Archive for August 2010
IN THE HEADLINES: 10 Million NEW Cyber Threats So Far This Year
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 18, 2010
I guess you could be forgiven for giving up the fight against cybercrime when the world seems to be overwhelmed with malware like Trojans and viruses that are able to anticipate our responses and always appear a few steps ahead of us. Security firm McAfee recently confirmed what many of us already knew. Things are [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Stop Serving up Your Data
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 17, 2010
Security firm AVG recently discovered a data-stealing botnet, which they quickly named Mumba, that they say has managed to compromise more than 55,000 computers around the world and pilfer a gold mine of personal data including bank account and credit card numbers. Mumba was created and controlled by a cyber criminal gang that call themselves [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Identity Thief Scams Billionaire Out of $1.4 Billion
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 13, 2010
Los Angeles real estate billionaire Donald Bren’s name may not be familiar to many people reading this blog. Which means you probably wouldn’t recognize his face if he walked up and introduced himself. Which is probably also why a complete stranger was able to walk into a bank, open an account in the billionaire’s name, [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Skimming Remains a Constant Threat
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 12, 2010
One of the reasons identity theft is such a pervasive threat is that as part of our daily lives we often have to voluntarily hand over our personal information to complete strangers. We don’t know who these people are, or what their backgrounds are, and yet we still have to absolutely trust them. That’s one [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Work-at-Home Scams Flourish in a Down Economy
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 10, 2010
Maybe you’ve seen the ads too – web sites that look like real news sites speaking great things about a work-at-home program that can net you thousands of dollars a month doing very little and knowing very little. Sounds like an obvious scam, but wait. It’s got a real news anchor claiming it’s the real [...]
Following Young Indiana Jones: International Travel with Kids (Part II)
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● August 9, 2010
Last week, we reviewed a checklist of items needed to cover with kids (from toddlers to teens) before traveling internationally. In these blogposts, ID Guardian offers a series of checklists for when your kids fly and travel internationally. So far, we have run down the checklist for how to prepare for the trip. Now comes [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Security Secrets the Bad Guys Don’t Want You to Know
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 6, 2010
At least that was the headline from a recent PC World article on, of all things, security secrets the bad guys don’t want you to know. I’m not sure if anyone really knows what the bad guys want, other than your money, or someone’s money, but the article does provide a good refresher on some [...]
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