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ATM Skimmer News – Arrests, Banks Fight Back, Crooks Use 3D Printers

September 22, 2011

Several ATM skimmer stories caught my eye this week. First is a story from (http://ow.ly/6A9df) Seattle saying a U.S. District Attorney was included in the victims of a recent skimming ring. The story goes on to estimate that ATM skimming has grown into a $1 billion dollar industry and says recent arrests in that area [...]

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A New Project Aims to Digitize and ‘Print’ Fossils in 3-D

September 21, 2011

Jean-Jacques Hublin is an paleonthropologist. That means he studies the fossils of ancient humans and pre-humans. Hublin began a project (http://ow.ly/6xoQZ) that has several lofty goals. First, to digitize all existing fossils of our human ancestors and their ancestors using the latest in medical and virtual imaging. Second, to share these 3-D images with scientists [...]

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Restaurants Embracing Technology

September 20, 2011

Restaurant technology has been slowly evolving for years. Few fast food restaurants would survive without drive-thru lanes, wireless headsets and computer screens that list live orders. Then came Web 2.0 where people (customers) could share opinions about their local eateries. These days much of the restaurant technology is about mobile devices. Let’s start with the [...]

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Alarming New Facial Recognition Technology – Germany Sees Privacy Threat

September 18, 2011

It seems facial recognition software is becoming more widely used and more sophisticated. In some cases facial recognition software now has the ability to access the internet and search through millions of images and databases to identify you and find information about you. Last June, Facebook began rolling out a facial recognition feature on their [...]

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The Weird Wild Web

September 15, 2011

9/9/11 – Sony hopes the next TV you buy you’ll wear around your head – ZDNet – http://ow.ly/6r4Db 8/28/11 – Tech savvy faithful get wired for worship – jconline.com – http://ow.ly/6eKGj 8/11/11 – Electronic Skin’ Grafts Gadgets to Body – ScienceNOW – http://ow.ly/61fyj 8/10/11 – NYPD forms new social media unit to mine Facebook and [...]

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Phone Scam Gets Personal

September 14, 2011

I received an odd call the other day on my cell phone. When the phone rang it showed a phone number of 2232. Definitely not a normal phone number. Being suspicious, (paranoid?) I declined the call. Later I saw that they left a voicemail. A computerized voice said “We regret to inform you that your [...]

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This Week’s Internet Security / Privacy News Roundup

September 13, 2011

Here are some stories that came out in the last week. Some of these headlines sound like they came from a grocery store tabloid but unfortunately, they’re true. 9/9/11 – How to Steal Corporate Email Without Breaking the Law – Researchers steal 20GB of corporate emails via misspelled domains – HelpNetSecurity – http://ow.ly/6r4Ag 9/9/11 – [...]

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Sophisticated ATM Attack Nets $13 Million in One Day

September 11, 2011

Online financial crime has become highly sophisticated and the global gangs involved have become highly coordinated as this story illustrates. The attack, one of the largest ever reported, involved a Florida-based financial company and netted a global cyber gang around $13 million in cash. The company, Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) is based in [...]

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Dutch Company DigiNotar Hacked, Entire Internet Endangered

September 8, 2011

Here’s the situation to the best of my understanding. Gazillions of secure transactions take place on the Internet daily. Shopping, online banking, e-mail and much more. Luckily for us we don’t have to figure out which companies to trust. Our browsers do that for us. Built into our browsers are a list of ‘root certificates.’ [...]

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Highly Sophisticated Fake IDs Coming From China

September 7, 2011

A story from a local news channel (http://ow.ly/6jDhk) tipped me off to this problem. Fake IDs from China. Really good fakes. Holograms, magnetic stripes, everything. And stories are appearing from around the country as word spreads, especially through college campuses. Boston (http://ow.ly/6kU0e), Annapolis (http://ow.ly/6kU1M), Cedar Falls, (http://ow.ly/6kU2B), Denver (http://ow.ly/6kU3o), and everywhere in between. As mentioned [...]

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