Posts Tagged ‘cybercrime’

Maine Seed Company Website Hacked: Demonstrates SMB Vulnerability & Questions Hacker Safe Seals

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

This is the time of the year that thoughts turn to gardening as seed catalogs start filling the mailboxes. I enjoy having fresh-grown vegetables from my garden; nothing is better than a deep red, ripe, juicy Big Boy Beefsteak tomato right off the vine. These seed companies are overwhelmingly small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Many have gone online in the past few years, bucking the century-long tradition of depending primarily upon postal mail for their sales.

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Identity Theft: Fraudulent Use of the CVC

Monday, February 19th, 2007

An interesting article pointing out the way crooks use that 3-digit code on the back of your credit card was published in the Newark Advocate Saturday.

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Data Ransom Story: Crooks Targeting Small Businesses and Individuals

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Yesterday USA Today ran a report, “Cybercrooks hold PC data captive.”
This is nothing new, I blogged about this type of ransom scheme earlier this year. The crooks are getting more creative.

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Data Ransom Story: Crooks Targeting Small Businesses and Individuals

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Yesterday USA Today ran a report, “Cybercrooks hold PC data captive.”
This is nothing new, I blogged about this type of ransom scheme earlier this year. The crooks are getting more creative.

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100 Million Internet Web Sites

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Today CNN announced the Internet now has 100 million (100,000,000) web sites “with domain names and content on them.” They provided several interesting accompanying statistics.

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100 Million Internet Web Sites

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Today CNN announced the Internet now has 100 million (100,000,000) web sites “with domain names and content on them.” They provided several interesting accompanying statistics.

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