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…
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HSBC Helping Out Mail Thieves By Sending Out Pre-Activated Debit Cards
Phil Villarreal writes: Legitimate businessmen aren’t the only ones who need stimulus packages to get their games rolling again. Dudes who dig through peoples’ mail and steal debit cards can also use a little loving. HSBC understands this fact and is helping out by sending out pre-activated debit cards, Knowzy reports. There are reports that…
FL: Citizens Property Insurance didn’t get its mail, warns of fraud
Jeff Harrington reports: Someone filled out a change-of-address form for Citizens Property Insurance. But it wasn’t Citizens. Now the state-run insurer is warning policyholders that mail sent to its headquarters in late June, including payment checks, may have been fraudulently misdirected to a Hialeah apartment. The insurer of last resort, which has more than 1…
AT&T Explains iPad Security Breach
Nick Bilton recaps the breach and posts the e-mail sent by AT&T to customers about the breach: On Sunday evening, AT&T sent an e-mail message to owners of the Apple 3G iPad notifying them of a security breach that was publicized early last week. The message, sent by Dorothy Attwood, a senior vice president and…
Apple’s Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed
Ryan Tate writes: Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the wireless-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking. […] The specific information exposed in the breach included subscribers’ email addresses, coupled with an…
CT man pleads guilty in large ID theft and fraud scheme
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Luis Melendez, also known as “Ramiro Morales-Cruz,” 33, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft stemming from a…