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IT staffer at New York bank pleads guilty to data theft, fraud

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IDG News Service - A former IT staffer with the Bank of New York Mellon pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing sensitive information belonging to 2,000 bank employees and then using that data to steal more than $1 million from charities.

Adeniyi Adeyemi, 27, had worked as a contract computer technician at the Bank’s Manhattan headquarters, and the data he allegedly stole belonged primarily to co-workers in the bank’s IT department.

He pleaded guilty to theft, money laundering and computer tampering charges in New York City Criminal Court Thursday, the New York District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

Over an eight-year period, Adeyemi stole more than $1.1 million from charities by transferring funds from the charities’ bank accounts into bogus accounts he’d set up using the personal information of his former co-workers, prosecutors say. He “input the charities’ banking details, including account and routing

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Fake Car Tax Malware

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Sometimes malware authors make it really easy to spot a scam.

 

Today’s email attachment campaign is a fake car tax update. Apparently the “Ministry of Transport”  has made some sort of change to my car tax and details are in the attached file, “CAR_DOCUMENTATION.zip”.

 

But with spelling and grammar as bad as this, alarm bells should be ringing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The executable contained inside the zip is called ”CAR_DOCUMENTATION.DOC.___________.exe” – the double extension is another clue that this missive from the “Ministry of Transport” should not be trusted.

 

To cap it all off the email is sent from a random looking email address that certainly doesn’t have anything to do with this Ministry of Transport that wishes me to “the cease of economize on your finance”.

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The H Week – Bilski fizzles, Android marches on, and have you HURD?

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In the week just past, The H has covered the fizzling of the Bilski patent case, the advances of Android 2.2, the completing of the Moblin/Maemo merge in MeeGo, the easy unlockability of another USB stick and looked back on the history of GNU HURD.

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This week, The H featured Glyn Moody asking if Oracle has been a disaster for Sun’s open source projects and Richard Hillesley looking at the history of GNU HURD. The H also published its community calendar for July.

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The much awaited Bilski ruling from the US Supreme Court turned out to be a damp

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Security Cleared Job Seekers Have New Social Network

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Agencies and contractors often find themelves in need of job candidates with security clearances, but matching up needs and suitable applicants can be difficult. And some security clearances bar their holders from posting public profiles at all on social-networking sites such as Facebook.

ClearanceJobs.com, an online resource for employees with active federal security clearances, today unveiled The Cleared Network. It’s a private online community that combines a specialized job board with the other benefits of social networking. The Cleared Network is accessible only to registered members with clearances, but a video demonstrating the site’s features is available here.

The company said the network gives employers and security-cleared employees a place to learn more about each other through using pictures, videos and short, informative profiles.

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