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Amazon seeks millions from bogus spammers
News The state law enforcement office said on Tuesday that it settled civil fraud charges with one forger, Cyebye.com, that was named in Amazon's suit. It's not just spam; it's consumer fraud," Zapolsky said.
[August 27, 2003, 9:00]
High-tech cops hit back against ISP claims
News It is surprising that so few police officers are trained and available to investigate the entire range of online fraud and attempted fraud. The National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has delivered a robust defence of the UK's e-crime-fighting...
[April 5, 2004, 14:45]
Compliance - 2b Forensic readiness planning, really, you need to do this.
Blog Examples include disputed transactions, suspected fraud, employee problems, complaints of negligence, “smaller” cyber attacks, theft of data. As the size of data storage grows and the pervasiveness of the digital world increases it becomes...
[December 14, 2008, 19:14]
Experts warn on opportunistic malware avalanche
News Users may receive emails purporting to come from their credit card company asking them to enter their details and card numbers for the purposes of fraud protection or to reactivate their account. Often emails may even claim a fraud has been...
[June 22, 2005, 11:35]
eBay con artists convicted
News They were jailed for three-and-a-half years and two-and-a-half years respectively, after money-transfer firm Western Union uncovered the fraud and alerted police. The majority of the money was sent back to the gang's accomplices in Romania in what...
[October 31, 2005, 10:20]
Survey: ID theft costing UK billions in taxes
News In the commercial sector, the increasing prevalence of fraud incidents -- such as phishing scams -- shows all too clearly how criminals will continue to take advantage of technology developments for illegal gain.
[July 14, 2004, 17:10]
Banks 'must try harder' on ID theft
News earlier reported that a quarter of UK adults have had their identity stolen or know somebody who has been a victim of ID fraud. Just as important is ensuring that when data is stolen it is not used to commit fraud.
[July 5, 2005, 11:40]
Council's security blunder exposes card details
News Newcastle City Council claims there is no indication of any fraud on the affected cards. Newcastle City Council chief executive Ian Stratford added in a statement: "We very much regret that this situation has developed, although we would again...
[July 30, 2007, 9:00]
Scamalot
Blog Firstly, it's based on old data from CIFAS (the anti-fraud body, or one of them at least). Secondly, CIFAS never said these figures were all down to email-based fraud. I've been glancing through Michael Peel's Chatham House report Nigeria-Related...
[November 20, 2006, 13:55]
AT&T sues MCI for Canada call routing
News The lawsuit alleges that MCI engaged in "substantive racketeering through a pattern of multiple acts of mail fraud and wire fraud," according to an AT&T statement. MCI continues to secretly route phone calls through Canada, even though it is under...
[September 3, 2003, 17:50]
VeriSign warns of organised gangs behind Net crime
News Attackers can make money by holding online businesses ransom over threatened denial-of-service onslaughts, through credit card fraud or from spam income. However, countries such as the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia; the African countries of...
[November 17, 2004, 8:40]
HSBC's bankrupt security thinking
Talkback Those banks who are currently losing a VASTLY disproportionate percentage of UK industry losses may deploy two factor as a temporary fix precisely because they have not invested in other very effective anti-fraud measures.
[September 21, 2006, 11:19]
Security 2.0
White Papers This can include personal information that can be used for the purpose of identity theft (the act of stealing the information) or fraud (using the information to commit fraud). Security 2.0 is not a new service or application.
[May 9, 2008, 1:02]
Banks still top targets for phishing scams
News Once armed with that data, criminals will often attempt to use it to commit identity fraud. In a recent interview with ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News.com, Mike Cunningham, senior vice-president of fraud management at Chase Card Services, a...
[January 21, 2005, 8:30]
Oracle-SAP judge steps down
News Oracle's complaint against the company claims SAP violated the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, and engaged in unfair competition practices and "negligent interference with prospective...
[May 11, 2007, 10:33]
ZoneAlarm adds ID theft protection
News The all-in-one ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and ZoneAlarm Pro include enhanced identity fraud protection, the company said. As part of the new identity fraud defenses, users will be alerted when their credit card number shows up for sale on...
[June 6, 2006, 10:45]
'Godfather of Spam' sentenced to four years
News With today's sentence of the self-proclaimed 'Godfather of Spam', Alan Ralsky, and three others who played central roles in a complicated stock spam pump-and-dump scheme, the court has made it clear that advancing fraud through abuse of the...
[November 25, 2009, 16:04]
Former Brocade execs face stock options charges
News Fraud relating to stock option grants "goes to the heart of the relationship between a corporation and its shareholders," said SEC chairman Christopher Cox. Marmaro sent a statement to reporters saying that "financial gain is always the motive in...
[July 21, 2006, 8:35]
Panda Puts New Spin On E-Commerce Security
Blog What’s particularly interesting about the service - and I’d like to say at this point that I haven’t tested it - is that it apparently warns site owners when there is a targeted attack through malware and offers the tools to identify and block...
[April 12, 2008, 22:09]
University suffers massive ID data theft
News Hughes warned that campus community members should contact the major credit bureaus to flag their accounts for possible identity fraud. That was in reaction to a Virginia state law, enacted as a response to identity fraud concerns, that required...
[January 11, 2005, 7:40]
