“We're your bank and we're ignorant!” What a great advertisement!
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080530/News01/162567786
May 30. 2008 9:29PM
Bank mailing letters to customers about security breach
by Nora Gathings hsgathings@wsbt.com
SOUTH BEND — 1st Source Bank is sending out letters reminding their customers to check their recent bank account activity. The bank says someone hacked into a computer containing debit card information earlier this month.
1st Source Bank says it doesn't know how many accounts the hacker got information on. But the bank doesn't think any money or personal information was taken.
... "The server that holds our debit card information, they were in there and they transferred information out. But we can't really tell if it was 10, 20, or 30 percent of our card holders," said Seitz.
What do you bet that this (Quebec) tribe reacts better than most banks. (Nifty hack, by the way.)
http://www.cjad.com/news/565/729153
Security breach at Kahnawake-based online casino
Sat, 2008-05-31 16:42. David Cohen
A security breach has been uncovered at a popular online casino based out of Kahanawake.
UltimateBet.com, owned by a company controlled by former Kahnawake grand chief Joe Norton, acknowledged that unnamed insiders had altered its poker software to allow them to see opponents' hidden cards.
Norton says those responsible worked for the previous ownership of UltimateBet, and any customers who incurred losses as a result of unfair play will be immediately refunded.
The company refused to disclose the amount of fraudulent winnings, but poker observers have said it runs into the millions.
Interesting, huh?
Friday, May 30, 2008
UltimateBet Issues Statement Confirming Security Breach
... The accusations arose after observers discovered some players with highly unusual playing styles were winning at a statistically improbable rate.
... Some players were reporting refunds in the area of six figures showing up in their account within hours of the announcement.
...because...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080602064207323
Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week
Monday, June 02 2008 @ 06:42 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
A recap of incidents or privacy breaches reported last week for those who enjoy shaking their head and muttering to themselves with their morning coffee.
Source - Chronicles of Dissent
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/1831247&from=rss
MediaDefender Explains Itself
Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 01, @04:35PM from the smurfs-for-hire dept. Security
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes
"Wired has an interview with MediaDefender in which they try to explain why they attacked Revision3, which uses BitTorrent to host its own content. Somehow it eluded MediaDefender that they had injected fake content into Revision3's tracker, so when Revision3 changed configuration to forbid this injection, MediaDefender's systems saw it as a pirate tracker with lots of illegal content (which MediaDefender had put there) and attacked. In other words, everything they did was intentional except for the choice of target. Given that they have 9 Gbps of bandwidth dedicated to denial-of-service attacks against torrent trackers, all anyone needs to do is to trick them into attacking a hospital or government facility. MediaDefender has never been very competent, after all."
Will Rolling Stone turn Rock-Groupies into Privacy advocates? After all, there is nothing here that we aren't doing in the US.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/2316219&from=rss
China's All-Seeing Eye
Posted by kdawson on Monday June 02, @12:42AM from the market-stalinism dept. Privacy
krou writes
"Naomi Klein writes in Rolling Stone Magazine about China's Panopticon-like experiment called 'Golden Shield' taking place in Shenzhen using technology supplied by companies such as IBM, Honeywell, and General Electric. Klein writes: 'Chinese citizens will be watched around the clock through networked CCTV cameras and remote monitoring of computers. They will be listened to on their phone calls, monitored by digital voice-recognition technologies. Their Internet access will be aggressively limited through the country's notorious system of online controls known as the "Great Firewall." Their movements will be tracked through national ID cards with scannable computer chips and photos that are instantly uploaded to police databases and linked to their holder's personal data.' According to Klein, this is more than just a Chinese experiment, it's also one that holds ramifications for America and elsewhere: '...the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state... The global corporations currently earning superprofits from this social experiment are unlikely to be content if the lucrative new market remains confined to cities such as Shenzhen. Like everything else assembled in China with American parts, Police State 2.0 is ready for export to a neighborhood near you.'"
Is this possible on a braoder scale?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9956753-7.html
Minnesota town tells Google Maps to get lost
Posted by Steven Musil June 1, 2008 7:40 AM PDT
A small town in Minnesota has told Google that its Street View feature can hit the road.
North Oaks, a private community of 4,500 residents north of St. Paul, isn't too keen on outsiders traipsing through its privately owned streets--even if is only on the Internet. According to the city's Web site, the roads are privately owned, and a no-trespassing sign greets potential visitors to the city.
So city officials were really unhappy when images of their streets and homes appeared on the Google Maps Street View feature, which presents a view of dozens of United States cities from a driver's perspective.
The North Oaks City Council sent the Internet search giant a letter in January demanding that images be removed or risk being cited for trespassing, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
Soon, everyone will be in the clouds...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/01/bezos-talks-web-services/
Bezos Talks Web Services
Erick Schonfeld
Last week at the D6 conference, Om Malik caught Jeff Bezos on video
after his on-stage appearance (in which he talked about a new pay-per-download movie service). In the five-minute hallway interview (embedded below), Bezos explains why a Web retailer is offering cloud computing services. The answer is because Amazon, as a Web-scale application, had to build these services for itself anyway. (Many investors and Wall Street analysts apparently still don’t get the connection).
Also, when asked if Amazon is considering starting its own venture fund to encourage Web Services startups like the iFund or the fbFund, Bezos laughs, and points out that plenty of venture-backed startups are already using Amazon’s Web services.
Interesting business model. Expand it beyond “just Microsoft” and it might be quite profitable. As the article asks: “Any takers?”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9956900-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Microsoft launches Task Market for Office jocks
Posted by Rafe Needleman June 2, 2008 5:00 AM PDT
Two Microsoft research groups, Microsoft Research Asia and Microsoft Office Labs, have launched Task Market, an online marketplace for jobs that can be done on Office applications.
Like Elance, oDesk, and other piecework job sites, Task Market is a marketplace for people with skills and time--and those that need them.
Task Market is focused on very specific, and nontechnical jobs. At the moment, the only job categories allowed on the site are writing, editing, translation, and basic design. Why not programming or scripting or multimedia editing? Because, as the FAQ says, "By focusing on tasks accomplished using applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, Task Market makes it quicker and easier for small businesses to get their job done."
Of course, Webware recommends Web-based productivity suites (like Google Docs) for team editing and collaboration, but there's as yet no marketplace service for Google like Task Market. Anybody want to build one?
Another intriguing business model. You can access data anywhere, why not access products anywhere?
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/63186.html?welcome=1212412094
Silkfair: Greasing the Wheels of Global E-Commerce
By Keith Regan E-Commerce Times Part of the ECT News Network 06/02/08 4:00 AM PT
Though it may seem at times as if the U.S. market is dominated by foreign-made goods, longtime importer Albert Wu believes even more goods could be making their way to consumers.
Wu and the others behind Internet startup Silkfair.com have long been involved in the importing business, bringing specialty items from markets such as China into the United States, a market that many smaller merchants find difficult to crack.
"We started realizing a lot of different products don't make it into the market because of the difficulty of trying to break into market channels," Wu told the E-Commerce Times. Even though the Internet lowers some barriers, the logistics of setting up a site and back-end services such as payment processing are still enough to keep some would-be merchants out of the market, he added.
I actually encourage my students to grab these...
http://www.wral.com/business/blogpost/2972758/
CustomGuide makes "cheat sheets" available
Posted: Jun. 1 1:11 p.m.
CustomGuide.com has a ton of free "cheat sheets" available at http://www.customguide.com/quick_references.htm
No comments:
Post a Comment