Apple’s Safari browser has a major security hole that malicious sites can use to steal your personal data, including your address and phone number. If you have any of the “AutoFill web forms” boxes checked, a site can snag information from your Address Book entry without your knowledge. To turn that feature off, open...
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Hackers are now targeting bank ATMs, a USA Today report found. Not only can they steal your account information, but now they’ve also figured out how to get your PIN. Think using an ATM is safe? Think again. Thieves are increasingly using high-tech skimmers to steal all the information they need to acess your...
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A total of $465,000 was recently stolen from California-based Village View Escrow via 26 consecutive wire transfers. “Owner Michelle Marisco said her financial institution at the time — Professional Business Bank of Pasadena, Calif. — normally notified her by e-mail each time a new wire was sent out of the company’s escrow account,” writes...
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Last month, the FBI arrested a 19-year-old grocery store employee for trying to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs. He planned to use default passwords he found online to reprogram the ATMs, convincing them they held $1 bills instead of $20 bills. Moral of the story:Change your default passwords. Wait — did...
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When you access your bank account online you probably don’t think that at that exact moment there may be a hacker, somewhere in the world, trying to steal your bank information and your money. Your bank offers secure online banking, so why should you worry, right? Despite banks’ efforts to protect accounts from the...
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