November 2006
Man used MP3 player to hack ATMs
A man in Manchester, England has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. Maxwell Parsons, 41, spent £200,000 of other people’s money after using the machine to read card details. Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the back of free standing cash machines and was able to use it to read data about customers’ cards. That data could then be used to ‘clone’ cards and use them for bogus purchases.
July 2006
Tech 2 Blog :: PayPal, eBay victimized by Email Phishing :: July :: 2006
Users of PayPal and eBay are the main target of more than 75 percent of all email phising, revealed a recent research by information technology security firm Sophos. Phising emails point recipients to a bogus website which look like the real PayPal or the eBay site. By misdirecting the users to the forged website, the fraudsters steal usernames
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