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Internet Security Threat Report

Internet Security Threat Report

Today, the threat landscape is arguably more dynamic than ever. Identity theft is an increasingly prevalent security issue, particularly for organizations that store and manage information that could facilitate identity theft. Compromises that result in the loss of personal data could be quite costly, not only to the people whose identity may be at risk and their respective financial institutions, but also to the organization responsible for collecting the data.

Data breaches that lead to identity theft could damage an organization's reputation, and undermine customer and institutional confidence in the organization. Underground economy servers are used by criminals and criminal organizations to sell stolen information, typically for subsequent use in identity theft. This data can include government-issued identification numbers (such as social security numbers), credit cards, bank cards, personal identification numbers (PINs), user accounts, and email address lists.

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Open seminar: "Underground Economy" at AIT

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has arranged a free seminar about Underground Economy on Tuesday 16th October 2007. Everyone is invited. Seat is limited please register ahead.

Open seminar: "Underground Economy"

Venue: B 108, AIT Conference Center
Date : 16 October 2007
Time : 09:30 - 12:45

09:00-09:30	Welcome and Introduction by AIT , APNIC and ICANN
09:30-10:30	Underground Economy by Ryan Connolly, Team Cymru
10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:45	"Need for International cooperation to combat Cyber Crime" by Ammar Jaffri, Pakistani Federal Investigative Agency, Pakistan
11:40-12:45	Panel Discussion Moderator:Cecil Goldstein, APNIC Panelist: John Crain, Chief Technical Officer, ICANN Ryan Connelly, Team Cymru Ammar Jaffri, Pakistani Federal Investigative Agency

Speakers

Ryan Connolly, Team Cymru Since his initial forays into networking and software development in the early 1990's, most of Ryan Connolly's professional work has been focused on making computer and network systems more secure. Over the years, Ryan's areas of concentration have included network security analysis, computer and network forensics, and software engineering for both large companies, such as Cisco Systems, and a wide variety of smaller ones. Most recently, Ryan has focused on providing security training, spreading awareness, and assisting with collaborative efforts in the service provider security community. Ryan has worked for Team Cymru since 2005 and obtained a computer science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign in 2001.

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Domain .info extension is ban on MSN Messenger

The domain that has an extension with .info is completely banned on the MSN Messenger since early of this month (August 2007). In fact, I discovered it a few days ago. Unfortunately, I thought it was banned by the Internet Censorship team in Thailand (sorry for my misunderstanding, sir). However, another friend shared me an idea that he noticed that all domain with .info extension cannot be sent thought the MSN. Hence, I ask for help from Google, there comes the real discussion of what has been happening.



It must be realized that it is one of the very first big ban on via the IM (Instant Messenger). MSN announced on Aug 15th, 2007 that they have to do that because of intention of getting rid of spams. Is it the practical way to stop the spammers? No, of course not. Spammers can still send the message in the other ways, like add a space in the URL or just simply not type "http://" so that the MSN cannot detect that it is the URL, but human can read.

Besides the .info domain, one more file name is banned, too. That is "download.php" It also cannot get thru the MSN blocking system.



Blocking is not the solution, I bet that MSN will throw away this policy soon.