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Open ID is now being used by Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr, Paypal, Google, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, IBM, LiveJournal and VeriSign, among many others.
OpenID is a distributed single sign on solution that allows people to sign into different services with the same login credentials.
Simply put, one cracked OpenID site (by hackers, the government, parents, etc) could result in total profile information access and/or one's identity being abused over several other OpenID sites.
The creator of OpenID currently works at Google.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID#Security_and_phishingOpen ID is now being used by Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr, Paypal, Google, Microsoft, AOL,... more
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A man is holding several people hostage on board a plane in the Jamaican resort of Montego Bay, reports say.
Most of the more than 150 passengers on the Canada-bound charter plane have been released, but several passengers and crew are still on board.
The man reportedly breached security systems using fake ID and boarded the plane as it was preparing to take off at around 2230 local time (0330 GMT).
Negotiations for the release of the hostages are said to be taking place.
The gunman reportedly checked in for the flight then forced his way past security and went on board brandishing a firearm.A man is holding several people hostage on board a plane in the Jamaican resort of... more
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Experts say this work is increasingly important. Despite laws in more than three dozen states requiring companies to disclose breaches, many still go unreported, and there is no government agency that compiles reliable statistics on breaches to help the public get a clear picture of the scope of the problem. That’s left to volunteer-managed databases like the foundation’s DataLoss.Experts say this work is increasingly important. Despite laws in more than three dozen... more
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Federal civilian agencies reported three times as many cyber-related incidents in fiscal 2008 as they did in fiscal 2006 to the Homeland Security Department’s office that coordinates defenses and responses to cyberattacks. Meanwhile, an official says the office suspects the actual number of cyber incidents is higher.Federal civilian agencies reported three times as many cyber-related incidents in... more
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Every Mac owner needs to be just as concerned as a PC owner. If a Mac was not able to be hacked or infected why would the Apple Support Website publish Security Update Patches? Mac owners should review the following pages at Apple support to update and patch, just like 95% of all computer owners!Every Mac owner needs to be just as concerned as a PC owner. If a Mac was not able to... more
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The would-be tickets read: “PARKING VIOLATION: This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations.” The card then instructs the ticket recipient to visit a specified Web Site. From this point, hackers count on law-abiding users to go home and log on where, strangely enough, they’ll see a picture the parking lot where their car was. A few clicks later, a fake Internet Explorer security alert pops up asking the user if they’d like to do a quick antivirus scan. The infection starts from there.The would-be tickets read: “PARKING VIOLATION: This vehicle is in violation of... more
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The U.S. economy and national security depend greatly and increasingly on the global cyber infrastructure. Cyber infrastructure enables all sectors’ functions and services, resulting in a highly interconnected and interdependent global network of CIKR.The U.S. economy and national security depend greatly and increasingly on the global... more
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The Internet has been identified as a key resource, comprising the domestic and international assets within both the Information Technology and Communications Sectors, and is used by all sectors to varying degrees. While the availability of the service is the responsibility of both the Information Technology and Communications sectors, the need for access to and reliance on the Internet is common to all sectors.The Internet has been identified as a key resource, comprising the domestic and... more
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Best Buy warned this week that 4,000 customers of a store in West Palm Beach may have had their credit card information stolen when they made their purchases.
Also in Florida, the Attorney General Bill McCollum urged people to monitor their credit statements and said up to 21,000 state residents may have been affected by a data breach at Wyndham Hotels last year.
Wyndham said in a frequently asked questions statement that it noticed unusual activity on one of its servers during a routine administrative review in September and discovered that data had been stolen in July and August by an attacker who penetrated the computer systems of one of the Wyndham hotels.
The University of Florida this week said someone had penetrated the school's computer network, putting the data of 97,000 users at risk, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
The travel reservations and expense reimbursement Web site, Govtrip.com, used by numerous agencies and operated by defense contractor Northrop Grumman, was found to be redirecting visitors to a malicious Web site last week, according to NetworkWorld.Best Buy warned this week that 4,000 customers of a store in West Palm Beach may have... more
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RBS WorldPay - the payment processing arm of Citizens Bank - has confirmed that, during a 30-minute period last November, thieves used 100 cloned pre-payment cards to withdraw a total of $9 million from 100 cash machines in 49 cities around the world.RBS WorldPay - the payment processing arm of Citizens Bank - has confirmed that,... more
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Los Alamos thefts show that you can’t separate physical security from cyber security. The National Nuclear Security Administration recently dressed down Los Alamos National Security LLC (LANS), the contractor responsible for security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, for its apparent mishandling of computer thefts from the weapons lab.Los Alamos thefts show that you can’t separate physical security from cyber... more
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Our society’s sensitive systems and information, the underpinnings of the transactions and information flow facilitating our quasi-orderly daily lives, are absolutely ripe for a zero day attack - an electronic information debacle that will shut us down.Our society’s sensitive systems and information, the underpinnings of the... more
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There had been indications in early Heartland reports that the FBI was pursuing suspects who may be part of a larger criminal conspiracy targeting multiple companies, but there are no reports yet as to whether this latest breach is part of that investigation, or whether the revelations at Heartland led to this breach being uncovered.There had been indications in early Heartland reports that the FBI was pursuing... more
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“This report is a wake-up call because the current economic crisis is poised to create a global meltdown in vital information. Increased pressures on firms to reduce spending and cut staffing have led to more porous defenses and increased opportunity for crime. Companies need to stop looking at security as a cost center but as a business enabler.”“This report is a wake-up call because the current economic crisis is poised to... more
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“The FBI has more than 530 open corporate fraud investigations, including 38 corporate fraud and financial institution matters directly related to the current financial crisis,” Pistole told the Senate Judiciary Committee today.“The FBI has more than 530 open corporate fraud investigations, including 38... more
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Almost everything we now do on a regular basis, from sending emails, taking photographs, writing text messages, calling on our cell phones, downloading music, typing on our computers, and using our credit and ATM cards, all of it generates information. And every single day the endless information generated by our ever-expanding digital footprints is recorded, tracked, searched through, sold, analyzed, and saved forever.Almost everything we now do on a regular basis, from sending emails, taking... more
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No classified information has been lost... uh huh, yeah.
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The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 67 computers, including 13 that were lost or stolen in the past year. Officials say no classified information has been lost.
The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight on Wednesday released a memo dated Feb. 3 from the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration outlining the loss of the computers.
Kevin Roark, a spokesman for Los Alamos, on Wednesday confirmed the computers were missing and said the lab was initiating a monthlong inventory to account for every computer. He said the computers were a cybersecurity issue because they may contain personal information like names and addresses, but they did not contain any classified information.
Thirteen of the missing computers were lost or stolen in the past 12 months, including three computers that were taken from a scientist's home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Jan. 16, and a BlackBerry belonging to another employee was lost "in a sensitive foreign country," according to the memo and an e-mail from a senior lab manager.
The e-mail was also released by the watchdog group.
The theft of the three computers in January triggered the inventory and a review of the lab's policies regarding home use of government computers, Roark said.
Only one of the three computers stolen from the employee's home was authorized for home use, which raised concerns "as to whether we were fully complying with our own policies for offsite computer usage," he said.
Roark said computers with classified information are "kept completely separate from unclassified computing."
"None of these systems constitute a breach of a classified system," he said.
The e-mail from Los Alamos senior manager Stephen Blair to lab co-workers said the missing computers and Blackberry were "garnering a great deal of attention with senior management as well as (nuclear security administration) representatives."
The security administration memo said the "magnitude of exposure and risk to the laboratory is at best unclear as little data on these losses has been collected or pursued given their treatment as property management issues."
The lab, located in Los Alamos, N.M., employs about 10,000 people.No classified information has been lost... uh huh, yeah.
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The Los Alamos... more
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These costs are ultimately borne by the stakeholders, whether they be the actual shareholder in these companies whose stock value is diminished due to breaches, or if they are the consumers who end up with the final bill in the form higher costs.These costs are ultimately borne by the stakeholders, whether they be the actual... more
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Heartland Payment Systems: More fraud victims popping up all over the world and what of the CEO insider trades?
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/01/29/did-heartland-ceo-make-insider-trades/
Basically, in August of 2008 a lot of things happened with the breach and with the sudden launch of an aggressive stock selling program by the CEO Robert Carr - all in one month.
The breach was not "discovered" until the end of November, and was not announced until January 20, 2009 - just a week and a half after Carr stopped the massive stock sales - 9 sales of 80k shares for ~ $1.5M each in five months between the end of the breach and it's announcement to the public.
Hmmmmm....?Heartland Payment Systems: More fraud victims popping up all over the world and what... more
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When the dust from the departing helicopter finally settled, America realized that the old “shrubs” of the last 8 years had been replaced with the seeds of new growth opportunities. Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner will most certainly review the current state of affairs and enact some significant new enhancements.When the dust from the departing helicopter finally settled, America realized that the... more
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