Woman loses US$4000 in Facebook scam
You might think that people who lose money in online scams get all they deserve, but the modus operandi of the fraudsters is getting very clever.
This case, reported by the V3 newswire, appears to be one of them, involving fraudsters posing as immigration officials in the UK and making a very persuasive argument.
Read more on this interesting scam here...
Michigan's Gerald R Ford airport website closed by virus
The website of the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was downed due to a virus. The problem arose when a user of the airport site got a pop-up that appeared to be from Adobe prompting the user to download an Adobe reader update. But it was a virus, and not from Adobe.
The airport's IT group is not sure what the virus does, but the case may serve as a warning to others...
Hackers break into Robert Scoble's blog
Mischievous hackers are still around, as Robert Scoble, the well-known blogger found out to his cost, after hackers broke into his blog and deleted about two months worth of postings.
The incident shows that Wordpress v2.7xx may not be as secure as many people might think. Read more on the Venturebeat site here...
Five East Europeans indicted over cybercrimes
New York prosecutors have reportedly indicted five Eastern European men in an extensive credit card fraud operation that allegedly netted the men US$4 million from some 95 000 stolen card numbers.
While not as major as some other incidents, the cybercrime serves as a warning to any companies handling card data.
Read more on the saga on the IDG newswire here...
Microsoft issues first Windows 7 patches
The ink may be still drying on the user agreements for the new operating system, but Microsoft is already issuing the first patches for Windows 7 - but the good news is that the patch numbers are not as bad as Vista used to generate.
Read more on the Computerworld website here...
BlackBerry the smartphone of choice for organized criminals
According to ZDNet, cybercriminals have realised what encryption is and the effects it has. As a result they are reported to be switching to storing their illegal data on Blackberry smartphones.
Does RIM know about this? Read more on this interesting development here...