Posts Tagged ‘phishing’
ALERT: Osama bin Laden Scams Going Viral
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● May 3, 2011
The events of May 1, 2011 are dominating the news headlines. A reoccurring tone in all these commentaries on the death of Osama bin Laden has been vigilance against terrorism, staying safe, and keeping our guard high. This alert is also about vigilance, but on completely different subject matter: Phishing and malware scams. It did [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Cybercrime Costs Society over $1 Trillion
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● April 19, 2011
According to research firm Global Industry Analysts, Inc., this staggering number is the collected sum of all the losses incurred in attacks on individuals, small businesses, corporate giants, and government. It also covers the time and money wasted in responding to these crimes and cleaning up the mess, even then they may be underestimating the [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Epsilon Data Breach Keeps on Giving
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● April 15, 2011
Last week the massive data breach at an email marketing firm exposing the contact information of millions of U.S. consumers to as-yet-unidentified hackers dominated the headlines. Characterized as possibly one of the worst data breaches ever, security, marketing, and media experts have been all abuzz about the long-term fallout of the breach and what we [...]
The ID Guardian Podcast — Episode #18: Tax Tips with Steve Schwartz
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● April 13, 2011
Tax season is a time of year when thieves and scam artists are very active. The risk for identity theft and identity fraud runs high. This episode features Steve Schwartz, Executive Vice President, Consumer Services for Intersections Inc. Steve talks about some of the latest scams that are circulating this year, and also gives us [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast — Episode #18: tax Tips with Steve Schwartz [ 6:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIN THE HEADLINES: Attention, iTunes customers, change your passwords!
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 21, 2011
If you’re a user of iTunes and have an iTunes account, especially one connected to a PayPal account, you might want to log in, check your statements, and change your passwords. A number of media outlets are reporting another surge in the sale of seemingly hacked iTunes accounts – for sale openly on Chinese web [...]
Warning: Email Scammers Prey Upon the Unemployed
Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● January 19, 2011
While many economists are increasingly upbeat about the pace of the economic recovery, the jobless rate remains painfully high at 9.4 percent. With this persistent weakness in the job market, scammers are turning to the internet with a new take on traditional work-from-home scams. As WTOP recently reported, one popular scam entails emails to victims [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: More Facebook scams surface
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 23, 2010
I love Facebook. I just want to put that out there. I think it has changed the way individuals, families, businesses, and governments come together, connect, catch up, share, influence, and vent. But as we all know, when you create something so big and so quickly, and give hundreds of millions of people around the [...]
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