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Volume 28 : Issue 233 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers
A Lawsuit Tries to Get at Hackers Through the Banks They Attack
AT&T's Response regarding Google Voice for iPhone Application
Google's Response regarding Google Voice for iPhone Application
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:29:12 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers
Message-ID: <p062408ebc6b70ff69ce3@[10.0.1.3]>
How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers
By Saul Hansell
August 20, 2009, 1:20 pm
The world's savviest hackers are on to the "real-time Web" and using
it to devilish effect. The real-time Web is the fire hose of
information coming from services like Twitter. The latest generation
of Trojans - nasty little programs that hacking gangs use to burrow
onto your computer - sends a Twitter-like stream of updates about
everything you do back to their controllers, many of whom,
researchers say, are in Eastern Europe. Trojans used to just
accumulate secret diaries of your Web surfing and periodically sent
the results on to the hacker.
The security world first spotted these new attacks last year. I ran
into it again while reporting an article in Thursday's Times about a
lawsuit meant to help track down the perpetrators of these attacks.
By going real time, hackers now can get around some of the roadblocks
that companies have put in their way. Most significantly, they are
now undeterred by systems that create temporary passwords, such as
RSA's SecurID system, which involves a small gadget that displays a
six-digit number that changes every minute based on a complex formula.
If you computer is infected, the Trojan zaps your temporary password
back to the waiting hacker who immediately uses it to log onto your
account. Sometimes, the hacker logs on from his own computer,
probably using tricks to hide its location. Other times, the Trojan
allows the hacker to control your computer, opening a browser session
that you can't see.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/how-hackers-snatch-real-time-security-id-numbers/
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:29:12 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: A Lawsuit Tries to Get at Hackers Through the Banks They Attack
Message-ID: <p062408ecc6b7104cb14c@[10.0.1.3]>
A Lawsuit Tries to Get at Hackers Through the Banks They Attack
By SAUL HANSELL
The New York Times
August 20, 2009
A lawsuit filed on Wednesday against some of the most shadowy
Internet criminals - gangs based in Eastern Europe that
electronically break into business computers, steal banking passwords
and transfer themselves money - is being used to pry information from
a group that is nearly as reclusive as the hackers: banks whose
computers have been compromised.
The suit by Unspam Technologies, which organizes volunteers to track
down information about spammers and other online rogues, was filed in
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The lawyer for Unspam, Jon L. Praed, concedes he is unlikely ever to
discover the names of the hackers. But he hopes to get the details of
the thefts, the names of victims and other information from the banks
that can be used to improve security and possibly identify the
hackers.
Mr. Praed, the head of the Internet Law Group, which is based in
Arlington, Va., has used the technique successfully on behalf of AOL
and Verizon to identify people sending spam to their customers. The
same legal method was used by the recording industry to force
Internet providers to name customers who were exchanging copyrighted
songs.
More recently, Mr. Praed has used these "John Doe suits" - so called
because the unnamed defendant is identified only as John Doe - to get
information from third parties that can then be passed to law
enforcement officials and online security experts and used as the
basis for other civil suits.
In 2007, Mr. Praed filed a suit on behalf of Unspam that was aimed at
gathering information on illegal Internet pharmacies and the
companies that support them. He declined to discuss any actions taken
as a result.
The suit filed Wednesday invokes the federal Can-Spam Act because
some of the malicious programs that infect corporate computers are
sent in the form of attachments to e-mail messages. It is more common
these days for computers to become infected when users visit Web
sites that have been secretly taken over by hackers and unknowingly
download computer code that then controls their computers.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/technology/20hacker.html
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/technology/onlinebanking.pdf
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:46:49 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: AT&T's Response regarding Google Voice for iPhone Application
Message-ID: <p062408edc6b712e24c59@[10.0.1.3]>
http://wireless.fcc.gov/releases/8212009_ATT_Response_FCC_iPhone_Letter.pdf
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/technology/20090821_ATT_Response.pdf
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:46:49 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Google's Response regarding Google Voice for iPhone Application
Message-ID: <p062408eec6b714089121@[10.0.1.3]>
http://wireless.fcc.gov/releases/8212009_google_filing_iPhone_Inquiry_PUBLIC_REDACTED.pdf
http://wireless.fcc.gov/releases/8212009_Google_Filing_iPhone_Inquiry_CONFIDENTIALITY.pdf
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/technology/20090821_Google_Filing.pdf
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