My new roommate’s 3 credit cards have been stolen and about $1000 charged.

Read my previous articles on this subject:

How do criminals get your information? and another article posted HERE

Computer viruses and computer worms have one goal in mind:  to affect a computer user one way or another.  They are very similar, but so different at the same time.  There are two major differences between the two:  the ability to be a standalone program and the ability to travel alone. Read the full story

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

Job seekers are targeted by the identity thieves.  Learn how to protect yourself while looking for a job.

With the recent economic downturn and a high unemployment rate, the identity theft crimes targeting job seekers is up by 345% or so. Out of all Identity Theft cases filed with the FTC in 2008, 15% of them were employment related.

This is, perhaps, one of the easiest ways to steal someone’s information. People are always looking for jobs or new careers. With so many different job sites and resources available on the Internet to the job seekers, it is sometimes difficult to recognize scams. The scammers hack into major job boards, or they create “dummy” job boards with a sole purpose of collecting information and selling it on the “underground” market, or they post fake job occupancies on the well –known job sites, or they pose as a background check company. Therefore, the job seekers need to take every precaution to avoid getting trapped by the scammers. Read the full story

If you have been following the updates on the “Red Flags” Rule, you are probably aware of the fact that the American Bar Associations had filed a lawsuit, because the lawyers wanted to be exempted from this rule.  They won that lawsuit, of course.   No surprise here-the judges are lawyers too and they are looking out for their colleagues. Read the full story

The allegations of fraud against Katonah businessman and Democratic fund-raiser Hassan Nemazee have expanded since his arrest last month on charges of defrauding Citibank of $74 million. On Monday, Mr. Nemazee, who owns homes in Katonah and in Manhattan, was indicted by a grand jury on three counts of bank fraud and one of identity theft. The indictment alleges that Mr. Nemazee, over the course of about a decade, defrauded Citibank, the Bank of America, and HSBC of more than $290 million. Read the full story

Police say 36-year-old Amy Johnson stole wallets from unlocked lockers at the Planet Fitness in Clifton Park. Johnson then allegedly used a credit card from one of those wallets to buy groceries, even going so far as to forge the victim’s name.   Continue Reading Here