Randall Stross reports: It’s easier to steal a million dollars a dollar at a time than a million dollars once. So goes an old saying. If the allegations in a civil case filed in a federal court in Chicago hold up, you can even haul off $10 million if you stick to $9 here or…
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FDLE: State prisoner scammed Orlando hotel guests
Susan Jacobson and Anika Myers Palm report on a case of inmate-orchestrated ID theft: A state prison inmate orchestrated an identity-theft scheme that tricked hotel employees and guests into helping him obtain credit-card numbers and personal information, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said today. Damion Andrico Goldsmith, 40, who has previous convictions for fraudulent…
Laptop Revival repairman jailed
I had posted an earlier story on this case over on PogoWasRight.org, but probably should have posted something here, too. From John Leyden: A corrupt laptop repair engineer has gone to jail for nine months after he was convicted of hacking into the laptop of one of his customers. Grzegorz Zachodni, 30, was caught browsing…
Hackers fool world’s largest companies using smooth talk
From coverage of the social engineering contest at DefCon: … “Out of all the companies called today, not one company shut us down,” said Offensive Security operations manager Christopher Hadnagy, part of the social-engineer.org team behind the competition that kicked off late last week. The team kept hackers within the boundaries of the law, but…
PA: Credit Card Scam
Ben Russell reports: The scammer posed as both a local and federal police officer. The incidents began last Friday when a man called several restaurants along the Carlisle Pike in Hampden Township. In one instance, he said his name was Officer Miller and that he was doing a fraud investigation. For the investigation, he needed…
Baidu lawsuit against domain register approved
Chinese search engine Baidu can proceed with negligence claims against its domain register following a hacking attack, a US judge has ruled. The claims arose from an attack in January on Register.com by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. Baidu alleges the hackers had contacted Register claiming to be Baidu employees and…