Posts Tagged ‘cybercrime’
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Tags: Android, cybercrime, Data Protection, global threat intelligence, identity fraud scams, identity protection, Identity theft, Identity thieves and cybercriminals, McAfee Labs, pinterest scam, Spam
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
Unknown hackers penetrated production servers and compromised databases belonging to the Bitcoin exchange, Bitcoinica, making off with some $87,000 worth of the digital currency, according to a statement published on the Bitcoinica Web site.
Unknown hackers penetrated production servers and compromised databases belonging to the Bitcoin exchange, Bitcoinica, making off with some $87,000 worth of the digital currency, according to a statement published on the Bitcoinica Web site.
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Tags: Banking, Bitcoin, cybercrime, data breach, encrypted, fraud, money, theft
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Some say there will be a day when the wallet you carry in your pocket or purse will become obsolete. The plan is to eliminate all our credit cards, store cards, and IDs and use our mobile phones as our primary means of commerce and identification. The technology behind mobile wallet or mobile POS (point
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Tags: Android, android antivirus, Android security, anti-malware, anti-phishing, anti-spyware, antivirus, Antivirus Software, app protection, BlackBerry, computer security, Consumer, cybercrime, Identity theft, Internet Security, Mac antivirus, Mac Security, malware, Mobile, Mobile - Consumer, mobile antivirus, pc security, phishing, Robert Siciliano, Safe search, safe surfing, site advisor, Spam, Symbian, tablet security, Virus protection, web protection
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Filmmakers Charles and Walker Koppelman are working on a new movie project about
cybercrime. We've met with Charles and the project seems really interesting.The project is still underway, and now the filmmakers are looking for additional fundin...
Tags: cybercrime
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Regular readers of Krebs on Security will know that small and medium sized businesses and organizations have been the target of
cybercrime gangs for several years now. What you might not know is which
law enforcement agency investigates those c...
Tags: cybercrime, law, law enforcement
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
A new exploit kit hit the scene recently, and according to Arseny Levin of Spiderlabs, the RedKit exploit kit contains an API that generates new host-site URLs every hour.
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Tags: BlackHole, cybercrime, exlpoit kit, Java, malware, redkit, spiderlabs
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
The Website of the United Kingdom’s Serious Online Crime Agency (SOCA) remains offline this morning following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Tags: anonyous, cybercrime, DDoS, down, England, fraud, LulzSec, offline, Organized Crime, Ryan Cleary, SOCA, UK, website
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
The dollar-value of online criminal activity conducted by the Russian mafia and other criminal organizations doubled in 2011, according to a new report from the Russian security firm Group-IB.
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Tags: botnets, cybercrime, Exploits, fraud, mafia, Organized Crime, Russia, SMB Security, Spam
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Russian cybercrime investigation and computer forensics company and LETA Group subsidiary Group-IB released a 28-page report prepared by analysts from its computer forensics lab and its CERT-GIB unit ...
Tags: cybercrime, forensics, investigation, lab
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