Quick response codes or QR codes are small barcodes that can be scanned by smartphone cameras. The codes direct the user to a particular website. For example, restaurants use QR codes for customers to scan on their phones to read the menu. About 85% of smartphone users have scanned a QR code at least once. …
Black Hat Briefings is a cybersecurity conference held each year in Las Vegas. The conference provides security consulting to hackers, businesses, and governments around the world. The conference routinely draws a “who’s who” of hackers. In fact, it’s not uncommon for attendees to get hacked while at the conference. The joke is the only way …
Charlie W. and Bryce M. took a fishing trip in the Kimberley Region of Australia. On the trip, their vehicle became stuck in the mud. As the men tried to free the vehicle, they had a close encounter with a crocodile. This forced the two men and their dog to get on the roof of …
Many shooters like to add accessories to their guns. You can take a stock firearm and make it capable of doing a lot more. But sometimes it can be taken too far, and you can end up breaking the law. You should (obviously) never change, convert or accessorize any weapon to make it illegal – …
Police in Broward County, Florida recently arrested a couple for burglary. But this couple wasn’t breaking into homes without doing their homework. They posed as employees of the local power company, targeting elderly victims and claiming to need to look around the property. In some cases, one of the criminals would distract the victim while …
Ernest P. lives in Asheville with his family… One day, he was working in his driveway with his daughter when a neighbor called to say a bear was heading his way. Ernest went inside his home and grabbed a .30-30 hunting rifle. He stepped outside and shot the bear, killing it. But the shooting outraged …
You’re probably familiar with the case of Harvey Weinstein. He’s the Hollywood movie mogul convicted of sexual assault who received a sentence of 23 years in a New York prison. But what you might not be familiar with are the private spies Weinstein employed to try to win his court case. He hired the private …
Tex G. loaded up his truck with his shotgun and three dogs and headed out to the desert to go rabbit hunting. When he was just west of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Tex was blasted in the chest by his own shotgun… And the shooter was his 120-pound Rottweiler. The shotgun was laying on the …
A Greenville, Tennessee woman was shopping at a church sale when she saw what she believed to be an air-soft gun. The woman purchased the gun, but when she got home she took a closer look at it. She told police she realized that the gun was a Glock 23 with a full magazine and …
Mark D. is a police officer in Illinois… He worked at a local high school about 100 miles west of Chicago where he became acquainted with current and former students. One morning, around 8 am, students were preparing for a graduation ceremony. This was when a 19-year old former student entered the school and began …