The Internet Fraud Alert System is a partnership between Microsoft and the US National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) backed up by organizations and companies like Accuity, American Bankers Association, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, eBay and PayPal. The system addresses a problem that security researchers and companies have faced in the past. Security researchers [...]
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Your Bank Might Know More About You Than You Know
Many Internet users, especially those that have social networking accounts, expose information about themselves but also friends and colleagues on the Internet. Everyone probably read stories in newspapers that cyber criminals are using those information to create false identities or trap friends and colleagues into thinking that they are actually someone they know. What has [...]
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How Stolen Credit Cards are sold
Have you ever wondered how criminals who hacked, phished or stole Credit Card information sell them later on ? I mean, where would you go and sell the stuff and where would a buyer look to find it ? One possible way is to create a blogspot blog and sell it from there. Sounds to [...]