MOSCOW – Russia’s biggest retail bank is testing something that the old K.G.B. might have loved, an automated teller machine with a built-in lie detector intended to prevent consumer credit fraud. New customers could talk to the machine to apply for a credit card, with no human intervention required on the bank’s end. The machine …
Tag Archive: hacking
Jun
22
Russian Spies used Wi-Fi and Steganography
Some of the details are beginning to emerge about the 10 Russian spies that were captured in the US. According to an article on The Register, the spies communicated with Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi networks and hid messages in pictures using Steganography. FBI agents monitored 28 year old Russian spy Anna Chapman as she communicated with a …
Apr
27
1.5 million Facebook accounts offered for sale – FAQ
In their latest “Weekly Threat report”,VeriSign’s iDefense Intelligence Operations Team has profiled the underground market proposition of someone claiming to have 1.5 million compromised Facebook accounts available for sale. The pricing method is based on the number of contacts per compromised account, presumably with the idea to allow easier spreading of related malicious content across …