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Hackers create new trojan virus to steal from thousands of bank accounts
Thousands of personal bank accounts have been raided in a new attack by computer hackers. Victims at one bank have lost between £1,000 and £3,000 each thanks to a 'trojan horse' program developed by the cyber criminals. The name of the high street bank has yet to be released as the information has just been handed to the police. The hackers have stolen at least £675,000 from 3,000 accounts at the institution.
Metro
8/11/10
Smartphone security put on test
BBC News has shown how straightforward it is to create a malicious application for a smartphone. Over a few weeks, the BBC put together a crude game for a smartphone that also spied on the owner of the handset. The application was built using standard parts from the software toolkits that deverlopers use to create programs for handsets. This makes malicious applications hard to spot, say experts, because useful programs will use the same functions.
BBC News
8/10/10
A Third of London Households Open to WiFi Attack
Digital Economy Act puts Three Quarters of a Million Homes in Capital at risk. New research by the online identity experts, Garlik, has found that a third of households in the capital are at risk from cybercriminals thanks to poor or no security settings on their home WiFi networks.
Garlik
8/2/10
Stay Safe in the Online World
You don’t need Keeley Hawes or Aidan Gillen to keep you safe from identity theft and online fraud. Tuesday, 6th July, 2010 - Anyone who watched last night’s first episode of the new ITV series, Identity, staring Keeley Hawes and Aidan Gillen will probably be feeling a little more paranoid this morning. Therefore the online identity theft and fraud experts at Garlik have today launched a new, free email checker service, allowing anyone who is now worried about falling victim to identity theft or online fraud to check whether their personal information has been stolen, copied or disclosed online in the last 90 days.
Garlik
7/6/10
Selftrade partners with Garlik to provide greater identity theft and fraud protection to customers
London – 8th February, 2010. Garlik, the online identity experts, have today announced a partnership with Selftrade (www.selftrade.co.uk) one of the UK's largest execution-only stockbrokers. By working with Garlik, Selftrade will be the first online broker to offer identity protection services to its customers in the form of two services: Selftrade Identity Monitor Lite and a full version of Selftrade Identity Monitor. The new Lite service will be offered free of charge to all Selftrade customers with the option of upgrading to the full Identity Monitor service at a discounted introductory price of £35 per year. The service will help Selftrade customers to protect their financial, personal and sensitive information from the risk of identity theft and financial fraud.
Garlik
2/8/10
Garlik advises consumers to be cautious when using WiFi Services
Over recent years the convenience of open WiFi services in coffee shops, on trains and in airports has helped to make consumers' lives easier. Getting online to browse information, look up directions for meetings or perhaps check emails on the go has never been easier but the simplicity of these services doesn’t necessarily mean that they are secure. Garlik has found that consumers can fall victim to identity theft and fraud as criminals hack into user accounts to obtain personal information, email addresses, passwords and even financial details that they can later abuse.
Garlik
10/29/09
