A Missouri cop working an online sex-trafficking sting over Craigslist used a gutsy bluff to collar an alleged pedophile last week. As part of an undercover operation called Operation Guardian Angel, Officer John Howe of the Kansas City police posted a classified ad on Craigslist on March 5, claimin...

Internet-savvy pimps are turning to social-networking sites to lure minors into a life of prostitution, then posting ads on the web to advertise their services. Experts say the trend is shattering all the stereotype of child sex-trafficking victims....

  She was a 16-year-old California girl looking for trouble on MySpace; he was a 22-year-old self-described pimp who liked the revealing photos she posted to her profile. Three weeks after they met on the social networking site, they were arrested together in real life outside a cheap motel in ...

Ever wonder what the government is really up to paying for all those digital TV converter boxes?  Last week a Spokane, Washington man claimed he'd discovered the horrifying truth, and he produced a YouTube video to prove it. In a 90-second video that's popping up on tin-foil-hat sites everywher...

  A new service set for launch Tuesday allows cellphone users to unmask the Caller ID on  blocked incoming calls, obtaining the phone number, and in some cases the name and address, of the no-longer-anonymous caller. The service, called TrapCall, is offered by New Jersey's TelTech systems,...

A new report from Javelin Research is getting attention for its extraordinary claim that data breaches are responsible for only a tiny minority of identity theft cases, compared to lost wallets and other low-tech exposures. But a closer look at Javalin’s numbers casts serious doubt on the companyâ...

A senior CIA officer who headed the agency's Algeria station last year is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting at least two Muslim women after incapacitating them with a date-rape drug, ABC News reports. The 41-year-old spy was recalled home in October after the victims stepped forw...

In the first case of its kind, a Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges for allegedly selling hacked cable modems capable of stealing free, anonymous internet service from broadband providers. Thomas Swingler was charged Thursday in federal court in New York with trafficking in unlawful acc...

A Kentucky college student faces federal extortion charges for allegedly attempting to blackmail a female student with an stolen sex video of her and her boyfriend. Sungkook Kim, a 23-year-old South Korean national, allegedly found a University of the Cumberlands lab computer left logged in to an e-...

When Tonia Mullins decided to hire a hit man to kidnap and murder her lover's wife, she didn't scour the local underworld dives or run an ad in Soldier of Fortune. She texted. "Don't care who as long as they can in no way be traced 2 me or u guys through someone else," the 32-year-old Okla...