'Recovery Services' Phone Scam Seeks Potentially Scary Information
5:00 PM 3/23/2011
A recent scam caller claiming a company called "Recovery Services" has an unclaimed Christmas package it wants to deliver demonstrates how creative scammers can get when trying to con you out of important personal information -- a home address, in this case.
The caller, speaking from an...
Why You Should Be Cheering for Verizon to Win This Internet Lawsuit
6:10 PM 3/17/2011
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 17 -- People should be able to use the Internet without fear of harm. Simple enough, right? No less an Internet luminary than Vint Cerf, often referred to as one of the fathers of the Internet, said so this week at the 40th meeting of the Internet Corporation for...
Record-setting Settlement Says AstraZeneca Lied About Seroquel Effects
11:52 AM 3/11/2011
AstraZeneca agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle a New York State Attorney General's lawsuit saying the British pharmaceutical company improperly promoted and marketed the schizophrenia drug Seroquel, concealing dangerous side effects such as diabetes from health care providers and the public.
New...
Who's Your Stalker? Facebook Scam Makes a New Appearance
11:00 AM 3/10/2011
Facebook has quickly become scam central, and with as many as 600 million users it's easy to understand why criminals are attacking The Social Network in earnest. Scams come and go with the headlines, but lately to resurface is the Stalker app, which tries to tempt a click with a variation on an...
Has your credit card company denied your iTunes charge lately or called you on the phone after you tried to make a purchase? That's probably because another wave of fraud complaints has hit users of Apple's popular online store, similar to the one in July last year, says a report in Kaspersky's...
Counterfeit Sports Shirts, Jerseys Becoming a Bigger Problem
11:00 AM 2/24/2011
Wearing a team jersey may be a great way to show your loyalty, but counterfeiters are luring stadiumfuls of sports fans into buying fakes, says a report by security firm MarkMonitor.
In fact, chances are good your favorite team is actually competing with fraudsters to steer you to the real thing....
Norton's 'Cybercrime Index' Shows Daily ID Theft, Fraud Risks
8:00 AM 2/21/2011
Missing the Department of Homeland Security's color-coded warnings lately? Probably not. But computer security company Norton, part of industry giant Symantec, has created a new "Cybercrime Index" you can browse for free to take a daily measure of what online nasties might attack you today or steal...
Facebook Scam: Don't Click on Fake Serene Branson 'Stroke' Video
4:15 PM 2/15/2011
Scammers on Facebook rapidly capitalized on a video supposedly showing a CBS Los Angeles TV reporter having an on-air stroke after the Grammy Awards telecast, using readers' curiosity to push out a piece of badware.
Serene Branson created a flurry of web activity on Monday when, during a...
For-Profit College Front Group Sues Government
4:00 PM 2/7/2011
A front group representing for-profit colleges owned by Education Management Corp. and others has sued the federal government for "negligence and malpractice" following the release of a highly critical report by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
The Coalition for...
Seven 'Weaknesses' Criminals Use Online to Exploit You
2:00 PM 2/4/2011
A good con is like a magic trick. Those best thought out (think of The Spanish Prisoner) stand the test of time, and can be recycled generation after generation.
What makes a con work? Human nature. By applying psychology, criminals achieve predictable results most of the time. High-tech giant...
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