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Hundreds of WiseBuys customers are victims of credit card fraud

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2008-04-26 21:01:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...amounts as high as $3,000 and as low as $10," said Sgt. Lori A. McDougal of the village police department. "I would say at this point they total upwards of $100,000 Victims are all believed to have shopped at the Canton WiseBuys store between Dec. 5 and 20 Since then, stolen credit card numbers have been used to create fake cards in New...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, wisebuys, credit union, credit union absorbs, credit issuer time, canton wisebuys store, report credit, credit card companies
 
 
 
 
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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...amounts of energy on impact, tearing targets apart with violent fury In development for more than 30 years, the research is beginning to bear fruit, and may soon spawn more powerful bombs, warheads that tear apart stone and concrete, mines that can be set to stun or kill, and grenades that can swat rockets or mortar rounds out of the sky like...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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Segregation of data protection duties

2007-12-17 10:12:06 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
...amounts of information Yahoo collects on the doings of 500 million people who visit its site every month Fayyad... [is] engaged in a major battle over how freely that information can be used to tailor ads to individuals These goals are almost diametrically opposed. I searched for a chief privacy officer for Yahoo! as well, but did not find...
 
Tags: protect information, information, business, information yahoo collects, additional business risks, yahoo, chief privacy officer, business week recently, usama fayyad
 
 
 
 
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Quantitative Analysis = "Highly" Technical Analysis (?)

2007-02-07 09:34:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...amounts of numbers can be analyzed with ease To see the survey results, please refer to www.theintertekgroup.com Tags: financial engineering investments quant technical analysis
 
Tags: technical, technical analysis, quantitative analysis, quantitative, technical indicators, indicators, survey results, results, reversal models
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...amounts of personal information at risk Comfyllama] A person with little information security experience, some common-sense, and a PC would have found this hole if it was their job. It is obvious that Passport Canada does NOT have "the best security people Whether it was that or something else, I don't know which is worse - that someone made...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #55

2007-03-26 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...amounts of network and security data while improving visibility into networks for compliance reporting, security forensics, and more
 
Tags: security practice manager, steve dolnack, security data, steve speaks, mtm technologies, services based, massive amounts, security forensics, paul joyal
 
 
 
 
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Bogus Microsoft sweepstakes emails

2007-08-19 22:35:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...amounts of money in a Microsoft sweepstakes or lottery -- often 500,000 British pounds. This is an easy question to answer: they're fake Recently, someone forwarded me the email. Let's examine some of its characteristics The sending address is microsoft.co.uk-00@adelphia.net. The address was a hidden hyperlink. Legitimate emails you receive...
 
Tags: microsoft sweepstakes, sweepstakes, microsoft, email, email insists, domain, american domain, subject line, emails
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...amounts of shrapnel, and why the military loves foxholes The first time I got an explosion occurred by accident. I was very disappointed after another failed experiment. As I sat there next to an empty gas can waiting for a fire to go out, I was playing with strike anywhere matches on the empty gas can when to my surprise it exploded and...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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New Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library Available

2006-11-27 08:01:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...amounts of identity theft or at minimum, ruin the reputation of your company Last week, Microsoft released an Anti-XSS library to use in your web applications. They have a tutorial you can view here which shows not only how XSS Attacks works, but also how to use the library to prevent them I havent used the new library in an application...
 
Tags: library, xss, xss attacks, anti-xss library, vulnerability, xss vulnerability, cross site, site, xss attack
 
 
 
 
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Questions to Consider in the Coming Privacy Wars

2008-01-03 21:10:12 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
It seems obvious that privacy is going to be a major point of contention in the near-term future. It's only going to get hotter as major online services compile huge amounts of data about us. There are a lot of "little questions" that we need to engage with as soon as possible. Here's my list of important questions, what's on yours
 
Tags: questions, near-term future, privacy, engage, lot, obvious, data, contention, major