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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 274 days ago
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p strong Researchers warn that the whack-a-mole approach to disabling fake banking sites is a huge waste of time. strong p ...Automate Software Builds with Visual Build Pro Easily create an automated, repeatable process for building and deploying software. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 266 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: ftc data telcos banks targets id theft comments Discuss  
Compromised accounts within just 25 companies account for nearly half of the identity theft complaints filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to recently released FTC data compiled by the University of California, Berkeley. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 248 days ago
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/355301_idtheft18.htmlBy Paul ShukovskyP-I reporterMarch 17, 2008A Seattle man was sentenced to 51 months in prison Monday for using file-sharing software to steal people's identities and buy merchandise under their names.Calling Gregory Kopiloff a "highwayman in the virtual world," U.S. District Judge James Robart declined a defense recommendation for a two-year sentence."This sort of activity is not going to be tolerated," Robart said.Kopiloff pleade read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 248 days ago
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Dodgy downloader sent downA Seattle man who admitted using file-sharing programs to pinch personal information on 50 people as part of an ID theft scam has been jailed for four years.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 239 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: man sentenced theft drive million bank records comments Discuss  
A former programmer at Birmingham, Ala.-based Compass Bank who stole a hard drive containing one million customer records and used some of that information to commit debit-card fraud was sentenced last week to 42 months in prison by an Alabama District Court judge. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 238 days ago
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Card crackers shown redUS legislators are clamping down on the use of RFID technologies to steal personal data as cards using the technology become more ubiquitous.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 232 days ago
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9074339By Jaikumar VijayanApril 2, 2008 ComputerworldIn a security breach that sounds similar to the one disclosed by Hannaford Bros. Co. last month, the Okemo Mountain Resort ski area in Vermont announced this week that data from more than 46,000 credit and debit card transactions may have been compromised during a system intrusion over a 16-day period in February.Okemo said in a security advisory relea read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 219 days ago
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Tens of thousands of corporate executives were the target of a series of identity-theft scams this week, e-mail-borne schemes that appear to have netted close to 2,000 victims so far. Early Monday morning, according to two security experts with firsthand knowledge of the attacks, nearly 20,000 executives received an e-mail purporting to be a subpoena ordering each recipient to appear in court for legal violations leveled against their company. The messages addressed each executive by...Please click on the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 214 days ago
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http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080419/UPDATES/80419008By JOHN RUSSELLTHE INDIANAPOLIS STAR April 20, 2008INDIANAPOLIS -- A computer server containing Social Security numbers and other personal information of 700,000 people was stolen last month from a Southside debt-collection bureau in what appears to be the largest computer security breach ever in Indiana.The information includes customer-billing records for about 100 Indiana businesses, including Citizens Gas & Coke Utility, St read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 206 days ago
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Digital real estate leased to one of the Internet's oldest landholders appears to have been quietly seized by e-mail marketers closely associated with an individual once tagged by anti-spam groups as the world's most notorious spammers. What's remarkable about this case study is that it pits a vocal spammer against the American Registry for Internet Numbers, which has yet to take action. ARIN is one of five regional Internet registries worldwide that is responsible for...Please click on the title to contin read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 202 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: military contractor convicted id theft comments Discuss  
A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded guilty to exceeding authorized access to a computer and aggravated identity theft after he was accused of selling names and Social Security numbers of 17,000 military employees, the U.S. Department of Justice said. read more »
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