Summary of June 2008 Data Breaches
[Compare Lifelock, loudsiren and Trusted Id Identity Theft Protection Services] Data breaches in June were a bit slower than this years previous months but still left far too many Americans seeking identity theft protection. In fact, if the 2.2 million billing records, which included 1.3 million Social Security .
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July 05, 2008
No-Fail Identity Theft -- Live and In Person
[Privacy Digest - News that can impact your privacy.] No-Fail Identity Theft - Live and In Person - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online:. ancientribe writes "A researcher performing social-engineering exploits on behalf of several US banks and other firms in the past year has 'stolen' .
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Posted at 02:31 PM
July 03, 2008
Bogus Apple Phishing E-Mails Spotted in the Wild
[The Mac Security Blog] Bogus e-mails purporting to be from Apple have been spotted in the wild. They feature a subject line of “Important : Billing Problem”
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Posted at 02:33 PM
How to detect Phishing ?
[CrazyEngineers Forum] Click on the cnn link and see where you land. Now on that link if you host same page like cnn then you wont realize the difference.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
July 01, 2008
Protection from identity theft
[BLOGOSPHERE] Using lifelock promotion code can keep you, your wife, your children safe from identity theft. Am sure it would be a horrible experience if your child is lost and 3 months later you saw him from somewhere, the same him, .
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Posted at 02:02 PM
Cracking Physical Identity Theft
[PC Sympathy] Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, says organizations typically are focused on online identity theft from their data resources, and don’t think about how the same data can literally walk out the door with a criminal posing as an auditor or a computer repairman. He once walked out of a client site carrying their U.S. mail tray with 500 customer statements inside it, he says.
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Posted at 02:01 PM
June 28, 2008
Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code: ICANN Web Site Compromise
[Latests Alerts From Websense Security Labs] The ICANN and IANA web sites were defaced and left the following message: “You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong.
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Posted at 02:34 PM
Reports Detail Progress in Afghan Security, National Forces
[Afghan Regional Security Integration Command- South] The Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan depicts a “fragile” security environment in much of the country. It concludes, however, that coalition forces’ counterinsurgency approach has demonstrated how a hybrid of military and nonmilitary resources can create stability and connect Afghan citizens to their government.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
June 26, 2008
Security Tip: Blocking Access to ASP.NET MVC Views Using ...
[you've been HAACKED] When you create a new ASP.NET MVC project using our default templates, one of the things you might notice is that there is a web.config file within the Views directory. This file is there specifically to block direct access to a view.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
BUG: XSS Security flaw in BaseCamp Messages
[Untitled] BaseCamp lets users include HTML and JavaScript in messages, on the basis that anyone with a BaseCamp account is a trusted party. I’m not convinced: you could use this to circumvent .
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Posted at 02:31 PM
June 24, 2008
Improving OS X Security
[securosis.com] These are fully exploitable on Macs and other Apple products until Apple issues an update. I realize this is a very tough issue, because Apple needs to run through extensive evaluation and testing before releasing updates, but they can mitigate this timeline by engaging deeply with those various open source teams to reduce the windows where users are exposed to the vulnerabilities.
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Posted at 02:06 PM
New ID Requirements: The First 48
[Evolution of Security] What these folks aren't getting is that by requiring ID, you're closing that old loophole that allowed (up until Saturday) anyone, good or bad, to show up with any boarding pass (theirs or someone else's), say they lost their ID, get a pat-down and bag check and be on their way. Now, no self respecting terrorist is going to subject him or herself to all the additional attention the new procedures brings.
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Posted at 02:05 PM
June 21, 2008
Trend Micro announces email encryption solution portfolio
[Digg / Security / upcoming] Trend Micro Inc., a provider of Internet content security, announced Wednesday its entry into the email encryption marketplace, with the launch of Trend Micro Email Encryption Client 5.0 and Trend Micro Email Encryption for InterScan Messaging Hosted Security (IMHS).
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Posted at 02:32 PM
Product Review: IronKey USB Memory and Encryption
[Full text legal articles - Content for Reprint] IronKey offers the following features: drive contents encrypted using AES CBC-mode encryption, a true random number generator for the maximum protection generates encryption keys in hardware, securely stores passwords, fast (30MBPS) read, fast (20MBPS) write, encased in a potted metal case- not plastic which makes it one of the strongest USB keys around, exceeds military waterproofing standards, and has the ability to safely tunnel through insecure wireless networks.
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Posted at 02:31 PM
June 19, 2008
Obama Announces Senior Working Group on National Security
[Obama HQ] Senator Obama today announced the formation of his Senior Working Group on National Security, a group of advisors that he will consult on a regular basis between now and the election. Obama will meet with the group for the first time today in Washington, DC for a wide-ranging discussion of the immense challenges faced by the United States in the wake of the disastrous foreign policies of George Bush.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
Obama Convenes National Security Team
[The Caucus] The presumptive Republican nominee and the president will tour areas of Iowa hard hit by floods on Thursday, but the McCain campaign said that it was not trying to step on Mr. Bush’s trip.
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Posted at 02:31 PM
June 17, 2008
Beware of Yahoo Search Marketing Phishing Email Scams
[Search Engine Roundtable] A couple weeks ago we reported that more Google AdWords phishing email scams were being sent out. While those emails continue to be sent out, the same scam artists are sending out similar emails branded for Yahoo Search Marketing.
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Posted at 02:02 PM
Fake Postcards Send Malware Greetings
[TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro] Trend Micro Content Security recently came across an all-in-one attack that involves a fake postcard, a phishing site and of course, a malware. A fake postcard launcher was found pretending to be Gusanito, one of the most popular .
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Posted at 02:02 PM
June 14, 2008
Secure Account Update.
[Phishing Scams] The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times.
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Posted at 02:37 PM
Beware of PICS FOR MSN FRIENDS Phishing Websites
[Absolute Underground] First thing is to tell your friends to change their password or phasphrase. By doing that, the bots can no longer access your friend’s MSN account and spam their contact list.
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Posted at 02:32 PM
June 12, 2008
Privacy laws regarding kids called into question
[Opinion - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com] tags[tags.length] = "Oregonian";blogs[blogs.length] = "1562"; titles[titles.length] = "Jack Ohman";cats[cats.length] = "Jack Ohman";
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Posted at 02:38 PM
Live Notes from “Privacy & Data Portability for Social Networks”
[Inside Facebook] Morin: In regards to dynamic privacy, a simple example of is when I choose to use my Facebook profile picture and name on another site and then change that same picture on Facebook I want that change to be reflected on that other site as well automatically.
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Posted at 02:37 PM
