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Laptop Theft in Luau Land
Looks like my big, no-holds-barred Hawaii vacation is going to be put on hold. Getting lei’d in aloha-land is a bit less appealing when you hear about the recent laptop theft from the Department of Transportation.
In the middle of March, a laptop was stolen from the Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Safety Office. The office, [...]
Laptop Theft: Not a Single One Today.
April Fools!
Another laptop gets stolen every 12 seconds. Don’t think for a second (or 12) that your laptop is safe from predators. They’re everywhere.
In fact, I received 12 emails today from my lovely RSS feeds alerting me of laptop thefts. And those are only the ones reported in the news, with my specific keywords.
Moral [...]
Laptop Theft and Reefer as a Gateway… Crime?
The Bugle Observer reported last Friday that the Integrated Criminal Reduction unit of Woodstock executed a search warrant on a residence in Hartley Settlement.
What did they find, you ask? Why, a “quantity of marijuana” and a stolen laptop.
The article indicates the laptop was stolen from School District 14 — and it belonged to an elementary [...]
Tax Time: Watch Those Laptops!
An article at marketwatch.com just caught my eye. No matter how you’re filing your taxes this year (and yes, you should be filing for taxes… did you forget?), you’ve gotta keep an eye out for identity theft. Whether it’s someone stealing your tax return straight out of your local mailbox, or a hacker is sitting [...]
Laptop Theft: Teacher’s Notes, Wedding Photos
And the hits just keep rolling in.
Kelly Gerard, a student at St. Helens College, was a victim of laptop theft last week. The laptop contained her notes on all of her teacher-training coursework, as well as the photos from her wedding earlier this month.
See the article in the St. Helen’s Reporter here.
Laptop Theft: U.S. Army in England at Risk
The names, post office box numbers, forwarding addresses, units of assignment and work phone numbers of all 6,000 post office box holders from the U.S. Military Base in Mildenhall, England are currently lost in cyberspace.
All of the information, which originally was stored on a password protected military database, was transferred earlier this year to an [...]
Laptop Theft: See No Evil?
A man from St. Paul, Minnesota stole a braille laptop from beneath the Metra train seat of one Emily Zitek. The article in the Star Tribune relayed that the computer was worth $6,500 due to its special design and programming for the blind.
Officials in the area replaced the laptop and its software… But this story [...]
Laptop Thefts Riddling Downtown Denver
According to cbs4denver.com, the Denver Police Department is trying to place the public on high laptop-theft alert.
Since January, 39 laptops have been reported stolen solely from the downtown Denver area. In the article, Jodi Brooks writes, “Specifically they say [the thefts are occurring] in businesses along the 16th Street Mall and in the downtown area. [...]
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