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More Than 280,000 Complaints of Online Criminal Activity Reported in 2012 Fairmont, WV — The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the 2012 Internet Crime Report—a summary of reported fraudulent activity, including data and statistics. In 2012, the IC3 received and processed 289,874 complaints, averaging more than 24,000 complaints per month. Unverified losses reported to [...]

HARRISBURG, PA – Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane has joined 18 other state attorneys general in a new online safety campaign with the popular social networking site, Facebook. The initiative, which was formally unveiled at the National Association of Attorneys General’s Presidential Summit on “Privacy in the Digital Age,” provides teenagers and parents with [...]

A Pennsylvania Judge has ruled that corporations are not entitled to the same right of privacy as people. The case involved the fracking industry. Washington County Court of Common Pleas Judge Debbie O’Dell Seneca said, “Whether a right of privacy for businesses exists within the prenumbral rights of Pennsylvania’s constitution is a matter of first [...]

The U.K., France, Italy, and Germany have found Google to be in breach of their agreement to uphold consumers’ privacy. Members of the European Union found Google in violation about a year ago when Google (also owner of YouTube) merged about 60 privacy policies into one single policy. Google responded, “Our privacy policy respects European [...]

Twitter announced its systems had been hacked an 250,000 users personal information had been compromised. Turn off your Java! “Earlier this week, hackers gained access to Twitter’s internal systems and stole information, compromising 250,000 Twitter accounts before the breach was stopped. Reporting the incident on the company’s official blog, Twitter’s manager of network security did [...]

An outrage of the new Instagram privacy policy has seen usage go from 40 million to 17 million in one month. Users took offense to instagram using photos in advertising without the consent of the photographer. The adjustments to the privacy policy will still allow Instagram to share information with it’s parent company Facebook. “Our [...]

Lancaster County associate pastor arrested by Attorney General’s Child Predator Unit; families urged to review Internet safety during the holidays LANCASTER, PA — Agents from the Attorney General’s Child Predator Unit have arrested an associate pastor from Lancaster County accused of using Facebook and text messages to sexually soliciting a 15-year old boy, along with [...]

In 2003, the British Government published a report on Iraq’s security and intelligence organizations. Then a Cambridge University lecturer discovered that much of the document was copied from three different articles, one written by a graduate student. How did he know? The document contained a listing of the last 10 edits, even showing the names [...]

Malware is malicious software that a user unwittingly installs on their computer. Malware can disrupt computer operations, capture every keystroke, destroy data, gather usernames and passwords, acquire your address book and email addresses, or gain access to private networks. “McAfee has announced, in its quarterly threats report, that it has identified 8 million new kinds [...]

Do not allow Internet Explorer to store passwords for you Stored passwords allow anyone who can access your machine to log in to your web accounts as you. In addition, there are numerous utilities that can expose that hidden information and actually reveal the password. If you’ve reused that password for other logins, many systems [...]