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Reuters broke the news earlier this month that Internet giant VeriSign was repeatedly hacked during 2010. VeriSign does not believe the attacks breached the servers that support the firm's Domain Name System network, but at this point, has ruled nothing...
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Occupy Wall Street protesters have gone high tech, with some hacking and attacking those they feel are responsible for their situation. According to reports, Bank of America's web page on Google Plus appears to have been hacked, and it doesn't...
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It's no secret that identity theft is an ever-changing beast. The ID thief knows that he must constantly change how he goes about stealing personal and financial information in order to commit his crimes. He must change because consumers are becoming...
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Facebook is a social networking site that connects more than 500 million people. Users can create a profile, and add pictures, links and comments, and then choose network of Facebook friends with whom to share their profile. There are a variety of different...
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After being lost for almost a decade, an unreleased documentary about hacking reappeared on “Pirate Bay,” a Swedish peer to peer file sharing site. Narrated by actor Kevin Spacey, the 90-minute Hackers Wanted follows the exploits of Adrian Lamo, who pleaded...
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A worm is spreading via Yahoo Instant Messenger that tricks people into downloading what they think is a photo from a friend but instead accesses a victim's IM contacts. If you receive a message from someone you know, with the word "photo"...
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The Internal Revenue Service has issued its 2010 “dirty dozen” list of tax scams, including schemes involving return preparer fraud, hiding income offshore and phishing fraud schemes. In a statement, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said that “Taxpayers...
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If you attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst between 1982 and 2002, your records might be among those involved in a data breach that occurred last fall. UMass announced August 5 there was a security breach between September 15 and October 27...
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It started in 2006 with the Office Max data breach. Then, tumbling like dominoes, came TJX, Dave & Busters, Hannaford Brothers and 7-Eleven. According to today federal grand jury indictment, Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez was the hacker responsible for...
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If you’re looking for a job, you already know it’s a tough market right now. Accompanying the bad news about job availability are warnings that identity thieves are reaping the benefits by posing as job recruiters, or hacking job databases. Unfortunately...
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UC-Berkeley is the latest data breach victim at an institute of higher learning. The notification letters and emails were sent out Friday to 160,000 current and former students to let them know records dating back as far as 1999 had been accessed by hackers...
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Remember when ransom notes were created with letters cut from magazines? No more. Now data kidnappers conduct “cryptoviral extortion.” "ATTENTION VIRGINIA I have your sh**! In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total...
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Some call PINs the Holy Grail; others refer to them as the keys to the kingdom. Now--thanks to hackers--you can call them gone. Until now, hackers could only harvest PINs one by one, or in small crops by phishing, or by attaching skimmers or small cameras...
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The Pentagon has implemented another Iraq-style surge, but this time the counterattack is in cyberspace. Brig, Gen. John Davis of the U.S. Strategic Command said today that the U.S. military has spent at least $100 million in the past six months to ward...
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Financial institutions are turning up the heat on Heartland Payment Systms. The most recent slam came from Visa when they accused the credit payment process of failing to meat Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance. Credit...
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