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Skimming gang indicted, facing over 60 years in prison

Four people have been charged of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and bank fraud in the Manhattan federal …

Bank not to blame for customer’s heavy losses from fraudulent transactions

A magistrate recommendation that is likely to become an official ruling could set a legal precedent welcome to banks all over the US, saying they are are not accountable for …

Sony Pictures warns its customers about spear phishing

Following last week’s breach executed by LulzSec, Sony Pictures has finally issued a consumer alert and seems also to have sent it to the addresses of approximately …

25 percent of US hackers are FBI informants

Anyone who has read Kingpin won’t be much surprised by the estimate recently made by Eric Corley, publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, who said that some 25 percent …

LulzSec leaks Sony Developer source code

Nintendo has confirmed that the server configuration file published by LulzSec on Friday is the real deal, but says that that is the only thing they managed to access and that …

RSA admits SecurID tokens have been compromised

RSA has finally admitted publicly that the March breach into its systems has resulted in the compromise of their SecurID two-factor authentication tokens. The admission comes …

Fake LinkedIn notifications lead to malware

Malware peddlers are targeting LinkedIn users with rather legitimate-looking messages supposedly coming from the social networking site: If the look of the message seems …

Gmail deactivation spam run leads to phishing forms on Google Docs

A week ago, F-Secure researchers have uncovered a number of spreadsheets with a form functionality that are apparently designed to act as phishing forms. Today, one of these …

Fake AV distributed via user profiles on popular sites

An investigation into the methods of distibution of the FakeRean familiy of fake AVs has revealed some interesting facts, says GFI. In order to lure people into downloading …

FBI affiliate organization hacked, user database leaked

Only a day after they leaked the details of over one million user accounts and various databases of Sony Pictures and some of its regional sites, LulzSec announced a …

Stolen passwords used as bait in malware spam run

At the rate at which databases of various online services are currently being compromised, I expect that emails such as this latest one spotted by Symantec will become a …

Scammy emails from “Google Pharmacy”

A spam campaign trying to convince users that Google has launched a pharmacy site selling Viagra and Cialis is currently hitting inboxes around the world: Luckily for the …

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