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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...criminals" breached OmniAmerican bank systems and used a variety of information to create new personal identification numbers (PINs) and fake debit cards. The criminals then used the cards at to make withdrawls at ATMs in Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Britain, Canada and New York Reference URL Star-Telegram Story Sacramento Bee Story ...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Permanent TSB hit by cyber criminals

2008-01-18 16:22:43 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
Permanent TSB is examining an incident that saw cyber criminals steal money from 40 of its customers' accounts
 
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Cyber Criminals Extract Personal Details From CVs Posted Onto Job Sites

2008-07-07 21:15:30 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Hackers have turned the harvesting of personal information from Monster.com and other large US jobsites into a profitable black market business. A Russian gang called Phreak has created an online tool that extracts personal details from CVs posted onto sites including Monster.com, AOL Jobs, Ajcjobs.com, Careerbuilder.com, Careermag.com,...
 
Tags: extracts personal details, russian gang, aol jobs, cvs, sites, online tool, personal information, monster, militaryhire
 
 
 
 
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Online intruder makes off with SwimwearBoutique.com customer data

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2008-04-27 00:22:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Criminals unlawfully obtained access to certain databases containing various information, which could have included names, addresses, and credit card information of approximately 37 residents of New Hampshire, who were SWB customers Evan] 37 residents in New Hampshire alone. I assume that the number nation/worldwide would be much higher We...
 
Tags: credit card account, credit card, time credit card, information, personal information, information security, credit card information, customers, swb customers
 
 
 
 
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SmartWater Works

2008-01-21 12:17:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...criminals revealed that simply displaying signs that goods and premises were protected by SmartWater was sufficient to put off most of the criminals the team interviewed Professor Gill said: "According to our sample, SmartWater provided a strong projected deterrent value in that 74 per cent of the offenders interviewed reported that they...
 
Tags: smartwater, smartwater products, deterrent, smartwater postersign, reasonable deterrent, deterrent factor, study, strong, strong deterrent effect
 
 
 
 
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The Zeus Crimeware Kit Vulnerable to Remotely Exploitable Flaw

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2008-06-18 17:45:15 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...criminals trying to scam wannabe cyber criminals by providing them with backdoored web malware exploitation kits and phishing pages, you have cyber criminals looking for ways to obtain access to the most popular exploitation kits and bankers malware C&Cs by finding vulnerabilities within them Apparently, Zeus, the crimeware kit which I...
 
Tags: zeus, russian business network, crimeware kit, zeus users, vulnerability, vulnerability research, kit, security community, security community starts
 
 
 
 
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The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2008

2008-01-05 17:22:36 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...criminals Denial-of-service attacks by criminals and terrorists Sabotage, theft and other attacks by disgruntled employees and insiders Natural disasters, accidents or errors without malicious intent Acknowledgements and References A special word of appreciation for the reviews, comments and suggestions from the Certified Information Systems...
 
Tags: cybersecurity threats, theft, criminal, criminal manipulation, identity theft, top, attacks, comments, service attacks
 
 
 
 
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Cloned Trucks

2008-02-06 12:37:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Criminals are using cloned trucks to bypass security: Savvy criminals are using some of the country's most credible logos, including FedEx, Wal-Mart, DirecTV and the U.S. Border Patrol, to create fake trucks to smuggle drugs, money and illegal aliens across the border, according to a report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement In August...
 
Tags: routine traffic stop, trucks, wal-mart, wal-mart semi-trailer, wal-mart uniform, savvy criminals, criminals, border patrol, fake trucks
 
 
 
 
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Irish jobs site compromised and personal information accessed

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2008-03-31 10:13:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...criminals access confidential information without authorization. Many intrusions take place through relatively easy exploits such as convincing someone to give you their password (i.e. social engineering, phishing, etc Several CVs were downloaded before Jobs.ie was alerted. While the company has not yet given exact figures on the number of...
 
Tags: jobs, information, personal information, job-seekers site jobs, site, identity, identity theft, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Adding webwise.net into the CNI

2008-04-05 14:13:01 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...criminals in that city with some innovative ideas of what could happen next So the webwise.net domain has suddenly been promoted to become part of the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI The domain is currently hosted at GoDaddy , an american registrar. Last summer the rock-phish gang spent a week running phishing attacks not just against...
 
Tags: domain names, purchase domain names, net, dns, dns forgery issue, domain, dns forgery attacks, webwise, net domain
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