How could he have known?
Dubbed the "unluckiest thief" by many in the media, 31-year-old Horatio Toure allegedly rode his bike by a young woman in San Francisco two weeks ago, gingerly plucked the iPhone she was holding out of her hands, and made a break for it.
Victimized ESPN reporter Erin Andrews this week urged Congress to pass antistalking legislation that would toughen sentencing for those convicted of stalking and allow law enforcement to pursue stalking undertaken via cell phone or the Internet.
"I need people to know how serious this is and that laws need to be tougher," she said at a press conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday flanked by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Congresswomen Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and Virginia Fox (R-NC). "Penalties need to be stiffened."
The financial reform bill signed last week by President Obama not only strengthens whistleblower protections but provides a financial incentive to blow the whistle against fraud on Wall Street.
The White House’s draft plan to create trusted identities in cyberspace has met with skepticism if not outright hostility in some electronic security and privacy quarters.
The Washington Times featured an eye-opening article Sunday about the potential security pitfalls of social networking Web sites, highlighting one of the oldest weapons in the espionage arsenal.
