“Most instances of banking fraud are not due to the bank’s technology being compromised, but to people unwittingly giving out their personal information to criminals via phishing scams and copycat sites, or their computers being infected with malware …
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OAKLAND — Security software and a computer owner’s diligence led to the recovery Tuesday night of a stolen laptop computer and the arrest of the man who had it, police said. The suspect, Muthanna Aldebashi, 27, a limousine and cabdriver who lives in …
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LOS ANGELES—Authorities say five people have been convicted in a Los Angeles federal court for their role in an elaborate “phishing” scam based in the United States and Egypt that bilked bank customers out of at least $1 million. The U.S. Attorney’s …
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WASHINGTON — A malicious computer attack that appears to target Iran’s nuclear plants … a-decade occurrence. The virus is so complex and costly to develop “that a select few attackers would be capable of producing a similar threat,” he said.
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