Taking a page from NASA's rocket powered landing craft from it most recent Mars landing mission, the European Space Agency is showing off a quadcopter that the organization says can steer itself to smoothly lower a rover onto a safe patch of the rocky Martian surface.
Michael Cooney | 08 Jul | Read more
With all the attention given law enforcement's use of surveillance technology it probably comes as no surprise that the use of authorized wiretaps is growing, what may be a shocker is that it only grew 5 percent in 2013 over 2012.
Michael Cooney | 03 Jul | Read more
For more than a year, the I Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning businesses to be on the lookout for growing scam that tricks them into paying invoices from established companies that look legitimate but in fact are fraudulent.
Michael Cooney | 28 Jun | Read more
When you are on a 3 billion mile trip through the universe at over 34,000 mph, you might need a check-up or two to make sure everything is function right.
Michael Cooney | 20 Jun | Read more
The Federal Trade Commission is taking its fight against robocallers to the upcoming DEFCON by challenging attendees of the conference to build the ultimate "honeypot" that would lure in and identify illegal phone spammers.
Michael Cooney | 18 Jun | Read more
The US Department of Justice said 10 people were indicted today for their roles in a $20 million stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy.
Michael Cooney | 23 May | Read more
While tax return fraud seems to have hit epidemic proportions, the Internal Revenue Service today said it has started more than 200 new investigations this filing season into identity theft and refund fraud schemes.
Michael Cooney | 11 Apr | Read more
Data breaches seem to be happening at an absurdly rapid rate these days with reported incidents involving the theft of personally identifiable information hitting 25,566 in 2013 up from 10,481 in 2009.
Michael Cooney | 03 Apr | Read more
The IRS today tried to clear up some of the ongoing row about how bitcoin and other virtual currencies would be treated come tax time.
Michael Cooney | 25 Mar | Read more
The Federal Trade Commission today issued its annual look at what consumers in the United States are complaining about the most.
Michael Cooney | 27 Feb | Read more
Everybody wants your money – the IRS too, but at least they will take it legally. The IRS however doesn't want your money taken by scamsters who use tax season to celebrate Christmastime for dirtbags.
Michael Cooney | 21 Feb | Read more
Online dating and romance sites are obviously popular and because of that, regardless of the millions of admonitions to watch out for con artists, they are also a growing favorite of heartless scammers.
Michael Cooney | 12 Feb | Read more
As they have for the past few years the US Customs department teamed with the National Football League to cut into the lucrative counterfeit sports gear market.
Michael Cooney | 30 Jan | Read more
President Barack Obama today issued new directions for the government's intelligence to follow. Among the items released today were an official Presidential Directive and a Fact Sheet on the details of the new policy.
Michael Cooney | 17 Jan | Read more
From the attack on privacy and Cryptolocker to Eric Snowden and the NSA, it's been a challenging year
Michael Cooney | 11 Dec | Read more