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Feds Catch Their Illegal Limit In Operation Phish Phry
Operation Phish Phry, a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that commenced in 2007, revealed how Egyptian-based hackers "phished" bank account numbers and related personal identification information from an unknown number of bank customers. The victims were usually contacted by what seemed to them an official email from banks or credit card vendors. The ...
First Person: Fighting Back After My Identity Was Stolen
In 2005 I fell prey to the relatively new "email phishing" identity theft scam. I mistakenly answered a bogus email to "update account information" for PayPal. Days later I was paying a utility bill over the phone, and discovered my bank account had been emptied. I learned from my bank that the thieves had also used my bank account to pay for a background check on me, and purchased a satellite ...
Feature: "The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot
The e-mail arrived in James Charles Cafferty's inbox on July 14, 2011. Unlike most unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, the message did not pitch mortgages, get rich quick scams, or penis pills. Instead, it provided a link to an under-the-radar child pornography website and the password needed to access it. Cafferty, a diplomatic security officer working for the US government at its London ...
First Person: I Have a Separate Checking Account for Online Transactions
Like many married couples, my husband and I have two checking accounts. Unlike most couples, however, our checking accounts aren't split up into "his and hers" but rather "secure" and "not-so-secure."
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