Haha!!
On 12/9/09, at approx. 5:41 p.m., the complainant was working in her office in the 2300 block of S. Massachusetts St., when she heard a window breaking in the room next to her office. The complainant called 911. Officers arrived and found the suspect stuck in a window on the north side of the building. The suspect had dropped his belongings inside the window but could not get further inside or back out of the window.
Good article about how history repeats itself.
Oh I hope this is not for real. If this is true we have to stop this!
Security firm Intego reports that it has spotted new malware, termed iPhone/Privacy.A, that is capable of allowing hackers to access personal information stored on certain jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches. Non-jailbroken iPhones are not vulnerable to the malware.
via New Malware Allows Hackers to Access Personal Information on Jailbroken iPhones – Mac Rumors.
How many times do you have to be told? If you have ssh installed on your phone, change the password. Otherwise things like this will happen.
So we got a robo-call from our bank saying that there were suspicious charges on our Debit Card. Boy were they right. The one that tripped the alert was a web site in South Africa. I had the card canceled, but not before a bunch of other charges had gone through. There were a bunch of $1.13 from “ME.COM”. Now being an iTunes and a mobile me user I still found this odd. Even though I had purchased Music last night, the description text on the statement always says “APPL iTunes” .
I confirmed with Apple that yes indeed, someone is using the ME.COM description as a front for fraudulent Charges. Hoping that if you did visit the site that you would say “Oh, look it’s just apple, those must be the songs I bought…”. Don’t fall for it. Your card number has been compromised. Call your bank.
So don’t let this fool you. If you see a ME.COM that looks like you’ve been buying music .. don’t skip over it. It’s a fraudulent charge.
Now I just hope that with my banks help we have nipped this in the bud before they drain my account.
I have been wanting to switch over to the PayPal Secure Card method for online transactions. Guess it’s time to do that. Their plug-in does not support OS X though. The Secure Card method generates a Visa Debit Card number that you can use one time. So in a sense it’s a throwaway Debit Card number.
Note: It could have been a lot worse, because the bank called our home phone. If Robin had not been there to get the call, we would have been doing this tonight and who knows how many charges later. I’m going to give the bank my google voice number. That way if it happens again, the news will not be sitting on an answering machine all day.
I hope this story has a happy ending.
This morning, he saw someone applying for a job online using the stolen laptop, and Jim now has the Social Security number, address and phone number used on the job application. Jim speculates it is possible the machine has been sold to someone and that is who was applying for the job. Or it could still be with the crooks.
According to the Justice Department, the suspects used a sophisticated hacking technique called an “SQL injection attack,” which “seeks to exploit computer networks by finding a way around the network’s firewall to steal credit card and debit information.”
OK, those of you that know this stuff… SQL Injection? WTF? One of the oldest methods of getting into a Database over the web. I wonder just “how sophisticated” these attacks really were. Sigh.
Please tell me none of you fell for this one.
iPod nano for just $49 plus your Social Security Number : Macenstein.
This comes on the heels of a conversation in my office about using twitter and other social media to promote a favorable article about my employer in Consumer Reports. I think it’s the competition! Either that or it was the Freemasons really angry about the whole John Quincy Adams twittering thing.
Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday morning, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic time-outs (and more outright downtime). The company is blaming an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack but has not said anything further.
via Twitter crippled by denial-of-service attack | The Social – CNET News.
Apple has released a minor software update for iPhone, patching a security flaw revealed just yesterday.
via Apple Patches iPhone SMS Security Hole With Software Update | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
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