A former US Department of Health purchasing agent who claimed to be a victim of identity theft faces 10 years jail after pleading guilty to stealing $114,000 of government funds to purchase goods on Amazon.
Stories about lost wages aren't the only scary things being talked about in Sin City this week. The best security researchers and hackers from around the world have gathered in Las Vegas, and news about their work has been creeping out like a toxic flood.
Christina DesMarais | 07 Aug | Read more
Romanian law enforcement on Friday arrested more than 100 people alleged to be involved in a multi-million dollar US-Romanian fraud network.
If you use the Internet or own a credit card, the threat of having your identity stolen is omnipresent. Now, leading Internet service providers, financial institutions, and companies such as Sony are offering customers peace of mind with free <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/221595/ftc_id_theft_again_tops_consumer_complaints.html">identity theft</a> protection. Other companies such as Debix are offering a free bare-bones version of ID theft protection to anyone online.
Democratic members of a Senate committee promised Wednesday to push hard for new online privacy protections and for legislation that would require companies to put security monitoring tools on their networks.
Grant Gross | 30 Jun | Read more
The user database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary, SoSasta, was published on the Internet and indexed by Google, according to an Australian security consultant.
John Ribeiro | 28 Jun | Read more
The computer hacking group LulzSec said Saturday it had ended its campaign of cyberassaults on government and corporate websites and that it was time for it to "sail into the distance."
James Niccolai | 26 Jun | Read more
The quality of printing and design software available to the consumer is now so high that criminals are using the technology to start up their own document forging businesses, a parliamentary joint committee on Law Enforcement has heard.
Tim Lohman | 17 Jun | Read more
Have we finally grown tired of Facebook? According to Inside Facebook, more than five per cent of U.S. users abandoned Facebook in May -- that's about six million people who have stopped "liking" the world's largest social network. Six million people jumping ship sounds like a lot, but when you consider that Facebook is on track to hit 700 million users any day now, it's not such a big deal.
Brennon Slattery | 15 Jun | Read more
Eddie Schwartz, former chief security officer at Netwitness Corp., a company recently acquired by EMC, has been named chief security officer of the storage vendor's RSA security division.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 10 Jun | Read more
As a professional comedian Bennett Arron gets paid to see the funny side of things, but a run-in with identity thieves in the 1990s had him far from laughing.
Hamish Barwick | 16 May | Read more
Financial fraud, identity theft and environmental disasters lean more heavily on Australians’ minds than national security threats, according to a Unisys report.
Hamish Barwick | 05 May | Read more