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Tag Archives: Social Engineering

Businessweek: Business Entities Victims of Identity Theft Too

July 24, 2007 – 6:00 am – Businessweek reports that businesses may become victims of identity theft too. The scam is called a “business bust-out”: A criminal rents space in the same building as your company. Then he applies for corporate credit cards using your firm’s name. The application passes a…
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Woman Captures Her Own Identity Thief

June 18, 2007 – 7:03 am – Interesting story: Lodrick’s heart was pounding. Despite the expensive coat, the Prada bag, the glitter-frame Gucci glasses, there was something not right about the impostor she would later learn was named Maria Nelson. “She had bad teeth and looked like she hadn’t…
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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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