Cyber Crime Slayer

This month the INVISUS Direct Cyber Crime Activity Report is full of cyber criminal activity from across the globe, plus a round up of identity theft and security related news.

Plumas Lake, Calf.

A man bilked $50K (a few pennies at a time) from online brokerage companies E-Trade & Schwab brokerage houses. He apparently exploited a backdoor in a procedure that both brokerage houses use.

Houston, Tx.

A former U.S. Navy contractor admitted he sold confidential information on 17,000 U.S. Marines to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign official.

San Francisco, Calf.

An apparently inadvertent DoS attack knocked thw website of San Fransisco-based Revision3 offline for three days, preventing users from downloading or watching the internet television shows produced by the network.

Connecticut.

the Bank of New York Mellon lost a tape containing some 4.5 million customer records. The tape was last seen in transit by a records management firm, Archive Systems.The bank plans to offer one year of free credit monitoring to victims.

Washington D.C.

The National Security Agency’s website and its mail services went down for several hours. Researchers speculated the cause was several basic mistakes in the configuration of its DNS systems.

Belgium

Several NATO allies signed an agreement that will fund a research center to defend against cyberattacks. The center, to be located in Estonia, will open next year.

Spain

Authorities here rounded up a group of young hackers accused of targeting a number of U.S. and foreign government websites. The five individuals, known as the D.O.M. Team, were charged with compromising roughly 21,000 web pages.

Zimbabwe

Hackers brought down the website of the state-owned newspaper, The Herald, for three days in May. It’s likely the site was attacked because the paper serves as the voice of the higly critized ZANU-PF ruling party.

Russia

Hackers knocked sites that provide nuclear radiation information offline while fake reports of radioactivity emissions were posted to forums. Officials beleive the acts were coordinated by individuals opposed to the nation’s nuclear power industry.

China

Most cyberattacks against South Korea originated in nearby China, according to a new study presented by Lee-Hong-sup, chairman of the Koria Institute of Information Security and Crytography. The Korean governement was urged to heighten its security defenses.

(This information was provided by SC Magazine)

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INVISUS Direct has identified the security threat of the month as DoS attacks. In this report we will explain what a Dos Attack is and how you can prevent it.

What is a DoS Attack

Here is an example of a DoS attack. In July vulnerabilities were uncovered that allowed remote authenticated attackers to launch denial-of-service (DoS) on the Windows Live OneCare/Windows Defender/ForeFront.

How Does a DoS attack Work

In the case of Windows Live OnceCare is a new subscription-based service provided by Microsoft to protect Windows computers (Always aprime target for hackers).

In this DoS attack the recently discovere vulnerabilities did not need user interaction. In most cases a DoS attack is iniciated by sending an email to the victim, convensing the victim to visit a website or be transfering files through a p2p/im (peer 2 peer transfer or Instant Messaging).

how To Prevent a DoS Attack

In the case of Microsoft they issued an update to correct this vulnerability. However, the best pervention is making sure your security is up todate and is enterprise grade software.

The iSimplify service by INVISUS Direct provides four individual layers of protection that will help to detect and prevent a DoS attack.

The second action you should take is to educate your family so they know what to look for when they are surfing the net, transfering files through p2p or Iming with their friends.

Much Love,

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Parents Suspicions Result in Nanny's Arrest

The parents of two infants became suspicious of the nanny they hired, so they secretly videotaped her last week, then watched in horror as the recording showed her repeatedly hit, kick and toss the children.

Joan Kahn of Ridgefield, a white-haired 59-year-old with “a great resume and great references according to the father of an 11-month-old Wilton boy, was arrested Friday by Wilton police. She was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor, a felony carrying a maximum 10-year sentence. Kahn was set free on $50,000 cash bond shortly after her 11 p.m. arrest. She is to appear Monday in state Superior Court in Norwalk.

The videotape depicts the nanny jerk the children toward her and away from her. At on point, while using harsh language, the nanny is shown lifting a child and slamming him face-down on her thigh. At another point, she throws an empty baby bottle at the head of a child. After seeing the tape, the parents immediately contacted police.

The parents of the Wilton boy, in whose hose the nanny cared for both children, put a hidden camera in the living room last Monday. An excerpt of the video tape, about 10 minutes long, was placed in the court record.

Kahn’s husband yesterday said neither he nor his wife would comment and referred all questions to Kahn’s lawyer, Herbert Rosenberg of Ridgefield, who also refused to comment.

Asked what effect the children’s treatment has had on them, the father said he “can’t answer that.” An arrest warrant application in Kahn’s court file describes her treatment of the children as “potentially harmful physical handling.”

Kahn was hired in October by the parents of the boy and the Fairfield parents of a 10-month-old girl. The mothers of the children knew each other and jointly hired Kahn.

The parents told police they became suspicious when they saw the children’s diapers weren’t changed enough, and when scratches, bruises and gashes started appearing on the children. When the parents questioned Kahn about the marks, she couldn’t give them satisfactory answers, according to police reports.

When police questioned Kahn, she at first denied she ever hurt the children. When they invited her to watch the videotape at the Police Department, she did so, according to police reports.

Watching herself drop the boy three feet onto a pillow on the floor, Kahn said, “I dropped him onto a pillow,” police said. Seeing herself slam the boy’s chest onto her thigh, she said, “Not the best,” and “Not the greatest.”

Police said Kahn told them she was much rougher than she should have been and didn’t remember hitting the children.

“For other people who have nannies, it’s tough to trust them,” the Wilton father said. “I think the videotape is something anyone should consider if they have any suspicions. “The parents got their cameras from a company called “Know Your Nanny,” he said.

The New Jersey-based company performs background checks on nannies and provides parents with cameras hidden in devices such as videocassette recorders, clocks and other working appliances.

The mothers of the two children are taking time off from their jobs to watch the children, the Wilson father said. No arrangements with another care provider have been made yet, he said. The Fairfield parents could not be reached for comment.

“We placed our children in her charge with confidence, and she violated that confidence,” the Wilson father said. “This is an appalling situation we have.”

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I was working on a Persons Site putting up a blog for him. His word to me was not at all honorable. I would warn you folks do not trust a verbal agreement means nothing today. Verbal is meaning less I warn you do not trust any ones word. The guy seemed to be honorable. Seeming to be honorable is what he was. People take you for granted. All I can do is give it to the Lord. That's Right I am a Christian And Proud of it too!

Folks If you were riped off lied too Please Let us Know. If you do work for some one overseas Get it in writing and that my not even be enough. Usually I ask to get paid in advance that's my policy from now on I guess you live and learn. In this instance I will not reveal the guys URL he does not deserve a link. to his blog not from a high pr site like this.

Pete Balasch Jr. 402-551-4231 skype xyour925job

update: April 28th 2008

He Paid me part of the money he owed me but I still was shorted I can not believe he can actually sleep at night he is probably snoring right now and has no morals.

He was listening to a podcast of mine from 4 months ago where I would put up your blog on your own domain for 75.00 depending what you need you know extras and time involved he actually told me that he listed to the podcast and I stated 75 on the podcast he asked me how much I would do it for. And I told him it would be 175.00 and he agreed. I still don't get it I really don't he wanted auto responder Installed audio and graphic. And he really didn't know what he wanted. And he is going to teach folks how to do business? I can see how he does business. I removed his name and Phone number since you could look up his Place of residence. I have learned my lesson like I always do. I would still finish my Job With his site . There was still the promotion and he has an error on his site that really needs to be fixed. This was not just a Simple install I did some custom coding on his site for the seo that he has no Idea of the value . I'm just going to drop it.

We should have this web site back to par soon. Some hackers did mess up the site Guess They don't like us attacking them

Jenn will be back at it soon.

Pete Balasch Jr. 402-551-4231 Skype xyour925job

This happend to me before when I was Painting a house for a guy also some years ago I put a Lien on his property. Still to be paid been over 10 years