Internet International Warning, Abney Associates Review: Scam varning som tillhandahålls

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En välbekant bluff har återuppstått i Washington Parish, och en Bogalusa bosatt är varning människor inte att falla för den.

Jimmy Underwood sade han nyligen fick ett samtal från en person med utländsk brytning, som berättade för honom hade han vunnit $2,5 miljoner och att någon skulle komma från Lafayette på eftermiddagen att presentera honom med sina vinster.

Dock Underwood var misstänksam och "typ av tänkte att det var en bluff rätt utanför bat," han låter anroparen fortsätta. Underwood gavs ett spårningsnummer, tillgång kodnummer och säkerhet kodnummer och tillsagd att gå till en butik för att få en grön Dot MoneyPack kort och lägga till $1.000 i den. Uppringaren sa utmärkelsen $2,5 miljoner var juridiska, hade godkänts av den federala regeringen, och att alla skatter hade tagits. Han försett Underwood med ett telefonnummer och berättade för honom att kalla det och be om Jimmy White efter han hade kortet.

Underwood var nära en Walgreens, så han gick in och ifyllt manager på telefonsamtalet. Chefen sa att det var en bluff, att den som ringt var sannolikt från Jamaica, och att någon annan hade kommit att rapportera samma sak.

Ungefär 10 minuter senare ringde ringer Underwood igen, frågar varför han inte hade kallas tillbaka. Underwood sa till honom att det var en bluff och att det inte var berättigat. Anroparen försäkrade honom var det inte ett skämt, men Underwood berättade för honom att ge pengar till någon annan.

Jag sa, "Om jag vann pengar, hur kommer jag behöva betala $1,000?" "

Underwood fick veta att han inte skulle verkligen att lägga några pengar, eftersom han skulle få $1000 tillbaka i form av ett presentkort.

När han senare försökte telefonnumret hade han fått för "Jimmy White," samma man svarade.

En annan blivande bedragare kallas Underwood måndag morgon. Anroparen var en kvinna, och hennes accent var tjockare och svårare att förstå. Hon berättade Underwood han hade godkänts för en $9,000 statligt bidrag, men han informerade henne om han inte hade ansökt om något bidrag. Han frågade henne att upprepa saker, och så småningom hon fick förvärras och hängde upp, sade han.

Den gröna pricken hemsida, www.moneypak. com, ger varningar om vilka typer av bedrägerier som Underwood. Bland bedrägeri-förebyggande tips som tillhandahålls är, "Avvisa ett erbjudande där du ombeds att köpa en MoneyPak och dela via e-post eller telefon nummer eller mottagande information."

"Använd inte MoneyPak betala skatter eller avgifter för att få"vinster"i ett utländskt lotteri eller pris främjande," tipsen fortsätter. "Om det inte är en godkänd MoneyPak partner, Använd inte MoneyPak för ett erbjudande där du måste betala innan du får artikeln."

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Abney and Associates: Twitter debuterer DMARC For Twitter.com e-postadresser, håper å bremse svindelforsøk (Phishing) - skyrock

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Twitter torsdag kunngjorde sin nye bruk av DMARC teknologi. Selskapet håper plattformen vil avta cyber kriminelle fra å bruke falske Twitter.com e-postadresse. Cyber kriminelle forfalske sin egen e-postadresse slik at mottakere tror de mottar en bekreftet e-post fra Twitter.

Når en bruker mener de mottar offisielle Twitter korrespondanse er de mer sannsynlig å oppgi personopplysninger til phishing scam kunstnere.

I et innlegg på den offisielle Twitter bloggen skriver selskapet:

"Uten å bli for teknisk, DMARC løser et par langvarig operativ, distribusjon og rapportering problemer knyttet til e-post godkjenningsprotokoller. Den bygger på etablerte godkjenningsprotokoller (DKIM og SPF) for å gi e-postleverandører en måte å blokkere e-post fra smidde domener som dukker opp i innbokser. Og som i sin tur reduserer risiko brukere ansiktet av feilaktig utdeling personopplysninger. Hvis du er interessert i en mer teknisk forklaring, finner du det her."

Twitter faktisk begynte å bruke DMARC i begynnelsen av februar, men valgte å vise frem teknologien etter Jeep og Burger King hadde sine Twitter-kontoer hacket.

DMARC teknologi er allerede implementert for AOL, Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook og Yahoo! Mail.

DMARC er fortsatt en ung teknologi, men mer e-plattformer er ventet å adoptere teknologien i nær fremtid.

Nå hvis vi kunne bare ha en passende form for to-trinns godkjenning på Twitter ville vi være fullt imponert.

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Abney Associates Internet Technology Spain: Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order Falls Short

In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that he had signed an executive order (EO) on cybersecurity. The order uses a standard-setting approach to improve cybersecurity. However, such a model will only impose costs, encourage compliance over security, keep the U.S. tied to past threats, and threaten innovation.

While the EO does take some positive steps in the area of information sharing, these steps are hamstrung by the EO’s inability to provide critical incentives such as liability protection. As a result, this order could result in few modest changes, or it could result in substantial negative effects.

The Scope of the Order

The EO uses a very broad definition of critical infrastructure, defining it as “systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.”

Such a broad definition could be understood to include systems normally considered outside the cybersecurity conversation, such as agriculture. While there is no way of knowing how far implementation will actually go, this broad definition is certainly concerning.

Inhibited Information Sharing

In Section 4, the EO attempts to expand information sharing in several noteworthy ways. It calls for the federal government to quickly move unclassified information to the private sector and increase the number of security clearances given to appropriate owners of covered infrastructure. Additionally, the EO expands already existing information-sharing systems such as the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Enhanced Cyber Services and Cyber Security/Information Assurance Program. These objectives are worthwhile, and the President should be applauded for including them.

However, these worthwhile pursuits will not be very effective because the EO must rely completely on existing authorities. Essentially, it directs government agencies to do a better job of sharing information than they already are. And where it does expand programs, such as with the DIB, these efforts will not be effective without additional incentives and protections to get more businesses involved. These include liability, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and regulatory-use protections.

The problem is that the EO cannot provide these important protections—they can be created only by Congress. As a result, many businesses will be reluctant to share their information for fear that their proprietary information could be endangered by a FOIA request or that an honest mistake might lead to a lawsuit being filed against them. Regarding other private-to-private or private-to-government solutions, the EO is silent.

Although the information-sharing provisions are limited, the privacy protections for this limited sharing are actually where they should be. The EO calls for consultation with privacy officers and oversight reports on the order’s implementation. While some may find this provision weak, effective oversight is the best way to respect privacy concerns while not limiting information sharing that enhances the nation’s security.

Source: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/02/obama-s-cybersecurity-executive-order-falls-short

An Abney and Associates International Blog: As the Dow Soars, How High Can Tech Stocks Go?

Last Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average — the benchmark stock index of America’s blue chip companies – closed above 14,000 for the first time since the financial meltdown sent the U.S. economy into the worst crisis in decades. The continued resurgence of the U.S. auto industry and growing optimism about the overall economy helped propel the Dow above the psychologically important 14,000 point level. The surging Dow is an indication of the increasing financial health of the largest American companies, a bright spot in an otherwise shaky U.S. economic recovery, particularly with respect to unemployment.

America’s blue chip firms — including industrial giants, banks, and auto companies — are healthier than they’ve been in years. But what about the largest U.S. tech companies? Like the other major stock indices, the tech-heavy Nasdaq index is at or near multi-year highs. On Friday alone, the Nasdaq rose 1%, nearly touching the index’s five-year high, which it hit last September, driven in part by tech juggernaut Apple, which had just released the iPhone 5. But Wall Street sentiment has soured on Apple in recent months, somewhat tempering the Nasdaq’s continued ascent.

How high can tech stocks go? Given Apple’s size — it’s the largest tech company in the world — it makes sense to begin any forward-looking evaluation of the Nasdaq with the Cupertino, Calif.-based cash machine. Apple constitutes about 12% of the Nasdaq’s valuation, and there’s no question the company’s recent stock swoon has placed a drag on the tech-heavy index. Let’s take a look at Apple and three other important Nasdaq companies.

Two weeks ago, for the third consecutive quarter, Apple fell short of analyst estimates, sending the company’s stock down 10% in after-hours trading, wiping out nearly $50 billion in shareholder value. Although it reported record financial results, Apple’s slowing growth rate has spooked investors, who are growing increasingly concerned about the next stage in the company’s epic story.

Can Apple maintain its heretofore astonishing growth-rate on the back of existing products like the iPhone and the iPad or does the company need new, breakthrough products? Investors seem to think the latter, which explains why its stock has declined 26% over the last six months. As the largest single component of the Nasdaq index, Apple’s continued growth is crucial for the tech-heavy stock tracker.

If there’s a true standout among big tech stocks, it’s clearly Internet titan Google, which hit a record high on Friday, closing up 2.6% to $775.60, the highest value since the company went public in August 2004, according to Bloomberg. As rival Apple has stumbled, Google shares have increased 30% over the last year. Google now has a market capitalization of $250 billion, with $50 billion cash on hand. Not bad for a 15-year-old academic project.

Last month, Google reported strong revenue growth, as the online advertising market keeps shifting away from traditional ad platforms — including print — and toward Internet-based marketing. This trend will continue indefinitely, and as the world’s largest Internet advertising company, Google is perfectly poised to capitalize here.

Another bright spot for the Nasdaq is social media colossus Facebook. After a rough few months following the company’s controversial initial public offering, Facebook shares have soared over 30% in the last three months. Last month, Facebook delivered a strong earnings report, with mobile revenue surging from 0% to 23% of total revenue in just one year. That’s another figure that will only increase.

“Today there is no argument,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Wall Street analysts. “Facebook is a mobile company.” The company’s overall ad sales growth is booming, increasing in the fourth quarter by 41% to $1.3 billion. As the largest of the new class of Nasdaq’s stocks, Facebook’s continued success is crucial for the tech-heavy index, which endured withering criticism of its handling of the IPO.

If the Nasdaq has a compelling underdog story right now, it’s a company called Blackberry, formerly known as Research in Motion. (Why it took so many years for the company to make this obvious branding change is beyond me.) Practically left for dead just six months ago, Blackberry is up a whopping 49.6% over the last three months. Last week, Blackberry unveiled its long-awaited Blackberry 10 operating system, and unveiled two slick-looking new Blackberry phones.

Taking several pages from the Apple/Google playbook, Blackberry announced a marketplace for music and movies, and an app catalog that will include more than 70,000 apps at launch, as TIME’s Techland reported. Blackberry shares are still down over 80% since their 2008 peak, but if the company can launch a product that genuinely competes with Apple and Google, that will be good for the tech sector, because competition spurs innovation, and innovation drives the Nasdaq.

It’s important to remember that the health of stock market indices does not necessarily correspond with the overall health of the U.S. economy. In fact, there’s frequently little connection at all. Stock markets are driven by corporate profits, which seem increasingly disconnected from the health of the U.S. consumer, a key driver of the economy. Still, rising corporate revenues, profits, and stock prices are an unambiguously good sign for the U.S. economy. And tech companies are a key element of overall U.S. corporate health.

What drives tech revenues and profits? Consumer and corporate spending. There’s no doubt that investors have grown skittish about Apple, which is weighing on the Nasdaq. But overall, U.S. stock market indices and other key economic measures appear to be contributing to a virtuous cycle — however halting — that will ultimately benefit investors.

Source: http://business.time.com/2013/02/04/as-the-dow-soars-how-high-can-tech-stocks-go/

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Leet speak has its origins from the IRC chat culture and was believed to be born from the need of geeks and hackers to develop a way to avoid censorship and detection in their communications online. The language is characterized by intended grammatical errors, mix usage of numbers, signs and letters (a combination of lower and uppercase letters). Comparable to an industry jargon, leet speak often signifies group affiliations and makes it easy to spot a n00b (newbie) in a room full of pros.

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