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Financial Ombudsman losing it?

2008-01-23 15:14:58 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...submission to a review of the service which is currently being conducted by Lord Hunt Our submission looks at three cases in particular in which the ombudsman decided in favour of the banks and against bank customers over disputed ATM transactions. We found that the adjidicators employed by the ombudsman made numerous errors both of law and...
 
Tags: ombudsman, financial ombudsman service, service, submission, submission minuss, customers, bank customers, independent hunt review, fipr submission
 
 
 
 
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House committee issues report and finds fault with TSA web site

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2008-01-15 09:35:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...submission pages was not encrypted; and its encrypted pages were not properly certified. These deficiencies exposed thousands of American travelers to potential identity theft Reference URL The official Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report The CSO Online Story Report Credit The United States House of Representatives Committee...
 
Tags: tsa, website, website contract, traveler redress website, tsa moved quickly, security breach, information security breach, security vulnerabilities, multiple security vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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How effective is the wisdom of crowds as a security mechanism?

2007-12-21 15:26:10 by Tyler Moore in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...submissions are valid. The idea behind PhishTank is to bring together the expertise and enthusiasm of people across the Internet to fight phishing attacks. The more people participate, the larger the crowd, the more robust it should be against errors and perhaps even manipulation by attackers Not so fast. We studied the submission and voting...
 
Tags: phishtank, phishtank compare, leaves phishtank, users, phishtanks users, vote maliciously, vote, active users, urls
 
 
 
 
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The Shark Malware - New Version's Coming

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2007-12-09 20:44:58 by HASH0x899fff8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...submission, process injection, and with the new version promoted to have a built-in rootkit capabilities, next to its Vista compatibility, let's ask the ultimate question - is it a RAT, or is it a malware? That's the rhetorical question
 
Tags: malware, version, shark3 window, shark3, diy malware, rhetorical question, shark3 keylogger, built-in rootkit capabilities, rat
 
 
 
 
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Justice, in one case at least

2008-01-31 16:48:08 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...submission to the Hunt Review of the Financial Services Ombudsman (see below ). I therefore advised the defence to apply for the court to order Egg to produce the actual transaction logs and supporting material so that we could verify the transaction certificates, if any The prosecution folded and today Jane walked free. I hope she wins an...
 
Tags: card, circuit card, transaction, john, bank, transaction code, bank statement, emv card, egg
 
 
 
 
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Trend Micro sucker punches Barracuda

2008-02-01 00:00:00 by Mark Gibbs in Network World on Security
 
If Trend Micro gets its way in fighting Barracuda Networks, free open source software could be a new club for intellectual property owners to beat other companies into submission
 
Tags: trend micro, intellectual property owners, source software, barracuda networks, free, submission, companies, club
 
 
 
 
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A Commercial Web Site Defacement Tool

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2008-04-01 06:25:00 by HASH0x8b4eee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...submission . Moreover, within the functions changelog we see Choose number of perm folder to check it and go another site with out load all perm it cause to deface with more speed; Working back proxy and cache servers; Get Connect back with php in all servers that safe mode is Off ( with out need any command same as system() ; Auto Detect...
 
Tags: malware, malware attack, approaches, defacers, creative approaches, site, entire defacers community, defacers deface, deface
 
 
 
 
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Got a firewall on your snail-mail mailbox?

2008-04-01 09:27:49 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...submission of personal information. Yes, I said misconception. Identity theft due to online participation is only a small part of a larger problem
 
Tags: theft, identity theft due, identity theft, internet, resist internet purchases, electronic identity information, online participation, average users, misconception
 
 
 
 
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Quality and Assurance in Malware Attacks

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2008-04-02 11:49:20 by HASH0x8b57b3c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...submission to verify the low detecting rate of the newly generated server, something really had to change - like it did At the beginning of 2008, VirusTotal which is among the most widely known and used such multiple antivirus scanner as a web service, decided to remove the " Do not distribute the sample " option, directly undermining the...
 
Tags: malware authors start, malware authors, malware, authors, services, malware services, start, malware product, malware campaign