Interesting. Clearly we need a common global “access to cash” process...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080617070803259
Credit unions investigate weekend withdrawals overseas
Tuesday, June 17 2008 @ 07:08 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
The Associated Press is reporting that over 100 credit union members in South Bend had money fraudulently taken from their accounts from ATMs in places such as Russia, Ukraine, and Nigeria. Members of both Teachers Credit Union and Notre Dame Federal Credit Union have reported such activity.
The Teachers Credit Union said the source of the breach is not internal, and that they are investigating.
Source - Chicago Tribune
[From the article:
Meanwhile, about 10 Notre Dame Federal Credit Union members reported similar withdrawals since Saturday, said Deidre Davis, vice president of marketing and business development.
Davis said there's been "some sort of data breach and fraudulent withdrawals" in Ukraine, Russia and Spain.
"It looks like they're coming from debit and ATM cards, but we're not exactly sure at this point," she said. Meanwhile, she said the credit union was preventing its cards from being used in the affected countries. [Why wasn't that the default? Turn on access only when the customer requests it? Bob]
Laid low by old technology
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080616194939198
Casino workers accused of stealing list of players
Monday, June 16 2008 @ 07:49 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
Three casino workers were indicted Monday on charges they stole a list of more than 20,000 top players from the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City.
New Jersey prosecutors said the list was worth more than $108 million because it included the names, addresses, phone numbers and gambling data on important casino patrons.
Source - CourierPostOnline.com
[From the article:
Litterelle e-mailed the list to Conklin and arranged with DiMarco to send him a paper copy. Litterelle tried to send the paper copy from the Bellagio mailroom, but an employee notified Bellagio security department, officials said. [You couldn't say “Print it yourself?” Bob]
Bill Gates: the (almost) biography (Includes some truly amusing pictures)
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-06/st_billgates
What We'll Miss About Bill Gates — a Very Long Good-Bye
By Katharine Gammon Email 05.19.08
“Learn from the mistakes of others.” Tony Soprano
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/018597.html
June 16, 2008
New GAO Report: Federal Reserve Banks: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls
Federal Reserve Banks: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-08-836R, June 16, 2008
"Our fiscal year 2007 audit procedures identified 12 information security control deficiencies, all of which relate to general controls. Specifically, the control deficiencies identified were in the areas of entitywide security program planning and management, access control, and system software. In the Limited Official Use Only report, we made 14 detailed recommendations to address these control deficiencies. None of our findings pose significant risks to the FRB financial systems."
Tools & Techniques So much for password security... (Plenty of others on the sidebar.)
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Legal statistics?
http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/06/iowa_breach_law_arrives_a.html
Iowa breach law arrives a bit early
(Posted by cwalsh)
On May 10, Iowa became the 42nd U.S. state (counting D.C. as a state) with a breach notification law. The law itself is not remarkable. If anything, it is notably weaker than many other states' laws.
When can we expect to see the last stragglers finally pass their laws? Here's a plot of each state's date of law passage, expressed in days since the Choicepoint episode became public. The x-axis is logarithmic.
Time to invest? What happens when telecom users won't pay more than $20/year for service?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TEC_MAGICJACK?SITE=VALYD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Jun 16, 5:54 PM EDT
Cheap PC gadget for Internet calls selling well
By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- What's the fastest-growing fixed-line phone company in the United States?
... You may never have heard of YMax, but you may have noticed the TV ads for its product, the MagicJack, which works with a broadband connection.
It's about the size of a matchbox and plugs into a PC. After plugging a regular phone into the MagicJack, the user can make and receive calls much like using a regular landline.
In January, just after the broad advertising campaign started, YMax was selling a few hundred MagicJacks per day, said Jim Donlon, its chief marketing officer. Now, it's selling 8,000 to 9,000 per day, and the company is on track to have half a million subscribers by the end of June.
That's a meteoric trajectory in the phone business, propelled by the pricing: The MagicJack costs $39.95, including one year of free calls to the U.S. and Canada. Another year of service costs $19.95.
"It's extremely low-risk. Most people I know are willing to gamble on 40 bucks," said TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert, who follows voice-over-Internet providers.
This would be a great project for an intern... Learn much, contribute much.
http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000663.html
June 08, 2008
Wikis for Procedure Manuals
Nobody really LIKES writing procedures manuals. You know you should, you know it would be helpful if you did, and when it comes time to train a new employee, you're always sorry that you didn't do a better job of it. But what if everyone could collaborate on a procedures manual, writing down specifics as they do them, or even as they learn them. It sounds like a job for a wiki!
If you're having a hard time getting you and/or your staff started on such a process, take this tip from Anne Welsh's article "Internal Wikis for Procedures and Training", in Online Nov./Dec. 2007.
Attention White Hat club!
Want to create a tech-literate nation?
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/16/1453216&from=rss
Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout
Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 16, @01:36PM from the read-all-about-it dept.
stoolpigeon writes
"Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout is an interesting new project, a graphic novel being published by O'Reilly. What makes it interesting is not just that this is a rather new direction for O'Reilly but that this is, to my knowledge, a rather unique publication in that it seeks to educate teenage youth about an array of issues ranging from privacy, free software, security and the impact of politics on personal freedom as it relates to the use of technology. Making topics like that exciting, and understandable to a young person may sound like a tall order, and I think it is."
Not many resources yet, but I got lots of hits on trigonometry...
http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/kigose-com-academic-search-engine/
Kigose.com - Academic Search Engine
Finding educational content on the web is not always that easy. Sometimes even the most straight forward searches can provide strange results which have no correlation to the desired search topic. [Amen Bob] Kigose is a search engine that helps both teachers and students alike find educational content on the web.
... Kigose gives users educational sites which they can use as study guides or part of their curriculum.
Humor as a teaching tool... “Learn, or we;ll laugh at you!”
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/16/198246&from=rss
Bone-Headed IT Mistakes
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 16, @04:08PM from the throw-yours-into-the-mix dept.
It's funny. Laugh.
snydeq writes
"PCs preconfigured with stone-age malware, backups without recovery, Social Security numbers stored in plain view of high school students — Andy Brandt gives InfoWorld's Stupid Users series a new IT admin twist. Call it fratricide if you will, but getting paid to know better is no guarantee against IT idiocy, as these stories attest."
Oh look! Ears!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEROT_ECONOMY?SITE=VALYD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Jun 16, 1:55 PM EDT
Perot launches Web site about government spending
... The Web site, which Perot said is nonpartisan, includes a video of Perot, a blog and a chart presentation explaining the nation's economic problems. [Why did I know that was coming? Bob]
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