BDG | Data Security

Hacker’s Arrest Offers Peek Into Russian Criminal World

Tuesday, August 24, 2010
nytimes.com
American authorities said Vladislav A. Horohorin headed “one of the most sophisticated organizations of online financial criminals in the world.”

He Doesn’t Live Here, but I Know He’s Living It Up

Sunday, July 11, 2010
nytimes.com
O.K., who’s the deadbeat who’s using my phone number (and address)' And why can’t the credit companies catch on'

26 Arrested in $5 Million Identity-Theft Scheme

Thursday, June 17, 2010
nytimes.com
A Staten Island-based ring of Nigerian immigrants gained access to at least 200 people’s personal and financial data, in some cases by stealing mail, the authorities said.

Stolen Facebook Accounts for Sale

Monday, May 03, 2010
nytimes.com
Thefts in which pilfered and bogus Facebook accounts are sold in bulk — the more the friends, the higher the price — is spreading in the United States.

Identity Thieves Infiltrated Tax Office in Bronx, a Suit Says

Friday, April 09, 2010
nytimes.com
Longtime customers said employees had filed fake returns in their names and stolen their refunds.

Using Industrial-Strength Shredders at Home

Thursday, April 01, 2010
nytimes.com
As concerns over identity theft grow, the shredder is emerging as a symbol for the Age of Anxiety, and users are trading up — sometimes way up.

How Privacy Vanishes Online

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
nytimes.com
Using bits of data from social network sites, researchers gleaned names, ages and even Social Security numbers.

LifeLock Settles With F.T.C. Over Charges of Deception

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
nytimes.com
The company, which claimed it could protect against identify theft, will pay $12 million and change its marketing campaign.

Building a Better Mailbox

Sunday, February 21, 2010
nytimes.com
Flexibility and persistence helped a California couple create and successfully market their lockable mailboxes.

Take the Ferrari, Prosecutors Tell a Judge, but a Stockbroker Gets to Keep His Coupe

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
nytimes.com
Prosecutors wanted Steven Mandala, accused of lying to get a job at Merrill Lynch, to turn over his Ferrari as a condition of bail, but a judge said no.

Hacking for Fun and Profit in China’s Underworld

Tuesday, February 02, 2010
nytimes.com
A young hacker let a reporter into his world of trolling for information that may one day be worth money.

Companies Fight Endless War Against Computer Attacks

Monday, January 18, 2010
nytimes.com
The intrusion into Google’s computers and related attacks point to the rising sophistication of such assaults and the vulnerability of even the best defenses.

Additional Guilty Plea by Hacker in Thefts

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
nytimes.com
The hacker, Albert Gonzalez, pleaded guilty to charges that he stole tens of millions of payment card numbers by breaking into corporate computer systems.

Court Bars Tactic in Immigration Cases

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
nytimes.com
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that authorities violated the constitutional rights of people suspected of being illegal immigrants when they used tax returns to build identity-theft cases against them.

Reverse-Engineering Social Security Numbers

Sunday, December 13, 2009
nytimes.com
Economist Alessandro Acquisti and computer scientist Ralph Gross, both at Carnegie Mellon, analyze patterns in social security numbers and develop method of predicting new numbers issued using birth date of applicants and location; research is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences