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logins-for-ftp-sites-offered-for-sale

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

According to Techworld, Finjan has discovered that logins for 8,700 FTP servers are for sale.

Using the Alexa.com domain ranking, Finjan found 10 of the top 100 domains in the database, 100 of the top 500 domains, and 50 of those between 500 and 1,000.
My reaction: FTP? Really? You've got to at least hope that it's SFTP.
The hacked servers could be used to distribute crimeware by injecting iframe tags into any webpage stored on the compromised FTP servers. Indeed the server accounts were themselves being traded by a web application able to rank and price them according to their Google page rank for re-sale to other criminals.
Fancy.

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more-on-biometrics

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Adam points to a recent academic work on reproducing fingerprints from the 'templates' of data points that most systems use (instead of a full image of the fingerprint).

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great-two-factor-authentication-article-at-cso

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
There is a great article on two-factor authentication at CSO Online. The title is misleading, IMO. Here are some of the parts I found interesting:

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class-action-to-drive-action-on-security-at-banks

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Any class action with 40 million defendants is going to get huge fast. Here is an article at Bank Systems and Technology. Some interesting tidbits:

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sec-on-investor-security

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
The SEC has released an education guide for investors on how to protect themselves from fraud.

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