Don’t Open Emails Claiming to be from the FBI: 3 New E-mail Hoaxes
Phishing e-mails and e-mails scams aren’t new. Unfortunately, they are getting even more sophisticated and successful. Why? Despite the growing awareness of phishing scams and computer viruses from e-mails that link to malware, scammers are becoming even better salesmen. The first phishing scams that circulated were really just too good (or too bizarre) to be [...]
Almost 100 people charged in US and Eygiptian ID Theft Ring
US and Egyptian authorities have charge almost 100 people for their involvement in a identity theft ring that has stolen money from thousands of bank accounts. The FBI has arrested 50 people in the United States and Egyptian authorities arrested 47 who are all apart of the same identity theft ring. The identity theft ring [...]
Government Tries to Thwart P2P Identity Theft
Computerworld reports the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Informed P2P User Act, a law that supposedly makes it safer to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software. Yawn. The bill now goes to the House for one more round of approval. If passed, the bill requires developers to explain to users how their files will [...]
How Secure is Your Medical Data?
There has been a lot of emphasis lately on nationalizing health records so that a person can go to any doctor in the country and he or she can just pull them up on the computer. Sure, this sounds like a good idea in theory, but it could also go horribly wrong. Consider what recently [...]
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