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Washington, D.C. (December 23, 2010) -- A security software company is alleging that owners of Internet-connected HDTVs could lose their credit card information and other private information to hackers. That's according to an article by Multichannel News. TV makers have been rolling out new TVs that, when connected to the Internet, display popular Internet applications on screen such as Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and YouTube. But Mocana, the security software firm, said it was able to intercept and redirect Internet traffic to and from one name brand Net-enabled TV. This suggests that hackers could display fake banking and e-commerce websites on-screen...

Internet crime’s always been a problem, of course, but the magnitude of the problem has taken a big leap. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership of the National While Collar Crime Center and the FBI, today presented its annual report, and it’s a doozy. The dollar loss associated with Internet crime complaints received by IC3 last year jumped to $559.7 million from $264.6 million in 2008. That’s a 112% increase.

ELIZABETHTON — An Elizabethton woman has been indicted by a Carter County grand jury on charges she had participated in an international Internet scam. Investigators interviewed Ouchaib on Jan. 24, during which time she told the police she had been receiving money from all across the country and forwarding it to a man in Lagos, Nigeria, who was known by many names, but most commonly as Elinmian Jonathon Smith. She had been conducting the transactions since December 2006.

Let’s Fight This Terrible Crime Against Our ChildrenChild pornography has become a business so profitable that it is no longer limited to pedophiles. Demand exceeds supply and always will. (Some pedophiles, if they had the resources, would acquire a copy of every single piece of child pornography ever produced.) The risk/gain ratio is extremely favorable. And the return on investment is extraordinary. What crime syndicate would pass up such an opportunity? [Andrew Vachss, PARADE Magazine, February 19, 2006]

I received an email today. The email will be duplicated in the first comment post. The email appears to be from a PayPal type service telling me someone has sent me some money. Clicking on the provided link takes you to the following webpage which requires you to "register" to receive your money. This page actually links to a website in Korea. It implies it is associated with "TravelersExpress Money Orders." Fraudulent Site This webpage is an attempt to harvest your credit card number and other identity and privacy information that would enable the recipient to steal your identity. DO...