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There has been lots of attention paid to Facebook, and possible links to identity theft, over the past year. The fact is that criminals do want your information, and will use it in many ways you probably have not imagined. It is important to protect your user credentials, limit your friends to those you really do know, and be suspicious of links, games, and other enticements which may be links to security problems. Clicking that link to the “Hot Blond Pole Dance” might be an expensive trip Read More
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emailBy the Numbers: Europe Reacts Swiftly to Cybercrime, Establishes New European Cybercrime Center
Posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 by Elaine Rigoli
The European Commission is establishing a European Cybercrime Center within the year.
Located in the Hague, and housed alongside Europol, the pan-European police force, the new cybercrime unit will focus on preventing credit fraud, bank fraud, identity theft, social networking fraud, and similar attacks. Read More
Is the Webcam Hacker Watching?
Posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
The more ubiquitous cameras become, the less we’re aware they’re even there, according to a new article from GQ.
The web cameras “stare out at us blankly from our phones and laptops, our Xboxes and iPads, a billion eyes and ears just waiting to be turned on. But what if they were switched on–by someone else–when you least expected it? How would you feel, how would you behave, if the devices that surround your life were suddenly turned against you?” Read More
Celebrity Scams and Social Media
Posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 by Nikki Junker
The internet thrives on the public’s interest in celebrities. It is no wonder then why scammers and hackers use celebrities’ identities in order to lure unsuspecting consumers into their traps. It seems as though a celebrity’s status can be measured on whether or not they have had a scam posted using their name. You’re nobody until someone runs a Facebook scam about you.
Oh Non! Malicious Facebook Worm Invades From France, Steals Thousands of Passwords
Posted on Monday, January 9th, 2012 by Elaine Rigoli
A new threat for Facebook users: the “ramnit” worm has compromised 45,000 user accounts, including login details and passwords.
The worm has primarily targeted Facebook users in France and the United Kingdom, but as we all know, when hackers take control of a person’s Facebook account, they can easily spam other users with malicious links that further spread malware like Ramnit. Read More
Email Safety Infographic: Scams, Scams, and More Scams
Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
It’s not always easy figuring out how an email or social media account got hacked, but did you know that at least 15% of victims recalled having used a public Internet terminal or public WiFi prior to the hack? Click the headline above to see an infographic and the results of a new online privacy survey that will definitely make you think twice before logging on — without protection — in a WiFi hotspot! Read More
How Thieves Use Facebook
Posted on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 by Nikki Junker
It was only a matter of time before Facebook was penetrated by thieves ready to exploit the popular network for their own gain. There are a few ways that thieves obtain information through Facebook which if consumers are aware of, they are much more likely to be able to protect themselves. Read More
Judge: Facebook Trolling, Even Without Monetary Theft, Still Identity Theft
Posted on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
A California judge has ruled that trolling on someone’s Facebook account is in fact a crime. A California teen was recently found guilty of identity theft, even though it did not involve any monetary theft. According to Techmento, a technology blog, the boy received an “unsolicited text message with a victim’s email password. He used the password to gain access to the victim’s Facebook account and then began trolling, or in other words, he started posted sexually inappropriate messages from the victim’s account.” Read More
Facebook to Pay Hackers to Report Bugs
Posted on Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Facebook is launching a “bug bounty” program, paying hackers at least $500 to report security-related bugs. PC World reports that Google has a similar program that has uncovered “a lot of programming errors in the past eight months, most of which have been in Google’s lesser-known products.” Read More
Naked Phishing: Man Arrested After Stealing, Posting Photos From Hacked Email Accounts
Posted on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
A 24-year-old Florida man was arrested on charges that he broke into women’s email accounts, looking for explicit photos to post online. While the suspect allegedly told police he had hacked into between 350 and 500 accounts, police have identified just 22 victims. This article on NetworkWorld.com reminds users that “accounts can easily be hacked [so] don’t put anything in your accounts that you wouldn’t mind your mother seeing.”