Identity Theft Down, Losses Up

The number of identity theft victims in 2010 dropped 28 percent, yet individuals lost more on average than ever before, suggesting that attackers’ techniques are getting more sophisticated. According to a survey on consumer fraud released by Javelin Strategy & Research on Tuesday, annual fraud wa...

Dozens Charged in $1M Scheme To Fence Apple Goods

UPDATED: The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Wednesday announced the break-up of an identity theft and fencing ring responsible for around $1 million in fraudulent purchases from Apple stores around the country. District Attorney Cyrus Vance and the U.S. Secret Service in a press conferen...

Hobbit helmsman Jackson trap in $190K credit card scam !

Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson was the ambition of a US$190,000 £120,000 acclaim agenda artifice that approved to bond out a disturbing business. The recently-knighted Hobbit helmsman acclimated his American Express agenda to shop for items from the Michigan Toy Soldier Company, which...

Why Takedowns Don't Reduce Online Crime

The last year has seen a string of takedowns of botnet command-and-control servers, malware drop zones, spam operations and other pieces of the crimeware infrastructure, each of which made a dent in one way or another. But the question of whether the takedowns have had any lasting effect on the...

Lush's UK Website Hacked, Credit Card Numbers Used !

Hackers are built after stealing credit card numbers Lush UK site, which was closed on Friday and replaced with a message that alerts customers that their account information might have been compromised. According to the message, all who have made purchases online at the site of the craftsmanship...

Thousands Of Bank Details At Risk As Hackers Hit Lozano UK Site !

Hackers can obtain the bank details of thousands of customers in a lush, a cosmetics company acknowledged yesterday. The company invites all our customers who have purchased products online during the month of October to check fraud. To date, 43 customers had their cards are used tricks. Thieves...

Details PandaLabs Cyber-criminal Black Market Report !

PandaLabs researchers published an investigative look at the growing online crime, cyber black market where it sold the stolen credit card information and other data stolen more than 50 shops, mostly online. PandaLabs clues about how the black market of cybercrime has diversified and now sells a...

Panda Global Protection 2010 local Dos (unfiltered wcscpy())

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Hackers Steal 100,000 E-mail !

Two attackers were more than 100,000 e-mail users Apple iPad, including politicians and famous journalists, federal prosecutors said Tuesday notifying the prosecution of men. AT & T has revealed a vulnerability of months ago, and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said there was evidence that the two men...

Hackers Steal $ 150,000 Malware Job Search !

Small businesses are worried about a new scam: criminals in search of work who want to break into online bank accounts. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning Wednesday on a new version of a fraud technique called long-term computer automated information exchange fraud. With AC...

Panda Global Protection 2010 - Local Denial of Service (unfiltered wcscpy())

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Two men charged for Hacking into AT&T Website !

Two men were arrested on Tuesday and are facing charges of fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization, following an investigation that started with last year's much publicized harvesting of e-mails and AT&T authentication IDs of 114,000 early-adopters of Apple's iPad. Accordi...

Tips for Make Mobile Banking Safe And Secure !

As we all know that wireless applications have numbers of vulnerabilities higher then the wired applications and the devices. In India there are not lots of people who do banking through mobile but outside India there are high profile countries in which many people do banking through mobile only....

FBI to press criminal charges over AT&T iPad user data hack !

Remember last summer when iPad users on the AT&T network in the US were subject to a hack that allegedly saw around 120,000 customers personal details compromised? The FBI certainly remembers and today it is set to reveal details criminal charges relating to the case, according to Reuters. As we...

Multi-Million Dollar Cyber Fraud Investigation Surrounds Exchange Students

Two international students from Vietnam are under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security on charges of identity theft and wire fraud. The two Winona State University students, Tram Vo and Khoi Van, are alleged to have taken part in a criminal ring that defrauded ecommerce merchants...

Visa: New Tools Could Spot Additional $1.5b In Fraud

Credit card giant Visa Inc. said on Thursday that an update to its anti-fraud technology will make it easier to spot sophisticated credit card fraud that spans national borders. Visa said the update amounted to a major upgrade of Visa Advanced Authentication, the company’s real time risk scoring...

Survey Finds Banks Struggling As Fraud Grows

A survey conducted by Information Security Media found that new fraud methods, including phishing and Internet enabled account takeovers are an increasing problem for banks, but that many organizations are ill equipped to combat the new threats. Online bank fraud is a growing problem in the U.S...

Jose Ignacio Lopez (GM)

Lopez was the head of General Motors’ Global Purchasing division when he defected for GM competitor VW to head that company’s purchasing operation in 1993. According to a lawsuit filed by GM, Lopez and other company executives brought with them more than two million pages of top-secret GM...