Monthly Archives: March 2015

Pat’s 31st Birthday on the 31st

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Carmelo

It’s Pat’s birthday and mom came out to visit (but if you ask me, more to see Beau than to see Pat! :) )

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Uber Accounts, $1

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Carmelo

Stolen Uber Customer accounts are for sale on the Dark Web for the low price of $1.00. Though most of the credit cards are masked, the last four and the expiration date are still available. The rest of the data … Continue reading →

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Neil Moore, Conman Extraordinaire!

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Carmelo

Neil Moore was imprisoned for stealing 3 million dollars by posing as staff from Barclays Bank, Lloyds Bank and Santander. While serving his time, he was able to get his hands on a phone and he set up a fake … Continue reading →

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A Car is a Computer with Wheels

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Carmelo

Your car is totally hackable. See more posts on Car Hacking

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Got $60? Reduce your Insurance Rates! Hack Your Car!

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Carmelo

For the low price of $60, Eric Evenchick is selling a gadget that will allow a person to use a CANtact to talk directly to a vehicle’s CAN(controller area network)bus through the laptop, connected via USB to the CANtact device … Continue reading →

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Vawtrack Trojan Capabilities

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Carmelo

Vawtrak is a banking Trojan that has been spreading in recent months. It infects victims via malware downloaders, exploit kits, or through drive-by downloads (e.g. spam email attachments or links). AVG has a white paper (pdf) full of details. Vawtrak … Continue reading →

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NYPD Auxiliary Officer Hacking into NYPD Computer + FBI Database

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Carmelo

Yehuda Katz, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) Auxiliary Deputy Inspector assigned to the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn, executed a scheme to hack into a restricted NYPD computer and other sensitive law enforcement databases. He was caught and brought … Continue reading →

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Car Updates to Enable Self-Driving

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Carmelo

Rachel Maddow has a video on the self-driving car and how some cars today, already have the basic functionality, and just require the update. What isn’t covered, is how laws and law enforcement will perceive inebriated or sight impaired drivers if … Continue reading →

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150,000 Records Accessed in Advantage Dental Breach

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Carmelo

Compromised data included names, Social Security numbers, birthdays, phone numbers and home addresses, but not treatment or financial information. The information was accessed between Feb. 23-26, when Advantage’s internal IT specialists detected the security breach.   So far, no patients … Continue reading →

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Premera Blue Cross Breach

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Carmelo

At the end of January, this year, Premera Blue Cross discovered they were breached. Possibly 11 million records of Personal/Medical and Financial information was exposed. After working with Mandiant and the FBI, the indicators of compromise date as far back … Continue reading →

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