Frauds & Ends Blog
December 7, 2011
Feds Knockout Knockoffs
One of these shoes is priced at $428, the other $26.99. At a glance, can you tell which is which? Answer at blog’s end. Many consumers, returning to a website where they got a “too-good-to-be-true” price break on a name-brand product, found out they were right. It was — too good to be true. [...]
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December 1, 2011
Cybercriminals and Malware Epidemic Give Whole New Meaning to Killer Apps
Legitimate app or a real killer designed to upload malware and snag users’ personal information and money? Perhaps the only thing growing as fast as the mobile market is malware to steal from that market. Gerry Smith in a Huffington Post post reported that “malware jumped 22 percent in the first half of this year [...]
Posted by Dan Rampe Categories: Account Compromise. Cookie wiping. Cookieless Device Identification. Credit Card Fraud. Credit Card Transactions. Cyber Attacks. Cyber warfare. cybercriminals. Device Detection. Device Fingerprint. Device ID. Device Identification. Facebook. Hackers. Hacking. Identity Theft. Killer apps. Malware. online banking. Online Fraud. Online Fraud Trends. personally identifiable information. PII. ThreatMetrix. Uncategorized Continue Reading
November 30, 2011
U.S. Defense Networks “Porous as a Colander”
Does Richard Clarke’s assessment that U.S. Defense Networks are “as porous as a colander” hold water? For you kitchen-challenged individuals, please be advised a colander is the thing you put spaghetti into, then pour water into over the spaghetti to drain off excess starch. Also works for rigatoni, vermicelli, fusilli, ziti, et al. Anyway…Clarke comes [...]
Posted by Dan Rampe Categories: Botnets. Chinese cyber attacks. Cookie wiping. Cookieless Device Identification. Cyber Attacks. Cyber warfare. Device Detection. Device Fingerprint. Device ID. Device Identification. Government Fraud. Hackers. Hacking. Identity Theft. Malware. Nato Fraud. Online Fraud. Pentagon. personally identifiable information. PII. Russian cyber attacks. ThreatMetrix Continue Reading
November 23, 2011
Online or on the Hook? Another Cyber Monday Pits Online Retailers Against Cyber Criminals.
Either by turning away real customers or letting cybercrooks get their hands on goods without paying for them, online retailers could find themselves “on the hook” for a big chunk of money on Cyber Monday. Officially nicknamed (as opposed to unofficially nicknamed) “Cyber Monday” in 2005, Cyber Monday is the Monday after Black Friday, which [...]
Posted by Dan Rampe Categories: Cookie wiping. Cookieless Device Identification. Credit Card Fraud. Credit Card Transactions. Cyber Attacks. Cyber Monday. Cyber warfare. Device Detection. Device Fingerprint. Device ID. Device Identification. Hackers. Hacking. Identity Theft. IP Address Cloaking. Malware. online banking. Online Fraud. Online Fraud Trends. personally identifiable information. PII. ThreatMetrix. ThreatMetrix Fraud Facts. Uncategorized Continue Reading
November 21, 2011
“Don Juan in Hell” Is a Play by Shaw. Don Juan from Hell Is a “Playa” Online.
The lady was looking for love in all the wrong places and found it— to the tune of $500,000. Heard this story before? Or a similar one? Scratching your head as to how somebody could be so gullible? According to an ABC report, the fifty-five year old woman, who’d been recently widowed, found her perfect [...]
Posted by Dan Rampe Categories: Cookieless Device Identification. Dating fraud. Device Detection. Device Fingerprint. Device ID. Device Identification. personally identifiable information. PII. ThreatMetrix. Uncategorized Continue Reading
November 17, 2011
China and Russia: Nostalgia for the Good “Cold War” Days?
Hall of Famer, Yogi Berra said, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Okay, Yogi probably never said it. But he would have if he’d spoken French … or English. (That was just meant in good fun. We love Yogi. So, please don’t email, tweet or Facebook.) ANYWAY…if you’re of a certain age or had [...]
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November 16, 2011
IAM Overwhelmed!
Ericka Chickowski, a contributing editor at Darkreading.com, did a piece titled “Tales of De-Crypt 2011.” Considering it was scheduled to run sometime around Halloween, the title was “scary clever” while the subject matter was just plain scary. Chickowski observes that 2011 has been “a banner year for authentication and Identity and Access Management (IAM) failures, [...]
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November 14, 2011
Massive Hack Attack Smashed Into More Than 750 Companies Like Locusts on Unprotected Wheat Fields
Last spring it was revealed hackers had attacked RSA. The attack showed that RSA tokens requiring users to enter a unique number generated by the token each time they connected to their networks, had been compromised. Well, not so much compromised as they left a security hole you could drive a tank through and still [...]
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November 9, 2011
DarkMarket: The Story Behind the “By-Invitation-Only” Website for Cybercriminals
Misha Glenny’s book, DarkMarket, relates the brief history (2005 – 2008) of DarkMarket.ws, an Internet cybercrime forum (in English) that was kind of a cross between a chat room and Amazon.com. If you haven’t heard about the site, it probably says something about your honesty. You see DarkMarket.ws was “by-invitation-only.” If you weren’t a cybercrook [...]
Posted by Dan Rampe Categories: Anonymous. Anonymous Attacks. bank fraud. Cookieless Device Identification. Credit Card Fraud. Cyber Attacks. Cyber warfare. cybercriminals. Dark Market. Device Detection. Device Fingerprint. Device ID. Device Identification. Government Fraud. Hackers. Hacking. Identity Theft. Law and Enforcement. Lulz Security Attacks. LulzSec. online banking. Online Credit Card Transactions. Online Fraud. Online Fraud Trends. PC Fingerprint. personally identifiable information. PII. Stolen identities. ThreatMetrix. Uncategorized Continue Reading
November 7, 2011
ThreatMetrix Deploys the Latest Version of Its Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform
Integrated into the latest release of the ThreatMetrix™ Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform is a new multi-layered data encryption architecture feature that takes data encryption to a whole new level. Addressing strict security requirements, the new feature provides multi-layered encryption of customer-siloed data and global customer data with minimum impact on customer response times. Should any [...]
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