Nobody likes going to the dentist: the whine of the drill, the scraping of metal against bone, and metal against flesh—who likes that? Well, for more than 300,000 people who get their dental work done at University of Florida, there’s another reason to hate going to the dentist. (more…)
Express Scripts announced two weeks ago that extortionists had contacted them and threatened to release personal and medical information on their clients if they failed to meet the criminals’ demands. Express Scripts contacted the FBI instead, and refused to cave to the extortionists’ demands.
Well, the story has taken more than one interesting turn since that initial announcement. (more…)
The RSA FraudAction Research Lab announced on Friday it had discovered a digital cache of more than a half million stolen online bank logins, passwords and credit card account numbers, and speculated that a Russian identity theft ring stole the information.
A computer virus called the Sinowal Trojan Horse is to blame for the massive theft, and has been collecting the data since 2006. (more…)
