Global Security Watch: December 2009 Archives

Global Security Watch > December 31, 2009

Facebook phishing e-mail makes its rounds around the net - Tech ...

[Tech Talk] Observations from Jamie DeLoma, journalist and computer nerd.

Phishing: not just for attacking banks - Computerworld Blogs

[Computerworld Blogs - Software] Next week: the final part in my series on sender reputation. If you'd like to catch up on the previous parts, click below:

Posted at 02:32 PM

December 31, 2009

Facebook phishing e-mail makes its rounds around the net - Tech ...

[Tech Talk] Observations from Jamie DeLoma, journalist and computer nerd.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Phishing: not just for attacking banks - Computerworld Blogs

[Computerworld Blogs - Software] Next week: the final part in my series on sender reputation. If you'd like to catch up on the previous parts, click below:

Posted at 02:32 PM

December 29, 2009

Federal Bureau of Investigation - The Detroit Division: Department ...

[ExcitingAds! FBI News] Davis commended the Holloway investigation and prosecution, noting that its success was the result of a cooperative effort between the Wyoming Police Department and the Secret Service that led to the destruction of the long-running fraud scheme, a scheme that lasted as long as it did because it spread its activities across many different states, which made it more difficult to identify, arrest, and prosecute those responsible. Davis also noted that his office is in the process of establishing an Identity Theft Working Group, with the participation of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service, the FBI, U.S. ICE, and others, along with the Michigan State Police and numerous Sheriff’s and Police Departments, that will focus on investigating and prosecuting identity theft and related financial frauds.

Posted at 02:09 PM

Identity Theft: CMIT Solutions Offers Advice During National ...

[Your Story] AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Identity theft is a serious issue, no matter who the victim is, but the situation can be more complicated when somebody tries to impersonate someon.

Posted at 02:08 PM

December 26, 2009

Online Identity Theft Protection

[Secret to Wealth NOW] It occurs when someone deliberately assumes an individual’s personal identity to impersonate that person in a legal sense. Stealing someone’s identity enables the thief to make a frightening number of financial and personal transactions in someone else’s name, leaving the victim responsible for what might turn out to be a mind-boggling turmoil in his or her life.

Posted at 02:34 PM

CitiBank Identity Theft Commercials | Identity Theft

[Identity Theft] (0); How do I dispute credit items on my credit and log in identity theft to my credit report? (0); Do the more bank accounts you have open raise your chances for identity theft? (0); Do the more bank accounts you have open raise your ...

Posted at 02:33 PM

December 24, 2009

FBI: Pop-Up Security Warnings Pose Threats ~ Advice and Tips ...

[Advice and Tips -- Tech and Beyond] The FBI warned consumers today about an ongoing threat involving pop-up security messages that appear while they are on the Internet. The messages may contain a virus that could harm your computer, cause costly repairs or, even worse, lead to identity theft.

Posted at 02:35 PM

Schneier on Security: Plant Security Countermeasures

[Schneier on Security] “They are very good at avoiding getting eaten,” said Linda Walling of the University of California, Riverside. “It’s an unusual situation where insects can overcome those defenses.” At the smallest nip to its leaves, specialized cells on the plant’s surface release chemicals to irritate the predator or sticky goo to entrap it.

Posted at 02:34 PM

December 19, 2009

Facebook's Privacy Policy Produces Plea to FTC

[Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim] I think the big problem for Facebook is people posted information/data under previous understood levels of privacy that Facebook decided to change after the fact. Besides the deceptive presentation of more privacy controls that average users don’t fully appreciate the repercussions, notice was only available for those that happen to log on.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Technology News: Privacy: How to Get a Little Privacy on Facebook

[TechNewsWorld] A second setting, controlling searches within Facebook, lets you refine who can find you once that person has logged on. Limit searches to friends only if you think you have all the friends you need and don't want anyone to find you when they type in your name to Facebook.

Posted at 02:33 PM

December 17, 2009

Schneier on Security: Telcoms Security

[Schneier on Security] If you prefer to receive Bruce Schneier's comments on security as a monthly e-mail digest, subscribe to Schneier on Security's sister publication, Crypto-Gram.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Christmas Giveaway Norton Internet Security 2010

[gHacks technology news] The two most notable changes are a concentration on lower resource usage which was already noticeable in last year’s Norton Internet Security but becomes even more apparent in this year’s. Additional improvements are the new behavioral detection engine Quorum which uses a cloud based reputation system to identify threats and offers faster response times to new or mutating malware threats and additions to Norton Insight which has now been split to the four areas Download Insight for better control of file downloads, System Insight for system diagnosis, File Insight for file analysis and Threat Insight.

Posted at 02:33 PM

December 15, 2009

Facebook phishing discovered on Yahoo! Messenger

[D' Technology Weblog] A research engineer in CA's Internet Security Business Unit, reports a new phishing campaign that circulates on Yahoo! Messenger and is instrumented with the help of hijacked accounts.

Posted at 02:05 PM

Global Voices Online » Canada said what? Phishing Spoof at Climate ...

[Global Voices Online] Excerpt The Canadian government supposedly released an angry statement today, denouncing a spoof that supposedly made it as far as the Wall Street Journal, claiming that Canada had shifted its policy and would be agreeing to greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Posted at 02:03 PM

December 12, 2009

In some states, anyone can freeze their credit file, while in ...

[Identity Theft!] A later study by Carnegie Mellon University concluded that “the probability of becoming a victim to identity theft as a result of a data breach is .More recently, one of the largest data breaches ever, accounting for over four million .

Posted at 02:34 PM

» Child Identity Theft Protection - Blogger News Network

[Blogger News Network] When a parent or legal guardian contacts a credit bureau on their child’s behalf, they need to provide the child’s complete name, address, and date of birth, and copies of the child’s birth certificate and Social Security number. The parent or guardian must also provide a copy of their own drivers license or other government-issued proof of identity, including their current address, and a utility bill containing the current address.

Posted at 02:32 PM

December 10, 2009

Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...

[EFF.org Updates] if you don't want to share a particular piece of content with everyone, Facebook will argue, then just set the privacy level for that piece of content to something else. But we think the much safer option is to do the reverse: set your general privacy default to a more restrictive level, like "Only Friends," and then set the per-post privacy to "Everyone" for those particular things that you're sure you want to share with the world.

Posted at 02:35 PM

Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con - Facebook - Gawker

[Gawker: valleywag] Facebook's 350 million+ users are being greeted by the dialog below, an "Important... Privacy Announcement" that "simplifies" and "adds" privacy controls:

Posted at 02:32 PM

December 08, 2009

Privacy's about more than the paparazzi | Henry Porter | Comment ...

[Comment is free: Henry Porter's blog | guardian.co.uk] This is a very delicate area, but my feeling is that the privacy laws being made on the back of the HRA underline problems with the act because it guarantees nothing upfront but instead requires people to go to law to establish their rights. It would be much more effective to create a proper body of privacy legislation that specifies acts that illegally damage or compromise a person's privacy, and this would apply to the state, the press and the big corporations that gather and store personal details.

Posted at 02:08 PM

Yahoo Adds Privacy Tool as FTC Explores Web Privacy Issues | Kara ...

[BoomTown] BoomTown is going to ignore the could-it-be-duller name for the feature, which–Yahoo (YHOO) said in a press release you can see below–gives users a “central place where Yahoo! visitors can see a concise summary of their online activity and make easy, constructive choices about their exposure to interest-based advertising served from the Yahoo!

Posted at 02:05 PM

December 05, 2009

Swine flu spawns an email phishing scam that'll give you a nasty ...

[DailyFinance] It's bad enough that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic has caused such widespread public anxiety, and it's worse that the vaccine has become its own source of concern, whether due to the shortage or spurious fears about its safety. Now, the bottom-feeders known as phishing scammers are exploiting the situation, sowing even more fear, anger and mistrust around the swine flu.

Posted at 02:33 PM

New Phishing Scam Spreading Via Facebook Chat

[All Facebook] The most recent scam spreading on Facebook involves the use of hijacked user accounts for sending out chat messages with links to the standard Facebook phishing page. When the user clicks the link, they are sent to a fake Facebook login page and then redirected to the actual Facebook after their email and password has been stolen.

Posted at 02:32 PM

December 03, 2009

Questions for the Homeland Security Committee Witnesses ...

[Politics Daily] I have some questions for Paul Gardner, attorney for the world's most famous uninvited guests. Although his credulous clients' 'Gee, I thought we.

Posted at 02:36 PM

Schneier on Security: The Security Implications of Windows Volume ...

[Schneier on Security] @Nick P: assuming your crypto is done properly! If it's not secure against a key recovery attack (XOR, or generally reusing the output of a stream cipher, are trivially breakable.

Posted at 02:33 PM

Global Security Watch > December 31, 2009

Facebook phishing e-mail makes its rounds around the net - Tech ...

Phishing: not just for attacking banks - Computerworld Blogs

December 31, 2009

Facebook phishing e-mail makes its rounds around the net - Tech ...

Phishing: not just for attacking banks - Computerworld Blogs

December 29, 2009

Federal Bureau of Investigation - The Detroit Division: Department ...

Identity Theft: CMIT Solutions Offers Advice During National ...

December 26, 2009

Online Identity Theft Protection

CitiBank Identity Theft Commercials | Identity Theft

December 24, 2009

FBI: Pop-Up Security Warnings Pose Threats ~ Advice and Tips ...

Schneier on Security: Plant Security Countermeasures

December 19, 2009

Facebook's Privacy Policy Produces Plea to FTC

Technology News: Privacy: How to Get a Little Privacy on Facebook

December 17, 2009

Schneier on Security: Telcoms Security

Christmas Giveaway Norton Internet Security 2010

December 15, 2009

Facebook phishing discovered on Yahoo! Messenger

Global Voices Online » Canada said what? Phishing Spoof at Climate ...

December 12, 2009

In some states, anyone can freeze their credit file, while in ...

» Child Identity Theft Protection - Blogger News Network

December 10, 2009

Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...

Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con - Facebook - Gawker

December 08, 2009

Privacy's about more than the paparazzi | Henry Porter | Comment ...

Yahoo Adds Privacy Tool as FTC Explores Web Privacy Issues | Kara ...

December 05, 2009

Swine flu spawns an email phishing scam that'll give you a nasty ...

New Phishing Scam Spreading Via Facebook Chat

December 03, 2009

Questions for the Homeland Security Committee Witnesses ...

Schneier on Security: The Security Implications of Windows Volume ...

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