The Carnival of Fraud is back for another week!
Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Fraud, the place for the discussion of all things scammy, criminal, and fraudulent.
The state of violent crime in Milwaukee, unfortunately, has gotten very scary. But our elected officials don’t think that we have a violent crime crisis on our hands. And our criminal justice system doesn’t seem to be very effective. At least the Enron executives are still being sentenced to prison.
In the world of computer security, a few things are going on. Microsoft came out with a new anti-virus product, but one blogger surmised that such a product wouldn’t be necessary if Microsoft didn’t have so many vulnerabilities in its products to start with. An analysis of the security (or lack thereof) of the Diebold Accuvote TS voting machine yielded some interesting results. And one study shows that computer data breaches are less likely to result in identity theft than the loss of wallets or other personal items.
People are constantly competing for web traffic. Some sites like to artificially inflate their site views, but one poster points out why it’s really a pointless exercise and only makes the site owner feel good for a day or so.
Have you ever heard of people using social engineering to commit crimes?
And finally, this is an intersting article on how trying to positively influence a company’s PR can actually backfire.
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Tags: Carnival of Fraud, fraudulent, violent crime, criminal justice, identity theft
