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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...obtaining information by pretending to be somebody else. While private detectives have long posed as freelance reporters or job recruiters to get people to talk, former agents have elevated pretexting to an art Similarly, ex-agents have helped popularize the use of G.P.S.-based monitoring devices and long-range cameras for following people...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Weekend-Fi in NYC, Oakland County Halts, Helio Sold to Virgin

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2008-06-27 10:33:34 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...obtain the $70-odd million they project needed to build out the county-wide service. The state's ongoing reliance on the automotive industry makes it a hard sell to commit public dollars in advance of a return on those dollars, too Virgin Mobile buys Helio: The last vestiges of EarthLink's three-pronged approach to fighting the wireline...
 
Tags: helio, wi-fi approach, wi-fi, virgin, municipal wi-fi division, helio lost hundreds, dollars, oakland county, mvno
 
 
 
 
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Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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2007-12-16 18:18:26 by HASH0x8a09e44 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...obtain the obfuscated javascript/IFRAME before it got removed Here's an example of how useful cached malware sites are for research purposes. Back in September, the U.S Consulate in St.Petersburg was serving malware , and the embedded malware link was removed sooner than I could obtain a copy of the infected page. Best of all - there were...
 
Tags: sites, sites wrongly, web sites, malware, malicious site, site, single site offers, sites notification services, popular sites
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...obtain affirmative express consent from affected consumers before using data in a manner materially different from promises the company made when it collected the data To address the concern that sensitive data medical information or childrens activities online, for example may be used in behavioral advertising, FTC staff proposes Companies...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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SQL injection compromises MLSgear.com customer information

2008-02-11 09:27:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...obtain access to, and may have accessed personal information belonging to MLSgear.com customers through the use of SQL injection attacks carried out on the MLSgear.com web site between January and August, 2007 Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Computerworld online story PogoWasRight.org report Report...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, mlsgear, sql, debit card information, report credit, credit, credit card fraud
 
 
 
 
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Catalina Conservancy Divers donors are warned

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2008-03-17 13:32:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...obtain the names and credit card numbers of hundreds of victims when they made online donations to the Catalina Conservancy Divers site he was hired to develop in 2005, police said. He then used the information he obtained through the site, www.ccd.org, to make online purchases and pay for personal items Reference URL The Newport Beach...
 
Tags: catalina conservancy, conservancy, catalina conservancy divers, hammonds, trevor hammonds, victims names, names, victims, online donations
 
 
 
 
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Keystroke Logging

2008-04-04 10:07:18 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...obtain sensitive information from your endpoint devices. However, few of them are as effective as keystroke logging. Keystroke logging, also known as keylogging, is the capture of typed characters. The data captured can include document content, passwords, user ID's, and other potentially sensitive bits of information. Using this approach, an...
 
Tags: obtain valuable data, keystroke, information, data, obtain sensitive information, include document content, typed characters, endpoint devices, sensitive bits
 
 
 
 
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Chinese Hacktivists Waging People's Information Warfare Against CNN

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2008-04-22 02:25:00 by HASH0x8b20ee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...obtain such juicy inside information about hackcnn.com such as Current Time: Tuesday, 22-Apr-2008 07:00:56 Restart Time: Monday, 21-Apr-2008 15:25:39 Parent Server Generation: 0 Server uptime: 15 hours 35 minutes 17 seconds Total accesses: 291670 - Total Traffic: 533.8 MB 5.2 requests/sec - 9.7 kB/second - 1918 B/request 4 requests currently...
 
Tags: cnn, cnn sub-station, flood cnn, sports web site, site, psyops anti-cnn, contact address sports, contact, sports
 
 
 
 
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UltimateBet cheating goes undetected for almost 21 months

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2008-06-04 10:55:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...obtain hole card information during live play. The existence of this vulnerability was unknown to Tokwiro until February 2008 and existed prior to UltimateBet's acquisition by Tokwiro in October 2006. Our investigation has confirmed that the code was part of a legacy auditing system that was manipulated by the perpetrators. Gaming Associates,...
 
Tags: ultimatebet, tokwiro enterprises enrg, tokwiro enterprises, ultimatebet issues statement, ultimatebet prior, ultimatebet subsequently, ultimatebet immediately removes, ultimatebet servers, ultimatebet statement