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Alleged Ponzi Mastermind Stanford Pwned in Antigua
In early 2008, while federal investigators were busy looking into disgraced financier Robert Allen Stanford for his part in an alleged $8 billion fraudulent investment scheme , Eastern European hackers were quietly hoovering up tens of thousands of customer financial records from the Bank of Antigua, an institution formerly owned by the Stanford Group. According to a fraud investigator with firsthand knowledge of the break-in, the hackers responsible infiltrated a component of the Stanford Group’s network by exploiting vulnerabilities in the company’s web servers and databases. On the condition of anonymity, the investigator shared with this author files recovered from the breach, which were stored in plain text for at least several weeks on a website controlled by the attackers.
Continue reading »Redbox, making rental ‘convenient’. Again.
When p2pnet tech guy surfer wrote, “Here is an easy (theoritical) tutorial on how to get your movies for $1 ,” going on, “Sorry this tutorial is only good where you can actually rent a DVD for $1,” and, “Go to a McDonalds that has a DVD rental kiosk out front,” you know what box he was talking about. Redbox. “Redbox began in 2002 using re-branded kiosks manufactured and operated by Silicon Valley-based DVDPlay at 140 McDonald’s restaurants in their Denver test market,” says the Wikipedia .
Continue reading »DSL has some life left in it as Qwest rolls out 40Mbps tier
DSL—it ain’t dead yet. While cable companies and even telcos like Verizon argue that fiber is the future, Qwest believes that a combination of fiber to the node plus DSL to the home is a winner, especially with new electronics that can boost speeds as high as 40Mbps. Qwest today announced its plan to offer higher DSL speeds in 23 markets over the next few months, including Denver, Minneapolis/St.
Continue reading »ATMs Armed with Pepper Spray to Thwart Criminals, Shoot Workers Instead
A South African bank has outfitted its ATMs with pepper spray to prevent criminals from bombing or tampering with the machines. But the system still has some bugs: One of the machines released its stinging payload on three maintenance workers last week. Absa Bank, one of South Africa’s largest, installed the spray on eleven machines after someone bombed several of its ATMs last year, according to local news outlet Independent Online .
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