SF Cybercrime Examiner

Sabotaging The System (60 Minutes episode - Sunday November 8, 2009)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:59:51 -0700

I saw this episode on Sunday and wanted to share it with you.

Maria Nelson is bitter and she blames her identity victim

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:30:36 -0700

Maria NelsonA visitor to Karen Lodrick's website has submitted the following information: Name: Reginald Smith Address: Phone: Email: Specific Request: Comments: I just thought you might like to know if you aren’t already aware that Maria Nels...

Steps to protect your business against cybercrime

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:49:51 -0700

It is estimated business losses from cybercrime are as high as $1 trillion a year worldwide.Fail-safe protection doesn’t exist. Even the Pentagon, with a brigade of the best computer specialists, gets hit repeatedly.Crooks will go where the tak...

Largest case of computer crime and identity theft ever prosecuted

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:03:01 -0700

130 million credit and debit cards stolenThe three culprits, one American and two unnamed Russians, are responsible for stealing more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers in 2007. They infiltrated the computer networks of Heartland, a credi...

Avoid phishing scams

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:15:27 -0700

Phishing has been around a while now and I’m sure almost all of us have heard the term.Phishing is email scams that try to get you to divulge your personal information; such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, social security number...

Child pornography cybercrime needs to be stopped

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:03:54 -0700

Warning: The material on this page is graphic and not intended for children.12 things you can do to keep your child safer onlineI watched an upsetting Oprah show today. And even though, it was almost impossible to watch I feel, it is important to bri...

12 things you can do to keep your child safer online

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:45:48 -0700

A quick checklist to get you started on the road to Internet safety.1. Buy all the safety software you need and use good filtering tools. Keep them current and use them unfailingly—as automatically as locking your door when you leave the house....

One technique for producing the perfect password

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:44:44 -0700

Everyone knows it's bad to use the same password for different sites. People do it anyway because remembering different passwords is annoying. Remembering different difficult passwords is even more annoying.Here is a foolproof technique for creating ...

Carding, how individual hackers get paid for stealing information

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:59:21 -0700

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Anti-malware expert and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, offers theory for stopping cybercrime

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:47:06 -0700

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and Founder, Kaspersky LabDuring the 10th Annual Kaspersky Lab Virus Analyst Summit, I had the chance to sit down with CEO Eugene Kaspersky who offered his theory for stopping cybercrime. But first, I learned about his company,...

Karen on CHW Talk Radio about Cybercrime

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:34:52 -0700

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Koobface worms attacking social networks

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:06:51 -0700

As social networks become a mainstay, attacks targeting them continue to gain momentum.The Koobface worms (over 575 new variants identified): • Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a • Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b• Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.c• EtcT...

Twitter users targeted through invitation attachment

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:54:22 -0700

There seems to be a wave of fake invitations that come offering more followers and invites on Twitter, but instead carry a mass-emailing worm. It works through a Twitter message that arrives claiming your friends are inviting you to join them o...

Google's online security helps fight malware

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:05:22 -0700

Google’s online security recently started to identify web pages that infect computers via drive-by downloads, i.e. web pages that attempt to exploit their visitors by installing and running malware automatically. During that time they ha...

Malware is everywhere

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:50:20 -0700

Pandora's box has been opened and the explosion of information seems to be limitless and increases exponentially. Today simple domestic hacking is not the only issue that will bring on devastating destruction. Those designed malware activities direct...

The beginning of hackers: White Hats, Black Hats, and Grey Hats, oh my!

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:07:30 -0700

The year is 1999 the close of the 20th century. Major news media hype what turns out to be an inert Y2K threat. Microsoft is using monopolistic practices, while amazon.com and Netscape help inflate the dot-com bubble. Internet stocks launch int...

President Obama's cybersecurity

Wed, 27 May 2009 16:54:20 -0700

President Obama It seems that everything relies on computers and the internet now — Cyber security involves protecting that online information by preventing, detecting, and responding to attacks. Some attacks are more serious than others. Amon...

Education and awareness are major tools to protect against cyber crime

Tue, 26 May 2009 08:08:51 -0700

From January to December of 2008, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website received 275,284 complaint submissions. This is a 33% increase compared to 2007. These complaints were composed of many different fraud types such as auction fraud, n...