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Abney and Associates MONTREAL - Travellers should be wary of cyber threats on vacation as they access free wireless networks with their smartphones, tablets or laptops, says software security company Symantec Corp. Canadians travelling for March break and into the summer season shouldn't be doing things like pulling up their bank accounts on Wi-Fi networks, said Symantec Canada's Lynn Hargrove. "What people don't realize is that there's no security on those Wi-Fi networks for the most part," she said. "It's a great way to keep in touch while you're on vacation, but there are some inherent risks that come with it that people just aren't thinking about." Symantec has found that two in 10 Canadians pull up their bank accounts on free Wi-Fi networks in Canada. Young men are most at risk for cybercrime because they are "fearless" and access risky Internet sites, said Hargrove, director of consumer solutions, from Toronto. According to Symantec's 2012 Norton Cybercrime report, travellers are often victimized through their mobile devices while abroad, often by text messages. "We're seeing a lot of fraudulent texts asking you to click on a link or go and dial a number to retrieve a voice mail," Hargrove said. And the wealth of information stored on a smartphone - pictures, texts, emails, contact lists, work documents, banking information - can be valuable to cyber criminals if stolen or lost, Hargrove said. "What people aren't realizing is that in many cases they have more information on that device than they have on their home PC." Smartphone users should at a minimum have a password to access their device, Hargrove said, and there's also security software available for smartphones. The 2012 Norton Cybercrime report found that 92 per cent of survey respondents in Russia said they had been victims of cybercrime. For Canadians travelling to Mexico or Brazil, each country has a rate of 75 per cent of its online citizens being past victims of cybercrime, Hargrove said. In less

http://abneyassociates.org/2013/04/09/understanding-bitcoin/ Bitcoin is a form of Internet money that is immensely trendy and greatly appreciated means of buying and selling on line. And this is a currency that barely anybody understands. Various companies exclusively accept Bitcoins. The truth because of the recent banking instability in Cyprus it became so enormous that the worth of "all outstanding Bitcoins" just hit $1 billion. So what is this bitcoin? Bitcoin (sign: BTC) is a decentralized digital currency based on an open source, peer-to-peer internet protocol. It was introduced by a pseudonymous developer named Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin) Bitcoins can be exchanged through a computer or smartphone locally or internationally without an intermediate financial institution. In trade, one bitcoin is subdivided into 100 million smaller units called satoshis, defined by eight decimal points. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin) Bitcoin is not managed like typical currencies: it has no central bank or central organization. Instead, it relies on an internet-based peer-to-peer network. The money supply is automated and given to servers or "bitcoin miners" that confirm bitcoin transactions as they add them to a decentralized and archived transaction log approximately every 10 minutes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin) Who would have thought that a virtual currency with no physical manifestation all of a sudden worth $1 billion in U.S. currency. Bitcoin is gaining traction plus attention even if it does not hold a candle to the $1.13 trillion in Federal Reserve Notes in circulation. What people like about Bitcoin is it removes the middleman from online transfers of money. We are all concern about those middlemen such as central banks, or the Federal Reserve or credit card companies. Bitcoin also permits for more anonymity than every other mode of online payment. Though it's hard to pinpoint just how unidentified Bitco

Abney Associates Nicholas Webber, 21, was jailed for five years for running a criminal website He started his criminal career at £24,000-a-year Bradfield College Prison IT Teacher Michael Fox was made redundant after the incident Fox protests he had no idea Webber was a hacker One of Britain's most notorious cyber criminals hacked into a prison computer system from inside jail - after he was allowed to join an IT class. Nicholas Webber, 21, jailed for five years in 2011 for masterminding a multi-million-pound internet crime site, triggered the security scare during a lesson. It is understood his actions caused 'major panic' but it is not clear what, if anything, he managed to access. The prison, HMP Isis in South London, blamed his teacher, Michael Fox, who was employed by Kensington and Chelsea College. He was banned from the prison but the college cleared him of committing any security breaches at a disciplinary hearing last March. However, he was made redundant when no alternative work could be found for him. More... Pictured with piles of cash: The public schoolboy jailed for five years for masterminding £18m internet scam Computer hacker, 21, jailed for masterminding £27 MILLION fraud in his bedroom taking credit card details from unsuspecting internet users On Friday, Mr Fox, from Bromley, Kent, began a claim for unfair dismissal, arguing that it wasn't his decision to put Webber, the son of a former member of Guernsey's parliament, in his class. He says he had no idea he was a hacker. At a hearing at Croydon Employment Tribunal, Mr Fox accused the college of not doing enough to find him another job. 'The perceived problem was there was a tutor who had been excluded by the prison and charged with allowing a hacking expert to hack into the prison's mainframe,' he said. In a statement, the college's business development director, Shanie Jamieson, said: 'He [Mr Fox] did not feel he had done anything wrong as the student concerned was

An anti-Israel hacking collective affiliated with Anonymous has initiated a widespread cyber attack against the Jewish state, penetrating websites affiliated with the Mossad security service and a slew of related entities. Abney Associates Anonymous-linked groups hack Israeli websites, release personal data An anti-Israel hacking collective affiliated with Anonymous says it has initiated a widespread cyber attack against the Jewish state, penetrating websites affiliated with the Mossad security service and a slew of related entities. The hackers claimed late Friday that they have obtained and released personal information relating to 35,000 Israeli government officials, including politicians, military leaders, and police officers, according to a Twitter feed associated with the hackers. A comprehensive spreadsheet purporting to include the information of all 35,000 Israeli officials was published by the website Cryptome, though it did not independently verify the information. The coalition of hackers appears to have ties to the Iranian government, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, and the terror group Hezbollah, according to a report published by Cryptome. The hackers have united under the banner of online movement called "OpIsrael." Their stated goal is to "remove the Israel from WWW (World Wide Web)," according to The Hackers Post, which has been following the group's activities targeting Israel. "It looks like hacker target [sic] different Israeli servers and hacked the websites," Hackers Post reported. The anti-Israel hackers say they perpetrated their attacks to protest treatment of the Palestinians. "The reason for hacking Israeli websites was to raise voice of Palestine's [sic] who are under hell created by Israel and left a deface page [on the hacked websites] displaying images of Palestinians affected by Israeli shelling," the Hackers Post wrote. Hackers left vitriolic and offensive messages on the websites they accessed, according to the Hackers

Abney Associates internettechnologie Phishing, e-mail en Internet oplichting zijn vaak op het Internet en kunnen omvatten: E-mails met bijlagen virus besmet. De twee veelgebruikte methoden voor distributie van de virussen en schadelijke code zijn via e-mailbijlagen en schadelijke code downloaden van het Internet. Veruit de meest voorkomende methode van distributie is door e-mailbijlagen zo oefening voorzichtigheid bij het openen van bijlagen. De algemene regel is: als u niet dat de bijlage verwacht en geen in de bron vertrouwen - open het niet! Voor informatie over de erkenning van een phishing e-mail, bezoek de website Microsoft Safety en Security Centre: hoe te erkennen van een Phishing E-mail. Meer informatie over spam en oplichterij zijn hieronder beschikbaar:Nigeria 419 zwendels Hoe te herkennen van vervalste websites Wat is Phishing? Phishing is een vorm van bedrog gericht identificeren diefstal. In een phishing-scam probeert een kwaadwillende persoon om persoonlijke en financiële informatie zoals bankrekeninggegevens, creditcardnummers, wachtwoorden of andere persoonlijke informatie uit je door te overtuigen u te geven aan hen onder valse voorwendselen. Phishing-praktijken komen meestal via spam e-mail die een koppeling naar een valse website zoals een banksite of e-bay site bevat. Een phishing-scam begint met een kwaadwillende gebruiker die miljoenen van frauduleuze e-mailberichten die lijken stuurt te komen uit populaire websites of websites die u, zoals uw bank of credit card bedrijf vertrouwt. De e-mailberichten, en de websites die zij vaak u sturen, kijken officiële dat zij veel mensen bedriegen te laten geloven dat ze legitiem. Te geloven dat deze e-mails legitiem zijn, reageren nietsvermoedende mensen vaak op de e-mail verzoeken om hun creditcardnummers, wachtwoorden, accountgegevens of andere persoonlijke gegevens. Een oplichting kunstenaar misschien zet een link in een valse e-mailberichten die naar de legitieme website lijkt, maar eigenlijk brengt