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New Malware Spam Reporting Bogus Beijing Earthquake Targets Olympic Games Fans

2008-06-19 22:49:25 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Botnet operators are using false reports about an earthquake near Beijing that could disrupt the Olympic games to spread malware. Unsolicited emails discovered to be a part of a new malicious spam campaign that claims another earthquake has just occurred in China, and could derail the upcoming Olympic Games. Samples of the bogus alert doing the
 
 
 
 
 
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Hacker compromised Red Cross earthquake relief site

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b57c24 in Network World on Security
 
Hurricane Katrina proved a fertile ground for fraudsters to scam money off those willing to help the needy. Now the China earthquake has bread a new variant of the morally reprehensible, with donated funds being siphoned off one charity site
 
 
 
 
 
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China Quake Hacker Caught

2008-06-19 10:59:41 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...earthquake warning up and then follow through on it? How did he think it would be funny From Network World A 19-year old Chinese man is in police custody after allegedly hacking into a provincial seismological bureaus Web site to place a false earthquake warning, Chinese state media reported Monday The teenager, identified only by his surname...
 
 
 
 
 
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Factoring News

2007-06-04 13:00:00 by Burt Kaliski in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...earthquake metaphor introduced at the conclusion of his post Mersenne numbers, because of their special form, are especially shaky. They fall much more quickly to factoring methods than the "tested and approved" counterparts of the same length used in cryptography - which is the reason that Mersenne numbers are often targeted in factoring...
 
 
 
 
 
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Security Incident Strikes and You are on the Hot Seat..

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2007-07-27 07:00:39 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...Earthquake incident Identify a structurally safe place inside the home to take shelter or identify an open safe place near your house where you can rush Decide on a family meeting place, where all family members get together Enough food for a week Two dozen water bottles etc
 
 
 
 
 
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Secrets of a Road Warrior

2006-10-16 08:34:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...earthquake in Hawaii and thinking of a loved one who was out there for a conference. I saw hospitals being evacuated, police breaking up fights over gas and food at convenience stores, bridges and roads that were un-drivable, no power, no water, no flights allowed in or out, etc. and I was worried. It reminded me of several situations I...
 
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Mesh in Devices, Florida-Fi, Minneapolis-Fi, LA No-Fi, Harbor-Fi, Parade-Fi

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2008-04-28 13:09:58 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Out-of-sight, out-of-mesh: PacketHop announces first 802.11s mesh standard products based on the likely-to-be-approved current draft. The mesh standard is about endpoints, and I'd entirely lost track of it; it has nothing to do with how metro-scale devices mesh way up on poles. 802.11s mesh should allow end-point devices to form their own loose...
 
 
 
 
 
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TOP 10 - HP-EDS buy, Icahn strikes again, China quakes

2008-05-16 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b237d4 in Network World on Security
 
...earthquake in China on Monday showing once again the role that the Internet plays in connecting us all, in good times and bad, and the importance of telecommunication, particularly for rural areas. HP opened the week with word that it is buying EDS. And the Microsoft-Yahoo saga was back in headlines, thanks to investor Carl Icahn, who hasn't...
 
 
 
 
 
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FBI warns of e-mail scams offering to help Chinese quake victims

2008-05-21 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The FBI is warning Americans who want to send donations in the wake of this month's earthquake in China to beware of a rising number of e-mail relief scams
 
 
 
 
 
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FBI warns of China earthquake e-mail scams