Frauds & Ends Blog
January 18, 2012
Zappos Zapped. Amazon-owned Online Shoe Outlet’s 24-Million Customers Warned of Possible Info Leak
Zappos, the online shoe outlet owned by Amazon, was hacked putting some 24-million customers’ personal information at risk. PCWorld.com reported that Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh, told customers that, “names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and encrypted passwords may have been exposed.” He added that [...]
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January 10, 2012
ThreatMetrix Acquires TrustDefender: Sophisticated Malware Detection and Advanced Device Identification in a Single, Unified Platform
To meet the ever mounting threat posed by malware, ThreatMetrix™, the fastest-growing provider of integrated cybercrime prevention solutions, announced today that it has acquired the Australian-based company TrustDefender™, a recognized leader of secure browsing technology to stop man-in-the-browser (MitB) attacks and provide malware protection. The ThreatMetrix™ Cybercrime Defender Platform is the first industry solution that integrates [...]
Posted by Dan Rampe Categories: bank fraud. Cloud computing. Cookie wiping. Cookieless Device Identification. Credit Card Fraud. Credit Card Transactions. Cyber Attacks. cybercriminals. cybersecurity. Device Detection. Device Fingerprint. Device ID. Device Identification. Malware. malware protection. man-in-the-browser attack. MitB. online banking. Online Credit Card Transactions. Online Fraud. Online Fraud Trends. personally identifiable information. PII. ThreatMetrix. ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Defender Platform. TrustDefender Client. TrustDefender Cloud. TrustDefender ID. TrustDefender Labs. Uncategorized. Zeus Trojan Continue Reading
January 3, 2012
Does PrECISE About Cover It?
PrECISE (Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness) is the cybersecurity bill introduced by members of the House Homeland Security Committee. PrECISE establishes a quasi-governmental entity to oversee information-sharing with the private sector. Wouldn’t you like to have sat in on the meeting where they decided on the acronym, PrECISE? (Probably more like multiple [...]
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December 29, 2011
Iran-Venezuela Planned Cyberattacks Repeat History
1917: The Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann sent a diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. Intercepted by British intelligence and forwarded on to the United States, the Zimmermann Note angered Americans, adding another reason for the U.S. declaration of war against Germany [...]
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December 28, 2011
A Book About the World War With No Bloodshed But Countless Casualties
Just released in a second edition, Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld by Jeffrey Carr, is a wide-ranging overview of virtually every type of online illicit activity from cyber spying and cyber stealing to malicious malware attacks and identity theft. Carr, a cyber intelligence expert is a columnist for Symantec’s Security Focus. A writer [...]
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December 27, 2011
Lucky Supermarkets. Not So Lucky for People Whose Debit and Credit Card Info Was Ripped Off
Superstition has it that if a horseshoe is hung upside down, the luck runs out. Running out of luck and into a scam is exactly what happened to a number of unlucky Lucky Supermarket customers in Northern California. U.S. Secret Service agents told Save Mart CFO Stephen Ackerman – Save Mart is Lucky’s parent company [...]
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December 19, 2011
Electronic Crimes Task Force Brings Together Secret Service and Top Private-Sector Security Experts
At the request of the U.S. Secret Service, ThreatMetrix’s Chief Products Officer, Alisdair Faulkner and other leading industry security experts met at the San Francisco ECTF (Electronic Crimes Task Force) Quarterly Conference for an open and wide-ranging discussion covering: Fraud patterns specific to the mobile channel and potential defenses Mobile/non-mobile combined fraud patterns and defenses [...]
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December 13, 2011
ThreatMetrix Named Red Herring Global 100 Winner
The world is a big place with close to seven billion people. And, according to professional researcher Moya K. Mason, something like 50-million new firms are started each year. So when you think about ThreatMetrix making Red Herring’s top 100 leading private companies in all of North America, Europe, and Asia, it’s quite an [...]
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December 12, 2011
Which Way to Cybersecurity?
As Hall of Famer and philosopher Yogi Berra once advised, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” “Bloomberg View” columnist Susan Crawford, a law professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York and former special assistant for science, technology and innovation policy to President Barack Obama, would disagree. She has [...]
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December 8, 2011
Why Would Russians Attack an Illinois Water Pumping Station?
Nobody knows for sure. Maybe Russian hackers attacked the Illinois water pumping station for the same reason Leigh Mallory, the British mountaineer, said he was going to climb Everest – “Because it’s there.” A report from the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center titled “Public Water District Cyber Intrusion” suggests that the burn out of [...]
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