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Category Archives: Information Security News

Pump and Dump and Pump Again

– 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

– 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…

Normative Cyber Security

– 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,…

The FFIEC and Password-Generating Tokens

– In June 2011, the FFIEC (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council) issued a “Supplement to Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment,” available at http://www.ffiec.gov/pdf/Auth-ITS-Final%206-22-11%20(FFIEC%20Formated).pdf The FFIEC comprises five financial regulatory…

Google Plus – Disk Space Minus, Spam Double Minus

– Google’s foray into Facebook’s space hit an unfortunate glitch during its “field trial” … the system ran out of disk space and was down for more than an hour and those users, who were affected, received a deluge of emails … see Graham Cluley’s post “Google+ runs out of…