The US Justice Department Press Release details a rare successful conviction of a 419 scammer: Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found OKPAKO MIKE DIAMREYAN, 31, a citizen of Nigeria who sometimes resided in Accra, Ghana, guilty of three counts of … Continue reading Nigerian convicted in US on AFF
The article in the WSJ seems to accuse the PCI of lacking sufficient security. In both the Hannaford and Okemo heists, hackers attacked an area that previously had been thought impenetrable — a company’s private internal computer network. Many previous breaches involved wireless network systems. PCI mandates that all transaction data sent over networks that … Continue reading Time to encrypt internal traffic?
Working on a global intrusion detection system today, four years after Gartner incorrectly predicted they would no longer be relevant , presents a number of challenges. Most notably, creating an accurate signature for an attack, let alone an attacker, can be a very sophisticated and delicate process that requires non-trivial amounts of intelligent (i.e. human) … Continue reading Graffiti Analysis and Law Enforcement
Newsfactor reports that the modern space race has led us to a one-terabyte drive for $399. They also point out some other interesting data points on modern reliability, performance and energy-consumption requirements: …Hitachi’s new drives beat older models in more than just space. The Deskstar offers increased shock protection and three “idle” modes designed to … Continue reading The affordable 1TB drive has arrived