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Passwords, crocodiles, and air disasters

2008-05-15 08:45:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...pounds revenue to generate. Therefore you need to make another ten pounds to make that same pound profit back. In fact, you need to make twenty pounds because the first ten now only covers your original loss. Make sense? The password anecdote related to an organisation that fired somebody because he intentionally shared his password with a...
 
Tags: password, pound, pounds, pound profit, twenty pounds, password anecdote, air disasters, human factors, martin
 
 
 
 
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Bogus Microsoft sweepstakes emails

2007-08-19 22:35:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...pounds. This is an easy question to answer: they're fake Recently, someone forwarded me the email. Let's examine some of its characteristics The sending address is microsoft.co.uk-00@adelphia.net. The address was a hidden hyperlink. Legitimate emails you receive from us almost always come from @microsoft.com domain; occasionally a marketing...
 
Tags: microsoft sweepstakes, sweepstakes, microsoft, email, email insists, domain, american domain, subject line, emails
 
 
 
 
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Cloned Trucks

2008-02-06 12:37:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...pounds of marijuana and 204 kilograms of cocaine in a "cloned" Wal-Mart semi-trailer, driven by a man wearing a Wal-Mart uniform In another case, a truck painted with DirecTV and other markings was pulled over in a routine traffic stop in Mississippi and discovered to be carrying 786 pounds of cocaine This is the same problem as fake uniforms...
 
Tags: routine traffic stop, trucks, wal-mart, wal-mart semi-trailer, wal-mart uniform, savvy criminals, criminals, border patrol, fake trucks
 
 
 
 
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London's Cameras Don't Reduce Crime

2008-05-07 06:53:36 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe Use of CCTV images for court evidence has so far been very poor, according to Detective...
 
Tags: cctv, cctv cameras, cameras, cctv images, police, metropolitan police unit, images, senior police officer, officer
 
 
 
 
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Your 419 Mail Roundup

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2008-07-02 17:11:42 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Pounds sterling) but we did not hear from you since for a couple of weeks now. Then we went to the bank to confirm if the draft that expired or getting near to expire and Metropolitan Police Uk told us that before the funds will get to your hand that it will expire.So I told him to cash the ?18 Million (Eighteen Million Pounds sterling) to...
 
Tags: hamilton fund, hamilton, hamilton creek, draft, confirmable bank draft, account, domiciliary bank account, bank, hamilton funds
 
 
 
 
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Wealthy investor information falls out of DHL van

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2008-01-14 12:04:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...pounds were those reportedly belonging to three National Lottery winners In the box were cheques and other sensitive papers which criminals could potentially have used to hack into customers' accounts The documents were found by a vehicle recovery driver on a roundabout near a sliproad for Junction 11 of the M4 near Reading in Berkshire ...
 
Tags: dhl van, dhl, dhl courier, van, dhl drivers, dhl courier van, secure, secure storage facility, prudential plc
 
 
 
 
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www.e-victims.org

2008-01-17 16:24:56 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...pounds then the Consumer Credit Act means that the credit card company should reimburse you The site has launched with content for e-shopping victims ( no Virginia , not that sort of victim ) and over the coming year will add more topics (phishing is specifically mentioned). If the site continues to give clear and down-to-earth advice as to...
 
Tags: credit card company, credit card, site continues, site, company, practical down-to-earth advice, down-to-earth advice, e-victims, org
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: National Geographic Colossal Squid Photo

2008-01-25 16:40:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
It's also dead : Heavier than even giant squid , colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) have eyes as wide as dinner plates and sharp hooks on some of their suckers. The new specimen weighs in at an estimated 990 pounds (450 kilograms
 
Tags: colossal squid, giant squid, sharp hooks, heavier, pounds, weighs, hamiltoni, kilograms, suckers
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Giant Squid

2008-02-01 16:22:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This link is from 2004, but still.... Peruvian police say they have seized nearly 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the United States
 
Tags: giant squid bound, cocaine, peruvian police, link, mexico, kilograms, pounds
 
 
 
 
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Midgets Hiding in Luggage

2008-02-04 13:19:48 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...pounds" in cash, jewellery and other valuables The company's sales manager, Ingvar Ryggasjo, said that one short person had been put aboard a coach in a hockey bag. A female passenger said she'd seen some men squeezing the "large, heavy bag" into the cargo hold, and that she later found she'd been relieved of stuff including a camera and purse
 
Tags: ingvar ryggasjo, heavy bag, cargo holds, hockey bag, female passenger, criminal records, audacious crims, sports bags, cargo hold