- By Eduard Kovacs
- May 2nd, 2012
“Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men” Game Was a Scam, Project Terminated
Kickstarter closed the project after users pointed out that everything was copied
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 26th, 2012
Expert Accidentally Finds How DOS Attacks Can Be Launched Via Google
A feature of the search engine can be leveraged for ill purposes
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 26th, 2012
FBI Pays Visit to Austrian Remailer in Connection to Bomb Threats
The owner of the service wasn't accustomed to visits from the police
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 3rd, 2012
Woman Loses $4,000 (€3,000) to Butterfield-Themed Email Scam
You can learn a couple of important things from this story
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 28th, 2012
Human Error Exposes Groupon Customer’s Credit Card Details
A security expert says that the site also stores credit card data without permission
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 28th, 2012
Fraudster Convinces Citibank to Give Him Paul Allen’s Debit Card
An army deserter wanted to do some shopping using the card of Microsoft's co-founder
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 23rd, 2012
Traders Drop Price of Silver by Exploiting NASDAQ Vulnerability
In the stock trading business even a few milliseconds are worth gold
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 21st, 2012
Norwegian Government Portal Exposes Man’s Financial Data
16,000 people may have accessed the account of a man named Kenneth
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 19th, 2012
30 Year-Old Software to Be Used by Metropolitan Police During Olympics
The MetOps application is used to coordinate and control communications
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 16th, 2012
FBI Asks Google to Provide Data Stored on Locked Android Phone
Google says that it complies will all valid legal processes
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 2nd, 2012
Fraudsters Make Millions with Medicare and Medicade Scam
A doctor and his associates are charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 1st, 2012
Social Engineering: Wells Fargo Wires Millions to Fraudster
A simple fax with two correct signatures was enough for the scam to be a success
- By Eduard Kovacs
- March 1st, 2012
Authorities Decrypt Fraudster's Laptop Without Her Aid
The judge's controversial decision was voided after the authorities obtained the password
- By Eduard Kovacs
- February 24th, 2012
Australian Woman Scams Nigerian Scammers
She turned out to be a bigger fraudster than the Nigerians who sold imaginary cars
- By Eduard Kovacs
- February 23rd, 2012
Twilight Author's Site Serves Zombies Instead of Vampires
Cybercriminals took over the writer's site to aid them increase their botnet
- By Eduard Kovacs
- February 21st, 2012
International Sanctions Force Iran to Build Its Own Antivirus
Experts believe that the US or Israel may be planning ahead for physical warfare
- By Eduard Kovacs
- February 15th, 2012
Google.com Appointed as Malware by Microsoft Security Essentials
Another false positive causes panic among Microsoft's customers