Posts Tagged ‘fraud’
Cyber romance scams cost US victims $50 million in 2011
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Who doesn't love a good romance story? Oh, probably those who have ended up losing out on a lot of money.
Breach at Bitcoinica Exchange Nets $87,000 In Online Currency
Monday, May 14th, 2012Unknown 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.
US surgeon booted off cruise ship, accused of sending terrorist tweet
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
US neurosurgeon and low-carbohydrate diet guru Dr. Jack Kruse found himself unceremoniously plucked off a cruise ship and deposited on the shore after a tweet including his name mentioned a bio-terrorist attack against the ship. 
Online banking fraud insurance scam
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
In their never ending effort to devise new schemes that defraud online banking accounts, criminals have come up with a scam that is both simple and extremely believable – they are promising online ban...
DDoS Attack Knocks SOCA Website Offline
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012The 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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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Securing smartphones and tablets against banking fraud
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Trusteer announced a new version of the Trusteer Mobile service which prevents mobile and online banking fraud.
The service detects mobile malware infection and helps bank customers fix security ...
Anomaly detection solution for mobile banking
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Guardian Analytics announced FraudMAP Mobile, the company's latest fraud prevention innovation, purpose-built to identify suspicious mobile banking activity.
The solution uses anomaly detection ...
36 credit card fraud websites taken down
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
36 website domains, used to sell compromised card data, have been taken down following a day of action on Wednesday to target online criminals by SOCA working with the FBI and US Department of Justice...
