Pattern Of Life. Previously we used Recorded Future’s temporal analytics to examine the short term evolution of information on a newly revealed security threat in our series on Faisal Shahzad, also know as the Times Square Bomber (or would-be bomber). In this post we’ll show how we were able to utilize Recorded Future’s data extraction and visualizations for open source intelligence to quickly develop a pattern of life analysis for an American-born terrorist.
Recorded Future paints a broad landscape spanning nearly 40 years depicting the transformation of Omar Hammami from an Alabama-born honor student to an Islamic Extremist indicted on terrorism charges. Searching the full time range of Recorded Future’s index for the entity Omar Hammami, we find recognizable expressions of time back to Hammami’s parents first moving to Mobile, Alabama from Syria in 1972. This initial, extended timeline allows us to see upon cursory glance the dramatic increase in relevant data as we move toward the current date. Security. Schneier on Security. U.S. States Investigating Breach at Experian. An exclusive KrebsOnSecurity investigation detailing how a unit of credit bureau Experian ended up selling consumer records to an identity theft service in the cybercrime underground has prompted a multi-state investigation by several attorneys general, according to wire reports.
Ngo’s Identity theft service, superget.info Reuters moved a story this afternoon quoting Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan saying that “it’s part of a multistate investigation,” and that Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said that Connecticut is looking into the matter as well. News of the breach first came to light on this blog in October 2013, when KrebsOnSecurity published an exclusive story detailing how a Vietnamese man running an online identity theft service bought personal and financial records on Americans directly from a company owned by Experian, one of the three major U.S. credit bureaus. Internet Storm Center - Internet Security | SANS ISC. U.S. States Investigating Breach at Experian.