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- Universities join coalition to stop ID theft
- Coming on the heels of a flurry of breaches of sensitive databases, a coalition of high-tech companies and universities have created the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection at Utica NY College, Campus Technology reports.Sponsors said the Center will drive research into causes, detection, and prevention of identity...
- Tags: cyber criminal, identity fraud
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
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- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering
- Wow, big morning! If anyone has seen Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios's talk on phishing and identity theft, which was presented at the last couple Black Hat conferences, and will be on display again at Black Hat Vegas, you know that the identity theft market is a huge problem. You...
- Tags: Flooz, Currency Service, Identity Theft, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Brocade to acquire Foundry in $3 Billion deal
- Brocade has said it will acquire Foundry Networks, a company that does enterprise and service provider switching and routing, in a deal valued at $3 billion. The acquisition, which still needs final approval, comes on the heels of corporate problems for Brocade, notably the criminal misconduct sentence...
- Tags: Stock Option, Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Backdating, Stock Options, Benefits, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Prohibition 2.0
- Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...
- Tags: Criminal, Larry Lessig, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices
- Mom, EFF fight back over take-down noticesIf Universal wins, America is doomedUniversal absolutely must not win this. It is the thin end of a [i]very[/i] dangerous wedge - will we be allowed to sing along to our ipods in the street, or in family videos? What about humming the tunes...
- Tags: EFF fight back, RIAA, member company, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...
- Tags: SECURITY, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, Obama, cybersecurity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostage
- Dreams come true: network guy holds city hostageMY HEROIt's about time that somebody had the JEWELS to do this, but it is not worth the jail time.I know an Island where they take people like him and make them cry or put him in with other folk to do some...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Construction, Abbie, network guy, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- The Techie Hall of Shame
- The Techie Hall of ShameThe Florida architectural firm rampagehttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/24/disgruntled_employee_silent_rampage/RE: The Techie Hall of ShameAs far as this system in S.F. - If you have physical access to the machine, you should be able to get admin/root access. I'd be curious to know what OS they are talking about.RE: The Techie...
- Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Most IT folk, Techie Hall, VSB
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs
- Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugsAnother attack path: Just what we need!Now that there are millions of instances of every type of microprocessor, ANY bug in one will be in millions of systems. Relying on bugs is---um---buggy, but just checking every system you can (as a criminal,...
- Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Kaminsky to discuss DNS flaw at Black Hat sponsored webcast
- The Black Hat group on Twitter provided a message today alerting people to a webcast to be put on by Dan Kaminsky on the DNS vulnerabilities that I've heavily covered as follows: Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08 ...
- Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, DNS, Flaw, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Canadian court shutters torrent tracker
- Canadian court shutters torrent trackerJust Walk AwayI realize that most of the people on the internet are content junkies but the best way to deal with a for profit company that relies on sales to survive is to not buy their product. Don't download illegally and don't buy physical content....
- Tags: E-books, INTERNET, Intellectual property, Well Let, tracker, e-book, music
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?
- Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?Again, why does Microsoft want Yahoo?You should be asking why not? Both companies will gain a lot from this buy out. Yahoo has the services, Microsoft has the brand recognition. They can take the best of both worlds and have a dominant...
- Tags: Team management, SEARCH, Branding, Microsoft want Yahoo, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft WANT, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...
- Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- From stunned outrage to stunned laughter in two seconds
- From stunned outrage to stunned laughter in two secondsFaking Presidential Press Passes is Cool?I don't really get the whole context of this story, but it seems to me that you are actively engaged in developing fake press passes for presidential events. Isn't that a crime? Could it place...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Backups, stunned outrage, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-07-12
- Jobs, lawyer cleared of criminal charges
- Jobs, lawyer cleared of criminal chargesI wonder how much fury this news will muster?Pagan jimRE: Jobs, lawyer cleared of criminal chargesIf I had $10 billion... would I really need to be dishonest to get $10 billion more????(I wouldn't really need either amount.)RE: Jobs, lawyer cleared of criminal chargesBS. Steve Jobs...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
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