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Some Massachusetts seniors are at risk

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2007-12-04 16:17:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Advantage insurance program members Prescription Advantage is a state-run program that offers drug insurance to seniors in Massachusetts Number Affected 150,000 Types of Data personal information Breach Description Authorities arrested an identity thief in August, 2007 who had been using information obtained from the Massachusetts...
 
Tags: breach, computer security breach, breach description, prescription advantage, security breach, prescription advantage program, data-breach laws, lone identity thief, thief
 
 
 
 
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UltimateBet cheating goes undetected for almost 21 months

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2008-06-04 10:55:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...advantage, and that these accounts targeted the highest limit games on the site. The individuals responsible were found to have worked for the previous ownership of UltimateBet prior to the sale of the business to Tokwiro in October 2006. Tokwiro is taking full responsibility for this situation and will immediately begin refunding UltimateBet...
 
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Obfuscating Fast-fluxed SQL Injected Domains

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2008-07-17 15:31:06 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...advantage of 6b%6b%36%2e%75%73 - kk6.us 73%61%79%38%2E%75%73 - s.see9.us 66%75%63%6B%75%75%2E%75%73 - fuckuu.us 61%2E%6B%61%34%37%2E%75%73 - a.ka47.us 61%31%38%38%2E%77%73 - a188.ws 33%2E%74%72%6F%6A%61%6E%38%2E%63%6F%6D - 3.trojan8.com 6D%31%31%2E%33%33%32%32%2E%6F%72%67 - m11.3322.org As always, these obfuscations are just the tip of the...
 
Tags: sql, massive sql injections, sql injection campaign, sql injection attacks, popular sql injectors, massive sql injection, site sql, sql injection, campaign
 
 
 
 
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Smells Like a Copycat SQL Injection In the Wild

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2008-07-28 05:51:23 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...advantage of the very same SQL injection tools using public search engine's indexes as a reconnaissance tools, are also starting to take advantage of localized and targeted attacks , attacking specific online communities. Among these is mx.content-type.cn /day.js using day.js to attempt multiple exploitation using publicly obtainlable...
 
Tags: sql, tools, sql injection tools, massive sql injections, attacks, sql injection attacks, sql injection, massive sql injection, site sql
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing July's Threatscape

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2008-08-01 16:08:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...advantage of the fast-fluxed network provided by the ASProx botnet - pretty interesting month indeed 01. Decrypting and Restoring GPcode Encrypted Files The GPcode authors read the news too, and are catching up with the major weaknesses pointed out in their previous release in order to come with a virtually unbreakable algorithm. And since...
 
Tags: malware, profitable malware operations, malware authors, malware tools, malware coder, malware kit, malware infection, neosploit malware kit, spam
 
 
 
 
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Biotech Platforms

2008-09-04 10:08:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...advantages over antibodies. The most evident advantage is that KIs can hit targets inside the cell while antibodies can only bind targets presented on the cell surface, so internal targets are approachable only by KIs. Another advantage is the fact that KIs can be given orally, which is a major factor in terms of patient convenience,...
 
Tags: drug, treatment, cancer treatment, commercial drug, platforms, drug discovery platform, platform, cells, cancer cells
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing August's Threatscape

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2008-09-10 06:57:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...advantage of a flaw allowing the author to add new followers potentially exposing them to the malicious links serving banker malware. For the the time being, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter accounts are the very last thing a malicious attacker is interesting in puchasing accounting data for, but how come? It's all due to the oversupply of...
 
Tags: malware, facebook malware campaigns, usefulness pinch malware, banker malware kits, malware campaigns, botnet, diy botnet kit, distribute malware, banker malware
 
 
 
 
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The Commercialization of Anti Debugging Tactics in Malware

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2008-09-29 16:55:54 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...advantage of commercial anti-reverse engineering tools to make their malware harder to analyze. Once again, just like we've seen before, a legitimate commercial application can come handy in the hands of the wrong people Code Virtualizer will convert your original code (Intel x86 instructions) into Virtual Opcodes that will only be...
 
Tags: machine, specific virtual machine, internal virtual machine, code, sensitive code, malware, unique virtual machine, original code, code virtualizer
 
 
 
 
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The asymmetry of data loss - data thief has an upper hand

2008-10-01 06:33:22 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...advantage From the data thief's perspective Net Gain= [Cost of producing the data * Data freshness factor] - Cost to steal the data + Profit of business due to data aka gain of competitive advantage From the above two equations it is very clear that this is not a zero sum game. There is a clear cost asymmetry for a data owner and for a data...
 
Tags: data owner perspective, data owner, data, thief, owner, data freshness factor, data protection costs, discourage data thief, protect data