Internet Threats Blog
Need a job? The globally economy is in shambles with well-paying jobs going the way of the desktop. Young and educated now means young and unemployed. Alas, even with the economic downturn, hack and wack global security firms, national security agencies and even organized crime are on a hiring binge to add staff to their payroll: that is Hackers. Their rationale is quite simple -- find out about … [Read more...]
Long gone are the days when shredding sensitive paper documents would suffice to protect your private information. Identity theft has surpassed credit card and utilities fraud to become the number one complaint by consumers in 2010. With the increase in popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, smartphone usage and other mobile devices, the amount of personal information … [Read more...]
Sony Playstation users expressed shock on April 26th as Sony Playstation Network and Qriocity went public and announced a data breach that affected an alarming 70 million customers. Although in distress, gamers are taking this opportunity to step outside of their homes and head out for some vitamin D. Between April 17th to 19th hackers gained access to personal information such as: name, … [Read more...]
