Saturday, May 19, 2012

What about the Social Security Numbers? (The Utah Data Breach and your SSN)

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The Utah Data Breach This week the continuing saga of the Utah Medicaid Data Breach continued to unfold. If you haven't been followi...

Lessons from the First Cyber Cops

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I was so excited to see Bob Gourley's blog post " A Lesson From the First Cyber Cops " which is how I learned about an event o...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Social Engineering: Facebook Photo

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Please welcome a guest-blogger, Sarah Turner, who authored today's report. Sarah is a malware analyst in the UAB Computer Forensics Res...

Nichole Michelle Merzi of Operation Phish Phry gets 5 years

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Back in 2009, this blog ran the story FBI's Biggest Domestic Phishing Bust documenting Operation Phish Phry and explaining what was the...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

IRS Identity Theft leads to 25 year Sentence for Alabama Fraudsters

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The news in Alabama today is that IDENTITY THEFT DOES NOT PAY. Veronica Dale of Montgomery, Alabama was sentenced to 334 months in prison ...
Friday, May 04, 2012

Waya Nwaki pleads guilty in globe-spanning phishing ring

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We often hear complaints from our Banking friends about criminals in Nigeria. Today's story is another example of the truth that in 201...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Paypal "You Just Sent a Payment" spam leads to malware

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A new malicious spam campaign has just launched this morning targeting Paypal users. This malware campaign attempts to "social enginee...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

SOCA & FBI seize 36 Criminal Credit Card Stores

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Today the Serious & Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) in the UK announced the completion of a joint operation targeting 36 criminal websites...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

UK Zeus user G-Zero Sentenced

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According to today's Daily Mail , court details have now emerged regarding Edward Pearson, a 23 year old hacker from York, England known...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

USPS Click-N-Ship abused in malware spam

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This campaign begins with an email that looks like this: The email indicates that you have been charged a random amount of money to have a s...