RIM to hand over security codes to Saudis |
- RIM to hand over security codes to Saudis
- US government fails to secure its websites
- Alleged Carder ‘BadB’ Busted in France — Watch His Cartoon
- Record Patch Tuesday: Where to Begin
- SMS-Based Trojan Targeting Android Smartphones
| RIM to hand over security codes to Saudis Posted: InfoSec News: RIM to hand over security codes to Saudis: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2267989/rim-hand-security-codes-saudi By Dan Worth V3.co.uk 11 Aug 2010 RIM has agreed to provide authorities in Saudi Arabia with security codes that will enable them to read encrypted text messages on the BlackBerry Messenger service. [...] |
| US government fails to secure its websites Posted: InfoSec News: US government fails to secure its websites: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1727426/us-government-fails-secure-websites By Lawrence Latif The Inquirer Aug 11 2010 GUARDIAN OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seemingly unable to set up a secure website correctly. [...] |
| Alleged Carder ‘BadB’ Busted in France — Watch His Cartoon Posted: InfoSec News: Alleged Carder 'BadB' Busted in France — Watch His Cartoon: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/badb/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com August 11, 2010 An alleged old-timer in the international carding community and one of the top sellers of stolen bank card data has been arrested in France, and faces extradition to the United States on an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, aka BadB, holds dual-citizenship in Ukraine and Israel and was one of the earliest members of CarderPlanet, a first of its kind Russian-language carding forum that was launched around 2002 by a group of East Europeans. CarderPlanet was shuttered in 2004, and BadB had more recently been selling his stolen goods at carder.su and on his own websites, dumps.name and badb.biz, where he promoted his product in lighthearted Flash cartoons like the one above. Authorities say the network created by Horohorin and other CarderPlanet veterans is linked to “nearly every major intrusion of financial information reported to the international law enforcement community.” According to the indictment, Horohorin bragged online that he was one of the biggest sellers of “dumps” (account and other data stored on a bank card’s magnetic stripe) and had been a card seller for about eight years. Undercover agents from the U.S. Secret Service negotiated purchases of stolen data from him and worked with French authorities to arrest him. [...] |
| Record Patch Tuesday: Where to Begin Posted: InfoSec News: Record Patch Tuesday: Where to Begin: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/203005/record_patch_tuesday_where_to_begin.html By Tony Bradley PC World August 10, 2010 Microsoft unleashed a record number of security bulletins for a single month -- 14 security bulletins addressing 34 different vulnerabilities. [...] |
| SMS-Based Trojan Targeting Android Smartphones Posted: InfoSec News: SMS-Based Trojan Targeting Android Smartphones: http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226600359 By Eric Zeman InformationWeek August 10, 2010 According to Kapersky Lab, it has discovered the first known Trojan to be specifically targeted at Android smartphones. [...] |
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