Sunday, October 10, 2010

Cyber Attack on 3G Mobile Phone

Most of us have heard about "3G Mobile Phone". The meaning of 3 G in wikipedia is : "3th generation of mobile phone.It is an International Telecommunication Union."
By using this new generation of mobile phone it would be very easy to communicate other people around and also using internet much more easier than before, As the result of the growing usage of this phone and also internet the crimes and frauds and also cyber attack are about to increase in every second.
This was a major topic at the "Seminar on the penultimate day of the cyber safety week 2010" organized by the "Mumbai police".
Cyber security expert "Vijay Mukhi" insist on making all people aware of the danger of using 3G on handset and as the result of that use of internet will growing so fast thus the people must know that the number of frauds will go up too.

Internet Sex Crimes Against Infants



By increasing the rate of internet users there is a very big reason for parents to be worry and that 's easy accessing of their children to "Pornography" , and also there are so many cases about some people who try to contact with kids and tempt them to have sexual relationship with them.Here is a very famous case in January 2010 .
Two men( 23/43year old) was sentenced guilty and five years imprison of recording so many( more than 40) videos depicting the sexual molestation of children.They were charged with first -degree possession and promotion of child pornography and in these video there were some children as young as 5or 6! They recorded sexual video and shared those in internet and also engaged in sexually graphic conversation.

Census 2010

There was the 2010 census on April in USA, so the people were in danger of receiving spams with the fraud content thus The Better Business Bureau cautioning the consumer of this facts for make them away of fraud :
- 2010 census takers will never contact to you by e.mail or solicit for donations.
- All the official news and information is only in this website "2010.census.gov".
- Census takers are not allowed to ask you any personally identifiable information.
There are a few information that the 2010 BBB published to inform the people of receiving these kind of e.mail.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Internet Identity Theft

Most of the people have been in trouble by Identity Theft for decades.As the result of the growing increase of using internet the people have been faced with "Internet Identity Theft" more than before. This case is something different from common Identity Theft. Common identity theft occurs after something is physically stolen from you like a wallet that all your credit cards, driver's licence,etc is in it and after that the thief make a fraudulent purchase or use. But Internet Identity Theft is much more worse cause most of the victims are completely unaware of their loss and the fraudulent action with their Identities.A thief can get all the information of your computer like where do you go shopping most of the time and so many other information of your computer browser or he can install malicious (spyware) on your computer. All the information on your computer have been collected by this way.
The best way to be safe of this trick is to get an" Internet Security Solution" that is up to the challenge.

Nigerian Scams






Have you ever heard about "Nigerian Scam" ? Although the scam known as Nigerian , it 's been sent from everywhere in this world not just an event in Nigeria. It 's an e.mail message which are sent to a very expand mailing lists.The content is about promising a rich reward for helping , donating, helping in transaction of money, participating in an upcoming business with the dream of being very rich in a short time or even in dating websites someone ask for money and convince the other to give him/her this money.After a while the person who send money or even gives to the other all personal information/ identification and the credit card 's password has" Less than Nothing" because the person , organization , charity center, business office and whatever and whoever related to this e.mail will be vanished !!



FBI Warning




FBI ( Federal Bureau of Investigation) has been reported some frauds against itself as an e.mail to people. This particular e.mail claims that FBI has been monitoring your internet use and says you 've accessed to some illegal websites.
This e.mail wants all of your personal information and identification and some other question, and also the spread of computer Viruses affects everyone who use the computer.
WARNING: FBI never contact to people in this way so Don't Open this E.mail and any other unsolicited e.mail.
All these e.mails has been sent out with this e.mail address "post@fbi.gov" and "admin@fbi.gov"

cyberstalking

This is an interesting concept which i 've found it recently and want to share it with those who haven't heard about it.

Here is the meaning of "Cyber stalking" in wikipedia :
 "Cyberstalking is use of the internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual,a group of individual,or an organization .It may include false accusation , monitoring,making threats, identify theft,damage to data or equipment,the solicitation of minors for sex or gathering information in order to harass.
In US the first law against cyber stalking went into effect in1999 in California .
One of the most famous cases of cyber stalking is about a woman in US who broke up with her boyfriend and suddenly found that there is no money in none of her credit cards, all her money has been transferred out of her bank account and even her medical insurance was cut off finally four years later in 2009 she and a cyber crime expert proved that her boyfriend was responsible for all that events due to know all her information by detail.
So Be Careful .. Cyber stalkers Don't Discriminate.