Cybercriminals love holidays especially Christmas! The number of cyber attacks on the unsuspecting Internet users goes up by about 400% during this time.

In my previous video I talked about a computer worm called Koobface and how one of my best friends fell victim to it. Read the full story

TAMPA — The FBI has generated a list of the latest scams and ways people can protect against becoming victims.

Special Agent Dave Couvertier, a spokesman for the FBI Tampa Field Division, said there are “literally thousands” of scams making their way through cyberspace. Read the full story

A Capitol Heights man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison Monday for orchestrating an identity theft scheme in which perpetrators stole driver’s licenses, credit cards and other documents and then dressed up in wigs and glasses to impersonate the victims at banks, federal authorities said. Read the full story

Prosecutors in Manhattan have named five additional men from Eastern Europe in an alleged scheme that pilfered $4m using more than 95,000 stolen credit cards.

Using handles such as “the Viver,” “Inexwor,” and “DoZ,” the men were part of an international conspiracy that reached half-way around the world to snatch the payment card credentials of people located in New York, according to prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Read the full story

A 30-year-old Chicago woman was behind bars Monday facing 20 felony charges alleging she stole more than $50,000 from a McHenry County man during a two-year identity theft scam.

Luevell Tracie Chester, of the 500 block of East 51st Street, faces six counts of aggravated identity theft, 13 counts of theft and a single count of financial institution fraud stemming from claims she gained access to the victim’s checking account and drained it to pay for a mortgage, mobile telephone and credit card bills.

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Joe Carberry and David J. Chamberlin
And how to protect your company.

Right now, in a part of your organization you may seldom think about, a devious computer hacker from another part of the world may be removing millions of electronic files containing personal employee and customer information. Are you confident your organization is prepared to handle the fallout from that breach when it is uncovered? Read the full story

LifeLock Inc. over the weekend rolled out plans to implement a new identity theft protection program in the wake of a judge’s ruling that it’s fraud alerts are not allowed.

The company said the new system will use technology, scientific modeling and data mining to protect its 1.5 million subscribers from identity theft, and can begin to identify possibilities before the thefts occur. Read the full story