The Department of Energy today awarded $30 million to a 11 security vendors to develop technology the agency says will better protect nation's electric grid, oil and gas infrastructure from cyber-attack.
Michael Cooney |
19 Sep |
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From cool robots and unmanned aircraft to celebrity swatting and Moby Dick emoticons, it’s been an interesting high-tech year!
Michael Cooney |
09 Jul |
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From online bank heists to Chinese hackers, 2013 is adding up to be a security mess
Michael Cooney |
02 Jul |
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The Federal Trade Commission today said it has won a $7.5 million civil penalty – the largest ever -- against Mortgage Investors Corporation, one of the nation's biggest refinancers of veterans' home loans for allegedly violating "Do Not Call" requirements.
Michael Cooney |
27 Jun |
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Big mess: FBI now looking at Edward Snowden's disclosures about the National Security Agency's broad monitoring of phone call and Internet data from big companies such as Google and Facebook.
Michael Cooney |
17 Jun |
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The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers that there are plenty of scam artists and cybercriminals that want your money.
Michael Cooney |
26 Mar |
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The Federal Trade Commission today said it has filed eight court cases to stop companies who have sent over 180 million illegal or deceptive text messages to all manner of mobile users in the past year.
Michael Cooney |
07 Mar |
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Identity theft has been the top consumer complaint to the Federal Trade Commission now for 13 years running.
Michael Cooney |
26 Feb |
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Seems these folks just wanted the Federal Trade Commission to smack them down. The FTC today said it had a federal court shut down an illegal robocall operation that allegedly impersonated the agency in an attempt to trick consumers into turning over all manner of sensitive personal data.
Michael Cooney |
03 Dec |
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The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership with the FBI, today issued a warning about an uptick in a new version of Citadel malware that uses the IC3's good name to try and extort money from victims.
Michael Cooney |
30 Nov |
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It's not clear if the Federal Trade Commission is throwing up its hands at the problem or just wants some new ideas about how to combat it, but the agency is now offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what it calls an innovative way to block illegal commercial robocalls on landlines and mobile phones.
Michael Cooney |
19 Oct |
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The Federal Trade Commission today said it fired off 19 warning letters to online sites it said were illegally selling documents to obtain International Driving Permits. The FTC says that consumer groups and state and local law enforcers have charged that in some cases, the documents are being promoted as legitimate identification to undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Michael Cooney |
15 Oct |
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When it comes to security, most mobile devices are a target waiting to be attacked. That's pretty much the conclusion of a report to Congress on the status of the security of mobile devices this week by watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office.
Michael Cooney |
19 Sep |
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The FBI today said cybercriminals have recently stepped up efforts to steal money and gain access to banks and other financial institutions using spam, phishing emails, keystroke loggers and Remote Access Trojans (RAT).
Michael Cooney |
17 Sep |
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Two executives at a company that owned and dispensed ATM machines have been sent to jail for defrauding the Domestic Bank of Cranston, Rhode Island of about $4.8 million.
Michael Cooney |
05 Sep |
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