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Not quite worried enough that identity thieves might empty your bank account or ruin your credit rating with a shopping spree in your name? The FBI says those concerns are small spuds compared to what might happen when crooks parlay identity theft and mortgage fraud into “a totally new kind of crime: house stealing.”

A four-month investigation into the inner workings of the phishing scourge that drives identity theft attacks has uncovered an underground ecosystem of compromised Web servers, do-it-yourself phishing kits, brazen credit card thieves and lazy code copycats.

For the first time since 2004, the three complaints indicators are increasing. In 2007, the FTC received over 810,000 Consumer Sentinel complaints when they had never taken over 700,000 in any previous year. As ever, Identity Theft is the main complaint category.

Identity fraud is running rampant. Between corporate breaches and online exploits against individuals, hackers are stealing identities in record numbers and posting it to the Web from all over the country, right? Wrong on all counts, according to new studies of the ID fraud space.

Last week I went over to a friend’s house. For purposes of this writing, I will call her Daffodil. As we sat around the kitchen table, Daffodil mentioned she found a strange charge on her Visa statement — billed to a company she never heard of and on a day she didn’t use […]

The Bank of Lancaster County is currently being targeted by a phishing attack that does away with the traditional web-based phishing forms. Instead, victims are asked to phone a toll free number to reactivate their card.

Over the years PayPal has become an increasingly-popular way to make payments online, the problem is that many people feel PayPal puts them at an increased risk of identity theft. Are these fears founded, or are these people missing out on a valuable online payment tool? If you’ve been afraid to use PayPal due to […]

When U.S. Air Force veteran Marcos Miranda had his identity stolen, he went from being a valued customer and employee to a government statistic — one of thousands of identity theft victims caught up each year in the crackdown on illegal immigrants.

With holiday shopping upon us, the most frequent question I’m asked is, "Is it safe to shop online?" The answer is, of course, "that depends." Not all online–or even brick-and-mortar–stores engage in safe security practices. And even those that do may have third-party partners–for processing orders or credit cards–that are not secure.

A hacker finds a way to use a booby-trapped Web page to trick Google Toolbar users into adding malicious buttons to the browser. A dialog spoofing vulnerability in the popular Google Toolbar could be exploited by malicious hackers to execute malicious files or launch identity theft attacks, according to a warning from security researcher Aviv […]

Many online media avenues have recently been focusing on the topic of Internet fraud. Business leaders, computer security experts, lawyers, medical boards, banking institutions, etc. They do not fully understand the kinds of frauds that can be conducted through or with the aid of the Internet, or the ramifications of such frauds for the future […]

It used to be that high school students would get out of class for an assembly and the speaker was usually a recovering alcoholic there to warn about the dangers of substance abuse and drunk driving. While those are certainly very valid and beneficial topics young people need to know about, there’s also a new […]

Thanks to rapidly-evolving technologies, identity theft has become one of the fastest-growing financial crimes in the world today. Last year in Canada, more than 7,700 victims of identity theft contacted Phone Busters, the Canadian Anti-fraud Call Centre. They reported a total loss of $16 million.

Identity theft has been on the rise in recent years, and a recent news article has indicated that Birmingham, Alabama has now made the top 50 U.S. cities for identity theft. There are always stories that highlight the risk of identity theft for citizens living in certain cities, states, or geographic regions.

Carnegie Mellon University is researching the best ways to educate e-mail users about the dangers of phishing, such as how to distinguish the URL of a fraudulent Web site from a legitimate one. Not exactly rocket science…or is it?