Frauds & Ends Blog
February 2, 2012
Not Another Word: European Commission Law Requires Explicit Consent
Documents obtained by The New York Times said the European Commission is proposing a regulation that compels “Web sites to tell consumers why their data is being collected and retain it for only as long as necessary. If data is stolen, sites would have to notify regulators within 24 hours. It also offer[ed] consumers the [...]
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February 1, 2012
The Other Side of Facebook’s IPO
It may be big news, but it’s not exactly news. Likely the only people who didn’t know it was coming are two Bushmen in Tanzania and some San Quentin cons stuck in solitary. Yes, it has arrived. Facebook has filed to go public. The IPO, or Initial Public Offering, is for $5 billion. And, according [...]
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January 31, 2012
Hackers Don’t Have to Worry About Police at the Door as Much as a Hellfire Missile Down the Chimney
Casus belli is polite diplomatic Latin for an act of war. Except for maybe the Greeks getting a bit annoyed over losing Helen and attacking Troy, acts of war have pretty much been confined to blockades (naval and otherwise) and direct military strikes. Now the Pentagon is in the process of officially redefining acts of [...]
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January 30, 2012
Robbing the Cradle…Literally – Child Identity Theft Rising
Child identity theft is exactly like stealing candy from babies. Easy. It’s easy because the crime is often not detected until the baby is an adult and has his/her credit and reputation ruined. The Huffington Post relates the story of Jennifer Andrushko. When Jennifer Andrushko applied for public aid two years ago, a state [...]
Posted by Dan Rampe Categories: Cyber Attacks. cybercriminals. cybersecurity. Device Detection. Device Fingerprint. Device ID. Device Identification. Hackers. Hacking. Identity Theft. Malware. malware prevention. malware protection. man-in-the-browser attack. MitB. PC Fingerprint. personally identifiable information. PII. Social Security Fraud. Stolen identities. ThreatMetrix. ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Defender Platform. TrustDefender Client. TrustDefender Cloud. TrustDefender ID Continue Reading
January 27, 2012
The Google Web
Use Google? Incidentally, does anybody out there know if Yahoo still does searches? Bing? Okay — some serious questions: Do you have a YouTube account? Use Gmail? Do you know what Google’s up to? Everybody with an account on Gmail and YouTube already has an idea something’s in the works. That’s because they have to [...]
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January 26, 2012
January 28, 2012 Is Data Privacy Day: Keep “It” to Yourself
“It” refers to data. Data Privacy Day, scheduled for January 28, is about keeping data to yourself and out of the hands of cybercriminals. This annual international celebration is designed to promote awareness about privacy and education about privacy best practices. Official sponsors for Data Privacy Day are EBay and Intel, who are joined by [...]
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January 25, 2012
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hacked. Chinese say, “Je Suis Innocent.”
Okay, the Chinese probably didn’t say “Je suis innocent.” (I am innocent). French Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus famously did upon being convicted of spying for the Germans in 1894 and sent to Devil’s Island. Ultimately, Dreyfus was proven innocent. However, the same may not be said of the Chinese about the attacks on the Chamber [...]
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January 24, 2012
Following ThreatMetrix’s Lead, Twitter Acquires Malware Company
Perhaps a little birdie told Twitter to buy a malware company or maybe they took a page from the ThreatMetrix™ playbook. On January 10, ThreatMetrix acquired Australia-based TrustDefender, which provides secure browsing technology to protect against malware and man-in-the-browser (MitB) attacks. Or maybe it was done in advance of Twitter’s new advertising launch? Say, didn’t [...]
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January 24, 2012
Lady Gaga, Who Once Dressed in Meat, Got Hacked…on Facebook
From her meat ensemble to arriving at the Grammys in an egg, Lady Gaga manages to get noticed. This time she had help in the PR department – and not the kind of help a lady wants or needs. According to Dark Reading.com, hackers broke into Lady Gaga’s Facebook page telling 45-million of her [...]
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January 23, 2012
Censorship or Sense? SOPA Proponents Claim Sense. Electronic Frontier Foundation Claims Censorship.
Is this the latest round in a fight against McCarthy-ism and fifties-style blacklisting or an overreaction to a law that protects intellectual property, privacy and copyright? Basically, according to Wikipedia, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) allows the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of [...]
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