The Secret Service has arrested five individual and seized bank accounts in connection to a $6 billion money laundering case that the authorities are describing as “staggering” and may be the largest case of international money laundering. Bank accounts and domains associated with a Costa Rican based website, Liberty Reserve, have been seized. Liberty Reserve…
Read moreIn a follow up to the Dwolla / Mt. Gox / Bitcoin / DHS story, Feds have seized Mt. Gox’s Dwolla account. Mt. Gox is accused, by the Department of Homeland Security, of violating money transfer regulations. Mt. Gox is a Japanese startup and is accused of having failed to register in the U.S. as a money transmitting company.…
Read moreYou’ve just bought a new computer, your programs are installed and your old data has been transferred over, so what do you do with your old computer now? Donate it? Recycle it? Set it in the garage to be forgotten about? But what about the data that’s on that hard drive? Old copies of tax returns,…
Read moreThe Internet Crime Complaint Center has received numerous reports of hoax phone calls coming from, would be, well known software companies. We’ve even received them here at Top Speed Computer Services – “Hello this is Joe from Microsoft calling about your software issue.” Our receptionist’s reply “Excuse me? As an IT company we handle all…
Read moreSome companies are choosing to move from the traditional employer provided laptops and cell phones to a Bring Your Own Device model. While there are many advantages to BYOD there are also quite a few pit falls and issues to consider. BYOD for cell phones and smartphones: These seem to be the most frequent devices…
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