http://www.databreaches.net/?p=7768
US lawmakers ask JPMorgan Chase about data breach
October 8, 2009 by admin Filed under Breach Incidents, Financial Sector, Lost or Missing, U.S.
Diane Bartz reports:
Two lawmakers want JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), the second largest U.S. bank by assets, to answer a few questions about how many customers were affected when a computer tape with their personal information was lost earlier this year.
Representatives Joe Barton, the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and George Radanovich, the top Republican on the subcommittee on commerce, trade and consumer protection, wrote JPMorgan Chase Bank CEO James Dimon on Wednesday.
Read more on Reuters. Previous coverage here.
We've been talking about the increase in sophistication of malware and other tech-supported crime. Remember, sophisticated doesn't always mean workable.
The Evolution Of Click Fraud: Massive Chinese Operation DormRing1 Uncovered
by Erick Schonfeld on October 8, 2009
As long as advertisers pay for clicks, there will be click fraud. And the more people combat it, the more sophisticated the attacks become to get around the defenses that advertisers, search engines, and others put in place. But a recent click fraud ring discovered by click-fraud monitoring service Anchor Intelligence suggests that the practice is evolving to a scale never seen before.
Anchor Intelligence identified a click fraud ring being run out of China which involved 200,000 different IP addresses and racked up more than $3 million worth of fraudulent clicks across 2,000 advertisers in a two-week period. That money was never paid out and the ring has now dissipated (or moved onto another scam), but who knows how long the ring was in operation before Anchor noticed.
Good news, bad news? “The longer we work with our systems the buggier they become?”
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/08/2249227/Microsoft-Plans-Largest-Ever-Patch-Tuesday?from=rss
Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday
Posted by timothy on Thursday October 08, @07:49PM from the 24-hours-but-bigger-minutes dept.
CWmike writes
"Microsoft said it will deliver its largest-ever number of security updates on Tuesday to fix 13 flaws in every version of Windows, as well as Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, important developer tools and Forefront Security client software. Among the updates will be the first for the final, or release to manufacturing, code of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system. The 13 updates slated for next week, eight of them pegged 'critical,' beat the previous record of 12 updates shipped in February 2007 and again in October 2008."
Update Reader Kurt Seifried writes to correct the math a bit, pointing to Microsoft's Advance Notification page for the release, which says that rather than 13 flaws, this Patch Tuesday involves "13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities ... Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning."
Definitions are critical here. Will they flag my nightly backups as high-volume, therefore SPAM? What actions will they take? A pop-up in my browser isn't much use if I'm not there and my browser isn't running. Is it good customer service to first mention this new “service” AFTER it starts?
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/08/2022211/Comcasts-War-On-Infected-PCs-Or-All-Customers?from=rss
Comcast's War On Infected PCs (Or All Customers)
Posted by timothy on Thursday October 08, @04:21PM from the could-go-badly dept.
thadmiller writes
"Comcast is launching a trial on Thursday of a new automated service that will warn broadband customers of possible virus infections if the computers are behaving as if they have been compromised by malware. For instance, a significant overnight spike in traffic being sent from a particular Internet Protocol address could signal that a computer is infected with a virus, taking control of the system and using it to send spam as part of a botnet." [Or it could be a bunch of lawyers filing an appeal at the last minute. Blocking that traffic could have interesting consequences. Bob]
Update: Jason Livingood of Comcast's Internet Systems Engineering group sent to Dave Farber's "Interesting People" mailing list a more detailed explanation of what this trial will involve.
[From the article:
Customers in Denver are set to begin receiving notifications that their system may be infected with a virus or other malware via a pop-up message in the browser, as part of the new free service, called Comcast Constant Guard. The "Service Notice" will include a link to a Comcast security Web site where customers can follow a set of instructions to remove the malware from their computer.
So are we bragging or complaining here? Either position starts with the assumption that Yahoo was acting as the laws of Iran require. (Legal may not be ethical)
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5547
Did Yahoo provide Iran with names of 200,000 users?
Posted by Richard Koman @ October 8, 2009 @ 10:13 PM
This post is going to make some major allegations. I realize this is not completely buttoned down, but I believe there is sufficient veracity in what I have right now to publish. I am expecting to be able to provide further proof as the story unfolds.
Yahoo collaborated with the Iranian regime during the election protests, providing to the authorities the names and emails of some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users, according to a post on the Iranian Students Solidarity (Farsi) blog.
Lawyers are not considering the Streisand effect before they send those notices.
Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing
Posted by timothy on Thursday October 08, @01:58PM from the need-to-fatten-that-one-a-bit dept.
Pickens writes
"Cory Doctorow writes that Ralph Lauren issued a DMCA takedown notice after Boing Boing republished the Photoshop disaster contained in a Ralph Lauren advertisement in which a model's proportions appear to have been altered to give her an impossibly skinny body with the model's head larger than her pelvis. Doctorow says that one of the things that makes their ISP Priority Colo so awesome is that they don't automatically act on DMCA takedowns and proceeded to dare Lauren to sue. ' This is classic fair use: a reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting," etc,' writes Doctorow. 'Copyright law doesn't give you the right to threaten your critics for pointing out the problems with your offerings.' Doctorow adds that every time Lauren threatens to sue he will 'reproduce the original criticism, making damned sure that all our readers get a good, long look at it,' 'publish your spurious legal threat along with copious mockery,' and 'offer nourishing soup and sandwiches to your models.'"
Another “shortage?” Do you suppose none of the telecommunication companies understood this when they bid at the spectrum auctions? Sounds to me like the government is about to add another tax “to correct the market.”
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/08/2243242/FCC-Chairman-Warns-of-Wireless-Spectrum-Gap?from=rss
FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap
Posted by timothy on Thursday October 08, @06:52PM from the congress-from-whom-all-blessings-flow dept.
locallyunscene writes
"'We are fast entering a world where mass-market mobile devices consume thousands of megabytes each month,' FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski warned at CTIA Wireless yesterday. 'So we must ask: what happens when every mobile user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry Tour, or whatever the next device is? What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile broadband on their laptops or netbooks?'"
Once upon a time, in a courtroom far, far away... (Apparently, all of IBM's lawyers who were involved with the huge anti-trust case have retired and left nothing for their replacements – not even an oral history.)
IBM Faces DOJ Antitrust Inquiry On Mainframes
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Thursday October 08, @01:07PM from the goliath-syndrome dept.
Several sources are reporting that IBM is facing an antitrust inquiry from the US Department of Justice due to a supposed refusal to issue mainframe OS licenses to competitors.
"Part of CCIA's complaint stems from the tech giant's treatment of former competitor Platform Solutions. IBM had little competition in the mainframe market when Platform Solutions, early this decade, began work on servers that could mimic the behavior of more expensive IBM mainframes, CCIA said. Platform Solutions, based on past mainframe agreements between IBM and the DOJ, requested copies of IBM's OS and technical information under a licensing agreement. IBM declined to grant Platform Solutions a license and prohibited customers from transferring IBM software licenses to Platform Solutions machines, said CCIA, which has members that are potential competitors of IBM."
It's one thing to sue these guys, but with bias allegations against all the judges and now indications of faked/falsified evidence, you have to wonder if the courts can function correctly in “high tech” cases?
http://torrentfreak.com/anti-pirates-try-to-nail-the-pirate-bay-with-faked-evidence-091008/
Anti-Pirates Try to Nail The Pirate Bay with Faked Evidence
Written by Ernesto on October 08, 2009
In August, Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN won its case against The Pirate Bay, and the court ordered the defendants to block access to Dutch visitors. The case was appealed today and rightly so. It appears that the evidence presented by BREIN was faked in an attempt to mislead the court.
Do I detect a slight political bias?
Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Posted by kdawson on Friday October 09, @08:52AM from the taliban-not-happy dept.
Barack Obama has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The BBC opines:
"In awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian committee is honoring his intentions more than his achievements. all he has been in office only just over eight months and he will presumably hope to serve eight years, so it is very early in his term to get this award. ... The committee does not make any secret of its approach. It states that he is being given the prize 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples.' This is of course an implied criticism of former US president George W Bush and the neo-conservatives, who were often accused of trying to change the world in their image."
The Washington Post collects more reactions from around the world.
Geek parents – watch the video
http://www.labnol.org/software/old-linux-computer-for-baby/10420/
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