Archive for the ‘Cyber Crime’ Category
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Verizon’s Cybercrime Report Notes Impact Of A Single Arrest
Monday, August 2nd, 2010After elite hacker Albert Gonzalez was arrested in 2009 and later convicted of stealing data of some 170 million credit cards, the number of cyberattacks on retail stores fell noticeably. The impact of a single arrest on overall online lawlessness was one key point in a new Verizon report on cybercrime, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Unlike survey-based studies, Verizon’s annual cyberattack report analyzes more than 900 actual cases and 900 million stolen records over the past six years. The richness of the data makes the Verizon report particularly closely watched within the industry. (more…)
Banks Ask Customers To Guard Against Cyberattacks
Friday, July 30th, 2010MN Nurse Charged With Aiding Suicides Via Online Chats
Friday, May 14th, 2010Experts Convene In Dallas To Discuss Cybercrime Threats
Saturday, May 1st, 2010Major Computer Hacker Gets 20-Year Term In Credit Card Thefts
Friday, March 26th, 2010Internet Crime Complaints Up By 22 Percent in 2009
Friday, March 12th, 2010
The Internet Crime Complaint Center received 336,655 complaints of online fraud in 2009, up 22 percent from 2008. The Center, a joint operation run by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, also reports that the loss linked to such complaints totaled more than half a billion dollars, up from just $183.2 million in 2005.
Click here to read the entire report and see a state-by-state breakdown.
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Facebook Gives Backdoor Access To Business Cyberthieves
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Cybercriminals are using social networking websites like Facebook to gain backdoor access to business computer networks, reports USA Today. The intrusions can expose a company to theft of its most sensitive data. Such attacks illustrate a dramatic shift underway in the Internet underground. Cybercriminals are moving aggressively to take advantage of social networks in workplace settings, an unanticipated chink in corporate defenses. (more…)
Security at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
In the next week more than one million visitors will be descending on Vancouver for the winter Olympics, but many of the attendees will not be truly prepared for protecting themselves, finds a new report, “The Dark Side of the Winter Olympics.”
The report, prepared by the Online Safety Foundation, discusses issues of cyber security, including, identity theft, emergency response, organized crime, and even espionage.
Read the report here.
Use the Crime Report to find out more information on Cyber Security.