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Paypal: Apple's Safari Browser is More Vulnerable to Online Fraud Than IE and Firefox

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2008-03-03 16:25:01 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
...fraud than its rivals Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. Among the reasons cited for Safari's lower-than-expected evaluation are its lack of screen prompts for anti-phishing and the fact that Apple hasn't implemented an EV certificate prompt when potentially fishy URLs are loaded Paypal's role in e-commerce transactions is critical but...
 
Tags: browser, safari browser, safari, paypal, explorer, microsofts internet explorer, website owner, firefox, best-safety guidelines
 
 
 
 
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Ohio Voting Machines Messed With During Recent Primaries [Fraud]

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2008-03-18 12:01:49 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...fraud went down in Ohio, with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation seizing voting machines for forensic analysis and a criminal investigation underway Apparently, a candidate's name was marked as withdrawn on a number of voting machines and the internal audit capability on the machines had been manually disabled by...
 
Tags: ohio, election, local election, machines, cuyahoga election officials, cuyahoga county recount, ohio bureau, recount, election board programmers
 
 
 
 
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Samsung CEO charged with fraud, wont be arrested

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2008-04-17 16:02:00 by Joshua Topolsky in
...fraud. According to a report out of Australia, prosecutors in Korea have formally charged Kun-hee (who has admitted guilt anyhow), but say they won't arrest him because it would cause "enormous disruption" in the company's operations. Authorities said instead they plan to send him to a week-long, all-expenses-paid trip to a luxurious spa, and...
 
Tags: deep tissue rub, lee kun-hee, kun-hee, enormous disruption, samsung, actual indictment, choir boys, fraud, luxurious spa
 
 
 
 
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Samsung CEO charged with fraud, won't be arrested

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2008-04-17 11:02:00 by Joshua Topolsky in Engadget
...fraud. According to a report out of Australia, prosecutors in Korea have formally charged Kun-hee (who has admitted guilt anyhow), but say they won't arrest him because it would cause "enormous disruption" in the company's operations. Authorities said instead they plan to send him to a week-long, all-expenses-paid trip to a luxurious spa, and...
 
Tags: deep tissue rub, lee kun-hee, kun-hee, enormous disruption, samsung, actual indictment, choir boys, fraud, luxurious spa
 
 
 
 
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ASUS Eee PC used on ATM fraud in Brazil

2008-04-22 21:32:00 by xujiren in Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks
 
...fraud. The laptop was connected *inside* the machine so it would store customers' information and passwords. The criminals damaged all the others ATMs so the customers would be forced to use the hacked machine Even before the investigation begun, one of the thieves went to a police station to register a car accident. He was immediately...
 
Tags: eee, atm fraud, thieves, black eee, store customers, rafael, customers, rafael capanema, car accident
 
 
 
 
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Synthetic Identity: 'The borrower who never was'

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2008-02-21 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...fraudsters create "synthetic" identities people who appear real on paper but don't actually exist and use them to bilk banks As is so often the case with sophisticated ruses like this, perpetrators oftimes learn their stuff by starting out in the field legitimately before going rogue Here's the WSJ story. The Borrower Who Never Was...
 
Tags: unpaid credit-card bills, credit, credit system lenders, credit-card fraud, credit card, credit charge-offs, produce credit histories, atm cards, cards
 
 
 
 
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Blast from the past: 'The best article I've ever read on identity theft and what to do if and when it happens to you'

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2008-01-13 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...fraud solutions at Kroll Identity theft insurance should not be confused with credit monitoring services These online services offer, for $30 to $150 annually, monthly e-mail alerts about new credit inquiries, account openings or other changes to your credit records, as well as frequent credit reports But Linda Foley, co-executive director...
 
Tags: identity theft, identity, avoid identity theft, insurance information institute, information, identity theft program, insurance, insurance companies offer, online identity-theft gang
 
 
 
 
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Using Asterisk to Scam Credit Cards

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2008-08-04 12:06:43 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...fraudsters are using Asterisk as a "collection tool" for their credit card scam. While that's nothing new by itself, since there are plenty of scammers leveraging Asterisk, I found it fascinating to be able to actually call into the scammer's system Asterisk has become hacker's tool of choice because it's free, flexible, and feature-rich....
 
Tags: credit, scam credit cards, credit cards, credit card company, credit card activation, credit card, asterisk, invalid credit card, scam
 
 
 
 
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Using Asterisk to Scam Credit Cards

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2008-08-04 12:06:43 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...fraudsters are using Asterisk as a "collection tool" for their credit card scam. While that's nothing new by itself, since there are plenty of scammers leveraging Asterisk, I found it fascinating to be able to actually call into the scammer's system Asterisk has become hacker's tool of choice because it's free, flexible, and feature-rich....
 
Tags: credit, scam credit cards, credit cards, credit card company, credit card activation, credit card, asterisk, invalid credit card, scam