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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...novice computer skills? I am assuming that this is a Windows laptop, all the more simple the company shut down the laptops access to the corporate network, and has not detected any activity from the laptop since the disappearance Evan] Shutdown the laptop's access or access from the user id of the person that had been using the laptop?...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...novice cyber jihadists on the basics of running and maintaing such a community. What's perhaps most important to keep in mind is that, what you're currently analyzing, trying to shut down or censor whatsoever, is the public web, the Dark Web, the one closed behind authentication and invite-only access yet remains to be located and properly...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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Skype Spamming Tool in the Wild

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2008-04-07 10:51:23 by HASH0x8ad7880 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Novice botnet masters looking for ways to set up the foundations of their botnet could, the pragmatic attacks will however, continue using the most efficient and reliable way to infect as many people as possible, in the shortest timeframe achievable - injecting or embedding malicious links at legitimate sites Related posts Uncovering a MSN...
 
Tags: tool, mass authorization requests, malware, malware authors, proprietary tool, urls, botnet, novice botnet masters, infect
 
 
 
 
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The DDoS Attack Against CNN.com

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2008-04-22 19:30:53 by HASH0x8b2d1ec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...novice cyber warriors What if a simple script that is automatically refreshing CNN.com multiple times in several IFRAME windows, gets embedded at thousands of sites, and then promoted at hundreds of forums, with a single line stating that - "If you're a patriot, forward this to all your friends"? Now, what if this gets coordinate to happen...
 
Tags: ddos, ddos-ing cnn, cnn, ddos people, warfare, information warfare attack, attack, ddos attack, chinese script kiddies
 
 
 
 
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A Botnet Master's To-Do List

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2008-04-26 14:36:23 by HASH0x8ae3c28 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...novice ones, is entirely up to the coder, or perhaps module copy and paster. Some are going as far as implementing quality assurance approaches to ensure their malware has the lowest possible detection rate, before spreading it, on the anti malware and firewall level , while others are benchmarking and setting strategic objectives to achieve...
 
Tags: botnet, commodity malware bots, malware bots, to-do list, wannabe botnet masters, malware, botnet masters, malware botnets, anti malware
 
 
 
 
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New DIY Malware in the Wild

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2008-04-29 16:06:55 by HASH0x8b1f28c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...novice malware coder integrating publicly obtainble malware modules, hoping to cash in. Moreover, in regard to open source malware, questioning "Which is the latest version of the MPack web exploitation kit?" is slowly becoming pointless mainly because of the kits' open source nature, and besides localizing them to different languages, their...
 
Tags: diy malware, malware, diy malware droppers, do-it-yourself malware, novice malware coder, malware authors, source malware, malware loader, multi-feature malware crypter
 
 
 
 
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SCSU web server becomes spam server and exposes personal information

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2008-05-02 11:12:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...novice web site administrators log access to web pages and files. If the attacker accessed the file through the web service/daemon, then access was probably logged. If the attacker had completely compromised the web server or taken a different avenue of attack, then there might not be easily obtained evidence of access. Either way, I assume...
 
Tags: personal information, information, evan personal information, web server, personal information storage, university, university system, personal, university immediately
 
 
 
 
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DIY Phishing Kits Introducing New Features

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2008-05-15 14:11:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...novice market entrants would be the ones making the headlines The DIY phishing kits trend started emerging around August, 2007 , with the distribution of a simple kit (screenshots included), whose objective was to make it easy for a phisher already possessing the phishing page, to enter a URL where all the data would be forwarded to. Several...
 
Tags: features, kits, image grabber features, kits trend, diy, core features, proprietary kits, kit, simple kit
 
 
 
 
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Laptop is stolen from the car of a First Calgary Savings employee

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2008-05-20 10:47:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Novice to Intermediate It is information somebody would love to get their hands on for identity theft purposes," said Banman Evan] This is not reassuring. Mr. Banman is the First Calgary privacy officer We're doing the best we can to ensure the information is not going to impact them He said it's not improper for employees to carry...
 
Tags: employee, information, personal information, breach description, breach, information security breach, financial information, confidential information, calgary savings