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Category Archives: Cybercrime
Pump and Dump and Pump Again
February 6, 2012 – 6:00 am
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In the January 27, 2012 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Jean Eaglesham and Andrew Ackerman wrote an article with the title “SEC Says Latvian Hacked Accounts: Commission Alleges Four Firms Helped Trader Make Unauthorized Online Stock Purchases and Sales.” The article describes the apparent…
China Chamber Hack
January 23, 2012 – 6:00 am
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Siobhan Gorman is back in strong form on the front page of the December 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal with her article “China Hackers Hit U.S. Chamber,” which suggests at first glance that hackers made from porcelain were successfully thrown into some U.S. person’s bedroom. However, the…
Printer Too Ready
January 9, 2012 – 6:00 am
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In a December 8, 2011 post to CNET News, Elinor Mills writes, in a piece with the title “HP sued over security flaw in printers,” about how a Columbia University research team was able to compromise the embedded software in HP LaserJet printers.
First off, the photograph of a printer, which…
SEC-urity’s Catch 22
November 7, 2011 – 6:00 am
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On October 13, 2011, the Division of Corporation Finance (DCF) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. 2 – Cybersecurity, available at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/cfguidance-topic2.htm . It provides the DCF’s “views…
Normative Cyber Security
October 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
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Joel Brenner’s new book, America the Vulnerable – Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare (The Penguin Press, 2011), is another book of the genre of Richard Clarke’s several volumes of non-fiction, such as his most recent book, published with Robert Knake,…