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Child identity theft, part 1: On familiar fraud

March 17, 2020 admin awareness, child identity fraud, child identity theft, cyberbullying, familiar fraud, fraud, id theft, Identity Theft, personally identifiable information, PII

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:17:19 +0000

In this two-part series on child identity theft, we shed light on the growing problem of familiar fraud, where those entrusted with a minor’s information are the very ones who abuse it.

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Awareness

Tags: child identity fraud child identity theft cyberbullying familiar fraud fraud ID theft identity theft personally identifiable information PII

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Uncle Sam compensates you for data leaks (yeah, right)

January 16, 2020 admin fraud, SCAM, scammers, swindle, Threats, trick

Credit to Author: Tatyana Sidorina| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:00:37 +0000

Under the pretext of compensation for data leaks, fraudsters are selling “temporary U.S. social security numbers.”

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How not to buy drugs on the Internet

January 3, 2020 admin clearnet, Dark Net, drug scams, Drugs, fraud, internet crime, online crime, online drug scams, scams

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:52:07 +0000

Most get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet prove to be scams in disguise—and that includes buying drugs. Learn how scammers take advantage of users looking for illegal activities online.

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Scams

Tags: clearnet dark net drug scams drugs fraud Internet crime online crime online drug scams scams

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Are scammers tired of bitcoin?

December 16, 2019 admin extortion, fraud, news, porn, sextortion, spam, Threats, Tips

Credit to Author: Maria Vergelis| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:12:30 +0000

Extorters are demanding ransom not in cryptocurrency, but in prepaid debit cards. All the same, you shouldn’t pay.

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Hundreds of counterfeit online shoe stores injected with credit card skimmer

December 10, 2019 admin counterfeit, credit card, fraud, Magecart, shoes, skimmers, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:30:50 +0000

A Magecart credit card skimmer was found injected into hundreds of counterfeit, brand-name shoe stores—a one-two punch of victimization for users first duped with fake goods then stripped of their personal data.

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Threat analysis

Tags: counterfeit credit card fraud Magecart shoes skimmers

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Report: Organizations remain vulnerable to increasing insider threats

December 5, 2019 admin awareness, Carnegie Mellon University, cert insider threat center, cybersecurity insiders, defense counterintelligence and security agency, Department of Homeland Security, espionage, fraud, gurucul, insider threats, malicious insider, mitigate insider threats, national counterintelligence and security center, national insider threat awareness month, national insider threat task force, ncsc, nittf, office of the under secretary of defense, Paige A. Thompson, scope of insider threat, sei, software engineering institute, types of insiders, william evanina, workplace violence

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The risk and challenges insider threats pose to organizations are ever present, even before tech as we know it existed. The age of digitization only made it higher and far-reaching. How has insider threats evolved over time? Where are we now in terms of mitigating insider threat risk? Are businesses really doing something about it? We answer such questions—and more—in this post.

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