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Jackson's death unleashes barrage of online scams
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. They pump out specially created spam e-mails and throw up malicious Web sites to infect victims' computers, hoping to capitalize on the sudden ...
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Study Looks Inside the Minds of Identity Thieves
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Federal Trade Commission recently asked a UT Dallas criminology researcher for help understanding what motivates identity thieves.
Computer scientists uncover online auction fraud
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 05, 2006 |
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Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are using data mining techniques to identify perpetrators of fraud among online auction users as well as their otherwise unknown accomplices.
Electrosmog on the circuit board
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Their miniature size is their strength - and also their weakness. Be it in cell phones, cars or computers, electronic components are getting smaller and smaller and increasingly powerful. The smaller they ...
Anti-phishing 'posses' hunt criminals
Oct 05, 2005 |
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last Friday signed into law the first state legislation that penalizes fraudsters who steal online identities through "phishing" scams, but Internet companies and banks are not waiting ...
New bottle cap thwarts wine counterfeiters
Aug 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Roman historian Pliny the Elder wrote " in vino veritas " – in wine, there is truth – he must not have been drinking from a counterfeit bottle. Researchers Roger Johnston and Jon ...
Fraudsters beware: Iowa State engineer is developing cyber technology to find you
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 07, 2008 |
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Yong Guan had scribbled 12 arrows across his office whiteboard, each black line going from one little box he had drawn to another little box. He had written five long formulas up there, too. And that was bad ...
Second-Hand Computers Pose Identity Theft Threat
Jan 30, 2006 |
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A new identity theft study conducted by leading University of Leicester criminologist, Professor Martin Gill found that second-hand computers - which account for one in 12 computers in use worldwide - can be ...
For FTC, e-commerce means managing 'mice'
Jul 25, 2006 |
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Only on the Internet could a site hawking dancing hamster animations, accompanied by hamster-sung harmonies, be paid advertising royalties from corporate giants like Wal-Mart and American Express. But the future earning power ...
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