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More Crimes Perpetrated Using Facebook
TMC's Juliana Kenny discusses the new Blackboard Mobile Central Campus service as well as Facebook security including hacks which involve breaking into accounts in order to send nude photos of the victims to their contacts. Moreover, she discusses Facebook related...
FBI Director Almost a Phishing Victim
The fact that FBI Director Robert Muller almost fell victim to an online banking phishing scam which he said was started with an authentic looking email should be very scary news for all of us. After all, this isn't a...
Major Spanish Hackers in Jail
Few things make people as happy as knowing hackers have gone to jail -- especially when the people going to jail are some of the most active hackers on the internet. While reading a story on the subject, I learned...
Men Swindled More Often Online
It is a shame the concept of Internet fraud exists at all but since it does, it seems natural that people would try to figure out who gets taken in by online fraud the most. Now that the results are...
P2P Identity Theft
Boy are those hackers are creative is all I could think when I learned a person used LimeWire to steal personal information such as tax returns from people’s computers. The hacker subsequently used this information to commit identity theft....
Botnets, Terrorism and Crime
This MSNBC article on botnets is a well-written piece detailing where botnet gangs come from, their “hacker scholarship” programs and the potential for these powerful bot networks to shut down sites on a moments notice if they so choose. In...
