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Malaysia resident sentenced in brokerage hacking scheme

2008-09-09 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
A resident of Malaysia was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison on a conspiracy charge related to an international fraud scheme that hacked into online brokerage accounts in the U.S. in an attempt to manipulate stock prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said
 
Tags: online brokerage accounts, international fraud scheme, malaysia, stock prices, conspiracy charge, resident, department, prison, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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Genworth Financial customer data on stolen computer

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2008-04-06 20:35:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Brokerage Dallas ("IBD Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Name, address, date of birth and Social Security Number Breach Description When you applied for insurance coverage with us, your application was submitted through an independent insurance agency authorized to sell our insurance products. Recently, we learned...
 
Tags: breach, hampshire breach notification, breach description, security breach, security, computer, genworth, independent insurance agency, technical security
 
 
 
 
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Man Allegedly Bilks E-Trade, Schwab of $50K by Collecting Lots of Free 'Micro-Deposits'

2008-05-27 22:20:00 by Threat LEvel in Wired Security
 
In a penny-wise computer caper, a California man allegedly wrote a computer program that opened 58,000 online brokerage accounts and linked them to his bank accounts. The brokerage companies automatically send small deposits to newly-linked accounts to verify they're working, and it all adds up
 
Tags: bank accounts, accounts, online brokerage accounts, penny-wise computer caper, brokerage companies, computer program, deposits, allegedly, california
 
 
 
 
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Clever Micro-Deposit Scam

2008-06-05 13:25:45 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brokerage account to a bank account for the first time. To verify that the account number and routing information is correct, the brokerages automatically send small "micro-deposits" of between two cents to one dollar to the account, and ask the customer to verify that they've received it Largent allegedly used an automated script to open...
 
Tags: account, bank account, brokerage account, online brokerage accounts, online bank accounts, largent allegedly, allegedly, customer links, customer
 
 
 
 
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SDL and Web 2.0

2008-02-28 22:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...brokerage firms web site So, what does the SDL have to say about these issues? In terms of XSS prevention, the SDL offers a lot of guidance. The SDL requires the use of both input validation (making sure that user input conforms to a known good format in the case of the wiki entry, to deny HTML and script content) and output encoding (making...
 
Tags: web, site, chriss web site, mashups, web mashups, site cookies, persistent cross-site, cookies, benefit anyones web
 
 
 
 
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E-Mail After the Rapture

2008-06-02 13:09:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brokerage, hidden valuables, and powers of attorneys' (you won't be needing them any more, and the gift will drive home the message of love). There won't be any bodies, so probate court will take 7 years to clear your assets to your next of Kin. 7 years of course is all the time that will be left. So, basically the Government of the...
 
Tags: rapture, site claims, site, fail safe, fail, time, account information, account, mighty juicy target
 
 
 
 
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Coreflood, more Microsoft-Yahoo, iPhone plans

2008-07-03 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4a68c in Network World on Security
 
...brokerage houses, according to security researchers. And it could be that six years from now we'll still be talking about Microsoft's aim to buy Yahoo's search business, which could involve obtaining the entire company and breaking it apart. Meanwhile, early adopters will undoubtedly be out in force on July 11 to be among the first to buy the...
 
Tags: trojan horse program, iphone, microsoft, entire company, brokerage houses, security researchers, yahoo, passwords, involve
 
 
 
 
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Data Mining to Detect Pump-and-Dump Scams

2008-08-14 06:10:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brokerage being able to respond Before now, he said, brokerages relied on counter measures such as restrictive stock trading or analysis packages that only spotted a problem when money had gone Verisign's software is a module that brokers can add to their in-house trading system that alerts anti-fraud teams to look more closely at trades that...
 
Tags: stock, penny stock, restrictive stock, data, trades tech stock, trades, fraud detection kit, alerts anti-fraud teams, trade
 
 
 
 
 
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