Identity Theft from the bottom up.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/024640.html
July 04, 2010
BJS - Identity Theft Reported by Households, 2007
Identity Theft Reported by Households, 2007 - Statistical Tables: "Presents data on identity theft victimization reported by households from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). These statistical tables provide 2007 data on rates and types of identity theft, as well as demographic characteristics of victimized households and their monetary losses. Tables compare rates of identity theft victimization in 2005 to 2007. Estimates from the last half of 2008 are also presented and compared to estimates from the same 6-month period in 2007."
[From the report:
In 2007, 7.9 million households, or about 6.6% of all households in the United States, discovered that at least one member had been a victim of one or more types of identity theft.
… In 2007, 32% of households victimized by identity theft reported a financial loss of $500 or more
… Among households experiencing the misuse of personal information, those with a financial loss reported an average household loss of $5,650
I think we need to translate Clausewitz into Internet. Anyone want to help with “On E-War”
Behind Cyberwar FUD
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 04, @09:47AM
"The inevitable occurred this week as The Economist broached the topic of cyberwar with a couple of articles in its July 3rd issue. The first article concludes that 'countries should agree on more modest accords, or even just informal "rules of the road" that would raise the political cost of cyber-attacks.' It also makes vague references to 'greater co-operation between governments and the private sector.' When attribution is a lost cause (and it is), international treaties are meaningless because there's no way to determine if a participant has broken them. The second recommendation is even more alarming because it's using a loaded phrase that, in the past couple of years, has been wielded by those who advocate Orwellian solutions. The other article is a morass of conflicting messages. It presumes to focus on cyberwar, yet the bulk of the material deals with cybercrime and run-of-the-mill espionage. Then there's also the standard ploy of hypothetical scenarios: depicting how we might be attacked and what the potential outcome of these attacks could be. The author concludes with the ominous warning that terrorists 'prefer the gory theatre of suicide-bombings to the anonymity of computer sabotage — for now.' What's truly disturbing is that The Economist never goes beyond a superficial analysis of the topic to examine what's driving all of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt (PDF), a subject dealt with in this Lockdown 2010 white paper."
For the “Messing with the Mighty” file. Even the big boys can screw up.
YouTube Hit By HTML Injection Vulnerability
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 04, @12:35PM
"Several hours ago, someone found an HTML injection vulnerability in YouTube's comment system, and since then sites such as 4chan have had a field day with popular videos. The bug is triggered by placing a SCRIPT tag at the beginning of a post. The tag itself is escaped, but everything following it is cheerfully placed in the page as is. Blacked out pages with giant red text scrolling across them, shock site redirects, and all sorts of other fun things have been spotted. YouTube has currently blocked such comments from being posted and set the comments section to be hidden by default, and appears to be in the process of removing some of these comments, but the underlying bug does not seem to have been fixed yet."
Another reason for me to avoid PowerPoint presentations – at least in the Ethical Hacking class.
Wireless Presenters Attacked Using an Arduino
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 04, @11:14AM
"This week Dutch security researcher Niels Teusink described a method of attacking wireless presenter devices at an Amsterdam security conference. He had a demo showing how it is possible to use an Arduino and Metasploit to get remote code execution by sending arbitrary keystrokes to the presenter dongle. He has now released the code and made a blog post explaining how it all works. Better watch out the next time you're giving a presentation using one of these devices!"
Have you ever been frustrated by a poorly designed website? Here's your chance to get even!
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/destroy-the-web-destroying-websites
Destroy The Web: Have Fun Destroying Websites (Firefox Addon)
Destroy the Web is a free game that comes as an addon for Mozilla Firefox. The addon places a new icon to the left of the URL box. When you visit a webpage and click on this icon, the website’s interface transforms into an arcade game.
The objective of the game is to eliminate all page elements by clicking on them. Your clicking virtually destroys that element – you can even see a small virtual explosion on screen. Meanwhile exciting music is played in the background to keep up with the game’s fast pace. A score is kept of your performance and can be uploaded on Destroy the Web’s leaderboards.
Destroy The Web Addon For Firefox
I'll have to look into this one. It looks like you can add your own “course.” Perhaps you could use this to train employees on various policies.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/smartfm-online-learn-quickly
Smart.fm: Helps To Learn Stuff Quickly & Remember Longer
Smart.fm is a fun website that combines education with social networks. The web app serves as an online academic assistant that offers courses to anyone who wants to learn about any topic.
Similar Tools: Game Classroom, CosmoLearning, and ABCya.
I usually ignore these, but Copland is a favorite
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-free-mp3-albums-download-sound-sunday/
10 Free MP3 Albums To Download [Sound Sunday]
Aaron Copland – Copland Fanfare For The Common Man, Billy The Kid, El Salón México
In celebration of US Independence Day on July 4th, Classical.com features a free download from Aaron Copland. Copland, an American pianist and composer of concert and film music, was born in 1900 and lived to become 90 years old. Quite refreshingly, he maintains a MySpace profile with an unknown last login date.
Download the album from Classical.com. Login required.
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