Archive for the 'Online Fraud' Category

Identity Theft: UC Data Breach

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Looks like the University of California has had another database breach, this time impacting nearly 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff. Interestingly, it appears to the investigators that the Social Security Number (SSN) and other Personal Identity Information (PII) was specifically targeted in the breach.
CNN has an article on their site: “Hacker [...]

If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Proving that the combination of pen and checkbook is mightier than the sword, RSA Security announced the acquisition of PassMark Security for approximately $45 million dollars (far less than RSA’s acquisition price for Cyota).
The acquisition will bring together the top two multi-factor and risk-based authentication vendors serving the financial services space. While both RSA/Cyota [...]

Tough Time for Military Recruiters

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

3 Free songs from iTunes if you agree to be contacted by an Army National Guard Recruiter.
This ad has been seen making the rounds on the Internet.

A full size – readable screen shot is also available.
Not only is this ad in bad taste . . . the ad is asking potential recruits to enter their [...]

Googlers, Watch Out!

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Watch your typos, looks like the fraudsters are now preying on visitors mistyped URLs to hack into an unsuspecting users’ computer.
From CNET NEWS: ‘According to security specialist F-Secure, unsuspecting Web surfers may be bombarded with various types of Trojan horse threats, spyware and backdoors when they go to ‘Googkle.com.’ The scheme is meant to take [...]


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