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Citibank antifraud move draws cashflow conspiracy chatter

2008-01-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8966cdc in Network World on Security
 
...Citibank spokesman Wednesday dismissed outright suggestions in the blogosphere that a recent decision by the company to quietly reduce the daily ATM cash withdrawal limits of some of its customers had something to do with Citibank's cash-reserve position Gartner Webinar: WAN Optimization Scalability Advertisement Gartner distinguished...
 
Tags: citibank, wan optimization, wan optimization scalability, citibank spokesman wednesday, gartner webinar, gartner, recent decision, quietly reduce, outright suggestions
 
 
 
 
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Citibank Replaces Some ATM Cards After Online PIN Heist

2008-06-20 20:46:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
In the wake of an arrest of two Brooklyn men caught with over $800,000 in cash, Citibank warns bank customers that their ATM PIN codes may have been leaked in a breach of a "third party" processor. The FBI says a hacked Citibank server was at fault
 
Tags: atm pin codes, citibank server, fbi, processor, party, breach, cash, brooklyn, fault
 
 
 
 
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FBI Arrests Six More in Citibank ATM Heists

2008-06-25 03:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Ten have been arrested so far, as the FBI engages in a cat-and-mouse game with New York-area fraudsters stealing millions in cash from Citibank ATMs. Citibank is still closed-mouthed about the computer intrusion that put an unknown number of customer PIN codes in the hands of a Russian cybercrime boss
 
Tags: citibank, citibank atms, customer pin codes, russian cybercrime boss, york-area fraudsters, fbi engages, computer intrusion, cat-and-mouse game, hands
 
 
 
 
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Citibank ATM Server Allegedly Hacked, Leading to Cash Machine Crime Spree

2008-06-18 23:45:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
A Citibank server in charge of processing ATM withdrawals from 7-Eleven convenience stores suffered a breach last year, according to federal prosecutors, who say two New York men used the stolen account numbers and PIN codes to withdraw at least $750,000 in cold, hard cash
 
Tags: atm withdrawals, citibank server, pin codes, hard cash, convenience stores, federal prosecutors, cold, withdraw, account
 
 
 
 
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Clothes don't make this man: Sweatshirt helps nail Citibank card scammer

2008-07-03 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
A bank-card scammer using stolen Citibank account numbers and PINs netted hundreds of thousands of dollars, but was caught because he always wore the same distinctive sweatshirt when making the illegal withdrawals
 
Tags: bank-card scammer, citibank account, distinctive sweatshirt, illegal withdrawals, thousands, dollars, pins, hundreds
 
 
 
 
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.. and now - PIN stealing..

2008-06-19 10:38:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
 
...Citibank hack. Though Citibank has denied the hack as the cause of the fraudulent withdrawals - all signs seem to point towards it so far This definitely is not new - While testing an issuer's security I'd stumbled upon ATM log entry files - complete with PAN, PIN, full name, address, zip code and atm location - back in the day when RFP just...
 
Tags: pin, pin reaches, pin offsets, fake pin pads, atm location, atm, bank pins, atm crime spree, access
 
 
 
 
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Some of the other noteworthy breaches last week, 6/16/08 - 6/22/08

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2008-06-23 08:11:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Citibank Hack Blamed for Alleged ATM Crime Spree By Kevin Poulsen, Wired.com, 6/18/08 A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal...
 
Tags: major security breach, breach, security breach, data, airline systems data, breaches, noteworthy breaches, indiana bank breach, sensitive data
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Citibank. This is a textbook cyberattack in todays world Dr. David Luckham , discussing financial news and complex event processing (CEP) recently asked, How well does Elementizing work? and reminds us News Moves Markets. He is certainly correct, obviously Thecybersecurity issue that I amhighlighing here is how easy it is for news to be...
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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On "silent explosion of log management"

2008-02-12 15:15:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Citibank. The answer is log files Indeed, the log management snowball is rolling down a very steep and very snowy hill think of log management as the foundation of a Network Information System (NIS). Analysis of log data [...] is quickly becoming the difference between effective IT security/operations management and flying blind Logs seem...
 
Tags: log management, log management snowball, management, log management appears, network information system, information, silent explosion, device-specific information, logs