The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
If there’s a lesson to be learned here, I suppose it’s something along the lines of, “Don’t enter any personal information in the videogame porn that you download from Japanese torrent sites.” Really, that seems like a pretty good takeaway from just about any story.
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Users downloading a hentai (pornographic anime genre) game from Japanese file-sharing [...] Read more »
For the first time, hackers have become the biggest cause behind publicly reported data breaches, according to a recent report.
The Identity Theft Resource Center began tracking the cause of reported breaches three years ago. For the past two years, the top cause was what the ITRC calls “data on the move”–typically a lost laptop with [...] Read more »
A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota.
Educational Credit Management Corp. said the data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of borrowers, but no financial or bank account information.
The data was on “portable [...] Read more »
FBI figures show huge rise in online miscreantage
US net crime loss complaints almost doubled in value from $265m in 2008 to reach $560m last year, according to official figures.
An annual report of the FBI-backed Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), published on Friday, reports that the unit handled 336,655 complaints in 2009, a 22.3 percent increase [...] Read more »
Guessing the answer to common password reset questions is far easier than previously thought, according to a new study by computer science researchers.
In the paper What’s in a Name? Evaluating Statistical Attacks on Personal Knowledge Questions (pdf), Joseph Bonneau of the University of Cambridge and two colleagues from the University of Edinburgh show how hackers [...] Read more »
Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.
The emails tell recipients that the passwords on their Facebook accounts have been reset, urging them to click on an attachment to obtain new login credentials, according to anti-virus [...] Read more »
(Business Wire) Identity theft remains “one of the hottest scams around,” according to William J. Smigiel, CEO of Liberty Bank, a Chicago bank that works with retail and lending customers. “The real risks of identity theft are closer to home than you might think.”
The 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report confirms that there were more victims [...] Read more »
Internet thieves use certain software to steal personal data over the internet. When getting access to private data the criminal will be able to use the personal information of a certain victim. The personal data which is commonly stolen is: birth date, address, security number, credit card number, etc.
There is another method used to get [...] Read more »
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