Now here’s a scary thought… phishers trying to take advantage of the tax season by trying to exploit the IRS. Hopefully the IRS has been fully trained on what to look for when it comes to phishing attacks, but if you are familiar with spear phishing attacks, you’ll know that they are not so […]

Reports of identity theft being down again honestly arouses a little suspicion from me.  First off, this article talks about the idea that the sample size was only 5,000 people which I honestly believe not to be enough to conduct an identity theft study on.  Second, I would be interested to see what identity theft […]

Well, here we go again.  Same story: laptops go missing, millions of people’s personal data in jeopardy, fears and concerns of identity theft on the rise, etc. etc.  I hate to say this like it is not a big deal (because it really is), but it is happening more and more often that it is […]

What are the odds… a van goes through a stop sign, gets pulled over by the cops and then gets arrested due to having stolen debit card information on various British citizens. The people who ran through the stop sign were also affiliated with a terrorist group named the Tamil Tigers. Oh yeah, […]

When it comes to identity theft, there were a couple of incidents that really hit mainstream media pretty hard.  The first (and probably most obvious) was the compromising of TJ Maxx (and its subsidiaries’) processing systems, which led to millions upon millions of people’s identities being stolen.  Then there was the incident in the UK […]

Seriously, this sounds like something that would come out of a movie.  Now I would think that people would be smart enough to know that publishing their account details in a newspaper would lead to identity theft, but I have been proven wrong.  Somebody did just that and believe it or not, they were ’surprised’ […]

A couple of days ago, there was an article discussing how hackers are going to work more with compromising legitimate web sites and inserting malicious code into them.  Well, another trend that you will definitely see more of are the ever-so-popular phishing and e-greeting scams, according to Microsoft.  This definitely makes sense since phishing scams, […]

Yup, it’s that season again where hackers and cyber criminals shine.  From spreading malware to phishing and pharming tactics, you really need to keep alert during this season.  While you should always be alert when entering sensitive information online like credit cards and usernames/passwords, criminals really put forth extra effort during this season knowing that […]

Pretty much everyone thinks of P2P networks as places where you can share media and files.  Granted, that is their intention, but what is the security like with them?  A lot of people will have the false misconception that they are ‘anonymous’ and that their information is kept private.  Well, for anyone who believes that, […]

Talk about a career killer. Surprisingly, the mistake of losing sensitive information on 25 million people didn’t lead to this man getting fired, let alone receiving a decrease in pay. You would think being the cause of potentially the largest identity theft scare’s in Britian’ history with pretty much everyone in a panic. […]