It’s news when an identity thief is caught (only 1 thief in 700 reported cases is caught and prosecuted), but when the victim catches her own thief, that commands a headline! In a byline article in the Seattle Times yesterday, Ian Ith reports the story of Michelle McCambridge, a 23-year-old retail clerk and college student [...]
Archive for September, 2009
News of a new virus, called “Facebook Fan Check Virus”, is sending a lot of people to Google to search for information, and those searches are leading them right into hacker traps. Click on one of those websites and the most likely result is that you’ll download scareware, an urgent notice that your PC has [...]
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 [...]
A big tip of my hat to investigators and the U.S. Attorney who brought down Albert Gonzalez, the Miami hacker authorities were able to tie to a cyber-crimewave that hit companies from Heartland Payment Systems to Hannaford Brothers. The 28-year-old Gonzalez pled guilty to various charges and now faces up to 25 years in prison. [...]