The Spy Next Door, Stealing Your Life For £44

How easy can it be to steal your life? For less than 44 quid is it possible to steal your bank account username, password and bank account security questions? For less than 44 quid is it possible to harvest your credit card details, including your credit card security code and Verified by Visa or MasterCard SecureCode password? Is it possible to read your private Emails and access your Email account? Is it possible to monitor all your private web surfing habits and instant messenger conversations, and obtain your username and passwords for all your websites?

Click here to read the full article via the IT Security Expert's blog by Dave Whitelegg.

Security Institute - Jan/Feb 2011 News

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Scams Awareness Month - Ebay Scam

I couldn't have planned this better, but as we are in Scams Awareness Month I thought I would advise you of a scam I have received into my email inbox.

I recently received a message from 'eBay' informing me that my account had been suspended due to my credit/debit card being declined. I noticed that the email address for the sender wasn't an 'offical' eBay one, so I of course utilised the best free investigative tool in the modern world.....Google! Apparently this is a well know Phishing scam which has been around for some time.

Needless to say I didn't click on the link and enter my mothers maiden name, along with my bank details and my inside leg measurements!

Here is 2011

Firstly happy new year everybody and let's hope it's a good one! And secondly apologises for being a little quiet recently but we have to juggle Chatback with our day jobs and things have been a little busy recently.

We have lots of plans for Chatback in 2011 (and beyond). We will continue to provide news, views, advice and gossip from across the security world. We will also bring you more guest bloggers who will cover some of areas which we don't have a specialism in, for example Fraud (which generally takes place due to a security breakdown or breach......apparently).

We are also considering designing a website but we have very little experience in this area so it may take some time - unless anybody out there wants to do one for us and we can come to some agreement on some free advertising!?!

Both Rich and I are going to endeavour to publish more self written blog articles however as we don't and won't write about our day jobs this can be a little restricting,  failing that we will of course beg, borrow and steal.......I mean butcher whatever else that is available in the public domain!

2011 let's hope it's a good one for us all.