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- eBay server hacked via old administrative functions
- A malicious hacker broke into an eBay server on Friday, temporarily suspending the accounts of a "very small" number of members. Excerpt from Network World: "We were able to block the fraudster quickly before any permanent damage had been done. At no point did the fraudster...
- Tags: Fraudster, Server, eBay Inc., Servers, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Fighting emerging threats. How to combat man-in-the-middle and Trojan attacks
- Phishing still remains the main method that fraudsters use to attack financial institutions; it is simple and cost-effective, but still yields lucrative results. However, as financial institutions across the globe continue to deploy strong authentication, fraudsters are also findnig more sophisticated ways to launch attacks. As the fraud landscapre evolves,...
- Tags: Financial, Financial Company, Trojan Horse, Fraudster, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Financial Services, Security, Viruses And Worms
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Images: Going phishing for the holidays
- Fraudsters are using the holidays as a hook for phishing attacks.
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, fraudster, hook, phishing
- Image galleries 2005-12-21
- Credit card security.
- Credit card security.Being a software development house dedicated to residence management systems for university housing, one of the questions that has come from customers recently is "how can we make credit card information more secure?"With the recent spate of credit card fraud/theft, this has become a hot topic.I'm interested in...
- Tags: card, credit card, data theft, database, fraud, fraudster, Melar, off-topic, security
- Discussion threads 2005-07-07
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- Stopping fraud by blackballing PCs
- not thought out fullyso, a savvy fraudster that really took the time to learn something in computer science couldn't run a virtual pc on their machine ( or 100 ) and set up these accounts?This is a prime example of lack luster research.Thus we see the first users of the...
- Tags: PC
- Discussion threads 2006-07-31
- The perpetual folly of end users
- It appears that the folks over at security company Sophos decided to put together an experiment to research the identify theft risks associated with social networking. Not surprisingly, they found that 41% of users readily hand out information that could be used to personally identify them --...
- Tags: Sophos Plc., Malware, Cyberthreats, Phishing, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, E-mail, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Absolutly right.
- The institution that allows identify theft by doing nothing to verify the identity of the customer should bear all of the cost of the identity theft including notifying the credit agencys.Identity theft: Attack the right issueWell put!Excellent article. He formulated and expressed answers to questions I had about the...
- Tags: AWolfe_II, card, credit card, Excellent Article, fraud, identity theft, security
- Discussion threads 2005-04-18
- the data collector
- should face severe financial pentalies, on top of the costs you mention.like at least 100,000 per person's data, plus any damages the individual suffers from thier error.Tougher data-leak law proposedthey still don't get it...We're only seeing half the solution here.Sure, it's nice to have notification built in, but they're still...
- Tags: Identity theft, GOVERNMENT, Social Security, SECURITY, Hacking, data collector, collector
- Discussion threads 2005-04-12
- Defending against computer attacks
- Perhaps noother subject in the age information technology has garnered as much generalpublicity as the computer virus. Numerous strains and variants of computervirus have exposed the systematic security vulnerabilities prevalent in awidely networked environment. Properly defending against these attacks requiresa tremendous amount or research and a thorough understanding of how...
- Tags: attack, attacker, computer, computer attack, computer virus, Mark Kaelin, Peter Szor, virus
- Technical articles 2005-03-17
- Vigilantes Mutilate Phishing Sites
- Vigilantes Mutilate Phishing SitesMay 19, 2005 Vigilantes Mutilate Phishing Sites Courtesy of TechWeb News Online vigilantes are taking matters into their own hands, and defacing some phishing sites to warn off the naive, a U.K. Web monitoring firm said Thursday. According to Netcraft, a phishing site that posed...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, phishing, phishing Web site
- Discussion threads 2005-05-23
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