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Technology Tales from Thailand: KBank Fraud Management (1)

by Tim Bass (2) on The Complex Event Processing Blog (26) 1 week, 2 days ago permalink

In The Magical ATM Card and SMS Message in Thailand we talked about booking flights and securely paying using a SMS PayCode and ATM transfer, avoiding the possibility of on-line credit card fraud; and in Keyloggers: Why Banks Need Two-Factor Authentication I described how KBank uses SMS-based one-time-passwords (OTP) to authenticate transactions. In addition to the above services, KBank offers a service that permits users to receive an SMS message that details any change in ...

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Chertoff: I'm Listening to the Internet (Not in a Bad Way) (6)

by Ryan Singel (198) on Wired Top Stories (5548) 3 weeks, 1 day ago permalink

In an exclusive interview with Wired.com, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff explains why cybersecurity finally matters, how airlines botch the terrorist watch list, and why blog comments are driving policy changes at DHS.

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Denubis said: really worth reading.

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DNS Exploit in the Wild (4)

by Kim Zetter (260) on Wired: Threat Level (496) 1 month ago permalink

Well it took a little longer than expected so it's not quite a zero-day exploit, but the anticipated attack code to exploit the critical Kaminsky DNS cache-poisoning flaw is now in the wild (assuming there wasn't one already out there). Let's call it a .5-day exploit. HD Moore, creator of the Metasploit Framework research and hacking tool, pinged me that he's just released the code. System administrators who dragged their feet over updating their DNS ...

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Jordan T-H said: Hahahaha *nervous laughter* oh boy.

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Details of DNS Flaw Leaked; Exploit Expected by End of Today (19)

by Kim Zetter (260) on Wired Top Stories (5548) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink

The details of a critical vulnerability in a core internet infrastructure have leaked onto the web, despite efforts to keep the information under wraps. The security researcher who found the hole the the Domain Name System is now urging everyone to fix the vulnerability before it's too late.

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Computer Security Dire as Malware Spammers Get Sense of Humor (5)

by Ryan Singel (198) on Wired: Threat Level (496) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink

Threat Level was intrigued the other day to get an email with the subject line, "God Destroys Boise for Not Being Gay Enough." Intrigued enough to open it. The body of the email made an odd reference to Barack Obama being an anorexic, over-exerciser and had a link to a file called viewmovie.html on a UK domain owned by Virgin Media. That seemed sketchy, especially since I had no idea who the email was from. ...

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Cybersecurity Will Take A Big Bite of the Budget (1)

by Walter Pincus (0) on washingtonpost.com - A Section (71) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink

President Bush's single largest request for funds and "most important initiative" in the fiscal 2009 intelligence budget is for the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a little publicized but massive program whose details "remain vague and thus open to question," according to the House...

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Estructura organizacional del ciberdelito/Organizational structure of cybercrime (1)

by Alejandro Pisanty (4) on alejandro pisanty (4) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink

Acaba de aparecer un informe sumamente interesante de la empresa de seguridad informática Finjan que describe las estructuras organizacionales y parte importante del modus operandi de las bandas dedicadas a varios tipos dominantes actualmente de delito cibernético, como el phishing.El informe describe en texto claro y con buenos diagramas las estructuras operativas que se ponen en marcha para estos delitos: estructuras de múltiples capas, algunas de ellas con muchos participantes, con funciones especializadas (creación de ...

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The Ghost in Your Machine: IPv6 Gateway to Hackers (16)

by Kim Zetter (260) on Wired: Threat Level (496) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink

It may be years before the new internet protocol IPv6 takes over from the current IPv4, but a security researcher is warning that many systems – corporate and personal – are already open to attack through channels that have been enabled on their machines to support IPv6 traffic. Joe Klein, a security researcher with Command Information, says many organizations and home users have IPv6 enabled on their systems by default but don't know it. They ...

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because another czar will make all the difference (1)

on Haft of the Spear (0) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink

When one of your nat-sec advisors used to be the cyberterror czar, this is not surprising. Given that "cyberterror" is actually un-terrifying, it makes more sense to try and tackle what terrorists are doing online: communicating and making money. In other words: cyber crime and the digital black globalization the enables it. . . . Wow. Now that I put it that way, and given that we're on our third 5-year rota of "getting serious" ...

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 9th through July 10th (1)

by Bill (180) on the billblog (10) 1 month, 2 weeks ago permalink

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 9th and July 10th: Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy - Ecellent piece and one of the few that goes back to the psychology literature. Wordle - EU Telecoms Law - Tim Berners-Lee at NESTA on the Future of the Web « Perfect Path - Excellent critique from Lloyd. Understanding the Web browser threat by Stefan Frei - Important study of browser update patterns

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diafanos said: as usual you must read the Shirky keynote transcript

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