Information Protection and Security

Online banking fraud increases 132 percent as cybercriminals shift tactics.

'URLZone' calculates how much money to steal from a victim's account without raising suspicion.
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Google has resolved a lawsuit from a US bank that accidentally sent 1,300 confidential tax IDs to an innocent Gmail account, but not before the web giant complied with a court order to shutdown the account and disclose certain account info.

IDG News Service - A construction company in Maine is suing its bank after about $588,000 disappeared from its accounts, alleging the bank failed to spot suspicious account activity before it was too late.

A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data.

The Warrick County Sheriff's office said that cyber thieves hacked into the server that provides debit cards for customers of People's Savings and Trust Bank.

A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said Thursday.
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A Hamilton woman who defrauded the National Bank of more than $110,000 via an internet banking loophole has been sentenced to 12 months in jail.
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A Hamilton woman who defrauded the National Bank of more than $110,000 via an internet banking loophole has been sentenced to 12 months in jail.
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China orders banks to step up online security measures in wake of cyber thefts.
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