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Its About The Fraud, Not The Breaches

2008-04-18 16:37:01 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...fraud or the real state of data breaches The statistics were all using are culled from breach notifications- the public declarations made by organizations (or the press) after an incident occurs. All a notification says is that information was lost, stolen, or simply misplaced. Notifications are a tool to warn individuals that their...
 
Tags: fraud, notifications, notifications result, notification stats, notification, breach notification statistics, real fraud, statistics, fraud statistics
 
 
 
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Fraud Prevention team discovered that three employees of a company that provides call center assistance for Target National Bank used the privileges granted as part of their job to commit fraud. The suspected employees used Target Visa card account information to place fraudulent charges on Target Visa accounts Reference URL The New...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank
 
 
 
 
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Network Security Monitoring for Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

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2008-03-08 11:28:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...fraud, waste, and abuse" in your writing ( for example ), most often to say that NSM is not intended to address FWA. One thing I've been wondering though--why is fraud in there? I can see waste (employee burning time/resources on ESPN.com or Google Video) or abuse (pornography, etc), but Fraud seems to be in a different class. If someone is...
 
Tags: fwa, counter-fwa, air force, air force resources, fwa investigation, support fwa tasks, fwa investigations, real fwa, air force property
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Tenet Healthcare affects 37,000

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2008-02-18 10:26:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraudulent information, police said The company mailed letters last week announcing the security breach to anyone who could have been affected, said spokesman Steven Campanini Tenet also informed victims how to set up free fraud alerts at the nation's three major credit bureaus There's an annoyance factor and we apologize for that," Campanini...
 
Tags: tenet, require, require social security, security, tenet healthcare corp, employee fraud, fraud, letters, tenet notification letters
 
 
 
 
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Fighting Back Against Fraud; A True Story Part 2

2008-03-21 15:19:12 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...fraud and his attempts to work with law enforcement, Today, he takes matters (legally) into his own hands and well, youll just have to read the story Now in between these phone calls I had been pursuing the email address the seller used. The address was a hotmail account. I figured if its a hotmail account then they must be using a web...
 
Tags: fraud, address, email address, ebay fraud, georgia police, police, address john, john, address based
 
 
 
 
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Central Bank of the UAE reports ATM fraud to lenders

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2008-03-03 11:41:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraudsters who hacked into a bank's ATM machine We have been informed by one of the banks operating in the UAE that a gang of computer professionals has managed to insert an electronic reader into the card reader of one of its ATMs, which enabled them to copy the data of all the cards used in the said ATM during the period 19-25 February...
 
Tags: bank card details, card details, bank, bank card, atm, regular card reader, reader, customers, bank customers
 
 
 
 
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Fighting Back Against Fraud; A True Story

2008-03-20 20:49:15 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...fraudulent credit card charges from online purchases. He was just as interested in finding these folks as I was I was stuck before I began I had two leads, the email address and the address in Indiana where I sent the check. I used Google maps to find the Indiana address. From the aerial photography I learned the address was at a large...
 
Tags: indiana address, indiana, local police, address, local police department, email address, ebay, story, cashiers check
 
 
 
 
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Fraud Due to a Credit Card Breach

2008-03-21 06:39:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fraud: The company is aware of about 1,800 cases of fraud reported so far relating to the breach And this is interesting: "Visa and MasterCard have stipulated in their contracts with retailers that they will not divulge who the source is when a data breach occurs," Spitzer said. "We've been engaged in a dialogue for a couple years now about...
 
Tags: breach, data breach occurs, fraud, risk, million unique account, actual risk, card authorization process, retailer, rule
 
 
 
 
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Hundreds of WiseBuys customers are victims of credit card fraud

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2008-04-26 21:01:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraudulent cards were used to pay for taxi rides, to buy food at a Wendy's Restaurant and to make purchases at New York City drug stores and other locations We had the New York City police call us about one of our cards that was picked up in a sting," said Scott A. Wilson, president and chief executive officer of SeaComm Federal Credit...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, wisebuys, credit union, credit union absorbs, credit issuer time, canton wisebuys store, report credit, credit card companies
 
 
 
 
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McAfee anti-fraud researcher charged with fraud

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
One of the researchers behind ScanAlert, the "Hacker Safe" certification company McAfee recently acquired, is facing fraud charges in Indiana
 
Tags: hacker safe, fraud charges, researchers, indiana, scanalert