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Sunday, November 15th, 2009Where is Maria Nelson aka identity thief?
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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 [...]
12 things you can do to keep your child safer online
Friday, July 31st, 2009A quick checklist to get you started on the road to Internet safety.
1. Buy all the safety software you need and use good filtering tools.
Keep them current and use them unfailingly—as automatically as locking your door when you leave the house.
2. Discuss online safety with your family and friends.
Decide together how you will help [...]
One technique for producing the prefect password
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Everyone knows it’s bad to use the same password for different sites. People do it anyway because remembering different passwords is annoying. Remembering different difficult passwords is even more annoying.
Here is a foolproof technique for creating passwords, that are hard to crack and easy to remember. Plus, it takes just minutes to learn.
Step 1:
Start [...]
Carding, how individual hackers get paid for stealing information
Sunday, July 26th, 2009“There is a bustling trade in credit card information and personal details among hackers, phishers and other online criminals. This is called “carding”, and is generally how individual technical hackers get paid by organized crime for stealing information. Occasionally spreadsheets, databases, and other lists of personal information end up in public places on the web [...]
Anti-malware expert and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, talks about cybercrime
Friday, July 17th, 2009During the 10th Annual Kaspersky Lab Virus Analyst Summit, I had the chance to sit down with CEO Eugene Kaspersky who offered his theory for stopping cybercrime. But first, I learned about his company, Kaspersky Lab which specializes in anti-malware technology.
It started out of passion; and now is quickly becoming a household name worldwide.
I found [...]