1 day ago by Gary Weiss

Byrne's alter ego was created last spring I've been perusing the wreckage left behind from "Larry Bergman," the phony Facebook account used by Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne in his pretexting and identity theft scheme to stalk critics. What I've found was that this pretexting scheme was the full ti ...

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2 days ago by Gary Weiss

Overstock.com's unhinged CEO, Patrick Byrne, has won a new pal from his recent foray into pretexting and cyberstalking: respected economics blogger Barry Ritholtz, who last night called for a boycott of Overstock.com. Barry turned up on Wacky Patty's enemies list because of some mildly skeptical pos ...

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2 days ago by Gary Weiss

"Larry Bargman," R.I.P. Overstock.com's wacky CEO, Patrick Byrne, has disabled the phony "Larry Bergman" Facebook account that he used to track, stalk and harass media people deemed unfriendly. I've gotten a number of emails from Byrne's stalking victims, asking me why "Bergman" is not on their frie ...

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38 days ago

How do you prevent identity theft? With an estimated nine million Americans having their identities stolen each year this is clearly not an easy question to answer. As criminals have advanced from garbage rummaging on to hacking computers and infiltrating online social networks this is becoming one ...

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50 days ago by Joseph Lazzarotti

As reported by Ameet Sachdev, of the Chicago Tribune, a jury found an employer responsible for the actions of its investigators who obtained a former employee’s phone records through “pretexting.” Of the $1.8 million awarded to the former employee for breaches of her privacy, the jury awarded $1.75 ...

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58 days ago by Newsdesk

The story of Kathy Lawlor intrigued me from the day I heard about it a few years ago. The Orland Park mother of three had worked in sales at North American Corp. of Illinois, a business-services firm. She left the company in 2005 over a pay dispute and a few weeks later noticed the people watching h ...

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98 days ago by cmiller

Cynthia Navarro understands how overwhelming Internet searches for information can be. Not only does she do them in the course of her work as a private investigator, but she also regularly teaches law enforcement officers, corporate practitioners, and others about what’s available and how to find it ...

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113 days ago by warriding

Ich habe ein sehr nettes Video gefunden, wo gezeigt wird, wie man mit Hilfe von Social Engineering an eine kostenlose Pizza kommt. Dies ist natrlich nur eine Möglichkeit von vielen, wie man an Kostenloses kommt. Tagged: Hacking, kostenlos, Opfer, Pizza, Pretexting, Social Engineering, Victim

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113 days ago by warriding

Dies ist eine kleine Sammlung von Strategien und Möglichkeiten, wie so genannte Social Engineers ihre Opfer betrgen. Um sich davor schtzen zu können, sollte man natrlich vorher wissen, wie Betrger vorgehen. Seht dieses nicht als Tutorial an, sonder eher Verhtungsmaßnahme Was ist Social Engineering? ...

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236 days ago by quizwedge

Social engineering (also known as pretexting) is playing on human nature to trick someone into giving you information. Wired has up an old, but still useful article on how to protect yourself. Another good resource is Kevin Mitnick's book The Art of Deception. It provides information, but using situ ...

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