An audit of Japan’s welfare system has been initiated after an innocent gesture uncovered irregularities in payments: more than 230,000 Japanese centenarians are “missing” The inquiry followed the discovery of the mummified remains of Sogen Kato, who was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo. However, when officials went to congratulate him on his … Continue reading Welfare Fraud Dissapears 230K Japanese →

ihack ? iam has posted a highly amusing and detailed analysis of Web Laundry (In)Security Ok, now we just need to guess the write 7 password. The password is 24 bits… That gives us 16,777,216 attempts to brute force it. At 4 attempts per card that will take 4,194,304 cards or 2,097,152 cards on average… … Continue reading Free Laundry! Stored Value Card Password Fail →

At the RSA 2010 Conference in San Francisco last March I gave a presentation with linguistic anthropologist Harriet Ottenheimer. We explained how linguistic analysis of email can catch fraud and we gave the example of 419 scams, also known as advanced fee fraud (AFF). A pattern of “bad” language stands out. This is a concept … Continue reading Linguistic Email Analysis Catches Fraud →

RT has posted a story from Moscow titled Police bust hacker gang who made $30 million in one month. Operatives of the city police directorate for fighting economic crimes have told journalists that the suspects created a computer virus that blocked all programs on the users’ computers and put a pornographic picture on the screen … Continue reading Malware gang nets $30 million in one month →