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Tag Archives: Social Engineering

Identity Theft and Crack Cocaine?

May 9, 2007 – 6:56 am – There were reports in the NY Times and MSNBC regarding the link between Identity Theft and Meth. CNN reports a case where a woman forced an old lady to smoke crack in order to steal her identity. A woman forced an 83-year-old housemate to smoke crack cocaine so she could steal personal…
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Attack Vectors Through the Pragmatic Use of Steganography

February 16, 2007 – 7:02 am – The BBC reports that Fujitsu has discovered pragmatic uses for steganography. Unfortunately, by redirecting the mobile phone’s browser automatically, this could lead to using these images as attack vectors. Here are some quotes from the BBC report: “The key is to take the yellow hue…
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SecList.org and GoDaddy.com

January 26, 2007 – 7:11 am – Wired reports that godaddy.com shut down seclists.org because Fydor’s site hosted a file that contained myspace user names and passwords that were phished. There are many comments regarding the fact that godaddy.com’s behavior was inexcusable. While mentioned on Wired, it is not…
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Security Awareness - Not Education - is the Answer

December 5, 2006 – 7:32 pm – Security awareness and security education are two different things. In my mind, awareness is a “lighter” version of education. To be educated means one has a deep understanding of something and acts upon that understanding. Awareness, or to be made aware of something, means that one…
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MySpace Sex Offender Security Theater

December 5, 2006 – 7:00 pm – MSNBC reports that MySpace has created a database of publicly available information on sex offenders. They will then be able to cross-reference the name and characteristics of the sex offender against the MySpace profile to help catch known offenders. MySpace is partnering with Sentinel Tech…
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