“Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment. It’s not easy to know how to make a life, much less avert planetary destruction. Luckily there is still company, human and not human. We can still explore the overgrown verges of our blasted landscapes - the edges of capitalist discipline, scalability, and abandoned resource plantations. We can still catch the scent of the latent commons - and the elusive autumn aroma.”
— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
446 Australian breach notifications with 30% of system faults found after a year
976 data breach notifications were made to the OAIC in the 2020-21 financial year, with health keeping its crown as the most breached sector. In the second half of the year, 30% of entities reported an incident due to a system fault they found 12 months later
Top Stories
Brooklyn: Four arrested for counterfeiting $130 million in Uggs boots, Air Jordan’s, headphones; goods shipped from China and labels appliedReport: $29.8 billion lost by U.S. consumers in the last year to phone scams; 23% of the public has lost money to these in the last year; 60% as the result of a robocall
Hackers offer to sell personal information about 100 million T-Mobile users on the dark web; including 30 million social security numbers, dates of birth
BBB Studies. Here are links to some of the study topics: puppy fraud, tech support fraud, romance fraud money mules, apartment rental, crooked movers, government imposters, online vehicle sale scams, rental fraud and gift cards.
Coronavirus
- Fake vaccine pass in the UK being sold on encrypted app
- US has seized 3000 fake vaccination cards shipped from China to Tennessee
- Maryland: Nigerian gets 7 ½ years prison for laundering proceeds of fake check scams, BEC funds
- Deep fakes getting better, easier, cheaper
- Quebec affiliate advertising operation that worked with free trial offer/subscription trap scams closes its doors after media investigation
- Customs seizes FBI and DEA badges; came from China
- AARP warns of scams on Go Fund Me
- UK Action Fraud is on Twitter
- Cops raid drunken Amish barn party
- Bank has man busted; cash in pneumatic tube had packets of cocaine included
- 15 ways to goof with telemarketers on the phone
- NBC: Half of stolen US unemployment benefits may have been taken by Nigerian gangs
- New Hampshire: Two men charged with PPP and EIDL fraud
- NYT: 15% of PPP loans may be fraudulent
- Miami: Man charged with PPP fraud
- Ohio man pleads guilty to laundering $300 million in bitcoin on the dark net for drugs and other crimes
- UK police seize $22 million in crypto that was stolen; arrest two; try to return it to victims
- California: Police in San Francisco arrest two for ATM skimming
- Massachusetts: Bulgarian pleads guilty to ATM skimming at Martha’s Vineyard