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Malware Spam Attack Disguised As U.S. Customs and Border Protection Message

2008-07-26 21:54:56 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
After recent malware emails disguised as UPS and tax messages, there is a new attack circulating via bogus email messages and claims to be from US Customs Service. The messages may contain the following subject lines: Customs - We have received a parcel for you Customs, please read Parcel requires declaration Your parcel is at the customs office...
 
Tags: customs, messages, tax messages, customs service, parcel requires declaration, parcel, bogus email messages, customs office, recent malware emails
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Customs Seizing Laptops

2008-02-12 12:23:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Customs and Border Protection seizing, copying data from, or otherwise accessing laptops of people entering the country. But this is very mainstream: Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Asian Law Caucus, two civil liberties groups in San Francisco, plan to file a lawsuit to force the government to disclose its policies on border...
 
Tags: customs, border, border agents, laptop, customs officers, san francisco, strongly recommend, electronic devices, laptops
 
 
 
 
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HOWTO: Travelers Guide to Customs-Proofing Your Laptop

2008-03-14 17:00:51 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Customs officials stepping up electronic searches of laptops at the border where travelers have no privacy or legal grounds to object. Laptops and other electronic devices can be seized without reason, copied, and returned hours or even weeks later. Executives have been told that they must hand over their laptop to be analyzed by border police
 
Tags: electronic devices, electronic, border police, border, laptop, laptops, travelers, legal grounds, customs officials
 
 
 
 
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Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs

2008-05-16 06:10:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other...
 
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The Breach Blog November Review

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2007-12-04 13:55:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Customs (3 total), Montana State University (4), Capital Health (2), United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2), and the State of Massachusetts (2). Montana State University reported three breaches and Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC) reported two in November alone The breach reported by Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC)...
 
Tags: breach, breach report, popular breach type, breach blog month, breach blog, november, security breach, single breach, breach offender
 
 
 
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Customs and Revenue (HMRC Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Countrywide Assured pension customers Number Affected 6,548 Types of Data Names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers*, and pension contributions equivalent to Social Security numbers in US Breach Description A "data cartridge" sent from Countrywide...
 
Tags: data, data cartridge, hmrc, lost hmrc cd, prime data, confidential data, hmrc breach, consult hmrc, hmrc encrypts
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...customs form for a third package that wasn't seized indicated that it was sent from Menard to Tarnovsky and also contained electronic goods Tarnovsky was in Israel at the time, and says he didn't know anything about the packages until he was notified that they'd been seized. He thinks they were sent by someone in Nagrastar's camp who was...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Government Policy for Seizing Laptops at Borders

2008-08-01 12:21:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement... DHS officials said that the newly disclosed policies which apply to anyone entering the country, including US citizens are reasonable and necessary to prevent terrorism... The policies cover 'any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form,'...
 
Tags: policy, cover, policies cover, policies, actual policy, government, border protection, border, laptop
 
 
 
 
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Frequent Flyers Have More to Fear than Terrorists

2008-08-01 15:12:37 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Read the full article here
 
Tags: laptop, travelers laptop computer, homeland security recently, security, customs enforcement, border protection, international flight, customs, agencies
 
 
 
 
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Again, On Laptops and US Borders

2008-08-12 11:00:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers can confiscate and detain travelers' laptops at the U.S. border without suspicion of wrongdoing. Laptops can be taken to an off-site location for an undisclosed period of time, during which officials may examine the computer's contents and share copies of files with other agencies. This policy...