Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely | Threat Level | Wir More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots. “We initially dismissed it as mechanical failure,” says Texas Auto Center manager Martin Garcia. “We started having a rash of up to a hundred customers at one time complaining. Some customers complained of the horns going off in the middle of the night. The dealership used a system called Webtech Plus as an alternative to repossessing vehicles that haven’t been paid for. “Omar was pretty good with computers,” says Garcia. (Image courtesy drbrain)
The Moderate Voice Posts by spaf I’ve been delayed in posting this as I have been caught up in travel, teaching, and the other exigencies of my “day job,” including our 15th annual CERIAS Symposium. That means this posting is a little stale, but maybe it is also a little more complete. I try to attend the RSA Conference every year. The talks are not usually that useful, but the RSAC is the best event to see what is new in the market, and to catch up with many of my colleagues (new and old), touch base with some organizations, see CERIAS alumni, sample both some exotic cuisines and questionable hors d'oeuvres, and replenish my T-shirt supply. It is a very concentrated set of activities that, when properly managed, fits in a huge set of conversations. This year, there was a boycott, of sorts, against the conference by various parties who were upset at the purported collaboration of RSA with US government agencies many years ago. Technical Track The conference every year has scores (hundreds?) Informal Connections Summary
Errata Security Concurring Opinions cybercrime.gov The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is responsible for implementing the Department's national strategies in combating computer and intellectual property crimes worldwide. CCIPS prevents, investigates, and prosecutes computer crimes by working with other government agencies, the private sector, academic institutions, and foreign counterparts. Section attorneys work to improve the domestic and international infrastructure-legal, technological, and operational-to pursue network criminals most effectively. The Section's enforcement responsibilities against intellectual property crimes are similarly multi-faceted.
The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely What the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Report tells us about phishing When I was a kid I’d thumb through my parents’ Newsweek magazines for cool graphics that explained a complex geopolitical or economic issue. If you saw my post about the Phishpocalypse, you might have guessed that I love infographics. As usual the RISK team over at Verizon did a fantastic job crunching, analyzing, and reporting on a mountain of data from 19 different contributors. This year ThreatSim was invited to contribute data to the report. The ThreatSim team extracted some highlights from the report and illustrated it in the graphic below. Let’s look at what the data tells about about the state of data breaches and phishing: What the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Report says about phishing Download the infographic as a PDF Embed This Image On Your Site (copy code below):
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