Monthly Archives: November 2009

Blind woman’s Labrador attacked

A released CCTV footage show a blind woman’s labrador guide dog being  viciously attacked by a dog at a railway station in north-west london

The dog pounced as the 57-year-old woman walked through Cricklewood station on 4 October 2009.
Police said: “This dog was not muzzled and was dangerously out of control.”
Safety fear
The woman walked pass a [...]

2009/11/19Caught on CameraNo comments

CCTV of Dutch cash machine raid

Footage has been released of a Dutch cash machine raid believed to have been carried out by men who minutes later died in a fatal car crash.
Three of the men, two from Merseyside and one from London, suffered fatal injuries in the accident on the A12 near Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Dutch police have also arrested [...]

2009/11/17Caught on CameraNo comments

T-Mobile staff sold personal data

Staff at mobile phone company T-Mobile passed on millions of records from thousands of customers, a spokesman for the firm has confirmed.
The suspected illegal trade emerged after the firm alerted Christopher Graham, of the information watchdog.
He said brokers bought the data and sold it on to other phone firms, who then cold-called the customers, as [...]

2009/11/17Spy & security newsNo comments

iPhone virus

The infected iPhone screen, Rick Astley virus wallpaper image (top right), and Ashley Towns (bottom right).
iPhones across Australia lit up with the face of ’80s crooner Rick Astley this week as a Wollongong TAFE student made international headlines for releasing the first virus to infect the popular smartphone platform.
The virus is able to reset the [...]

2009/11/10Security TipsNo comments

Every phone call, email and internet click stored by ’state spying’ databases

All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they are contacting, when, where and which websites they are visiting.
Despite widespread opposition over Britain’s growing surveillance society, 653 public bodies will be given access to the confidential information, including police, local [...]

2009/11/10Spy & security newsNo comments

Train woman’s narrow escape

A young woman had a close call in Boston, U.S. when she fell on to subway tracks, in the path of an approaching train. Other passengers alerted the train driver who managed to stop the train in time.
Police say the woman was drunk at the time of the incident.
Click here to watch the video of [...]

2009/11/10Caught on CameraNo comments