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Important Cyber-Crime Advice for Obama and You

Critical government, military, and civilian networks have been repeatedly infiltrated to steal our intellectual property and national secrets. So, ho[...] read more »
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2009 a Year of Records: World's Biggest Data Breach

Heartland Payment Systems, a credit card payment processing firm, may have been the victim of the largest data breach to date. The Princeton, N.J.-b[...] read more »
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Foreclosure Oncology: Separating Facts From Fixins

Why don’t these families simply refinance? Because the amount owed that would need to be refinanced is greater than what the home is worth, resulting[...] read more »
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Take Action to Prevent Your Identity Theft

Hackers regularly break security codes that protect corporate databases to gather personal information they use to take over identities. This isn’t t[...] read more »
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Omnipotent Property Depression: History’s Ominous Omniscience

Painting with a broad brush, assume a 40% loss in property values throughout the entire United States in a period ending in 2010 or 2011. This means [...] read more »
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Russian Wi-Fi Hacker Software For Sale On-Line

One obvious concern is the illegal use of the tool to actually hack Wi-Fi networks, not just ‘test’ them. “Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor works [...] read more »
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UK Ministry of Defense Attacked

The ministry declined to say which warships have been affected, but news reports singled out the fleet flagship HMS Ark Royal, an aircraft carrier th[...] read more »
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The Real Cause of the Financial Crisis: An MIT Blackjack Team Perspective

The solution that they usually flock to is to create such a complex Martingale system that they themselves cannot understand the longer term risk imp[...] read more »
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ISR News: Terrorists Take Aim for Online 9/11

“Other than a nuclear device or some other type of destructive weapon, the threat to our infrastructure, the threat to our intelligence, the threat t[...] read more »
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ISR News: 35 Million Records Breached in 2008

More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, accor[...] read more »
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ISR News: Top 10 Threats from 2008

A municipal network held hostage, the hacking of a public official’s private e-mail account, court battles to gag security researchers, and dire warn[...] read more »
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Wall Street Hijackers and Hit Men Busy in 2008

"What made them different, and perhaps intolerable, was the threat they posed to the corrupt and precarious financial systems that were further enri[...] read more »
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Common Sense Should Trump Expert Rhetoric

If we think about the nature of the crisis, and use simple common sense to address problem, we will be able to arrive at simple solutions. Unfortunat[...] read more »
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► Consumer Reports Buys Consumerist.com

Consumers Union (CU), the highly trusted, independent publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and ConsumerReports.org, has purchased Consumerist.com f[...] read more »
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Employee Arrested for ID Theft

Hospitals’ increasing reliance on computerized record-keeping has provided new avenues for identity theft and invasions of medical privacy...[...] read more »
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