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Wednesday, September 18, 2002 |
Heute haben wir in Rheindorf (an der Wupperm[florin]ndung, N[ring]rdlich von Leverkusen) ein Haus besichtigt, was wohl das richtige ist. In einer Neubausiedlung gelegen, mit relativ gro§em Garten, hell, kinderreiche Umgebung, Garage, nette Vermieter.
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The CEO of a Los Angeles-based novelty company, Spitfire Ventures Inc., said the FBI is investigating a major credit card scam involving 140,000 fraudulent credit card transactions at the company's Web site, TalkingTP.com.
Spitfire's CEO, Paul Hynek, said he was told by the company's credit card processor, Online Data Corp. in Westchester, Ill., that the scam may have affected as many as 25 other companies. But Online Data President John Rante said he believes only 15 to 20 merchants were affected and that a total of 100,000 fraudulent credit card transactions were involved.
According to Hynek, Online Data approved more than 60,000 of the false charges, worth $5.07 each, on Sept. 12. Online Data is a reseller of Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign Inc.'s credit card payment gateway services, which actually performed the authorizations.
Although about $300,000 in charges were approved by VeriSign, the company stopped the transactions before they were completed, so no money was ever transferred to Spitfire, according to Hynek. However, the authorizations let the thieves know that those credit cards were valid.
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"The real story here hasn't been told yet," he said. "Since they had 140,000 cards, they probably have a lot more."
Clements said he believes the crooks may have exploited a hole in the customer database of a large Internet merchant that didn't properly secure its Web site.
According to Clements, during their investigations, the credit card companies involved will pull information on the accounts of some of the affected cardholders looking for common denominators.
"Say, if Amazon.com showed up on all their statements, then that's most likely where the credit cards came from," he said. "These numbers were not randomly generated. This was not a crapshoot."
[ComputerWorld - Security Knowledge Center]
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Verizon is urging customers who use voicemail and PBXs to use secure passwords to keep hackers out. The company's warning, including a voice mail message sent from Verizon to its consumer and business voice mail customers, is in response to growing industry concern about hackers who illegally access home or business phone systems. Hackers use unauthorized access for free long-distance and services.
"Verizon is aware that hackers attempt to access voicemail and use PBXs by trying simple passwords," said John Lewandowski, a security manager for the company.
Thwarting The PBX Hacker [LinuxSecurity.com - Latest News]
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Orin Kerr's Computer Crime Case Updates present a case where the jury had to answer the question if a user is in procession of the files in his browser cache:
A Tenth Circuit case handed down yesterday and
a Sixth Circuit case decided last week have
offered some interesting analysis of how the
Fourth Amendment applies to computers, as well
as how the concept of possession applies to a
computer file. The cases are United States v.
Tucker, -- F.3d --, 2002 WL 31053969 (10th Cir.,
Sept 16, 2002) and United States v. Goree, 2002
WL 31050979 (6th Cir. Sept 12, 2002)
(unpublished). ...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Online Policy Group (OPG) today released preliminary results of research on Internet blocking or filtering in schools.
The research examined the effects of N2H2's Bess and SurfControl, two of the most commonly used Internet blocking software products, on Internet searches of all topics from the state-mandated curriculums of California, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. The findings show filters result in many false positives. The final research report will be available in mid-October.
[Moreover - moreover...]
One of my sites (http://deepblack.lolitacoders.org/) regulary gets blocked by all kinds of filters, so I'm personally hit by this blocking-false-positive problem.
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Neal hat heute im Supermarkt allen Leuten laut und deutlich erkl...rt, wie die verschidenen Obstsorten hei§en.
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So Gott eill und wir wissen bekommt Neal einen Bruder.
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Maximillian Dornseif, 2002.
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