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Smile, You are on Camera!

A man steals an iPhone, takes a photo of himself and sends it to his personal email account allowing the police to find and arrest the him. After Sayaka Fukuda had her iPhone stolen, she checked her iPhone email account on line. The suspect, Daquan Mathis, had taken a picture of himself and sent it to his personal address, leaving the information behind in the sent mail folder. Police used his email address and photo to track Mathis down and arrest him.

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Dumb or Clever?

Hacker uses a speed trap camera image to trick computers into wiping out database table.
Some speed traps use cameras that automatically register the car’s speed and take a picture of the license plate. The camera’s character recognition technology translates the license plate image into a string that can be locked up in the department of motor vehicles database. The hacker changed his license plate number to ZU o666, which was translated to drop a database command. While the license plate number itself may have made it easy to track down the hacker, “this has got o be 10 out of 10 on the creativity scale,” said, CEO of web Security.

Note to Praveen: This is the last part of “Dumb and Stupid Hackers” that I was not able to post all together for reasons unknown to me.

Rajpriya