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Archive for: March, 2009

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 31/03/2009 | 2701 views

Credit card details of 19,000 Brits have been found on a cached Google page, where they had been accidentally published by fraudsters. Silly criminal hackers need to tighten up their data security controls and not publish sensitive data like that! Reuters reports - Fraud on the Internet reported to U.S. authorities increased by 33 percent last Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 30/03/2009 | 2324 views

Conficker Countdown

60 minutes reports on everything we have discussed in these posts. Main stream media has recognized the Internet has a cancerous virus and is infected. Criminal hackers are creating viruses infecting webpages in record numbers all in the name of money. Security professionals are losing sleep as they race against the bad guys in anticipation of t... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 27/03/2009 | 4105 views

Hacker infiltrates banks, loads prepaid gift cards, caught

Occasionally we witness the underground coming above ground to face the music. Here what could be considered a brilliant hacker who even owned and operated a security company, is enemy number one. At age 19, an Israeli criminal hacker named Ehud Tenebaum made news as “The Analyzer,” (a great tag for a criminal hacker) after he cracked ... Tags: Security, Online banking

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 26/03/2009 | 3553 views

Conficker worm is coming April 1st

Security professionals’ globally are gearing up to be fooled or fool criminal hackers on April 1st. So far this year it is estimated that somewhere between 3 and 12 million computers have been compromised by the “Conficker” worm, also known as “Downup,” “Downadup” and “Kido,” possibly considere... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 25/03/2009 | 2396 views

Scammers making millions with scareware

If one could have a favorite scam, for me it would be “scareware.” My reasoning for this is thats it’s one of the few scams that actually gets through to me. My defenses are pretty good, but I still see scareware. They’ve even taken my blog posts and used my name to launch scareware in Google News Alerts. I got some crimin... Tags: Security, Online banking