Foreign Cyber Cafes Track Customers to Prevent Cyber Crime
While many cyber cafes — especially in Brooklyn — have become a key destination for the young, hip and creative, in developing countries they are the breeding ground for international cyber crime. Since anyone can walk into these Internet parlors and begin a hacking rampage often aimed at U.S. interests, it’s the ideal place for the shady and nefarious.
Well, Nepal is taking some very simple, yet innovative steps that may help fight the scourge that is international cyber crime. In Nepal’s biggest metropolitan city, Kathmandu, cyber cafes are now required to ID customers. Users will have to provide personal information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers and signatures.
And it seems to be working. According to the Himalayan Times, police units have already recorded 13 cases of cyber crime, with nine being resolved and four still under investigation.
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Payday loans and their benefits
The Internet advent has made our life so much easier in many ways. We can now shop from the comfort of our homes, pay our bills online and keep in touch with our friends and family over the Internet. Another major advantage provided by the Internet is that we can get money online with our computers at home. Earlier payday loans were provided only by traditional banks, which require us going to a bank and explaining why the loan was necessary. Now you can apply for payday loans online from home at any time of day or night, seven days a week. There’s no easier way to borrow money then online mode of application.
Online payday loans are a lifesaver if you need money fast and if you are sure you can repay the amount on your next payday. You can use these loans for emergency medical and dental bills, tuition, car repairs and much more. Full Post…
“Flash Attacks” Make Big Money for Debit and Credit Card Scammers
Once a victim’s debit card number has been successfully skimmed, the card can be cloned, say, 100 times, and the cloned cards can be distributed to 100 people. All 100 people can then use the cloned cards to withdraw cash from 100 different ATMs within a brief window of five or ten minutes. If 100 people withdraw $200 each from the same account, at the same time, the scam nets $20,000 in almost no time.
Your credit or debit card number can be skimmed in a number of different ways:
Wedge Skimming: The most common type of skimming occurs when a salesperson or waiter takes your credit or debit card and runs it through a card reader, which copies the information contained in the card’s magnetic stripe. Once the thief has obtained the credit or debit card data, he can then burn the card number to a blank card, or simply use the number to make purchases online or over the phone.
POS Swaps: Many people pay for goods or services by swiping a credit or debit card through the in-store point of sale machines. EFT
Black Friday Launches Holiday Fraud Horrors
The Christmas shopping season traditionally kicks off on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. This also begins a time when criminals swarm the shopping malls as well as the Internet, seeking to take advantage of holiday opportunities.
When shopping in stores, keep the following in mind:
Employees: Seasonal employees are more likely to steal, from their employer and from the customers. It has been said that only 10% of employees are honest, 10% of employees will always steal and 80% will steal based on circumstances. So always count your change.
Credit Card Skimming: When a salesperson or waiter takes your credit card, they can run it through a card reader device that will copy the information stored on the magnetic strip. So when you hand over your card, watch closely to see where it is taken and what is done with it. It’s normal for the card to be swiped through a point of sale terminal or keyboard card reader. Bu
TN Medical Center Notifies 8,000 Patients About Possible Data Breach
Officials from the University of Tennessee Medical Center are notifying approximately 8,000 patients that the facility did not properly dispose of hospital reports. The personal information poses potential risk of a privacy data breach, according to a Knoxville News report.
In October, the hospital was notified that records containing private patient information were disposed without proper shredding and were instead discarded in the hospital’s waste stream. Th