Archive for the ‘Cybercrime and Identity Theft’ Category
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ONGOING SECRET SERVICE NETWORK INTRUSION INVESTIGATION - MORE INDICTMENTS
(Washington, D.C.)(August 5, 2008) – Indictments were unsealed today in Boston and San Diego against 11 individuals in a U.S. Secret Service investigation into what is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted in the United States. The highprofile cyber investigation by the Secret Service uncovered the theft and sale […]
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More on Identity Theft & Cybercrime
Of course society benefits from computers and the internet, but the flip side are countless criminal opportunities for identity thieves/cybercriminals. If we all have a good understanding of what cybercrime is, we can take steps to reduce the risk. Even if you do not buy goods or services online, you may still become […]
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What to do if you’re a Crimeware victim
There is a continuous tidal wave of Trojans, bots, and phishing attacks swarming the internet each day and infections and identity thefts are happening to everyone and anyone. If you think you have been victimized by online fraud or crimeware, there are steps you may want to take to respond and recover from each […]
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Cybercrime and the Trojan Horse
One of the most popular methods to carry out identity theft and other forms of cybercrime is the use of the “Trojan Horse”. The term “Trojan Horse” goes way back to a Greek fable where the Greeks constructed this massive wooden horse and then wheeled it over to the Trojans and offered it to […]
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Let us Discuss, What is Cybercrime?
It’s complicated. Cybercrime cannot be described by any one word. Just like crime as we know it, cybercrime has many different applications and can occur anytime and anyplace. Identity thieves and other criminals use several different methods, depending on how much they know and what their objective is. Cybercrime is ‘crime’ […]
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Bots and Cybercrime and Identity Theft
No one person can say for sure how large a role bots play in cybercrime today. Cybercrime will, at some point, make use of a botnet to do everything from spamming to hosting fraudulent Web sites. Internet security software giant Symantec has protected people from bots for a lot of years and has […]
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Identity Theft and Computer Crimeware: Bots
The term “bot” is for robot. Not the kind of robot you have seen in movies and television shows (does anyone remember ‘Lost In Space’?) or the one at the car assembly plant. Bots are now one of the most complex types of crimeware on the Internet and therefore a significant tool for identity theft. […]
