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	<title>Robert Vamosi</title>
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		<title>Cybercriminals phone it in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mobile phone provides additional customer security for financial transactions. Either by voice or text, banks–in real time–may question account holders about large transfers of funds, potentially stopping fraud in process. While attending a recent public-private summit for the financial services industry, however, I heard of several ways that criminals are using the financial services’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=64</link>
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		<title>The Dangers in Following the Crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Benjamin Jun received a winter catalog in the mail from Nike with a personal URL on the cover, he didn’t realize the wealth of information that would soon be available to him online. Jun, Vice President of technology at Cryptography Research, said that once online he was able to access a database showing what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Be Careful Who You Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beyond date of birth, what other personal information are we giving away on social network sites? In a talk a few weeks ago at the 2010 RSA Conference, security researcher Nitesh Dhanjani explored some non-traditional ways social networking could be used to profile individuals. He says just by studying your social networking presence one can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Device Fingerprinting to Fight Real-time Transaction Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday ThreatMetrix unveiled its new cloud-based transactional fraud network. Using its global database of device fingerprints—unique details about the PC, mobile phone or other Internet connecting device–the company says it can detect fraudulent transactions without the need for acquiring personally identifiable information.  By correlating incoming TCP/IP information with its database, for example, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=61</link>
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		<title>With ISP offline, criminal malware infections drop dramatically</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, RSA alerted its customers to a substantial decrease within the last twenty four hours in Trojan horse activity on the Internet as the result of a key Internet host going offline. Criminal enterprises use such hosts as a common point of contact. On the front end, it is the Internet address that thousands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=60</link>
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		<title>Microsoft to have 1 Critical and 2 Important patches for March</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In its advance notification, Microsoft today said that it intends to issue three security bulletins on Patch Tuesday, March 10, 2009. 
The most serious of vulnerability is within Windows and could lead to remote code execution if exploited. This patch will be given Microsoft&#8217;s most severe rating of Critical.
Two other patches expected on Tuesday also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=48</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m flattered, but &#8230;fake ZDNet review leads to malware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Malware writers have been using bogus antivirus products to infect computers&#8211;such rogue programs are not new. But Lawrence Abrams, owner of BleepingComputer.com notified me this morning that one new rogue is posting a fake review written by one &#8220;Robert Vamosi.&#8221;
This particular rogue is called Anti-Virus-1, and it takes over a computer&#8217;s HOSTS file so that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Microsoft plans 4 bulletins for Patch Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft today released it&#8217;s advance notification for next week&#8217;s Patch Tuesday. There are two critical patches (one each for IE and Microsoft Exchange Server) and two important patches (one each for SQL and Viso). Complete details can be found here.
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		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Coordinated ATM attack nets $9 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up to 130 ATM machines in 49 cities worldwide were used in a coordinated attack on RBS Worldpay, a global payments services company. Within a 30 minute period on November 8th, 2008, the company lost an estimated $9 million dollars due to fraudulent ATM transactions.
While the company first disclosed the loss in November, the ambitious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=33</link>
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		<title>iWork 2009 Trojan building a botnet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week security researchers reported that pirated copies of iWork 2009 may contain a Trojan horse. Experts note that with Mac OS X threats, you have to be fooled into installing them. In this case, the chance to own iWork 2009 on the cheap is the potential draw. Most antivirus programs for the Mac are [...]]]></description>
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