Posts tagged: Cybercrime

Top 10 Security Breaches of 2008

Best known 10 security breaches for year 2008 has been quoted here. Linda McGlasson, the author has also nicely put down the lessons learnt from those breaches.

To brief :

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Online Jobs – Identifying Scammers

Work at Home , Data Entry Jobs, Make money from home, Typing work from Home, Online Part time jobs, and i must also include another commonly used Google string “Data Entry Jobs” .

Ofcourse, every one likes to earn money online by investing less money, electricity, internet and their precious time. However the success ratio is very less. Its all because of Scammers. Many people afraid about internet job due to the increase of scammers these days. So what can we do to identify the scammers to get rid off these fears ? That is what we will be discussing here now. I found few websites which acts as a database to gather some review(positive as well as negative) about the Online Job Providers. Simply by giving their web address in the search bar of the webpage we can get the users feedbacks and reviews about them.

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Woman arrested for killing virtual reality husband

I came across this interesting news on CNN where a woman in Japan was arrested for killing her virtual husband. She had happily married virtually to a man from Japan on popular interactive game “Maple Story” and suddenly the man decided to divorce her. This made her mad and she decided to take revenge on him in real life by logging in as her virtual husband and committed virtual suicide. Man..that hurtsss.

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Anti-Forensic Techniques Used By Jihadist Web Sites

Hello Everybody !

Hope you all are doing good and are in the best of your health..

I guess many of you might be excited after reading the subject of this post. Yes ! Today I’m going to discuss the various anti-forensic methods used by Jihadis to conceal their presence over the Internet.

The Internet, as we all know is a very wast field of information sharing and communication. And there are various ways by which one can be in contact with other person across the globe and this happens almost instantly. This saves time, money and effort that would otherwise be very high ! These all are the advantages of Internet.

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Alleged hacker pleads guilty in TJX case

As part of a plea-bargaining arrangement, Christopher Scott, 25, of Miami, has admitted to computer hacking, access device fraud and identity theft, according to the Associated Press. He could face a sentence of up to 22 years in jail and a fine of up to $1m (£538,000).

The plea comes almost two weeks after Damon Patrick Toey pleaded guilty to his role. The 11 defendants were formally charged last month. Three are from the US, one from Estonia, three from the Ukraine, two from China, and one from Belarus. Another man involved used an alias and his whereabouts are unknown.

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Indian Hacker behind world’s biggest cyber heist

Said to be the biggest of its type, a security breach which stole the identities of around 8 million customers has been brought to light by ’s Sunday Herald newspaper . Some Indian hacker is said to be responsible for the breach.

Indian hacker charged with world’s biggest cyber crime