Card fraudsters: A world unto themselves

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He outlined one operation, Operation Firewall, which in July 2003 netted the perpetrators behind Shadowcrew, Carderplanet, and Darkprofits sites. “By early 2003, things were rolling; we saw sites like the Brotherhood of Carders (8600 user accounts) as well buying and selling information hacked out of the system, but there was no resource more responsible than Carderplanet,” Jacobson said.

The Russian speaking community, the Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic communities are unmatched as a source for [financial] crime and no other community comes close.” Jacobson said that more recently, carding forums have added feedback forums.

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McAfee Reveals ‘OneCare’ Competitor

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“We know from our research and relationship with millions of consumers that PC security is confusing and complex to them,” said Marc Solomon, Director of Product Management, McAfee Consumer. “With the launch of ‘Falcon’ this summer, we have integrated into our award-winning products powerful, yet easy to use protection that addresses both existing and emerging threats.

Falcon will work with non-Internet Explorer browsers like Firefox and has a better-designed interface with easy access to advanced options. Other improvements: protection against rootkits, anti-phishing heuristics, detection of malware within images, scanning of USB devices such as thumb drives, home-network protection, and automated local backup.

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Securify Updates Network Monitoring Appliance

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Giving customers the ability to abandon the process of studying network security logs and more rapidly identify truly dangerous behavior is just what companies are looking for today, specifically as their networks become more widely distributed among geographies and end-user communities, said Steve Woo, vice president of marketing for Securify.

The device, which comes in three models with 100MB, 400MB and 1GB link capacities, also boasts enhanced content filtering and behavior controls that add the ability to monitor end-user activity within Web-based applications, by both protocol command and by tracking URLs. The devices allow the company, which has been using Securify technologies for roughly one year, to provide carriers and other customers with detailed security reports that ultimately help it sell its own services, he said.

Securify’s appliances compete against similar hardware from Checkpoint Security and Mazu Networks.

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Symantec squashes antivirus bug

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It was discovered by rival security vendor eEye Digital Security Inc. and first disclosed last Wednesday (See “Researchers find flaw in Symantec antivirus.”).

The patches are for English language versions of Symantec’s products only, and a Symantec spokesman could not say when the complete line of products would be patched.

Symantec did not release many details on the flaw, but eEye has warned that it is the kind of vulnerability that could be used to build a self-replicating worm attack, similar to the Blaster and Slammer outbreaks of 2003.

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