SFO raids Torex addresses
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Oh dear... The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has raided three addresses connected to Torex Retail, the troubled software supplier already facing investigation from the London Stock Exchange (LSE), after a shock profit warning on 26 January.â¦
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A cache found online of usernames and passwords for more than 100 government e-mail accounts includes takings from Iranian, Russian, Indian, U.K., and Kazakh victims.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Just days after Cisco System
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TechWeb - Officials think the site's server was hacked sometime between Jan. 26 and Jan. 28.
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(InfoWorld) - With tropical storm Ernesto now blowing off the coast of Florida, Internet security experts are warning that fraudsters may be hard at work claiming Ernesto-related Web site domains. On Tuesday, 18 domains related to the storm became live, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute. They include such names as Ernestoinsurance.com, Ernestomoney.com, and Ernestodamage.com. Ullrich's Web posting on this topic can beÂ found here. Scammers began cashing inÂ on natural disasters in a widespread way following the December 2004 earthquake and Tsunamis that killed hundreds of thousands in southeast Asia, Ullrich said. Last year there wereÂ reports of large-scale fraudÂ in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast. In September, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that more than half of the Hurricane Katrina aid sites that it had reviewed were registered to people outside of the U.S. and likely to be fraudulent. SANS saw about 1,000 Katrina-related domains registered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Ullrich said. The majority of these domains were set up for what he called "domain parking," an attempt to make money by placing ads on a Web site that surfers seem likely to stumble upon. Ernestoinsurance.com, for example was registered by Julian Luby a graduate student in Portland, Oregon, who said he registered between 30 and 50 Ernesto-related domains, beginning Sunday. Luby registered the domains for the dual purposes of providing information on the storm and raising money for a group of social networking sites he is developing. Luby, who also registered the Ernestomoney.com and Ernestodamage.com sites, has listed many of his domains for sale, asking from $400 to $1,000 per domain. He is also maintaining a blog of Ernesto-related news on some of the sites. On one day shortly after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, more than 400 Katrina-related domains were registered. Ultimately dozens of the sites proved to be fraudulent, and Ullrich is worried that this pattern may repeat itself with Ernesto. However, it seems unlikely that Ernesto will attract the attention of Katrina, which was one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. By Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center had downgraded Ernesto from hurricane to Tropical storm. "It doesn't look like Ernesto will amount to much, so I don't think we'll see much in terms of domain fraud," Ullrich said. But this is a pattern he expects scammers to repeat as other storms form during this 2006 hurricane season. "Basically they're waiting for the right hurricane to come around," he said. In any case, anyone looking to register Ernesto domain names may already be late to the game. The U.S. National Weather Service publishes its list of hurricane names years in advance, and many scammers have pre-registered their fraudulent sites, according to Rich Miller, an analyst with Web site tracking service Netcraft Ltd. "A lot of the premium names are long gone," he said. That list of National Weather Service's list of Hurricane names can beÂ found here.
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ID theft fears blow through Chicago property market Hackers rather than an inside job are being blamed for an attack on an Illinois state agency's server that left thousands of property market workers potentially exposed to identity theft.â¦
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Anti-trust allegations Officials from the European Competition Commission, accompanied by local officials, raided Intel offices in Munich and those of Dixons Store Group International in the UK today as part of an investigation into alleged illegal collusion - that Intel and retailers worked together to fix prices.â¦
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Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycosâs anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.
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Prosecutors on Friday raided UFJ Bank&#39;s Tokyo head office and the home of former executives, one day after government regulators filed a criminal complaint against the bank for obstructing inspections.
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Visit our glorious malware! Add embassy websites to the growing list of hacked internet destinations trying to infect visitor PCs with malware.â¦
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Domains of several new phishing sites are cropping up with known Storm worm domains. F-Secure researchers think phishers are leasing parts of the larger botnet.
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Anonymising service flushed out Prosecutors in Germany have seized 10 servers which hosted the anonymising service TOR.â¦
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SCO, the ever-popular Unix company, has come under attack from hackers once again. This time they have replaced the front page of SCO&#39;s Web site with their own version that parodies SCO&#39;s legal battles over Linux.
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Timaru building sites are being targeted by thieves.   In the last fortnight thousands of dollars worth of tools have been stolen, while over the weekend 120 metres of electrical cabling, some of which was underground, was stolen.
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(InfoWorld) - Police raided IBM's Moscow headquarters Wednesday. Speaking Thursday, IBM spokesman Jonathan Batty confirmed that the raid had taken place. However, he wouldn't say if the authorities seized documents or computer equipment. "We're stating for the time being that we are cooperating with the Russian authorities but declining to give any further comment now," Batty said. An unidentified law enforcement source was quoted by the Interfax News Agency as saying the raid could pertain to imports of black-market computers for Russia's State Pension Fund. Interfax reported that 10 locations around Moscow were raided by masked officers carrying rifles, although it was not immediately clear which law enforcement agency the officers represented. Also reportedly raided were the headquarters of the State Pension Fund, which manages $57.5 billion in pensions; the Information and Computer Technologies Industry Association; Lanit Group, a Russian company that deals in outsourcing software development, and R-Style Group, a supplier of computers, peripherals and office equipment, according to the Moscow Times.
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Beware of any e-mail claiming to come from "frauddep@ftc.gov"--it carries a nasty payload.