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Canadian retail stores selling electronics such as the Apple iPad might have to do more rigorous checks on returned merchandise starting now. Upon purchasing dozens of iPad tablets, some ingenious fraudsters managed to replace the valuable gadgets with plaster, reseal the boxes, and return them to their sellers, get... |
18 January 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Google has responded to the allegations that it tried to steal business away from a Kenyan company, used its data without permission and lied about a partnership with it, and has admitted that a "team of people" has actually done everything Google was accused of.
Google issued a statement after analyzing the situati... |
14 January 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Back in July, the authorities discovered a skimmer device connected to an ATM at a Chase Bank branch in West Hills California, which they believe it may have been created using a 3D printer. Brian Krebs came in the possession of some pictures representing the device and as it turns out, the skimmer is very well buil... |
8 December 2011
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On the day Russians elected the lower chamber of parliament, many of the country’s major websites that were keeping tabs on what went down in the election centers were suddenly taken down due to hacking operations.
Forbes Russia, Golos, considered to be the election’s watchdog, Balshoi Gorod, Slon.ru, Li... |
5 December 2011
04:19 GMT |
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SGAE and SDAE, two related non-profit organizations tasked with the collection of royalty payments on behalf of Spanish musicians, composers and songwriters, had their bank accounts frozen and offices raided in connection with a fraud investigation.According to Spanish authorities, the executive officers of the Gener... |
4 July 2011
10:42 GMT |
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Hackers who exploited a vulnerability on Citigroup's Citi Account Online website earlier this year managed to steal $2.7 million from the victims' accounts.On June 9 Citi announced that its Citi Account Online system was compromised by unidentified attackers who extracted the account data of 1% of its North... |
28 June 2011
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Two teenage members of the GhostMarket underground forum were sentenced last Friday in a UK court for breaking into the online systems of several companies to steal credit card data.Zachary Woodham, 19, and Louis Tobenhouse, 18, were arrested on 23 December 2010, following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police ... |
17 May 2011
04:41 GMT |
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Alibaba.com chief executive officer David Wei and chief operating officer Elvis Lee resigned from the company following a year-long fraud involving 2,300 verified vendors.Alibaba.com is the largest business-to-business trading platform in the world and has, according to its own account, over 50 million users as of Se... |
21 February 2011
09:42 GMT |
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As said last week, BMJ reveals today the second part of the secret business that wanted to exploit vaccine fears, thanks to the fraudulent “MMR study” published by Andrew Wakefield in the 1998 Lancet paper.According to case data, the “MMR doctor” planned to make millions out of this health sca... |
11 January 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The British Medical Journal declared today, January 6, 2011, that the 1998 Lancet paper that implied a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, was “an elaborate fraud.”The MMR vaccine is an immunization shot against Measles, Mumps and Rubella – also called German measles, and it was first developed... |
5 January 2011
19:11 GMT |
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In a joint press conference held earlier this week the Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher and Attorney General John Suthers warned that several local business have fallen victim to a new scam, which involves criminals misusing their identity to sign up for credit. The fraudsters were able to pull off the sch... |
17 July 2010
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Two British teenagers have been arrested for stealing the details of more than 65,000 bank accounts from computers infected with malware and selling them on an underground carding forum. According to UK authorities more than £8 million ($12 million) have been stolen from the compromised accounts.Nick Webber, 18... |
6 July 2010
10:02 GMT |
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While there isn’t a panacea that can “cure” all security and privacy issues, education plays a critical role when it comes down to preventing customers from transforming themselves into victims. And while vulnerabilities can be patched and malware removed from a computer, phishing attacks and social... |
8 June 2010
07:44 GMT |
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Not exactly a long time after it was revealed that Hewlett-Packard might have been involved in a major bribery scandal in Russia, the company is now facing an investigation in another country, India to be exact. In this case, HP India has been the subject of an 18-month-long investigation by India's Directorate ... |
6 May 2010
09:14 GMT |
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April 6, 2010 was a bad day for Romania's cybercrooks. In a joint US-Romanian investigation, Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) sent out over 700 policemen in a nation-wide crack down on eBay fraudsters.Carrying out 101 search and arrest warrants, investigators br... |
8 April 2010
10:31 GMT |
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The perpetrators of a ticket fraud operation that made use of a botnet to subvert protection mechanisms enforced by ticket vendors were indicted earlier this week. The dedicated network of computers spread across the U.S. ran software that impersonated legit buyers and solved CAPTCHA tests.It's a well known fact... |
6 March 2010
05:53 GMT |
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Fraud is no laughing matter, but, sometimes, there are some tiny details that do make the subject somewhat amusing. One such detail could be that the currency involved is not the dollar, or the yen, or euro, but ISK. If you're not familiar with the country in which it's used, then learn that it actually com... |
7 January 2010
08:28 GMT |
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Tom Kelchner writing over at the Sunbelt Blog is signaling that a new phisher is on the loose, sending out fake emails to MobileMe subscribers demanding that they update their credit card information, in what looks like a typical phishing scam. This isn’t, by far, the first (and likely not the last) time Mobile... |
12 November 2009
08:16 GMT |
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A company going by the name of The-iPhone-Unlock.com says it is able to provide iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS users with a reliable unlock solution, so that they can break free from the shackles and use their powerful smartphones with any carrier in the world. Softpedia previously heard a similar story from iPhone Unlocking ... |
20 October 2009
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To his immense surprise, a Winnipeg businessman, named Alan Davison, was announced that he was due to pay a $52.000 bill for calls made abroad in less than a month. As he declared and as most believe, the calls, to Bulgaria, were made after his voice mail system was hacked.Since the bill displays a monstrous amount o... |
19 December 2008
10:23 GMT |
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It appears that NASA has been the victim of a fraud that could have caused the loss of a spacecraft and of its crew. A 60-year-old man named Richard Harmon, working at Cornerstone Machining Inc., close to Houston, Texas, was involved in the development of a complicated part for a NASA space shuttle, called a passive ... |
14 November 2008
10:55 GMT |
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The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been the target of fraudsters, reported a local paper on Sunday. According to Le Journal du Dimanche, Mr. Sarkozy's bank account has been hacked and small sums of money have been withdrawn without his authorization. French Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs, Luc Ch... |
21 October 2008
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Several online poker players have exposed a fraud performed with the help of a cheat code that is estimated at $74 million according to an MSNBC report. The affected software was run by UltimateBet, a well known online poker website.UltimateBet is amongst the top poker websites on the Internet and it was acquired by ... |
25 September 2008
10:25 GMT |
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Maricopa County Recorder's Office has decided to take death certificates offline from their website due to concerns regarding the increasing number of identity theft incidents. The documents, which are still public records, can now be accessed only upon submission of an official request form.The Maricopa County ... |
11 September 2008
09:09 GMT |
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According to a BBC investigation, stolen US credit card details are shared on the underground carding market for use in the UK. A gang that stole thousands of credit card details from ATMs across the US are contacting UK carders, and have them manufacture fake card clones to buy goods, or withdraw cash from self-serv... |
2 September 2008
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The National Police Service in Ireland is investigating a major credit card scam in which information of over 20,000 credit and debit cards has been stolen. The attackers posed as bank service personnel and attached rogue devices to card readers in stores from northeast Ireland. The captured data was then sent on the... |
20 August 2008
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Many people, supporters and relatives of the competitors, want to get a front seat at the Olympics. Since tickets are almost sold out, some resort to anonymous websites that promise unbelievably small prices for the best seats in the house. Beijingticketing.com is one of these sites that scammed many people, one of t... |
5 August 2008
03:03 GMT |
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According to a recently released study conducted by RedShift Research at the request of telecoms supplier Denovo, businesses turn a blind eye to telecom related security issues. Most companies believe that this type of fraud will not impact them in a significant manner and prefer to focus their attention on other sec... |
29 July 2008
03:30 GMT |
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According to Click Forensics, company that specializes in traffic quality management, in the second quarter of 2008 PPC (pay-per-click) fraud figures have maintained a relatively stable level of 16.2%. The data has been collected from more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies and it shows that fraudsters prefer... |
25 July 2008
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Symantec has just launched Online Fraud Protection, a special solution which includes numerous security technologies supposed to protect both businesses and their customers. Using the newly-released program, consumers can remain protected against phishing scams, malware threats, pharming attacks and many other threat... |
20 May 2008
16:11 GMT |
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Brett Oliphant, a security researcher who worked for ScanAlert, has been charged with fraud and may spend several years in prison. Oliphant was the vice president of security services of ScanAlert and joined McAfee once the company was acquired by the Santa Clara-based firm. Brett and his brother Bryan "are accused o... |
20 May 2008
03:30 GMT |
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If you think that your website isn't making enough money mainly because it has few visitors to start with, then take a look at what Robotraff.com has to offer. First of all, take into account that this website calls itself "the first stock exchange of web traffic". However, what appears to be a money-making solu... |
12 May 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Falling for online scams is one thing, but putting together statistics about it is plain cruel. Who wants to bask in the other's misery when his own bank account has been emptied in the same way? Be that as it may, the number is big enough to require some professional care, and that's why the Australasian C... |
28 February 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Internet crime is very alluring because it is fairly easy to commit and it doesn't take the mastermind planning required to rob a bank. It's mostly a routine job of going through credit card numbers and transacting from others' accounts into their favor or promising items that you don't have and t... |
11 February 2008
06:50 GMT |
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Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla, a 40-year-old man from Colombia, has pleaded guilty to a 16-count indictment involving a complex computer fraud scheme, victimizing over 600 people, the US Department of Justice announced in a news release. The Colombian citizen managed to steal money from victims' bank accounts and bou... |
11 January 2008
15:06 GMT |
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2008 is that kind of year that will come with numerous new computer infections, which may address some unexploited sides of our systems, Panda Security said in a forecast rolled out today. If Mac OS X is one of the secure operating systems available out there, the things are going to be changed anytime soon, the expe... |
21 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Following the recent attacks involving social networking service, a new scam, which appears to be a threat for all of us, was reported by "The Local". According to this source, the Swedish woman was tricked to provide her financial details, which were then used by the attackers to steal her money. The entire operatio... |
12 December 2007
08:27 GMT |
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Sorin Pascu, 22-year-old, and Marius Braditeanu, both from Romania, were sentenced a few days ago, after they were arrested in July for an online phishing scam. Sorin Pascu will spend his next five and a half years in prison, while Marius Braditeanu, who was also the head of the illegal activity, got a six years in j... |
12 December 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Credit cards reached the web. The folks at SpywareGuide wrote that details about approximately 150 credit cards were published on a Warez forum along with all the information a fraudster would need to use the money. The weird aspect of the leakage was that the credit cards were posted by an unexperienced carder, as h... |
10 December 2007
04:21 GMT |
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"This is either a major deal or a connery" you might be thinking right now. Who would do such a thing when it's almost Christmas time? It's probably one of those eBayers who likes to take advantage of the Wii shortage and promises all of us a free Wii... with a catch. He offers 20 envelopes for auction on ... |
6 December 2007
03:07 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, a security researcher managed to prove us that a huge number of credit cards could be bought online at very low prices. And today, The Times confirms this issue, as the publication has managed to access numerous samples of stolen data, supposed to convince the users to buy a bigger pack of details. T... |
3 December 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Cisco Systems had to pull out chief Carlos Roberto Carnevali after he was charged with tax evasion of up to $845 million in import duties and other taxes. The evasion had been the subject of an internal investigation and revealed that Carnevali and 15 other employees of Cisco Systems worked with distributor Mude Come... |
26 November 2007
06:32 GMT |
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Why would you want to do that? I guess every user who visits eBay looking for a car wants all the information he requests in order to be sure the Jeep he buys is a not a fake. But a recently discovered scam provides all kinds of information, including images and other type of content, but it actually aims to steal us... |
15 November 2007
03:20 GMT |
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Bradley Gilbert, a 20-year-old man from Bethlehem, was sent to prison for money fraud after he used his ex-employer's bank account to access pornographic content, The Morning Call reports today. In case you're saying this is no big deal, you should know that Mr. Gilbert spent no less than $3,196 on the adul... |
14 November 2007
06:08 GMT |
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A US court accused no less than 17 persons of identity theft, credit card fraud and other illegal activities conducted and promoted with the help of the Internet, Reuters reported today. According to the same source, a corporation is also involved in the case. It appears that the fraudsters obtained no less than $4 m... |
9 November 2007
03:08 GMT |
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That's the usual case - when the Police receives too many complaints, some get unnoticed and some criminals remain unpunished. Some people panic too much and send the Police a lot of notifications regarding suspicious activities. For example, up to 300.000 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are filed every month... |
27 September 2007
04:46 GMT |
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You know e-cards, you've probably sent a lot of them in your life - I sure sent my share of those. People like them and always enjoy getting one. But if you've read this year's cyber-security news, then you know that cyber-crooks have been using these cards for attacks. Besides the fact that this is ve... |
19 September 2007
08:09 GMT |
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eBay just came up with something new to protect their customers. To me, this measure does not mean too much, but that's just my opinion. You decide for yourself if it's any good. What they just did is increase buyer protection to £500. That would be nice if it were to protect you in any situation, but they ... |
18 September 2007
10:08 GMT |
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It's one thing to outsmart an elder, but to do that and gain profit of it, well, that's illegal. This is the case of Toluwalade Alonge Owolabi which scammed an 84-year-old via the Internet - he has been caught by the Police and charged with fraud.It all happened in Canada and not in Africa, as you would exp... |
14 September 2007
03:07 GMT |
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There have been many news items earlier this year about the huge data breach that hit retailer giant TJX. Hackers had been stealing sensitive information for a few months, so it's easy to imagine how hard the blow was. Costs were huge on the company side, after the hack has happened, and I'm talking about m... |
12 September 2007
06:48 GMT |
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