15 released pending trial in massive ID theft in Turkey
Fifteen people charged with selling computer programs offering illegally acquired identity information on nearly the country’s entire population were released Wednesday pending trial in Istanbul. Police announced Tuesday the cracking of the ring that had been stealing Turks’ identity information, including their names, addresses and telephone numbers. [...] The Hürriyet reporter wrote that had he first gotten wind of the identification theft a few days previously, by coincidence, during a conversation in a lawyer’s office, and later learned that the data had allegedly come from inside sources at the Central Population Administration System, or MERNİS, project, which is establishing a nationwide system of ...
2010 Data Breach Report From Verizon Business, U.S. Secret Service Offers New Cybercrime Insights
From the press release: The 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, based on a first-of-its kind collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service, has found that breaches of electronic records last year involved more insider threats, greater use of social engineering and the continued strong involvement of organized criminal groups. The study, released Wednesday (July 28), also noted that the overall number of breaches investigated last year declined from the total for the previous year – "a promising" indication, the study said. The report cited stolen credentials as the most common way of gaining unauthorized access into ...
Botnet mastermind who infected 12m PCs nabbed : FBI
International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials said A 23-year-old Slovenian known as Iserdo was snagged in Maribor, Slovenia, after a lengthy investigation by Slovenian Criminal Police there along with FBI and Spanish authorities. His arrest comes about five months after Spanish police broke up the massive cyber scam, arresting three of the alleged ringleaders who operated the so-called Mariposa botnet, stealing credit cards and online banking credentials. Read ...
Hackers add new twist to check counterfeiting
Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press reports: Think of it as one more reason not to write checks. Hackers believed to be operating out of Russia have figured out a high-tech way to carry out the decidedly low-tech crime of check fraud, a computer security company says -- writing at least $9 million in fakes against more than 1,200 legitimate accounts. But these hackers got the account information in an unusual way: They broke into three websites that specialize in a little-known type of business -- archiving check images online. [...] Stewart uncovered the scam while investigating malicious ...
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15 released pending trial in massive ID theft in Turkey
Fifteen people charged with selling computer programs offering illegally acquired identity information on nearly the country’s entire population were released Wednesday pending trial in Istanbul. Police announced Tuesday the...
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2010 Data Breach Report From Verizon Business, U.S. Secret Service Offers New Cybercrime Insights
From the press release: The 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, based on a first-of-its kind collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service, has found that breaches of electronic records last year involved more insider...
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Botnet mastermind who infected 12m PCs nabbed : FBI
International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world,...
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Hackers add new twist to check counterfeiting
Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press reports: Think of it as one more reason not to write checks. Hackers believed to be operating out of Russia have figured out a high-tech way to carry out the decidedly low-tech crime...
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Rite Aid Agrees to Pay $1 Million to Settle HIPAA Privacy Case
See the companion press release from the FTC in a previous post. Rite Aid Corporation and its 40 affiliated entities (RAC) have agreed to pay $1 million to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and...
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