Columnists: Online Theft
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Identity theft meets the global virus epidemic, enabling fraud that finally gets people's attention.
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Clever e-mail can fool you into giving your info to thieves. Find out how not to fall prey.
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Internet identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the U.S. today. For five straight years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ranked it as one of the most-reported types of fraud. Despite the increasing awareness of identity theft among consumers and financial institutions, the identity-theft racket shows no signs of slowing. Reported losses from identity theft, currently responsible for over 40 percent of all fraud complaints, approached nearly $300 million last year.
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Also: High security built right into $100 laptop's OS. Read these stories and more from around the Web at News.com Extra.
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A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication, from the hardware initialization, through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely.
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Online merchants in the United States have become better at weeding out fraudulent credit card orders, a new survey indicates. But shipping overseas remains a risky venture. By Joanna Glasner.
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By Ron Knox, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Feb. 20--Chatter on Web sites. Comments flung in presumed anonymity through cyberspace. Blogs that blend threads of truth with blankets of opinion and speculation.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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'Tis the season for online scams, spam, and malware attacks. Here's what you need to know.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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Criminals are auctioning stolen goods for a profit on the Internet.
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R. James Nicholsonâs term was marked by the theft of a laptop computer that compromised the personal information of tens of millions of people.
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Splogs are the latest thing in online scams -- and they could smother the internet like a pestilence. By Charles C. Mann from Wired magazine.
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Software vulnerabilities are bought and sold online, both by legitimate security companies and by thieves.
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Internet users who illegally download music and films could face losing access to the web
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It's warcraft out there Online games have become a major target for fraud in recent years. A study from Kaspersky Labs, published today, dissects the techniques and targets used by hackers to make "easy money" by selling stolen login credentials of users or in-game items on the black market.â¦
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Secure shopping websites have made it much more attractive for consumers to spend billions of pounds on the web.   But many shoppers are ignoring basic internet security procedures, opening themselves up to online fraud.