Dena Haritos Tsamitis has an ambitious goal for the year: to improve cyber awareness among 10 million people globally.
The Director of Education, Training and Outreach at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab, Dena discusses:
The cyber awareness challenge among people of all ages;
Effective techniques for...
The recent news that Nexus One smartphone owners were unable to send or receive data is just a precursor to what security experts say is the next big threat to mobile phones and services - mobile malware.
According to Dr. Markus Jakobsson, a noted security expert in the field of phishing and crimeware, mobile...
Interview with James Van Dyke of Javelin Strategy & Research
Identity fraud crimes expanded at a 12% rate in 2009. What can we expect to see in 2010?
Javelin Strategy & Research is out with its latest Identity Fraud Study. For insight on the study results and what they mean to organizations across industry,...
At least two banking institutions have posted messages on their websites, alerting members to be wary of a bogus application distributed on mobile phone platforms.
The call to aid the devastated country of Haiti came just hours after a 7.0 earthquake hit the impoverished Caribbean island on Tuesday.
Just as quickly as the tweets came in asking for donations, so too came the cyber criminals looking to divert funds from legitimate charities to their own pockets.
Interview with Jay Foley of the Identity Theft Resource
Financial scams and incidents of medical identity theft are on the rise - and they're among the main threats to business and consumers in 2010.
This is the warning from Jay Foley, executive director of the Identity Theft Resource Center. In an exclusive...
An international phishing operation was smashed on Wednesday by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement in Egypt.
The case called "Operation Phish Phry" has the largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case. A total of 53 people across the country and 47 people in Egypt were...
Bogus security software applications are among the types of electronic crimes that grew 585 percent over the first half of this year, according to a new study.
The Anti Phishing Working Group's (APWG) latest report shows that rogue anti-malware programs, infected computers and crimeware broke new records in the...
In financial services -- and particularly in light of the current economic crisis -- there is no more valuable asset than trust. And one of today's biggest threats to that trust is a brand attack, which leverages your company's reputation in criminal ways. This eCrime may be accomplished in a number of ways including...
The number of financial institutions that stepped forward to say their customers' credit or debit cards were compromised because of the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach has now reached more than 500.
Little more than a month ago, on Jan. 20, Heartland, a Princeton, NJ-based payments processor, went...
The number of identity fraud victims has increased 22 percent in the U.S., costing 9.9 million victims a total of $48 billion in 2008.
This is the news from the fifth annual Identity Fraud Survey Report from Javelin Strategy & Research. In an exclusive interview, James Van Dyke, Javelin founder and President,...
The number of identity fraud victims has increased 22 percent in the U.S., costing 9.9 million victims a total of $48 billion in 2008.
This is the news from the fifth annual Identity Fraud Survey Report from Javelin Strategy & Research. In an exclusive interview, James Van Dyke, Javelin founder and President,...
Check fraud. Crimes against children and the elderly. These are among the current faces of Identity Theft, and experts expect to see even more of these opportunistic crimes in 2009.
To help prevent these crimes - and to help banking institutions to protect their customers - Linda Foley, founder of the Identity...
Social engineering is the ultimate con - the bag of tricks employed by fraudsters who will lie, cheat and steal their way past your organization's security controls. Their goals: theft, fraud or espionage. Your best line of defense: Your people.
Fraud incidents are on the rise - especially in financial services and...
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