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Stolen Credit Cards account for 59% of online criminal activity

2008-11-28 16:09:24 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...activity observed from July 2007 to June 2008 by a Symantec team monitoring activities in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Web-based forums where stolen goods are advertised. Symantec estimates the total value of the goods advertised on what it calls underground servers was about $276 million, with credit-card information accounting for 59% of...
 
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EPTS: Proposed Event Processing Definitions, September 20, 2006

2008-08-21 05:47:11 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...activity that happened at a single point in time. Just as one cannot change the fact that a given activity occurred, one cannot change an event events are immutable event aggregation (n.) the aggregation of simple, derived or complex events into higher levels of event abstractions event definition (n.) a set of properties related to a given...
 
Tags: event, event-object, business process management, process, event correlation, process refinement, simple, simple event, process events
 
 
 
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...activity on some Target Visa accounts The suspicious activity was tied back to employees of a company that provides call center support services to Target National Bank, the issuer of the Target Visa credit card Evan] If you read the breach notification too fast you may miss the "employees of a company" remark. To me this means that these...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank
 
 
 
 
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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
...activity was enabled by unauthorized software code that allowed the perpetrators to 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...
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...activity seems to happen in China, the U.S., Germany and Russia (see below Location of compromised web sites. These are often sites that are benign in nature but have been compromised and have become dangerous for users to visit Location of malware distribution servers. These are servers that are used by malware authors to distribute...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...activity Friday afternoon, OmniAmerican placed temporary limits on some ATM and debit-card transactions and suspended some electronic banking services, which were restored Sunday, Carter said. At no time were customer deposits at risk, he stressed. "We reduced by half the dollar amount that could be withdrawn and limited [access] to Texas. We...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Boring Jobs Dull the Mind

2008-04-26 06:37:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...activity To our surprise, up to 30 seconds before the mistake we could detect a distinct shift in activity," said Dr Stefan Debener, of Southampton University, UK The brain begins to economise, by investing less effort to complete the same task We see a reduction in activity in the prefrontal cortex. At the same time, we see an increase in...
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...activity seems to happen in China, the U.S., Germany and Russia (see below Location of compromised web sites. These are often sites that are benign in nature but have been compromised and have become dangerous for users to visit Location of malware distribution servers. These are servers that are used by malware authors to distribute...
 
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DHS notified the Greenville County School District of compromise

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2008-01-07 09:08:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...activity involving Greenville County School District data. A malicious program had been installed on a computer used by the school district's benefits department that captured sensitive personal information belonging to certain school district employees Reference URL News Channel 7 Story WYFF Channel 4 News Story Report Credit News Channel...
 
Tags: computer, benefits department computer, benefits department, benefits department accesses, department, school district, school district employees, employees, homeland security
 
 
 
 
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What should done about employees stealing in the workplace?

2008-02-21 05:25:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog