Mobile security is a hot issue as smartphone sales have outpaced PC sales. Smartphone malware is popping up at an unprecedented rate as people put more and more valuable information on their devices, using them to hold corporate secrets, conduct banking and function as digital wallets. Hackers have taken notice and continue to find ways […]
10 Tips for Businesses to Fight Credit Card Theft, Fraud
Cyber criminals have a built-in advantage when it comes to compromising data. They make it their full time job to think about how to invent and execute a clever attack and they gravitate to pathways that offer the least resistance for the greatest payoff. Many work for organized crime syndicates. Even a disgruntled employee with high-level […]
More Than 100 Arrested in Massive NYC Theft Ring
Bank tellers, restaurant workers and other service employees in New York lifted credit card data from residents and foreign tourists as part of an identity theft ring that stretched to China, Europe and the Middle East and victimized thousands. In total, 111 people were arrested and more than 85 are in custody; the others are […]
‘Sister’ Cons Woman out of $2,000 on Facebook
Edythe Schumacher logged onto the social networking site recently and a picture of her sister popped up immediately, inviting her into a Facebook chat. After a bit of small talk, Schumacher’s sister – Susan Palmer – egged her on to apply for a government grant, saying she’d just received one. For an up-front fee of […]
Solyndra Leaders Invoke 5th Amendment at Hearing
Top executives from a bankrupt California solar energy company declined to testify before a congressional hearing investigating their half-billion dollar government loan. Solyndra Inc. CEO Brian Harrison and the company’s chief financial officer, Bill Stover, both invoked their Fifth Amendment right to decline to testify to avoid self-incrimination. Solyndra Inc. received a $528 million loan from the […]
