identity theft

Identity Theft doesn't always pay

Roundup of "stupid ID theft criminals" stories posted by David Strom at ITWorld.

AVG's DataSnatchers

URL: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElGPo5j5o9w
Describe this Resource: 
AVG created this neat animated video to illustrate how easy it is for valuable personal data to be stolen when you're online. Worth a look - and worth sharing with friends, too.
Category: 
Current Threats
Social Networking
Fraud
ID and Data Theft
Malware

Police conference on identity theft

URL: 
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_13312956
Describe this Resource: 
Interesting newspaper report from The Daily Camera on a national police conference held in Boulder this week on Identity Theft.
Category: 
ID and Data Theft

AVG Promo on Twitter

AVG's doing some interesting marketing around the launch of 8.5. If you're on Twitter, follow @officialavgnews and check out #twitterpromo. There's a couple of grands' worth of vacation on offer!

Another reason not to rely just on SSL for online transaction security

Picked this item up from Information Week's Thomas Claburn:

Identity Thieves Impacted by Economic Downturn?

Just came across this article at InformationWeek. While the number of fraud incidents is rising, criminals are earning less for each crime they commit.

Sana SafeConnect products

Does anyone have any experience with these products "in action", either from a business or home user perspective?

Appreciate any information, thanks.

Chip-and-pin fraud hits European supermarkets

If you thought living a secure life was hard enough with email phishing, keylogging spyware, backdoor Trojan horses, wi-fi hijacking and compromised websites here comes another thing to worry about.

$700,000 Romanian phisher pleads guilty

Newspapers in Minneapolis are reporting that a 22-year-old Romanian national has admitted his involvement in a US-based phi

Military personnel data disappears into the wild blue yonder

A theft at a Royal Air Force base has left British authorities, already red-faced after a