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Tag Archives: 2015
Vishing Voicemail? Sounds Serious!
I got a voicemail yesterday on my Google Voice number, a number I haven’t used in a year. Vishing is voice phishing, a category of social engineering and the act of using the telephone in an attempt to scam a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Danny Archer, fraud, phishing, Security Awareness, vishing, voice phishing
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Personnel Data and Social Security Numbers for EVERY Federal Employee STOLEN
It was announced last week that hackers stole Social Security Numbers, military records and veterans’ status information, address, birth date, job and pay history, health insurance, life insurance, and pension information (age, gender, race data) when they breached the Office … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, breach, cybercrime, fraud, hacked, hacking, Identity Theft, Office of Personnel Management, OPM, phishing
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The Stegosploit Digital Steganography Project
Stegosploit is the technique that allows an attacker to embed executable JavaScript code within an image. Now there are new scary scenarios for Internet users that could be infected by viewing a picture on any website, even without clicking on … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Malicious Code and Application Attacks, steganography
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Credit Card Skimmers at Gas Stations
A recent investigation in Florida uncovered 103 credit card skimmers over a three-month period. A problem state leaders here have faced head on. Arizona is number two in the nation. Aggressive measures by investigators at the Arizona Department of Weights … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Arizona, credit card, gas stations, skimming
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The IRS
Multiple sources, such as Krebs and Ars Technica, report that a lot of fraudulent activity has focused around the Get Transcript app on the IRS website. To obtain a transcript online, all that was needed to start the process was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Anthem, breach, Brian Krebs, fraud, hacked, IRS
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Adult Friend Finder Data Breach: Sexploitation?
The hook up site, Adult Friend Finder, suffered a data breach. Close to four million users had their data taken. Data included personal details, including email addresses, user-names, dates of birth, postal codes and IP addresses. Many members did not … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, adult friend finder, blackmail, breach, extortion, hacked, sexploitation
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LogJam, FREAK’s Ugly Cousin
A new encryption attack, called LogJam, has emerged that allows attackers to read and modify the sensitive data passing through encrypted connections, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of HTTPS-protected sites, mail servers, and other widely used Internet services. A man-in-the-middle … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Diffie-Hellman, FREAK, LogJam, man-in-the-middle, mitm
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18,000 Passwords from Pennsylvania State University’s College of Engineering
A breach at Penn State launched an investigation that usernames and passwords from more than 18,000 people may have been accessed. The FBI first alerted the university of the cyberattack in November 2014. The school then hired security firm FireEye … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, breach, China, passwords, Penn State, Usernames
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Starbucks Customers Targeted
Starbucks customers have been targeted and money is being syphoned from the credit or debit card they have tied to their Starbucks accounts… Why would you even do this? No idea. But when you go for convenience, you usually sacrifice … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, credit card, customers, debit card, fraud, payment card, Starbucks
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Wells Fargo Credit Cards
In order to meet tough sales quotas and unrealistic goals, credit accounts are (allegedly) being opened by Wells Fargo employees, according to the civil complaint filed by the Los Angeles City Attorney. The fraud complaint charges state that in order … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, credit card, PCI Compliance, pressure, Wells Fargo
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