Lockport Union-Sun - Imagine a 2-year-old with a driver s license and $50,000 in debt. Now try to picture a homemaker being handcuffed in front of her son on arrest warrants stemming from bad checks she never wrote. Or a person who has an active checking account
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Seattle Times - Nelson is one of 11 defendants facing federal charges as a result of “Operation Name Game,” a lengthy investigation of a sophisticated new form of identity theft that exploits the surprisingly easy process for legally changing names over and over
Identity theft the topic of tv […]

It was only a matter of time until this would happen. While the exploit was discovered by three people from the security company Independent Security Evaluators, chances are the word will be getting out about this exploit soon. Before you know it, the general public will have the knowledge of being able to […]

I thought this was appropriate since it always seems like there’s a news story discussing a stolen laptop with extremely sensitive information. Then again, even if your laptop doesn’t have sensitive information on it, you should still practice the tips provided in this article.
Laptop theft is a huge problem. It is common nowadays to […]

ZDNet Australia - XSS attacks generally work by injecting code into Web applications for malicious purposes. An attacker can inject code into a 2120 articles are tagged with security 496 articles are tagged with server 1011 articles are tagged with software 557 articles
DBAs reveal how they rev their database without […]

I thought this was worth sharing. I’m not sure how big this spammer was, but it sounded like he was making quite a bit of money by spamming and taking advantage of people. I’m almost tempted to pick up his book to see what kinds of dirty things actually go on in the […]

Information Week - Dave DeWalt, the new president and CEO of security giant McAfee, himself is pushing for legislation that will mandate more jail time for the growing number of cybercriminals breaking into government and corporate computing systems, setting up phishing

Antivirus solutions were developed with signatures in mind. Since all pieces of malware have been known to have a common identifier (or, signature), vendors knew this would be a wise way to identify and eliminate malware from people’s systems. Unfortunately, this mindset is slowly fading away. With the evolution of new dynamic […]

Wall Street Journal - Just going to a site that shows such an ad can infect a user’s computer. In May, a virus in a banner ad on tomshardware.com automatically switched visitors to a Web site that downloaded “malware” — malicious software designed to attack a computer
‘Malware 2.0′ raises its ugly headVNUnet […]

As spam filters become more sophisticated in identifying spam emails, spammers have to think of new and innovative ways to get their emails past the filters. At first, it looked like the giant leap for spammers had to do with their use of images, but that does not seem to be the case anymore. […]