Before leaving your home, try to do a home security test first. to ensure all of them is running normally that would not attract thieves

A Thief from Michigan installed his camera on an ATM (Automated Teller Machine) for the purpose of getting people’s credit card numbers but it looks like something happened when a bank customer found the camera and found the picture of the thief!

So, It was reported to the authorities according to the police, a lot of customers of the bank in Detroit suburb lost a lot of money for this. The man is described as white, between the ages of 47 and 55 with white and gray hair and was seen wearing wire-rimmed glasses and a baseball cap, according to The Detroit News.

Source Dumbcrooks.com

Blogger Chad Perrin at Tech Republic shares to us his thoughts and views on how your network security may just be the same as your home security. Here are ten reasons, plus one, why the two are alike.

“ 1. Deadbolts are more secure than the lock built into the handle. Not only are they sturdier, but they’re harder to pick. On the other hand, both of these characteristics are dependent on design differences that make them less convenient to use than the lock built into the handle. If you’re in a hurry, you can just turn the lock on the inside handle and swing the door shut — it’ll lock itself without having to use a key, but the security it provides isn’t quite as complete. A determined thief can still get in more easily than if the deadbolt was used, and you may find the convenience of skipping the deadbolt evaporates when you lock your keys inside the house.

The lesson: Don’t take the easy way out. It’s not so easy when things don’t go according to plan.

2. Simply closing your door is enough to deter the average passerby, even if he’s the sort of morally bankrupt loser that likes thefts of opportunity. If it looks locked, most people assume it is locked. This in no way deters someone who’s serious about getting into the house, though.

The lesson: Never rely on the appearance of security. The best way to achieve that appearance is to make sure you’re actually secure.

3. Even a deadbolt-locked door is only as secure as the doorframe. If you have a solid-core door with strong, tempered steel deadbolts set into a doorframe attached to drywall with facing tacks, one good kick will break the door open without any damage to your high-quality door and deadbolt. The upside is that you’ll be able to reuse the door and locks. The downside is that your 70-inch HD television will be fenced by daybreak.

The lesson: The security provided by a single piece of software is only as good as the difficulty of getting around it. Don’t assume security crackers will always use the front door the way it was intended.

4. It’s worse than the doorframe. How secure is the window next to the front door?

The lesson: Locking down your firewall won’t protect you against trojans received via e-mail. Try to cover every point of entry, or you may as well not cover any of them.

5. When someone knocks on the front door, you might want to see who’s out there before you open it. That’s why peepholes were invented. Similarly, if you hear the sounds of lockpicks (or even a key, when you know nobody else should have one), you shouldn’t just open the door to see who it is. It might be someone with a knife and a desire to loot your home.

The lesson: Be careful about what kind of outgoing traffic you allow — and how your security policies deal with it. For instance, most stateful firewalls allow incoming traffic on all connections that were established from inside, so it behooves you to make sure you account for all allowable outgoing traffic.

6. Putting a sign in your window that advertises an armed response alarm system, or even an NRA membership sticker, can deter criminals who would otherwise be tempted to break in. Remember that the majority of burglars in the United States admit to being more afraid of armed homeowners than the police, even after they’ve been apprehended. Telling people about strong security helps reduce the likelihood of being a victim.

The lesson: Secrecy about security doesn’t make anyone a smaller target.

7. A good response to a bad situation requires knowing about the bad situation. If someone breaks into your house, bent on doing you and your possessions harm, you cannot respond effectively without knowing there’s an intruder. Make sure you — or someone empowered to act on your behalf, such as an armed security response service, the police, or someone else you trust — have some way of knowing when someone has broken in.

The lesson: Intrusion detection and logging are more useful than you may realize. You might notice someone has compromised your network and planted botnet trojans before they’re put to use, or you might log information that can help you track down the intruder or recover from the security failure (and prevent a similar one in the future).

8. Nobody thinks of everything. Maybe someone will get past your front (or back) door, despite your best efforts. Someone you trust enough to let inside may even turn out to be less honest than you thought. Layered security, right down to careful protection of your valuables and family even from inside your house, is important in case someone gets past the outer walls of your home. Extra protection, such as locks on interior doors and a safe for valuables, can make the difference between discomfort and disaster.

The lesson: Protect the inside of your network from itself, as well as from the rest of the world. Encrypted connections such as SSH tunnels even between computers on the same network might save your bacon some day.

9. The best doors, locks, window bars, safes, and security systems cannot stop all of the most skilled and determined burglars from getting inside all of the time. Once in a while, someone can get lucky against even the best home security. Make sure you insure your valuables, and otherwise prepare for the worst.

The lesson: Make sure you have a good disaster recovery plan in place — one that doesn’t rely on the same security model as the systems that need to be recovered in the event of a disaster. Just as a safety deposit box can be used to protect certain rarely used valuables, offsite backups can save your data, your job, and/or your business.

10. Your house isn’t the only place you need to be protected. A cell phone when your car breaks down, a keen awareness of your surroundings, and maybe even some form of personal protection can all be the difference between life and death when you’re away from home. Even something as simple as accidentally leaving your wallet behind in a restaurant can lead to disaster if someone uses your identity to commit other crimes that may be traced back to you, run up your credit cards, and loot your bank accounts. Your personal security shouldn’t stop when you leave your house.

The lesson: Technology that leaves the site, information you may take with you such as passwords, and data you need to share with the outside world need to be protected every bit as much as the network itself.

I promised 10 (+1) in the title of this article. This bonus piece of the analogy turns it around and gives you a different perspective on how to think about IT security:

1. Good analogies go both ways. Any basic security principles that apply to securing your network can also apply to securing your house or even the building in which you house the physical infrastructure of your network.

The lesson: Don’t neglect physical security. The best firewall in the world won’t stop someone from walking in the front door empty-handed, then walking out with thousands of dollars in hardware containing millions of dollars’ worth of data. That’s a job for the deadbolt. “

According to Bob Schmidt breaking into someone’s house would be relatively easy if one doesn’t know how to properly lock its door when they leave. thus making it more attractive to burglars.

A dumber version of Bonnie & Clyde suspected of selling drugs on the Boston Common targeted the wrong victim for a rip-off yesterday morning: an undercover BPD cop.

The suspects, Cheryl Tucker, 37, and Darryl Noles, 42, allegedly approached a cop who was standing near Park Street Station around 7:15 a.m. and whispered, “Give me your money. I’ll get your drugs.” The cop handed over folded bills - but Tucker allegedly took off into a nearby McDonald’s and did not return with any narcotics as Noles waited with the undercover Boston police officer.

A surveillance team working with the narcotics undercovers watched Tucker go into McDonald’s “without speaking to or interacting with anyone,” according to a BPD report.
When she came outside, Noles joined her and the two began to walk off with Tucker telling the undercover cop, “Someone will bring them outside.”

The cop followed the couple and asked for his money back and Tucker allegedly replied: “Get the (expletive) away from me.” BPD officers then surrounded the duo, pulled out their badges, and arrested them. Both were charged with unarmed robbery.

In 2005, the Herald ran a series on the startling open-air drug use on Boston Common, including an incident in which a heroin addict shot dope and died in front of a photographer. Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said that department has undertaken a massive anti-drug initiative on the park in an attempt to squelch the trade.

Source Crime 101 by: Michele McPhee

How to Gain Infamy as a Legendary Stupid Criminal:

1. Hide marijuana under your hood and then take the car for an oil change. 45 year-old Amy Brasher was arrested after a mechanic found 18 packages of marijuana packed in the engine compartment of the car Brasher brought in for an oil change. Brasher later said she didn’t realize the mechanic needed to lift the hood to change the oil.

2. Post your bail in coins after being charged with stealing from vending machines. Police charged Gregory Rosa, 25, with a string of vending machine robberies in January when he fled from police inexplicably when they spotted him loitering around a vending machine and later tried to post his $400 bail in coins.

3. Leave your license plate at the scene of a crime. Kentucky: Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of pulling the front panel off the machine, they pulled the bumper off the truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home, leaving the bumper and the attached license plate at the scene.

4. Forget that your index finger doesn’t really shoot bullets. Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun, but failed to keep his hand in his pocket.

5. Go ahead and argue over Kool-Aid and make sure you have your gun. Levon Howard lost a shoot-out with his roommate Edwin Heyliger, who was charged with murder. Howard had broken into Heyliger’s room, angry that someone had drunk his Kool-Aid, and in the ensuing argument, both scrambled for guns.

6. Assume the judge’s name rhymes with “no way.” At his sentencing for driving a school bus while drunk, Harold Keith Lone showed up in court staggering, shouting obscenities, gesturing wildly and with alcohol on his breath. Asked if he were drunk, Lone replied, “No way. No way, Jose.”

7. Allow your pet igunana to take the wheel. When they pulled over a car that was weaving, cops found Finley the iguana at the wheel. The real driver, John Ruppell, was slouched in the front seat. He was charged with drunken driving and Finley was taken to the SPCA.

8. Forget to check whether uniformed cops are in line at the store you decide to rob. A masked gunman walked into a gas station in Shreveport, Louisiana, and demanded money, but he apparently didn’t see that the line included a police officer in full uniform. L.J. Scott, a member of the Shreveport Police Department’s armed robbery task force,
identified as 21-year-old Derek Pierson Jr.

9. When in court on charges of stealing shoes, display the shoes you stole. In court, shoe store robbery suspect Charles Taylor propped his feet up on the defense table while wearing a pair of tan boots he’d taken from the store at knife point.

10.Use the elevator while making an escape. Sitting in a San Antonio room awaiting sentencing, convicted burglar Adam Flores, 20, fled when a bailiff unfastened his handcuffs. Police caught him a minute later as he stood calmly waiting for an elevator at the end of the hall.

Source Weird News

Check out the “Top Disgusting Weird Stories”. Discover Weird things and Learn how they did it! Its Horrible but interesting to read..

* Man Seeks Chewed Hot Dogs from Contest Winner

“Would you buy a bag of half-eaten wieners in an eBay auction?”
28 contestants join a hot dog eating contest for entertainment and others for a free lunch but Pat garety has his own reason. Takeru Kobayashi won the said contest for eating 531/2 hot dogs and buns in just 12 minutes that made him vomit but garety offered him $500 just to deposit his vomit in a special “clean” bag. But he refused. Garety is planning on selling his bag of hot dog chunks on Ebay and earn thousand dollars for the mess.

* Man Stores Dead Mother in His Refrigerator

“He did that after he’d slept with the corpse for a while.”
Halpern, 61, of Halifax, was charged with interfering with human remains when police discovered his refrigerator’s grisly contents. However, a court dismissed the charges after agreeing Halpern suffered from mental problems including bipolar disorder, according to Canadian Press.

* Man Gives Back Wedding Ring to Ex, Severed Finger Included

“The price of freedom is sometimes steep”.
A Viennese man hated his ex-wife that caused him to cut off his ring finger (with ring still affixed ) and presented to his ex. “I have no plans to re-marry.” “It was an act of breaking free,” he noted.

* Picking Your Nose and Eating It is Not Only Delicious But Also Healthy, Says Doc

“Especially if preceded by a toe-jam, belly-button fuzz and nail clippings salad.”
An Austrian doctor believes that picking your nose and eating what you retrieve is one of the best ways to stay healthy.

“With the finger you can get to places you just can’t reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner.And eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body’s immune system,” Ananova quotes Dr. Bischinger, as saying. “Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine,” he added.

* She Crawls Under New Blanket and Finds it Already Occupied by Maggots

“Woolworths is very sorry for the distress and inconvenience it has caused Mrs Smith.”
Jane, aged 44, suffers from Reynaud’s disease which affects her circulation and often leaves her feeling cold. So she thought a heated blanket which plugs into a cigarette lighter in her car would be ideal to keep her warm on journeys. But when she got it home and unpacked it Jane got more than she bargained for - hundreds of wriggly maggots.

* A Village with a (Urine) Drinking Habit

“The first drink tasted so bad, but after several minutes, I was able to manage it.”
Du Ximin, 50, was one of the five people who formed a healthcare research center promoting drinking urine to stay healthy in his village in 1993. Now about 400 of the village of 1,600 are in the habit of drinking their own urine, and two-thirds of them are senior people, reported state television.

There are about 10 million people drinking urine to stay healthy and treat diseases across the country, mainly in Shaanxi, Liaoning and Guangdong, CCTV said. However, many medical experts are skeptical. Guo Baoxue, president of Tongji Hospital in Xi’an, attributes the good health of some practitioners to psychological effects.

* Homeowner Wants Blood-Soaked Condo Cleaned Up

The blood of a suicide victim drains down into someone’s condo. It collected in his ceiling and even dripped into his light fixture. Now, there’s a fight to get it cleaned up!