297 Results from 2009, /security
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the twelve most dangerous online scams that computer users should be cautious of this holiday season. Ac...
26 November 2009 /security /regulation
Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the twelve most dangerous online scams that computer users should be cautious of this holiday season. Acc...
25 November 2009 /security /regulation
Swatting is making prank calls to emergency services. In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is (Special Weapons and Tactics). Caller ID spoofing technologies are used to send law officers on bogus calls ...
24 November 2009 /security /regulation
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
The latest Pricewaterhouse Coopers Global Economic crime survey released last week confirms our worst fears. The stinging economic recession has taken economic crime to the 'classes'. Middle and upper managers are 'forced' to take to crime to sustain their lifestyles cultivated in boom times. With the recession taking a heavy toll of staff leading...
22 November 2009 /security /regulation
One hacked email address led to the defacement of Comcasts homepage. When the hackers called Comcasts technical contact to let him know all 200 Comcast domain names and Comcast homepage were vulnerable, he hung up on them. It has not been disclosed how the email was compromised, but there are many ways it could be. Wired/CNN reports as described in...
Mules are relatively unaware people who get hooked into a “small business” or employment that is a function of a criminal enterprise. The mules often respond to “help wanted” ads from online job placement sites. Shipping scams are a common tactic criminals use in which they employ mules to receive goods bought with stolen credit card numbers, who ...
19 November 2009 /security /regulation
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
Air Parcel Express is a boutique international shipping company based in Sweden. They offer a wide choice of logistic services such as mail forwarding and global distribution, creatively supporting their customers’ supply chain. They maintain several warehouses worldwide – according to their well designed website (see image below), the latest was...
18 November 2009 /security /payments Online Banking
After the Vegas DEFCON ATM debacle where hackers hacked hackers by setting up a fake ATM in front of the facilities security office, I needed to see how stupid easy it was to buy and ATM and just set it up anywhere. So my search began. I started looking on e-bay and found plenty of new and used ATMs ranging from $500-2500 but quickly determined I d...
18 November 2009 /security /regulation
Retired Member
Database security & inegrity is an issue that should be taken very seriously by an organisation. I'm going to be, hopefully, brief and non-techy..... SQL injection hacks are common knowledge and the ways to stop them are well documented (http://unixwiz.net/techtips/sql-injection.html). There are many different Good Practice guidelines to also...
17 November 2009 /security
The latest monthly statistics show the number of new identity fraud cases reported to CPP stands at its highest level since we started selling the insurance product back in November 2004. In October, our resolution team took onboard 250 brand new cases of identity fraud and is currently working with those individuals to clear their names and rebuil...
17 November 2009 /security /regulation Online Banking
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