A few years ago, the TV programme, ‘British Crimes of Honour’ recounted some of the most horrific murders of women in the UK in a 30 minute TV broadcast. One of them was a video footage of Banaz Mahmod, the young Iraqi Kurdish woman from south London whose family murdered her and buried her in […]
Age of the Drones – Private Detectives rejoice Private Detectives rejoice! Parrot has announced 2 new products to add to their portfolio. There was a time when drones were something one could only see in Sci Fi movies. Much like 3D printers or gadgets like Google Glass and the Samsung Galaxy Gear. It’s a wonder […]
Ask Michael Hoffman how he met his girlfriend, Jess, and he’ll tell you with a laugh, “Match.com”. After finding it difficult to make connections at bars and not having enough time to search for more exotic places to meet people, Michael threw in the towel and signed up on 3 online dating sites. He found […]
The true scale of the “blue chip hacking” scandal is turning out to be much grander than first thought. Last week it was revealed that the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) had given MPs a list of 102 individuals or organisations – supposedly including celebrities and FTSE 100 firms – who were thought to have […]
News from Ohio about the three kidnap victims who spent what must have been a hellish 10 years in captivity reached me on the morning after I’d finished reading 3096 Days, the gripping autobiography of Natascha Kampusch.Kampusch was the Austrian girl who spent eight years in a purpose-built cellar at the hands of Wolfgang Priklopil, […]
Following revelations on the Chinese team of hackers who have been busy stealing industrial secrets on an unprecedented scale, it’s almost heartening to learn that more traditional Cold War flavour espionage tactics are still alive and well. The type of honey trap which could prove the undoing of US Defence contractor Benjamin Pierce Bishop is […]
Conflicting reports are circulating that friends of Reeva Steenkamp have reportedly hired a private investigator to look into her death. South African news website News24 today reported that friends had approached detective Lance Epstein to ‘keep an eye on the investigation.’ However, the report also said Miss Steenkamp’s family is unaware of the detective’s involvement […]
We’ve teamed up with the developers of mSpy – a covert iPhone app designed to help parents keep tabs on their children by recording details of sent messages, dialed and received numbers and more. As well as being a powerful app for parents, the software really comes into its own as a tool for spouses […]
Facebook launched a new feature called Graph Search that allows users to search in their friends’ friends accounts for specific terms. This tool, in conjunction with a new security feature called Trusted Friends makes, digging up dirt on Facebook dead easy. Trusted Friends allows users to verify their passwords through trusted “friends” when they get […]
“We are with John McAfee Right Now Suckers.” Thus ran Vice Magazine’s Tuesday headline, accompanying its story on anti-virus-entrepreneur-turned- fugitive John McAfee. Along with the magazine’s editor in chief Rocco Castoro, Vice’s video documentary team caught up with MaCafee, currently on the run from authorities in Belize where he is wanted in connection with the […]