February 06, 2010

Adventures of an Eternal Optimist » Blog Archive » Commercial Phishing

[Adventures of an Eternal Optimist] This would be a pretty boring phish, except for the part where users re-use passwords and account names ALL THE TIME.  The current trend is upsell — harvest a low-value throwaway password at an insecure site and then see what high value matches can be made with the same username and password.

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Phishing for Carbon Credits - Vladimir's blog - RedState

[RedState] The hackers launched a targeted phishing attack against employees of numerous companies in Europe, New Zealand and Japan, which appeared to come from the German Emissions Trading Authority. The workers were told that their companies needed to re-register their accounts with the Authority, where carbon credits and transactions are recorded.

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Posted at 02:41 PM

February 04, 2010

Secure Encryption of Emails, Web Browsing and Pretty Much everything

[Anonymous Surfing on the Internet] Now of course you have to be careful with any sorts of encryption technology, emails can be especially tricky as even if you use something like a VPN like I did, anything beyond the tunnel is transmitted in the clear and of course emails will still sit unencrypted on the recipients hard drive.  One really good option for an organisation to secure emails between two or more points is to implement TLS (Transport Layer Security) on Microsoft Exchange.

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Posted at 02:33 PM

Retail Payments: PCI DSS Releases FAQ about End to End Encryption

[Retail Payments] Merchants should be aware that encryption solutions most likely do not remove them completely from PCI DSS. Examples of where DSS would still be applicable include usage policies, agreements with service providers that deploy payment solutions, physical protection of payment assets and any legacy data and processes (such as billing, loyalty, marketing databases) within the merchant's environment that may still store, process or transmit clear text cardholder data, as that would remain in scope for PCI DSS.

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Posted at 02:32 PM

February 02, 2010

Body of man who jumped into Campbell creek found in Santa Clara ...

[Identity Theft Protection Tips] Nguyen had a $30000 warrant for identity theft .He was believed to have lived in San Jose and the Sacramento area.

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Posted at 02:06 PM

Sonoma woman victim of e-mail identity theft | Identity Theft ...

[Identity Theft Protection Tips] Theft of Mail Leads to Identity Theft They'll drive around looking for the mailboxes with red flags... Reducing Junk Mail Can Help Prevent Identity Theft A Javelin Strategy and Research survey on ID theft finds.

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Posted at 02:03 PM

January 30, 2010

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Homeland Security chief skipped ...

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Her high-profile catnap during the SOTU speech shows pretty clearly that she didn’t use the time to get some rest.  So what pressing business took priority over fixing the problems that almost led to 300 deaths and the first foreign terrorist attack in years?  Because if something else takes priority over counterterrorism for the Homeland Security Secretary, then that’s just another reason why we need a replacement — now.

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Posted at 02:34 PM

Chromium Blog: Encouraging More Chromium Security Research

[Chromium Blog] Bugs will be ineligible if they are part of the base operating system as opposed to part of the Chromium source tree. In the event of bugs in a component shared with other software, we are happy to take care of responsibly notifying other affected parties.

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Posted at 02:33 PM

January 28, 2010

What day is it? It's Data Privacy Day! | FlowingData

[FlowingData] And so let us raise a glass in celebration of Data Privacy Day. Maybe not much of a concern for most of us, but you should at the least have it on your radar and be thankful that there are those working on keeping your digital self secure.

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Posted at 02:33 PM

Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Mozilla Privacy Forum

[Mozilla Labs] Mozilla is situated at an increasingly relevant space to facilitate the interaction between users and entities on the web. Firefox has 360 million users worldwide, and aside from the obvious use case of serving users the websites they desire, Mozilla is also positioned to become a revolutionary intermediary between the privacy policies of websites and the users themselves.

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Posted at 02:32 PM

January 26, 2010

EFF Experts to Speak at FTC Privacy Roundtable | Privacy Digest

[Privacy Digest] Panels at Thursday's roundtable include "Technology and Privacy," where EFF Staff Technologist Peter Eckersley will discuss the arms race between tracking technologies and privacy-enhancing technologies. Also on the agenda is "Privacy Implications of Mobile Computing" with EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston addressing privacy issues of location-based services and "Technology and Policy" with EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien discussing how privacy can be designed into new products.

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Posted at 02:04 PM

Warren Ellis » Invade My Privacy

[Warren Ellis] Avengelist- January 25th, 2010 at 5:31 am. A friend had mentioned this on a recent drunken night out, and I couldn't remember anything about it, until right now.

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Posted at 02:02 PM

January 23, 2010

Internal Revenue Forms Used for Phishing Trips | Hacking.co.in

[Hacking.co.in] If there’s one letter or e-mail I routinely open and read, it’s any communication from the IRS. How refreshing to scan one such note - per e-mail, no less - on Internal Revenue Service, United States Department of the Treasury letterhead, that announced “After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $109.

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Posted at 02:34 PM

Spam, phishing, and other annoyances - Inside Windows Live - The ...

[Inside Windows Live] Блог Windows для России

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Posted at 02:32 PM

January 21, 2010

Identity Theft Protection ”” Compulsive Password Hiding : Fight ...

[Fight Identity Theft] Ah, the compulsive password hider.If you are like allot of people, you have so many passwords, you can’t keep up with them. Passwords are good, but not good enough.IDFreeze from TrustedID provides you the most comprehensive and proactive solution to protect your identity.

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Posted at 02:34 PM

 

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