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IN THE HEADLINES: Cybercrooks Getting Younger, but Not Smarter

Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 25, 2010

Two eighteen-year-olds appeared in a British court in early August accused of running their own online black market in everything an identity thief would need to own your identity. And they might still be running it today, unchallenged, if they hadn’t made so many blundering mistakes. The two teens, along with some other accomplices, were [...]

IN THE HEADLINES: Catch Me If You Can

Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 11, 2010

Security experts recently uncovered a new and very sinister twist on identity theft – businesses actively selling the Social Security numbers of children to buyers with less-than-stellar credit, who dump the stolen identities as soon as they’re no longer of use, then purchase more. Sounds crazy, but it does seem to be increasing in popularly, [...]


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