SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Victims of the Great Southern Bank phishing scam extend beyond those who gave personal information over the telephone to callers pretending to be with the bank. The scammers used many legitimate phone numbers as their cover and the owners of those numbers are now feeling the unwarranted…
Driver draws sentence for police chase
Life Culture Mainer, ‘Bachelor’ connect at carnival Ashley Hebert got a head start Monday night in the romantic race to win the heart of TV’s “Bachelor.” Hebert, a dental student from Madawaska, was picked by Brad Womack for … Former Miss Maine takes on ‘Survivor’ People Entertainment‘Palin’s Alaska’ off the…
NEC Develops a New Software Model that Configures Access Policy Automatically
Tokyo, Jan 11, 2011 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today the development of technology that collectively distributes and configures access policy to a variety of computing resources in a cloud computing environment. The newly developed technology helps to significantly reduce operation costs and to improve…
Scam safety for seniors
Senior citizens can be a very friendly and generous group of people. But, that generosity can land them in some serious trouble because there are a lot of people out there willing to take advantage of their giving nature. The Vicker’s Garden Women’s Institute hosted a workshop Monday with Det….
Sacramento Woman Victim of Bail Scam
A Sacramento woman in her 80′s says she was cheated out of $4,600 dollars by a stranger posing to be her granddaughter. She got a call from the woman on Friday saying she was arrested for marijuana posession in Canada and that she needed money for bail. “I just wanted…
Why Filesharing Companies Are Starting to Lobby Washington [INTERVIEW ]
Maury Litwack is a lobbyist, former Hill staffer, opinion writer, and founder of Capitol Plan – A Comprehensive Washington Advocacy Strategy. RapidShare, the file-hosting giant, recently hired a Washington lobbying firm to combat legislative attempts to place penalties on companies that don’t adequately protect domestic copyright. This is its first…
ID Theft Suspect Used Unsecured Wireless Internet
1/10/11 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY – It’s called war driving, tapping into an unsecured wireless internet connection in order to surf the web. It’s also provided an opportunity for criminals to cash in on unsuspecting internet users. The suspect in this most recent case is accused of stealing more than $150,000…
Computer forensics company opens in Petaluma
Haworth, who will lead the company, is known throughout the industry as one of nation’s leading computer forensics investigators. Over the past 20 years, she has led numerous large-scale investigations for Fortune 500 corporations and the country’s most respected law firms. Her work has resulted in a number of landmark…
Security lapses at Stats Can
OTTAWA From lost laptops to stray confidential documents, Statistics Canada has grappled with several “serious” security breaches that have compromised sensitive personal information about Canadians. Internal reports obtained by QMI Agency through Access to Information reveal a number of incidents in the past five years where the federal information-gathering agency…
China Sleeps On A Stuxnet-Like SCADA Bug
No Yes One of the most widely used SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) applications in China may be harboring a critical security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to exploit the bug and execute arbitrary code. Shorten URL: . Click to copy to clipboard or post to Twitter See…