http://www.databreaches.net/?p=1299
CO: Police: Credit Card Thieves Worked As Waiters
Posted February 9th, 2009 by admin
Follow-up on the story that we’ve been covering since November:
he credit card numbers stolen from 200 customers at an Asian restaurant last year were taken by three people who offered to work for tips only, according to Longmont police.
Cmdr. Tim Lewis told 7NEWS two men and one woman offered to work at Longmont’s East Moon Asian Bistro without pay. They offered to work for tips only and management accepted. Because of that agreement, the owners never received any personal information about the workers.
Read more in The Denver Channel
Q: How could such smart people, who sell Security and Anti-Virus software foe a living, have such poor security on their website? A: Their business is Anti-Virus. I'll wager that they employ mostly entry level techies on their website. In other words, they view it as not critical, so they don't spend much to secure it. (Same as their customers.)
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2218256&from=rss
Kaspersky Customer Database Exposed
Posted by timothy on Sunday February 08, @06:36PM from the which-is-not-a-new-mtv-show dept. Security Privacy
secmartin writes
"A hacker has managed to gain access to several databases via a SQL injection vulnerability on Kaspersky's US website. He has posted several screenshots and a list of available tables; judging from the table names, the information available includes data on bugs and user- and reseller accounts. The hacker has indicated that no confidential information will be posted on the Internet, but since a large part of the URLs used was visible in screenshots, it will only be a matter of time before somebody else manages to duplicate this."
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http://www.databreaches.net/?p=1386
BitDefender breach exposes customer data
Posted February 9th, 2009 by admin
HackersBlog is reporting that Kapersky isn’t the only exposing customer data this week. BitDefender Portugal also seems to have a problem….
“Ja, und why not?” Everyone from North Korea to teenagers to China is doing it.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2246251&from=rss
German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers
Posted by timothy on Monday February 09, @12:46AM from the blinkenlights-brauch'-das-fingerpoken dept. The Military Government Security
bad_alloc writes
"Heise.de tells us about the German Bundeswehr's idea of recruiting hackers in order to 'penetrate, manipulate and damage hostile networks.' (Note: The following passage has been translated from German into English: 'The Regiment is stationed in Rheinbach, near Bonn, and consists of several dozen graduates from Bundeswehr universities. They're training at the moment, but the 'hackers in uniforms' are supposed to be operational by next year. This regiment officially belongs to the "Kommando Strategische Aufklärung" (strategic reconnaissance) and is commanded by Brigadier General Friedrich Wilhelm Kriesel. The Bundeswehr has not said anything to this regiment yet.' You can find the full article in German."
An interesting if still imperfect business model. Credit Cards have been vulnerable for years – as PayPal demonstrated.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10159283-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
A new way to pay: Noca's credit card alternative
Posted by Rafe Needleman February 8, 2009 10:35 PM PST
When you buy a product online and use either a credit card or Paypal, a significant percentage of your transaction cost--from 2.5 percent to 4 percent when all the fees are considered--goes straight to either the credit card processing company or to PayPal. With so many retailers operating at such slim margins already, this is a material expense. While payment processing will probably never be free, a new company, Noca, is launching today that undercuts payment processing by an order of magnitude: It charges just 0.25 percent for transactions.
Researchers! Get 'em while they're hot! (and still online!) NOTE: The site had been overwhelmed when I tried to link.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020526.html
February 08, 2009
Wikileaks Posts Database of 6,780 Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
"Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation... Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest report goes back to 1990. The release represents the total output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) electronically available to Congressional offices." [As noted by Michael Ravnitzky, "there are additional reports and briefings prepared for specific offices that are not included in that electronic output."]
These reports have also been merged into OpenCRS.
Torrent: WikiLeaks Document Release: CRS Reports, Feb 2009 (full pack, incl. metadata for indexing). Where applicable we have also categorized the reports according to country and attached them to our general country index.
Note: See also the FAS directory of links to topical CRS Reports
Related A law journal under the Creative Commons license.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/020527.html
February 08, 2009
Journal of Legal Analysis: New Open-Access Law Journal Launched
"...the Journal of Legal Analysis (JLA) is a new open-access law journal co-published by Harvard University Press (HUP) and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School. For the record, this is the first new journal we've published in thirty years...articles will be posted, for free, as soon as they are ready for publication. In addition, we're hoping the journal fills a gap in the legal publishing landscape by providing a peer-reviewed, faculty-edited journal that covers the entire academy."
Fire up your Phasers! CBS must believe they can monetize their old shows.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/09/0047237&from=rss
CBS Hosts Ad-Funded TV Series, Incl. Original Star Trek
Posted by timothy on Sunday February 08, @09:44PM from the whole-new-generation-can-obsess-or-ridicule dept. Television Sci-Fi News
eldavojohn writes
"On Friday, CBS launched a TV Classics section to their ad based online service. Which means that Trekkies can now watch all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series online at the expense of a few commercials. Alongside this CBS is offering all of MacGyver, Twin Peaks and even three seasons of the original Twilight Zone. A side note, they seem to work perfectly fine in Linux. "
Serious stuff! But the solution was right in front of them months before the problem surfaced.
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2009-02-08&ID=262004
2009-02-08 Europe
French fighter planes grounded by computer virus
French fighter planes were unable to take off after military computers were infected by a computer virus, an intelligence magazine claims. The aircraft were unable to download their flight plans after databases were infected by a Microsoft virus they had already been warned about several months beforehand. At one point French naval staff were also instructed not to even open their computers.
Microsoft had warned that the "Conficker" virus, transmitted through Windows, was attacking computer systems in October last year, but according to reports the French military ignored the warning and failed to install the necessary security measures.
A more negative headline for the same story...
http://www.inquisitr.com/17593/french-airforce-surrenders-to-german-virus/
French airforce surrenders to German virus
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