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ARCO gas pumps targeted by fraudsters

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2007-12-27 13:58:30 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Monetary losses have already surpassed $30,000, with unauthorized withdrawls taking place all across the U.S Reference URL KNBC-TV News Story KCAL 9 News Story Whittier Daily News Story Report Credit KNBC-TV Response From the online sources cited above Law enforcement authorities are searching for whoever skimmed debit card information...
 
Tags: arco gas pumps, pumps, gas pumps, arco, gas stations, arco gas stations, card, debit card identification, creditdebit card data
 
 
 
 
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HSBC loses a server in branch renovation

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2008-05-14 16:16:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Monetary Authority, and the Hong Kong privacy commissioner The case has been classified as theft Evan] Ah, so HSBC didn't really "lose" the server? It was stolen The Monetary Authority has demanded that the bank contact all the affected customers and explain what measures could be taken to avoid potential losses thereof The bank is...
 
Tags: server, hsbc, server theft, data, lost data, computer server, data breaches, clients data, hong kong
 
 
 
 
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Running Government Finances Like a Bank

2006-08-08 08:56:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Monetary Fund Financial Engineering News Tags: finance derivatives risk management alm government debt bonds capital markets
 
Tags: public debt, public debt management, government, debt, public debt portfolio, government debt, financial, financial markets, issue
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...monetary value, phishers had come up with ways to monetize this attack. We observed hijacked accounts being used to spread bulletin board spam for some advertising revenue. According to this interview with a phisher , phishers also logged in to the email accounts of the profile owners to harvest financial account information. In any case,...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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Book Review: The Pragmatic CSO

2008-01-02 15:24:45 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...monetary gain as a key motivator for malicious hacking At first I thought Id like the book, with quotes like, Ive got two dogs at home. I dont need any more friends. Then I thought Id hate the book when the main character, Mike said that his tests came back almost completely clean (because they almost never are, unless you really dont know...
 
Tags: book, book mike, technical book, security community, security, security business, mike, mike rothman, mike rothmans
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Wendy's laptop affects 1,092 employees

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2008-01-03 14:08:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...monetary damage, Wendy's will be sending a communication by first class mail on December 21, 2007 Evan] Not really so "immediate", unless 20+ days is immediate at this time Wendy's has no specific knowledge that any information contained on the laptop has been accessed or misused We are also determining internally whether having that data...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security, confidential information, information security policies, wendy, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Privacy Issues

2008-01-07 02:05:44 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...monetary gain. But I think this sort of behavior is only making people distrust social networking. It should be noted that some of the people who built some of the largest social networking sites in the world are also data mining experts - its not a leap to figure out why those two are a dangerous combination for privacy. So while Im not...
 
Tags: facebook, privacy, friends facebook profile, peoples privacy, friends, people, privacy issue, silicon insider article, article
 
 
 
 
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Quick and dirty Information Card implementation without SSL

2007-11-29 09:49:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...monetary or hacker value. I would even say that without proper security analysis, vetting of software and rigorous operating procedures, SSL isnt even likey to offer much protection against common attacks. We need to evolve our whole digital framework towards better security practices, not just mandate certificates and think were done
 
Tags: ssl, personal web sites, proper security analysis, digital framework, low-risk applications, security tokens, personal blogs, actual monetary, web server
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Bazaar

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
The commoditization of bugs is a long-standing tradition in the software industry. It started when companies began offering a cash incentive for each critical bug a developer squashed. This practice of attaching intrinsic monetary value to bugs is the spiritual predecessor of the "pure" vulnerability markets that this article discusses
 
Tags: vulnerability markets, bugs, software industry, critical bug, intrinsic monetary, spiritual predecessor, cash incentive, article discusses, pure
 
 
 
 
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CAN-SPAM still gets mixed reviews

2008-03-28 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a US$2.9 million settlement with online marketing firm ValueClick this month, it was a record monetary settlement under the 4-year-old CAN-SPAM Act
 
Tags: record monetary settlement, 4-year-old can-spam act, federal trade commission, firm valueclick, million settlement, us2, month, online