Online Bank Account Hackers - 4 views
BBC NEWS | Business | Africa's mobile banking revolution - 0 views
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Millions of Africans are using mobile phones to pay bills, move cash and buy basic everyday items.
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Setting up a bank account on your phone is straightforward. All you do is register with an approved agent, provide your phone, along with an ID card, and then deposit some cash onto your account.
"Vishing" Is Latest Twist In Identity Theft Scam - 0 views
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Vishing, similar to phising scams that rely on email to steal costomer identities. Various users would click on links sent to them by fraud looking websites, bank names, etc. The "vishers" would then redirect them to a automated call service very similar to the original thing, and then they would obtain the information given by the consumer.
Identity Theft and Fraud - 0 views
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Description of Identity theft, and that it is indeed a crime. Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. In the US and Canada many poeple have reported that unauthorized persons have taken frauds out of their bank or finacial accounts, or the worst care, taken over their identity all together (another person who is using someone else's name/credit card).
BBC News : Two held in global PC fraud probe - 1 views
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Two held in global PC fraud probe
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Two held in global PC fraud probe
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Two held in global PC fraud probe
Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Web tool oversees Afghan election - 0 views
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Their reports feature alongside those of full-time Afghan journalists to ensure the election and reporting of it is as "free
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The Alive in Afghanistan project plots the SMS reports on an online map.
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The text messages are collected via a free-platform known as FrontlineSMS, developed by UK programmer Ken Banks.
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Gangs are stealing taxpayers' passwords and submitting claims for false tax returns them. - 0 views
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Gangs are stealing taxpayers' passwords and submitting claims for tax refunds to be paid to them, HM Revenue and Customs has warned.
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details via the internet.
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They then used these details to make fraudulent repayment claims, requesting funds be sent to other bank accounts.
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Exploiting Browser Information & Privacy - 0 views
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easy it was to exploit security loopholes
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Easy exploitation leads to a lot of negative consequences and areas of impact include all sorts of education online, banking and financial reserves, businesses and mainstream market affairs, governmental and nongovernmental work and damage to personal information and biological/health data. This also harms intellectual property and ideas can be stolen online far easier than usual... reliability & security....
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redirect traffic
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Redirecting internet connection or regular user traffic could lead to a backlog of information on the web and a loss of personal details and this again as huge areas of impact including security, reliability and extended impact on finances and personal details & anonymity....this also affects systems in the social context with networks being hacked and codes and enscriptions being changed..
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access and steal any information exchanged
West Africa looses and regains internet connection - 0 views
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A cable fault that caused a major blackout
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causing severe problems for its banking sector, government and mobile phone networks.
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Services were severely disrupted or knocked out in Togo, Niger and Benin.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Small town 'online crime hotspot' - 0 views
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Last year, 24% of all internet purchases there were made using stolen credit card details, according to security company The Third Man.
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Durham Police say investigations are being hampered because people are told to report fraud to their banks first.
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Shildon, in the DL area, is a former industrial town with a population of 10,000, and police believe that just one or two people may be responsible for the crime wave.
Tighter Security for Businesses Banking Online - 0 views
Warning, Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous To Your Health: Gear + Gadgets: GQ - 2 views
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Earlier this winter, I met an investment banker who was diagnosed with a brain tumor five years ago. He's a managing director at a top Wall Street firm, and I was put in touch with him through a colleague who knew I was writing a story about the potential dangers of cell-phone radiation. He agreed to talk with me only if his name wasn't used, so I'll call him Jim. He explained that the tumor was located just behind his right ear and was not immediately fatal—the five-year survival rate is about 70 percent. He was 35 years old at the time of his diagnosis and immediately suspected it was the result of his intense cell-phone usage. "Not for nothing," he said, "but in investment banking we've been using cell phones since 1992, back when they were the Gordon-Gekko-on-the-beach kind of phone." When Jim asked his neurosurgeon, who was on the staff of a major medical center in Manhattan, about the possibility of a cell-phone-induced tumor, the doctor responded that in fact he was seeing more and more of such cases—young, relatively healthy businessmen who had long used their phones obsessively. He said he believed the industry had discredited studies showing there is a risk from cell phones. "I got a sense that he was pissed off," Jim told me. A handful of Jim's colleagues had already died from brain cancer; the more reports he encountered of young finance guys developing tumors, the more certain he felt that it wasn't a coincidence. "I knew four or five people just at my firm who got tumors," Jim says. "Each time, people ask the question. I hear it in the hallways." It's hard to talk about the dangers of cell-phone radiation without sounding like a conspiracy theorist. This is especially true in the United States, where non-industry-funded studies are rare, where legislation protecting the wireless industry from legal challenges has long been in place, and where our lives have been so thoroughly integrated with wireless technology that to suggest it might be a problem—maybe, eventually, a very big public-health problem—is like saying our shoes might be killing us.
Man made $112,000 in bank account hacking scheme - 1 views
Is Spam Here to Stay? - (Information Today, News Bank) - 0 views
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http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:PPCT&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=129EEE11E71D65B0&svc_dat=InfoWeb:newcat&req_dat=B4CD8BC1A80B43D794A5481B6FC40219