Feb 25
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Hundreds of credit cards, real and counterfeit, are now in police hands. Plus passports, blank chequebooks, SIN cards, birth certificates, medical CareCards, personal mail, insurance documents and hotel guest registration information from lodging in Surrey and Vancouver that bear names, addresses and credit card information. They were recovered during two police raids in Surrey earlier this month by the locally-based Combined Forces Identity Theft Team (CFITT). The team includes a Canadian postal inspector and six Mounties, five from Surrey and one from Langley.
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Feb 25
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Case for Web Application Firewalls Web applications are written using loosely connected technologies and inherently insecure. We need something reliable, for monitoring and protection, now. The term web application firewall has been overloaded… many times over.
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Feb 25
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
For the last few weeks I’ve been reviewing a business process model for a client. It’s an interesting task for me as I’ve always been fascinated by models and how best to structure them. Being a bit of a perfectionist and a keen futurist, my immediate reaction is always to see if I can find a model that is completely agile. It’s a do-able challenge. Of course I do have the advantage of having worked alongside leading data management luminaries such as Matthew West of Shell. So my first reaction was to catch up with the latest learning from Shell. And there is some impressive work going on there, especially in the use of applying 4-Dimensional concepts to high-quality business data architectures.
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Feb 25
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Phishing is a game of numbers. Fraudsters pump out thousands of e-mails that persuade some recipients to click a link to, say, a phoney financial institution’s Web site, where they divulge bank and credit-card details. Because Internet users are wising up, phishers have devised a new approach: “spear phishing,” with barbs customized for each victim. Spear phishers gather information, usually on the Internet, about an individual, and then craft a personalized e-mail more likely to dupe the mark. According to the FBI, the personalization method has proved so profitable that a significant number of spear phishers, principally located outside the United States, began applying it to death-threat extortion e-mails for the first time last December. FBI spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan says the problem is “huge.”
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Feb 25
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Internet users in the UAE have been warned to watch out for scam emails, purportedly coming from Yahoo but originating from Nigeria, asking them to give personal details including their user name and password, reported Gulf News. Once the hackers have access to the account, they change the password and send out an email to everyone in the address book asking for $3,500, claiming to be stranded in Nigeria.
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