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ASCII Art Spam

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2008-08-27 08:35:14 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...recently had a chat with Stephen Shankland over at CNET regarding the weird and wacky world of ASCII Art Spam . It's been around for some time now, and every now and again there's a little surge (currently most of it seems to be coming out of Korea & China) before dying down again Of course, it has an element of visual appeal to it in some...
 
Tags: ascii art spam, spam, pretty cool noodles, spammy noodles, web address, visual appeal, pragmatic pete, cheap laughs, spammers
 
 
 
 
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CEP is Not BPM, BAM, BRE, BRMS or SOA

2008-08-27 13:37:25 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...recently in their CEP blog , continually attempting to redefine CEP as BRMS. Detecting business opportunities and threats with high confidence requires sophisticated analytics, and their tools have not yet evolved to real CEP capabilities. Instead,vendors are attempting to redefine BPM, BRMS, BRE, and even SOAto some degree, as CEP CEP is Not...
 
Tags: cep, cep blog, current cep products, cep glossary, bpm, real cep capabilities, cep application, potential fraud, fraud
 
 
 
 
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Forgot your password? may be weakest link in web security

2008-08-27 13:27:57 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Almost everyone forgets a Web site password once in a while. When you do, you click on the familiar Forgot your password? link. As an experiment, Thompson recently asked a few friends for permission to "hack" into their bank accounts. Using only information gathered from Web sites such as Facebook, he found his way in to each account within minutes
 
Tags: password, web site password, thompson recently, link, bank accounts, web sites, experiment, friends, hack
 
 
 
 
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The Stigma Enigma, Revisited

2008-08-27 14:58:56 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
 
Recently my pal Bill Pytlovany (of WinPatrol fame) wrote an article on his blog asking "What's Wrong With Toolbars I wrote something along similar lines way back in 2005 , and it's vaguely depressing to see how little has apparently changed. I'm not going to quote myself, but rather compare and contrast Bills experiences (and those of his...
 
Tags: toolbars imaginable, toolbars, forcibly, install, toolbar, applications, contrast bills experiences, companies, toolbar system
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Tactics Evolving

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2008-04-21 11:18:17 by HASH0x85bed5c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...recently. Here are some example of recently spammed phishing campaigns hosting the phishing pages on end user's PCs pool-71-116-244-232.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net user-142o3ds.cable.mindspring.com /online.lloydstsb.co.uk/customer.ibc/logon.html user-142o3ds.cable.mindspring.com /onlineid/cgi-bin/onlineid.bankofamerica/sso.login.controller...
 
Tags: halifax-online, halifax, mem binformslogin, user, user-142o3ds, web application vulnerabilities, mem binhalifax loginformslogin, vulnerable sites, turkish defacement
 
 
 
 
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Academy Learning Centres stolen computers affect seniors

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2008-05-29 09:14:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently. The Academy Hearing Centre in Brentwood Mall, which provides hearing tests and equipment, mostly to seniors, recently mailed out letters warning of the theft Reference URL CBC News Report Credit CBC News Response From the online source cited above Dozens of Calgary seniors are alarmed after learning their credit-card numbers,...
 
Tags: seniors, academy, centres, protect confidential information, information, breach description, breach, calgary seniors, health information
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Overconfidence?

2008-04-07 19:31:05 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...recently commissioned a Zogby poll of internet users feelings about online safety. We found that 88 percent of internet users feel safe when accessing the internet, and 84 percent feel they have the information and tools needed to make good decisions to protect their privacy and security online Unfortunately, this confidence does not reflect...
 
Tags: internet users feelings, internet users, internet, online safety, consumer, online, percent, consumer education, security online
 
 
 
 
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WellPoint customer information exposed for a year

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2008-04-09 14:23:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently? WellPoint is a large company with millions of confidential records and conflicting business issues, but is this any excuse WellPoint, which has had other data security issues in the past, recently learned about the problem, fixed it and is notifying customers, spokeswoman Shannon Troughton said The nation's largest health insurer...
 
Tags: data management vendor, vendor, data management, data, medical data, patient data, data security, data security issues, wellpoint
 
 
 
 
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Elliot Health System reports a breach involving health information

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2008-04-16 11:00:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently informed us that on the evening of February 22, 2008, a thief/thieves broke into corporate headquarters, and stole ten computers. The computers contained electronic protected health information and could potentially include your name, procedural dates of service at EHS, name of your insurance company and your date of birth Reference...
 
Tags: information, breach, elliot health system, elliot, health information, contractor information security, ehs andor ampi, ehs, information security program
 
 
 
 
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Patient information on index cards is missing

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2008-05-26 11:20:51 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently discovered that a group of index cards from Greil Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama that contact a limited amount of patient information is missing Reference URL Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Press Release Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Breach Notification WSFA Channel 12 News ...
 
Tags: index cards, cards, information, alabama dmhmr, alabama, alabama department, department, personal information, patient information