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eBay con artists convicted
News Three people who cheated 3,000 eBay customers out of thousands of pounds have been jailed. The London-based trio, a Romanian couple and their accomplice, tricked eBay customers out of £300,000 for goods that were never delivered.
[October 31, 2005, 10:20]
Identity thieves strike eBay
News While Fraser's credit card number could have been filched anywhere, the fact remains that con artists are using stolen numbers to set up a growing number of increasingly convincing scams intended to part eBay buyers and sellers from their...
[November 22, 2002, 14:45]
Online crooks exploit WTC disaster
News As the Internet has become more popular in households around the world, it has become a fertile breeding ground for quick-spreading pyramid scammers and other con artists. The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) and the SpamCon...
[September 14, 2001, 9:34]
Can Phishing Be Foiled?
White Papers Phish e-mails are constructed by con artists to look like legitimate communications, often from familiar and reputable companies, and usually ask victims to take urgent action to avoid a consequence or receive a reward.
[June 30, 2009, 1:19]
DefCon: hacking for human rights
News Started by the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), a group of hackers and performance artists, the project's first goal will be to finish an application known as Peekabooty, which will form the infrastructure of such a private network.
[July 17, 2001, 9:50]
Arrest fuels Adobe copyright fight
News At issue is copyright protection for artists and publishers. The jailed programmer Sklyarov had outlined problems with Adobe eBook and PDF security in a paper presented at the Def Con hacker convention.
[July 19, 2001, 10:13]
'Attacks threaten innovation' - Ballmer
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer warned on Monday that recent security vulnerabilities represent a "new and growing challenge to innovation" and conceded that his company is under attack from "thieves, con artists, terrorists and hackers.
[September 16, 2003, 8:40]
EU pact criminalising security research?
News Meet the world's newest class of persecuted artists: computer hackers. The possibility scares European computer security experts gathered this week for Def Con Europe -- so much so that one hacker called it "the witch hunt of the 21st century".
[October 26, 2000, 8:56]
Fraudsters catch on to the Net's 'long tail'
News The number of brands exploited by online con artists grew to a record 154 in July, according to a report from online fraud specialist the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). The study, released on Monday, showed that the number of brands under...
[September 12, 2006, 12:20]
EDS says it was a victim
News Electronic Data Systems admitted on Wednesday that a group of con artists got their hands on "tens of millions of dollars" worth of computer audio and video equipment that was supposedly going to be used for a top-secret project abroad.
[March 10, 2000, 10:17]
BT's free flights offer hits turbulence
Talkback If it's a scam I'm sure we could interest the national press as newspapers are the first to publicise con artists. Daily Express £10 cruise scam. I don't know how many of us there are - maybe thousands of us and the Daily Express should be taken to...
[January 22, 2005, 13:01]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
Talkback The scam only carries on because of the greed of a few who get taken, but perhaps I'm too hard on sophicsticated westerners getting taken by 3rd world con artists. Hi Everyone knows the 419 scam operates why do people persist in being taken ?
[June 6, 2004, 23:02]
Disney battles coupon goof
Talkback The are very good con-artists. SCAM ALERT- Holiday prize discount offered on-line by sohovacations.com. The original offer advertises the Walt disney logo and they say they are part of Walt disney. They ask you to pay £598 instead of £1699 for a...
[January 21, 2004, 10:56]
SCO vs the Linux world…What's a Linux user to do?
Talkback In fact, they used some of that inflated stock to buy a web services company, in the familiar fashion of the dot com con artists of the recent past. Nothing new here - just a lawyer suggesting people consult their lawyer.
[August 13, 2003, 20:54]
Conway v Ellison: It's over
Talkback We hear no 'I was taken in by a bunch of flim flam artists & con men. Hello Charles. Remember the pro-SCOG comments you wrote and spoke some time back? How do those hold up now that SCOG attorneys have told the judge that SCO did no code...
[January 8, 2005, 2:50]
News Roundup: Attack on America
News Friday 14th September Consumer watchdogs warn that con artists are concocting online frauds to profit from the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon NEWS Hackers strike at Islamic Web sites
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
Microsoft to fund anti-phishing group
News The tactics of spammers, hackers and other online con artists are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and as a company, Microsoft is dedicating resources to help law enforcement find those responsible for harming consumers," Nancy Anderson...
[July 22, 2004, 10:50]
Microsoft proposes ID solution for spam
News Companies and individuals are increasingly deluged with spam and phishing scams, in which con artists send email purportedly from a recipient's bank, credit card company or Internet provider requesting sensitive information such as "lost" credit...
[August 13, 2004, 8:40]
Watchdog issues rogue-dialler help
Talkback He said that they were a bunch of con artists. Apparently I filled out an online questionnaire and came 4th in a prize draw. Won a "free" holiday to either Tenerife or Costa Del Sol. Told them my personal details over the phone and made an...
[August 1, 2006, 13:05]
Email experts search for 'less trusting' protocol
News The flaws are so severe, some now believe, that the protocol that gave rise to the most significant explosion in written communication since Gutenberg may no longer be capable of serving its purpose in a world of con artists, pornographers, virus...
[August 1, 2003, 16:15]
