Etsy, the handmade goods marketplace fueling the online community of crafty entrepreneurs, wants to give women in technology a boost. The ecommerce network is driven by a large community of female vendors and buyers, but Etsy‘s own engineers and operations managers don’t reflect its audience. [More from Mashable: 13 Products…
Anonymous hacker planned to publish details of women who had abortions
Court hears James Jeffery stole 10,000 database records of women registered with Britain's biggest abortion provider BPAS A member of the hacking collective Anonymous broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider and planned to publicly release the details of women who used the service. James Jeffery, 27, stole…
Two women convincted of stealing money from an elderly Los Altos couple setenced
Sentencing has been handed down to two women convicted of stealing over $250,000 from an elderly Los Altos couple. After being convicted of identity theft, computer hacking and elder fraud, Pang Thao will spend three years in prison. View full post on computer theft – Yahoo! News Search Results View…
Men and women of law enforcement, I give you…money
Author: Brian Harris By Brian Harris Recently, I was sitting at an airport waiting for a flight when an advertisement over an electronic billboard caught my eye. The picture on the ad was a silhouette of a police officers’ face with a video camera extending out from the eyes. The…
Facebook worm poses as ‘blonde women’
Users of social networking giant Facebook were warned Wednesday against a new worm disguising itself as icon of two blonde women. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Men engage in more ‘risky online behavior’ than women, study shows (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – Be careful out there, guys. According to a new study conducted by Internet security firm Bitdefender, men are more likely to fall victim to data theft on social networks like Facebook and Twitter than women. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on…
‘Chicks with Guns’: Some 15 million US women pack heat
By Laura T. Coffey TODAY.com Pop quiz: Name one accessory that grandmothers, moms, girls, wealthy socialites, middle-class females and low-income women might be likely to own — and cherish — all across America. If you answered “a gun,” you’d be correct. Based on polling research and gun-sale statistics, an estimated…