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38 in US, Romania charged in phishing schemes

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Thirty-eight people in the U.S. and Romania have been charged in two indictments alleging they used complicated Internet phishing schemes to steal thousands of credit and debit card numbers, U.S. and Romanian authorities announced Monday
 
Tags: debit card, thirty-eight people, romanian authorities, schemes, romania, internet, indictments, credit, thousands
 
 
 
 
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38 in U.S., Romania charged in phishing schemes

2008-05-19 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
U.S. authorities have charged 38 people in the U.S. and Romania in two related phishing schemes
 
Tags: schemes, romania, people, authorities
 
 
 
 
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Bust-out schemes are a fraud to make you go bust

2008-06-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472ff4 in Network World on Security
 
Increasing globalization is proving to be a boon for perpetrators of a type of fraud known as a "bust-out scheme." This kind of fraud, commonplace in the computer and electronics industry, victimizes legitimate manufacturers and retailers. People in the industry should be aware of the particulars of such schemes so they can guard against them
 
Tags: fraud, industry, electronics industry, schemes, bust-out scheme, retailers, manufacturers, perpetrators, commonplace
 
 
 
 
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Your ID may be stolen if you are dead!

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2008-05-15 14:00:34 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
...schemes for good? Think of the positive possibilities that this planet could benefit from if criminals used their schemes to benefit mankind instead of sinking it further into the cesspool of humankind. Sorry, It just stinks! Makes me mad clipped from blog.wired.com Feds Charge California Woman With Stealing IDs From the Dead Federal...
 
Tags: benefit mankind, benefit, schemes, southern california woman, wily schemes, positive possibilities, identity theft, federal prosecutors, dead
 
 
 
 
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Storage Innovation Ahead

2006-03-26 21:47:08 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...schemes such as plan9 venti and git , that offer frugal use of bandwidth (important when metered), and attractive features like version snapshots for free. A little searching shows one talented software developer thinking along these lines already: Brad Fitzpatrick: wsbackup encrypted, over-the-net, multi-versioned backup. There will be more
 
Tags: plan9 venti, storage options, software developer, version snapshots, storage schemes, innovation, brad fitzpatrick, offer frugal, attractive features
 
 
 
 
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Kn1ghtl0rd and Lowtek Mystik's RFID 2.0 PhreakNIC Presentation

2007-09-21 05:05:54 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...schemes with standardization including EPC Gen 2 and other ISO standards such as PayPass RFID enabled credit cards. There will be reader/writer demonstrations as well as other proof of concept demonstrations Watch last years presentation
 
Tags: rfid, presentation, paypass rfid, rfid tag, lowtek mystik, readerwriter demonstrations, buddies kn1ghtl0rd, communication types, concept demonstrations
 
 
 
 
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When Will the Media Industry Embrace the BORA Principle?

2007-03-22 10:06:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...schemes that benefited them rather than serve the needs of their clients Fortunately for Visa and MasterCard, CNP (card not present) transactions were already allowed for mail order catalog purchases. Despite their fear campaign and merchant agreements that left stores 100% liable for fraud, companies like Amazon accepted the increased risk...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, credit card industry, credit card fraud, industry, media industry, cut fraud, fraud, credit cards
 
 
 
 
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Patrick Smith on Aviation Security

2008-01-11 13:47:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...schemes like Registered Traveler. Americans can now pay to have their personal information put on file just to avoid the hassle of airport security. As cynical as George Orwell ever was, I doubt he imagined the idea of citizens offering up money for their own subjugation How we got to this point is an interesting study in reactionary...
 
Tags: security, actual security, security zealots, security experts, security spectacle, expect street protests, airport security, expect, american public
 
 
 
 
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Cashing in on employee theft, or honest whistleblower?

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2008-02-25 14:03:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...schemes," an ATO spokeswoman said. "Nonetheless, we have a good flow of information from people concerned about fairness and equity in the tax system Evan] The best deal of all. Australia got the stolen information for free The former employee, who was convicted of the data theft, is a Liechtenstein citizen named Heinrich Kieber (HK He was...
 
Tags: confidential, confidential data, kieber, named heinrich kieber, lgt, lgt trust, data, confidential information, information
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary on "Metrics Framework" Paper

2007-09-17 20:41:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...schemes against the percent of input they cover is a pretty good metric for this. Don't forget that web applications can have inputs other than html forms, etc. Make sure that any/all user input (cookies, http headers, etc.) are covered Broken Access Control Unfortunately this one is a tricky metric to get our hands around. Ideally we'd like...
 
Tags: metrics, software security metrics, metrics framework, metrics miss, design-time metric, design, upstream sdl metrics, application, web application security