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Foreign Hackers Stealing American Health Care Records

2008-02-20 12:30:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Walker, who works in DHS' Critical Infrastructure Protection Division, told a workshop audience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that the hackers' primary motive seems to be espionage Espionage? Um, how? Walker said the hackers are seeking to exfiltrate health care data. "We don't know why," he added. "We want to know...
 
Tags: health care records, health, foreign hackers, hackers, health care data, national security standpoint, homeland security analyst, walker, mark walker
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Walker said he had not heard of any complaints from anyone whose confidential information was placed on the Internet for nearly a week Barrett said he was happy the records that identified court-ordered psychiatric exams and guardianship details were removed from the site but still worried about whether they had been found by any browsers....
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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'Akill' charged with University of Pennsylvania attack

2008-03-16 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472fc8 in Network World on Security
 
Owen Walker, the 18-year-old alleged ring-leader of an international botnet coding group, has been charged with attacking the computer system of the University of Pennsylvania
 
Tags: university, pennsylvania, computer system, international botnet, walker, ring-leader, 18-year-old
 
 
 
 
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Botnet hunter pleads guilty

2008-04-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x84734cc in Network World on Security
 
...Walker, the 18-year-old Whitianga resident also known as Akill, has pleaded guilty to all charges he was facing under the Crimes Act for his part in attacking the University of Pennsylvania's computer system and in a global adware scheme Get a FREEMICROSOFT DYNAMICSERP/CRM RESOURCE DVD Advertisement See how ERP and CRM solutions from...
 
Tags: global adware scheme, 18-year-old whitianga resident, microsoft dynamics, computer system, everyday software, guilty, crimes act, crm solutions, advertisement
 
 
 
 
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Got Entropy ?

2008-04-02 02:55:47 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...Walker of www.fourmilab.ch - Thanks, John Entropy = 7.999987 bits per byte Optimum compression would reduce the size of this 13366112 byte file by 0 percent Chi square distribution for 13366112 samples is 233.85, and randomly would exceed this value 82.48 percent of the time Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 127.4767 (127.5 = random...
 
Tags: entropy, random, 32-byte random, byte, hardware random, entropy sources, sequence, random sequence, pull entropy
 
 
 
 
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RSA - As Storm fades, botnet fight goes on

2008-04-09 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
When Owen Walker was arrested for masterminding a massive international network of compromised computers last year, it seemed like a major victory in the war against botnets
 
Tags: massive international network, major victory, walker, botnets, war, computers
 
 
 
 
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700,000 records on stolen CCB server

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2008-04-22 14:57:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Walker Family Dentistry, Wells & Marvel PC Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: dds, gary taylor dds, gary hunt dds, lawrence falender dds, joseph meek dds, caryn guba dds, mark ellis dds, sarah akard dds, ccb
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...Walker," as they dubbed it, Tarnovsky gave Ereiser a program to create pirate NDS cards, but encrypted it so no one could copy it. The program worked only with a dongle attached to Ereiser's computer and created a limited number of cards that could be killed at any time But, according to Nagrastar, Tarnovsky wasn't just helping NDS fight...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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DWR 2.0.5 Fixes XSS Vulnerability

2008-06-30 03:04:21 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...Walker was taking security seriously. For this particular vulnerability, I e-mailed him on a Saturday night, and within 12 hours, he had confirmed the problem, patched the code, and built a 2.0.5 release candidate. Granted, it was a tiny code change, but Ive still never seen a response that fast. Less than a week later, the official 2.0.5...
 
Tags: vulnerability, xss vulnerability, code, dwr, tiny code change, attack surface post, dwrs ajax implementation, ajax framework, saturday night
 
 
 
 
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New Zealand botnet master walks free

2008-07-15 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b458c4 in Network World on Security
 
Owen Walker, the 18-year-old Whitianga resident also known as Akill, was discharged without conviction in the High Court in Hamilton today, reports the New Zealand Herald
 
Tags: 18-year-old whitianga resident, zealand herald, court, walker, akill, reports, conviction, hamilton