Online banking fraud surges by 14 percent

Posted on March 11th, 2010 by John

Online banking fraud surged by 14 percent in 2009, according to the UK Cards Association.
Research by the financial organisation revealed that the losses from online banking fraud totalled £59.7m in 2009. It said the increase was due to criminals using malware to target online banking customers rather than [...]

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Filed under: INFORMATION SECURITY, SCAMS AND SCHEMES, TECHNOLOGY

Malware found in Firefox add-ons

Posted on February 9th, 2010 by John

What I so love about Mozilla Firefox is the collection of add-ons to expand functionality in virtually any sense.  However, this can also expose  users of the add-ons to a risk.  Earlier this week Mozilla disclosed that a pair of add-ons found at http://addons.mozilla.org site included Trojans.
The two add-ons involved are [...]

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THEFT OF INFORMATION: A REAL AND CURRENT THREAT

Posted on December 30th, 2009 by John

Suppose an employee leaving your company to go and work with the competition. How much damage would be caused if confidential information ended up with the competition as a result of the actions of this employee? Client lists, strategic plans, research and development reports, financial information or designs?
Several sources indicate that the larger part [...]

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SERVING DOCUMENTS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK FIRST NOW TWITTER

Posted on October 5th, 2009 by John

In December 2008 a world first opened up the way to use social media sites to serve legal document. On that day the Sydney Morning Herald reported on how Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court in Australia ordered that a default judgment could be served on defendants by notification on Facebook. The judgment was [...]

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