Incidents  

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • May 2nd, 2012
“Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men” Game Was a Scam, Project Terminated

“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

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • April 26th, 2012
Expert Accidentally Finds How DOS Attacks Can Be Launched Via Google

Expert Accidentally Finds How DOS Attacks Can Be Launched Via Google

A feature of the search engine can be leveraged for ill purposes

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • April 26th, 2012
FBI Pays Visit to Austrian Remailer in Connection to Bomb Threats

FBI Pays Visit to Austrian Remailer in Connection to Bomb Threats

The owner of the service wasn't accustomed to visits from the police

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • April 3rd, 2012
Woman Loses $4,000 (€3,000) to Butterfield-Themed Email Scam

Woman Loses $4,000 (€3,000) to Butterfield-Themed Email Scam

You can learn a couple of important things from this story

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 28th, 2012
Human Error Exposes Groupon Customer’s Credit Card Details

Human Error Exposes Groupon Customer’s Credit Card Details

A security expert says that the site also stores credit card data without permission

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 28th, 2012
Fraudster Convinces Citibank to Give Him Paul Allen’s Debit Card

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

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 23rd, 2012
Traders Drop Price of Silver by Exploiting NASDAQ Vulnerability

Traders Drop Price of Silver by Exploiting NASDAQ Vulnerability

In the stock trading business even a few milliseconds are worth gold

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 21st, 2012
Norwegian Government Portal Exposes Man’s Financial Data

Norwegian Government Portal Exposes Man’s Financial Data

16,000 people may have accessed the account of a man named Kenneth

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 19th, 2012
30 Year-Old Software to Be Used by Metropolitan Police During Olympics

30 Year-Old Software to Be Used by Metropolitan Police During Olympics

The MetOps application is used to coordinate and control communications

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 16th, 2012
FBI Asks Google to Provide Data Stored on Locked Android Phone

FBI Asks Google to Provide Data Stored on Locked Android Phone

Google says that it complies will all valid legal processes

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 2nd, 2012
Fraudsters Make Millions with Medicare and Medicade Scam

Fraudsters Make Millions with Medicare and Medicade Scam

A doctor and his associates are charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 1st, 2012
Social Engineering: Wells Fargo Wires Millions to Fraudster

Social Engineering: Wells Fargo Wires Millions to Fraudster

A simple fax with two correct signatures was enough for the scam to be a success

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • March 1st, 2012
Authorities Decrypt Fraudster's Laptop Without Her Aid

Authorities Decrypt Fraudster's Laptop Without Her Aid

The judge's controversial decision was voided after the authorities obtained the password

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • February 24th, 2012
Australian Woman Scams Nigerian Scammers

Australian Woman Scams Nigerian Scammers

She turned out to be a bigger fraudster than the Nigerians who sold imaginary cars

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • February 23rd, 2012
Twilight Author's Site Serves Zombies Instead of Vampires

Twilight Author's Site Serves Zombies Instead of Vampires

Cybercriminals took over the writer's site to aid them increase their botnet

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • February 21st, 2012
International Sanctions Force Iran to Build Its Own Antivirus

International Sanctions Force Iran to Build Its Own Antivirus

Experts believe that the US or Israel may be planning ahead for physical warfare

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  • By Eduard Kovacs
  • February 15th, 2012
Google.com Appointed as Malware by Microsoft Security Essentials

Google.com Appointed as Malware by Microsoft Security Essentials

Another false positive causes panic among Microsoft's customers

 
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