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This American Life on Scamming the Scammers

2008-09-17 14:58:49 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...American Life featured a couple of Nigerian scammers who were being scammed by three other guys. Does it serve them right or is it just dangerous? Either way, its good once in a while to see a case where the scammers get scammed back, instead of unwitting consumers From the Consumerist Last week, This American Life featured a 30-minute piece...
 
Tags: american life, american life tells, scammers, episode, recent episode, small-time nigerian con, nigerian scammers, western union office, mortal danger
 
 
 
 
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American Launches In-Flight Broadband Pilot

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2008-08-20 08:33:21 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...American Airlines has turned on Internet service in its fleet of 15 767-200s today. These aircraft ply routes between New York's JFK and three cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami. Service is $13 per flight, and bandwidth is expected to be 1.5 Mbps (uncompressed) upstream and downstream, although the service provider, Aircell, claims...
 
Tags: flight, in-flight broadband, service, service provider, american, internet service, real production service, american airlines, aircell
 
 
 
 
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In-Flight Wi-Fi on American as Soon as This Week

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2008-06-23 13:26:20 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...American Airlines launches its in-flight network using Aircell GoGo service: She writes that it might be as early as this week on JFK, LAX, SFO, and MIA flights (that last one is Miami; took me a moment). Virgin is probably still a few months away, although they told Jardin that they're more prepared , but they have more integration to do...
 
Tags: flight, cross country flight, wi-fi, jardin, lax-jfk costs, xeni jardin, jfk, american airlines launches, aircell
 
 
 
 
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Latest Scientific American Magazine is all about Privacy

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2008-09-03 00:01:42 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
Run out a get a copy. Its a stellar magazine clipped from www.sciam.com Scientific American Magazine
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...American defense consulting firm, Wired.com has learned Weldon, who is currently being investigated by the FBI over alleged corruption during his time in office, visited Libya in March to discuss a possible military deal, according to a letter describing the trip from Weldon to Defense Solutions CEO Timothy Ringgold. In May, Weldon, together...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Lost Memorial Hospital laptop affects employees and retirees

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2008-02-08 14:14:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...American Airlines Victims Employees and retirees Number Affected 4,300 Types of Data Names, addresses, birth dates, ID numbers, and Social Security numbers Breach Description An employee of Memorial Hospital lost a laptop containing sensitive personal information belonging to employees sometime while traveling in November, 2007. The...
 
Tags: memorial, hospital, memorial health system, memorial hospital lost, memorial hospital, sensitive personal information, personal information, hospital staff, employees
 
 
 
 
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Fake Yahoo Greetings Malware Campaign Circulating

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2008-04-16 15:21:03 by HASH0x8c5ff78 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...american-greeting.com.tag38.com/ecards/view.pd.htm it redirects to www3.yahoo.americangreetings.com.id759.com/ecards/view.pd.htm id759.com is currently responding to 24.161.232.218; 24.192.140.204; 68.36.236.67; 76.230.108.105; 83.5.203.163; 85.109.42.164; 216.170.109.206 and also to set45.net ; service28.biz ; setup36.com and serves the...
 
Tags: yahoo, fake yahoo, malware, malicious, malicious backdoor trojan, backdoor, malware campaign, net, active malware campaigns
 
 
 
 
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In-Flight Broadband Flies Tomorrow in Test

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2008-06-24 19:51:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
American Airlines will fly its first commercial round-trip with Aircell's Gogo service active tomorrow: On Wednesday, 25-June-2008, in-flight broadband briefly flickers back to life with a JFK to Los Angeles round-trip flown by American on which passengers will get free use of the onboard, in-flight Internet service via Wi-Fi. The test flight is...
 
Tags: jfk-lax routes, jfk, test, american airlines, american, routes, onboard, test flight, jfk-sfo
 
 
 
 
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North America Recap

2008-10-10 00:00:00 by Brad Davenport in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I was one of the 650 attendees at the recent annual North American PCI Community Meeting . Held at the Omni Champions Gate resort in Orlando, it was great to speak with many of the merchants, banks and service providers in attendance about the challenges they are facing
 
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"Catch Me, Yes YOU Can": Realized Threats at the Corner Store

2008-10-10 00:00:00 by Will Redfield in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...American Express, Discover & JCB International Co., Ltd
 
Tags: payment card industry, commercial financial risk, global financial markets, wise souls, card brands, american express, jcb international, undue personal, orlando