and two young men were arrested on suspicion of burglary, authorities said Tuesday.
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Two teenagers have been indicted on charges including attempted murder in a shooting at a school bus stop that wounded six people.
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An alleged computer breach by students at Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Montgomery County that could lead to criminal charges is a vivid reminder of their generation's ability to manipulate technology in ways that both alarm and astonish their elders.
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Two teenage women suspected of donning sunglasses as they robbed a supermarket bank branch were arrested along with a bank teller following a brief car chase Thursday, authorities said.
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The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about US$1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Commerce Department reported that 1,137 laptops have been lost or stolen since 2001, with 249 of them containing some degree of personal data. The department couldn't determine whose data may have been on the machines, of which 672 belonged to the Census Bureau. It wasn't aware of any data having being used improperly, it said Thursday. The findings are from a Commerce Department review covering 15 agencies that use a total of 30,000 laptops. It comes as businesses and governments try to tighten their control over mobile devices after several high-profile incidents concerning theÂ loss of sensitive data. The Census Bureau's laptops -- used for collecting census data in the field -- rarely contain data on more than 100 households, and the data can't be accessed by the surveyors, many of whom are temporary, hourly employees. the department said. However, the Census Bureau also lost 15 handheld computers used to gather survey data. As a result, the department is contacting 558 households. The risk of the data being misused was "extremely low," it said, since the data is encrypted and two passwords are required for access. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which falls under the Commerce Department, lost 325 laptops, three of which had personal data. One of the laptops was stolen after a fire at one of its buildings in Seattle, Washington. The machine contained addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers for 146 employees, the department said. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez said the agency plans toÂ strengthen accountability standards, encrypt data on all department laptops and implement two-factor authentication. U.S. government agencies have been stung by hardware losses in recent months. In May, aÂ laptop and external hard drive was stolenÂ from the home of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee containingÂ data on 26.5 million veteransÂ and active-duty military personnel. The laptop was recovered, and two teenagers were arrested in June. Â
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The teenager accused of authoring the Sasser and Netsky worms has been formally charged with computer sabotage. Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan was arrested in May at his parents&#39; home in Waffensen, Lower Saxony, in northern Germany.
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Two computer engineers in the US are charged with conspiring to steal microchip designs.
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Two students were charged Friday in an alleged plot to bomb the commons of their high school in eastern Utah and kill classmates and teachers.
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FOUR former Microsoft employees have been charged with stealing $US32.4 million ($42.71 million) worth of software and selling it on the side.