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Indictments Against Largest ID Theft Ring Ever

2008-08-07 12:45:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...commit and it's still too hard to catch the criminals. Catching one gang, even a large one, isn't going to make us any safer If we want to mitigate identity theft , we have to make it harder for people to get credit, make transactions, and generally do financial business remotely: The crime involves two very separate issues. The first is the...
 
Tags: personal data harder, harder, data, personal data, commit fraud, fraud, commit, privacy, personal privacy
 
 
 
 
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Hacking tool guidance finally appears

2007-12-31 17:50:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Committee the end of the summer they mean the last day of December. Well it has been pretty cold recently , so I expect that concentrated their minds This summer event which can be reported today, is the publication of the Crown Prosecution Service guidance on what should be considered before bringing prosecutions under s3A of the Computer...
 
Tags: bad, bad people download, cma offence, offence, bad guys, guys, offence stage, tool, article widely
 
 
 
 
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My Open Wireless Network

2008-01-15 03:33:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...commit a crime using my network the police might visit, but what better defense is there than the fact that I have an open wireless network? If I enabled wireless security on my network and someone hacked it, I would have a far harder time proving my innocence This is not to say that the new wireless security protocol, WPA , isn't very good....
 
Tags: wireless network, network, fon wireless network, public, public network, computer, computer security, wireless security, wireless security protocol
 
 
 
 
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My Open Wireless Network

2008-01-15 03:33:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...commit a crime using my network the police might visit, but what better defense is there than the fact that I have an open wireless network? If I enabled wireless security on my network and someone hacked it, I would have a far harder time proving my innocence This is not to say that the new wireless security protocol, WPA , isn't very good....
 
Tags: wireless network, network, fon wireless network, public, public network, computer, computer security, wireless security, wireless security protocol
 
 
 
 
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Terrorism as a Tax

2008-05-12 06:29:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...commit fraud. Nor would anyone commit burglary, murder, or terrorism. We wouldnt have to modify our behavior based on security risks, because there would be none But thats not the world we live in. Security permeates everything we do and supports our society in innumerable ways. Its there when we wake up in the morning, when we eat our meals,...
 
Tags: tax, security, security risks, security countermeasures, security trade-offs, fear tax falls, security lines, beefed-up security forces, percent decline
 
 
 
 
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Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive

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2008-07-28 07:58:08 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...commit click fraud would be cheaper than sharing revenue on per click basis with "human clickers" who earn money based on how many ads they click given a set of scammer's owned sites, where the customer supports represents a DIY proxy switching application changing their IP on the fly Click Forensics's recent Q2 2008 report indicates that...
 
Tags: click, click fraud, click percentage, click basis, pay-per-click, click forensics, click fraud activity, invalid, invalid clicks difficult
 
 
 
 
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Focus on software assurance increases in U.S., U.K. and other markets

2007-11-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...commit espionage; or in the case of entire countries (e.g. Estonia) that have seen their critical infrastructure attacked via cyberspace - governments have become increasingly focused on product security. The issue of security within products that are integral parts of systems or networks is clearly gaining the attention of government...
 
Tags: security, information security, software assurance, government decision makers, product security, issue, systems, nefarious actors, business trips
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Hits Back at Atsiv

2007-08-02 22:17:32 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...commit to several years Microsoft is thinking of adding it to their own revocation list. This confuses me; why would it be good enough for VeriSign's revocation list, but Microsoft is only looking into putting it in its own? I've asked Best of all: It has added signatures to Windows Defender to detect Atsiv, at least the current version of...
 
Tags: atsiv, microsoft, detect atsiv, detect, revocation list, revocation, verisign cost, driver loadboot time, verisign
 
 
 
 
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New Ban Proposed In UK Against Hacker Tools

2008-01-03 18:54:22 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...commit a crime, you should pay attention to whether this law is passed or not I suppose its not dissimilar from putting a handgun in a schoolyard although its really hard to tell intent in either case. Often times the research done on this site and others of its kind are academic and are helping to solve the problems. Granted that same...
 
Tags: site, law, tools, exploitation materials, intent, bet money, scrupulous types, equipment offshore, researchers alike
 
 
 
 
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How effective is the wisdom of crowds as a security mechanism?

2007-12-21 15:26:10 by Tyler Moore in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...commit many errors tend to have voted on the same URLs Despite these problems, we do not advocate against leveraging user participation in the design of all security mechanisms, nor do we believe that PhishTank should throw in the towel. Some improvements can be made by automating obvious categorization so that the hard decisions are taken by...