As Web Fuels Bike Thefts, Victims Turn Vigilantes
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By the time he got the call last month, Martin Moulton had given up on his stolen $3,000 bike.
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US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.
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In real life, you probably don't want to be friends with a guy   who once stole a car from a one-legged girl and faked his death in order   to break up with someone. But virtual social networking is another   story.
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Huge crowds in social networking sites draw money-minded malware authors.
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Social workers were the target of a series of vicious and personal attacks this week -- and their bosses were found wanting when it came to offering them protection.   The attack came on the internet through a Google-owned weblog site.
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he cunning bicycle thieves of New York City always seem to be one step ahead of lockmakers. Design a more sophisticated lock and the thieves make a better pick.
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As Internet becomes a crime-choked neighborhood, companies could close their e-commerce shutters and customers could flee.
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In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims -- aspiring Internet scammers.A Moroccan group called &quot;Mr. Brain&quot; is offering free phishing kits on a Web site hosted in France, said Paul Mutton, Internet services developer at Netcraft, a security company in Bath, England.The software packages make it easy to quickly set up a fraudulent Web site mimicking a known brand in order to trick people into divulging credit card details or bank account numbers. Templates for spam e-mail are also included, targeting brands such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, and HSBC.Mr. Brain&#39;s Web site lists the kits and what kind of details each one is capable of collecting, such as usernames, passwords or Social Security numbers. Netcraft posted screenshots on its Web site.But what the aspiring scammer doesn&#39;t know is that the phishing kits are designed to send any sensitive information that&#39;s collected back to e-mail accounts controlled by Mr. Brain, Mutton said.&quot;Obviously, that&#39;s why they are offering this stuff for free,&quot; Mutton said. &quot;I was impressed by it.&quot;Mr. Brain hides the special e-mail function in a blend of PHP scripts, one of which is encrypted, Mutton said. Just in case someone decrypts it, Mr. Brain has written at the top of the file &quot;Don&#39;t need to change anything here. Created by Mr. Brain Morocco Team.&quot;The scheme seems to be targeted at new phishers, Mutton said. Mr. Brain benefits since other wannabe scammers shoulder the cost and risk of finding an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host the phishing site, Mutton said.&quot;Essentially, they&#39;re exploiting all these novice phishers -- basically getting them to do all the hard work,&quot; Mutton said.It&#39;s difficult to tell without further research how many of the free phishing kits linked with this latest scam are live on the Internet, but Mutton said Netcraft noticed one earlier this month targeting Bank of America.&quot;Clearly, these are actively being used in phishing attacks,&quot; Mutton said.
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A thief or thieves stole $449,000 from the city in two online theft incidents last week, but the sharp-eyed city treasurer noticed the actions and called police.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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Social network sites are being urged to do more to help young users report online abuse.
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Police took up pursuit in cyberspace after a young Norwegian posted on the Internet video of his wild car driving. Following an electronic trail that he left online, police caught him and slapped him with real-life fine $1,300.
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A freewheeling Internet marketplace, www.craigslist.org fulfills its users' varied needs. -Leslie Walker
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User-generated Web content is becoming a target for hackers and cross-site scripting attacks on Web sites can lead to malware taking over the browsers of machines that use the sites.
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Dark clouds are gathering over the local blogosphere. First there were "splog" attacks, pieces of spam left in the comments area of local blogs. That was kids' stuff. Now it appears that at least two blogs in the western suburbs have become victims of a new, scarier menace: blogjacking.
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Here's something that might appeal to your fretful or data-loving side: a service that alerts you if your car is stolen &#151; or being driven too fast by the teenager who borrowed the keys.
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Spam exploiting the deadly airplane crash in Sao Paulo lures readers to a malicious Web site.