Nashville Examiner reporter Brandon King reports on a recent study conducted by Javelin Strategy and Research, showing that 11.1 million adults were victims of identity theft in 2009.This represents a 12% increase from that of 2008 and up 37% from 2007. Quoting from King’s article: “The odds have never been higher for becoming a fraud [...]
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Bill would allow Obama to take over Internet
Published by September 3rd, 2009 in CyberCrime, CyberTerrorism and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsI’m in the business of cyber security, and I’m in favor of all the help we can get. But when a liberal Senator introduces legislation to fight cyber crime, my neck hairs stand up and vibrate. Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s Cybersecurity Act of 2009 raised a lot of hackles when it was first introduced because of [...]
Markets Dive, Crooks Thrive
Published by October 10th, 2008 in CyberCrime and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsRecession is in the minds of people all over the globe, as market values tumble and panic sets in. But there is one group that won’t be participating in this recession: online criminals. Organized crime now controls more computing power than any government on earth, through vast armies of zombie computers, all programmed by and [...]
So where has it been? I started the Internet Danger Report more than a year ago as a way to share information about a subject I had become interested in as a result of a direct encounter with a criminal hacker. I chose WordPress.com to host the blog for two reasons. One, it offered the [...]