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- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants
- This paper studies an active underground economy which specializes in the commoditization of activities such as credit card fraud, identity theft, spamming, phishing, online credential theft, and the sale of compromised hosts. Using a seven month trace of logs collected from an active underground market operating on public Internet chat...
- Tags: Internet, Credit Card, Association For Computing Machinery, Hacking, Identity Theft, Phishing, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Security, Spam And Phishing, Sales
- White papers 2007-11-02
- Zotob worm linked to credit card fraud ring
- Zotob worm linked to credit card fraud ringFraud ring or no...Very clever young minds deprived of social conscience will likely keep abreast of technical advances for years to come, inventing malicious schemes for the sheer enjoyment of it while teasing despised authorities. Schools and technical institutes should offer courses and...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, hacking, credit card, credit card fraud, Zotob worm, Coder, virus, window, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-08-30
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- News to know: Palm; Google; Apple; Yahoo's Bartz; Hacking Safari
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm: Demand tanks ahead of Pre launch; Pre needs to save the day Andrew Nusca: Google CEO Schmidt: China 'obvious prize,' Twitter 'poor...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Hacking, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Research: 76% of phishing sites hosted on compromised servers
- In a newly released paper entitled "Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing" Tyler Moore and Richard Clayton provide empirical evidence according to which 75.8% of the phishing sites that they've analyzed (2486 sites) were hosted on compromised web servers to which the phishers obtained access through...
- Tags: Server, Phishing Web Site, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhere
- IT failures roundup: software bugs everywhereProblem is what you define as software.Today we seem to define a computer program as anything from assembly language to HTML, and most programming is actually script languages executed by an Interpreter. The computer industry seems to support this move away from real computer...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, information technology, software, programmer
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- Managers' Cheat Sheet for PCI DSS
- PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. This standard was developed at the urging of large credit card companies to help organizations that process credit card payments to prevent privacy and security breaches through hacking and other means. The standard became mandatory for all companies that process...
- Tags: Credit Card, Credit Card Payment, Pacific Coast Information Systems, Sales Channel, PCI, Financial Services, Sales, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-12-19
- Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 6.0.20081209 (Windows)
- Audit your website security with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Hackers are concentrating their efforts on attacking applications in your website: 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc. Web applications are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and control...
- Tags: Web, Scanner, Vulnerability, Web Application, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Acunetix, Cloud Computing, Web Site Development, Security, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-12-17
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment pushyet another way to hack into your wallet!Invisibly with no pain at all, your bank account can now be drained even more efficiently, and the phone and credit card companies will only charge you yet another fee for the "convenience". To them, that is...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RFID, RFID payment, Mobile Industry, mobile, payment, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Mossberg laments lack of bargain Mac in his Fall Guide
- Mossberg laments lack of bargain Mac in his Fall GuideActually the Mac and OSXare not of marketable quality to the low end consumer.Those with less to invest in a computer will tend to purchase a unit that delivers more for less; they will aquire a Windows machineon the other hand...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Mossberg, Fall Guide, computer, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Protect Your Sensitive Data, Ignoring Online Privacy and Application Security Isn't Just a Compliance Issue: It's a Risk Issue!
- With 75% of attacks targeting Web applications, hacking has evolved into big business where stolen data carries a large dollar value. As a result, many regulatory groups are acknowledging this problem by creating Web application security specific compliance requirements. The Payment Card Industry PCI Data Security Standard DSS is one...
- Tags: Compliance, Online Privacy, Web Application, Application Security, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Security
- Webcasts 2008-10-16
- Roundup: Enterprise software announcements
- A roundup of enterprise software-related announcements released today: IBM unveiled new automated security software for midsize companies to help them test for Web application security vulnerabilities and find advice on how to fix their security issues. The software, called IBM Rational AppScan Express Edition, also helps smaller...
- Tags: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Credit Card, IBM Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of userssmalkl little people who hack and use the same escuseTypical idiot cop :)Wow...Way to stereotype. Lemme guess - you're ex-military, with a crew cut, nasty cigar and a stick up your arse? Does that sound fair? What? That doesn't describe...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, SECURITY, Bill O'Reilly, attacker, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
- In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain text for 205 of the site's members already leaking across Internet forums, as a response to his remarks regarding Wikileaks as a...
- Tags: Web, Password, Attacker, Web Site, Member, BillOreilly.com, Wikileaks, E-mail, Web Site Development, Security, Online Communications, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Intuit pushes deeper into cloud, points to its track record.
- Intuit pushes deeper into cloud, points to its track record.Any company willing to put their accounting...records on the cloud has got to be plain stupid. It's a disaster waiting to happen.Intuit could port Quickbooks Enterprise client to Linux not just the server if they are looking to pick up...
- Tags: Taxes, Backups, Free trade, Financial services, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, Intuit Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft case
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft caseNo sympathy on my partThere's something terribly ironic that hackers "concealed the data in encrypted computer servers that they controlled in Eastern Europe and the United States." I thought information was suppose to be free...I'm not interested in hearing about good hackers and...
- Tags: SECURITY, Wi-Fi, Retail, hacker, hacking, huge hacking, wireless, Manifesto, theft case
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft case
- A federal grand jury returned indictments today on 11 defendants in one of the largest hacking and online theft cases ever. The Department of Justice charged 11 individuals from around the world with stealing 40 million credit and debit card numbers, cracking the networks of nine retailers and stealing an...
- Tags: Belarus, Hacking, Debit Card, Ukraine, Debit Card Number, Unauthorized Access Device, Identity Theft, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- ID theft bust: Indictments are nice, more arrests much nicer
- Praise be, big time. Almost. The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorneys offices in Massachusetts and California announced today that they have indicted 11 individuals as part of an international ring of hackers (really, crackers) who purloined at least 40 million credit card and debit...
- Tags: U.S., Network, Debit Card, U.S. Department Of Justice, Ukraine, Identity Theft, Hacking, Financial Services, Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...
- Tags: Computer, Hat Hacker, Productivity, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Scam calls... something we've forgot about?
- Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Pretty sure they can...but why would they? Less money for the phone company, more cost. Until our government makes stronger, more punishing laws around this, nothing will happen.-NateRE: Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Why can't the phone companies trace these calls and shut...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Call centers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, PLA, malware, call-center, phone, IP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- What is the U.S. doing about security?
- I've been terrible busy lately. Hopefully you all here haven't noticed, as I've been working hard to still keep my posts flowing, but I've just got time to catch up with several blogs that I read often. One of those blogs is the Emergent Chaos blog...
- Tags: Card, Database, President, Blog, Passport Card, RFID, Government, Security, Wireless, Biometrics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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