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Amazon – Tablets, Publishing, Rockets(!) and more… Is World Domination Next?

September 6, 2011

I try hard to keep up with the Internet goings-on. I really do. But sometimes I feel like I’m falling behind. In this case WAY behind. I’ve heard about the new Amazon android tablet – the buzz is all over the Internet. But when did Amazon start publishing music and signing authors to publish books? [...]

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Huge Tampa Tax Fraud Bust – The Rest of the Story

September 4, 2011

The numbers coming out of this story are incredible – Tampa’s Police Chief Jane Castor, in a TBO.com article (http://ow.ly/6kzRZ) estimates total fraud in the Tampa area alone at close to $1 billion (yes billion – with a ‘b’). Here’s a quote from the TBO story: “Suddenly, the quick money to be earned selling drugs [...]

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Why Amazon Is Doing the Right Thing for Online Sales Tax

September 1, 2011

Shades of Paul Harvey. Here’s what appears to be ‘the rest of the story’ on Amazon’s fight against online sales tax. Having not read the California law (who has the time?) I assumed that the stories I’ve read both online and in the popular press were all there was, and that Amazon didn’t want to [...]

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ATM Skimming – 5 Ways to Protect Yourself

August 31, 2011

  Hopefully you know what ATM skimming is. It happens when criminals put a device inside an ATM machine or a gas pump to capture information from your credit or debit card. Here’s a collection of ATM skimmer and gas pump skimmer articles from this blog: http://ow.ly/61eGx. Protecting yourself isn’t always easy. Most of the [...]

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Feds Bust Heavy Duty Child Abuse, Sex Site

August 30, 2011

This one is creepy. The Department of Justice, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the European Union’s Judicial Cooperation Unit teamed up to bust a multinational child abuse & sex site known as ‘Dreamboard.’ Somehow the Feds infiltrated the site in spite of heavy security. 72 were indicted, 52 have been arrested so far. 19 [...]

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Recent Cybercrime News – NYPD Social Media Unit, Online Drugs, More Fake Apple Stores and More

August 28, 2011

8/15/11 – Happy hackers attack sites, submit hacks for ratings on RankMyHack – Computerworld Blogs – http://ow.ly/663P9 8/12/11 – 22 More Fake Apple stores found in China – LATimes.com – http://ow.ly/629B8 8/10/11 – NYPD forms new social media unit to mine Facebook and Twitter for mayhem – NY Daily News – http://ow.ly/629Ct 8/10/11 – One [...]

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Man Hacks Bank Accounts Using Facebook Information

August 25, 2011

  If you need a reminder to be careful what you post on Facebook, this story should help. A man in England with no software whatsoever hacked into neighbors bank accounts and stole $57,000 using only information obtained from Facebook. According to one article (http://ow.ly/663JI) “Wood typed the usernames of his Facebook friends on bank [...]

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9 Ways An Account Can Be Compromised Even With A Great Password

August 24, 2011

Even if you have a really good password, there are many ways an online account can be compromised. Leo Notenboom wrote an excellent article http://ow.ly/68CPj, listing some of the possibilities. – You’ve been infected by malware and have a ‘key-logger.’ installed. These malicious programs can recording every keystroke make – including passwords and user IDs. [...]

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Must See Video By Internet Security Researcher

August 23, 2011

Mikko Hypponen is the chief research officer at Internet security firm F-Secure Corporation in Finland. This 17 minute TED talk is both entertaining and eye-opening. It highlights our role as the first truly ‘online’ generation and how we have to deal with an entire ecosystem built around online crime. How do you track online criminals? [...]

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Love is a Battlefield – Infidelity Exposed? Or Yet Another Sleazy Website?

August 21, 2011

A couple of months ago I wrote about a few websites that encouraged infidelity (http://ow.ly/5Mps5). Now I’ve stumbled across a website that, in theory, exposes infidelity – cheaterville.com – anonymously. Be careful if you intend to visit this site. The language is quite graphic and can sometimes be sexual in nature. To my mind ‘anonymously” [...]

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