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Monday, March 15th, 2010Hurray for the Spanish security authorities! They captured the Mariposa botnet operators. The Mariposa botnet networked through nearly 13 million computers across 190 countries. It compromised systems from across several Fortune 1000 companies and 40 financial institutions. At the time of his arrest, one of the botnet operators possessed sensitive [...]
2010 Census to begin proceed with caution
Sunday, January 31st, 2010With the U.S. Census process beginning, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) has advice so people can avoid becoming a victim of fraud or identity theft. U.S. Census workers have begun verifying the addresses of every household across the country. Eventually, more than 140,000 U.S. Census workers will count every person in the U.S. and will [...]
Chinese government penetrates American and other cyber networks
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010It is now a known fact China is aggressively developing cyberwarfare.
Latest Report shows, China is conducting the most sophisticated cyberspying.
One example, in April of ‘09 there were attacks into a U.S. defense contractor’s network that resulted in stolen data about the design of the F-35 “Lightning II” fighter system and its electronics systems.
Keystroke logs of [...]
Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator “czar” Howard Schmidt
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Howard A. Schmidt, who was a cyber-adviser in the Bush’s years, will be Obama’s new cybersecurity coordinator.
Before he joined the Bush White House, he worked as chief security officer at Microsoft. He then became vice president and chief information security officer at eBay. He served in the Air Force from 1967 to 1983 in various [...]
Sabotaging The System (60 Minutes episode - Sunday November 8, 2009)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009Where is Maria Nelson aka identity thief?
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009A visitor to Karen Lodrick website has submitted the following information:
Name: Reginald Smith
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Specific Request:
Comments:
I just thought you might like to know if you aren’t already aware that Maria Nelson is currently serving prison time at Valley State Prison For Women in Chowchilla and when she paroles she has a hold that will take her to [...]
Steps to protect your business against cybercrime
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009It is estimated business losses from cybercrime are as high as $1 trillion a year worldwide.
Fail-safe protection doesn’t exist. Even the Pentagon, with a brigade of the best computer specialists, gets hit repeatedly.
Crooks will go where the taking is easiest, just as car thieves will grab a radio from an unlocked car before going through [...]
Largest case of computer crime and identity theft ever prosecuted
Monday, August 17th, 2009The three culprits, one American and two unnamed Russians, are responsible for stealing more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers in 2007. They infiltrated the computer networks of Heartland, a credit card payment processing center, as well as several national retailers and supermarket chains.
A portion of the credit card numbers were then sold [...]
Avoid phishing scams
Sunday, August 9th, 2009Phishing has been around a while now and I’m sure almost all of us have heard the term.
Phishing is email scams that try to get you to divulge your personal information; such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, date of birth, etc to steal your money or identity.
They are getting more sophisticated [...]
Child pornography cybercrime needs to be stopped
Friday, July 31st, 2009Warning: The material on this page is graphic and not intended for children.
I watched an upsetting Oprah show today. And even though, it was almost impossible to watch I feel, it is important to bring awareness to this horrific cybercrime activity.
It’s estimated that more than 5 million pornographic pictures and videos of children are circulated [...]