 Monday, 09. December 2002
Organised Net crime rising sharply - top UK cop
The Register Dec 9 2002 5:07AM ET [moreover Computersecurity]
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Monday, 02. December 2002
Russian DVD pirates turn violent
The head of a Russian anti-piracy task force has accused DVD pirates of attempted murder after shots were fired at his car following recent raids on unlicensed DVD producers. New rules require all DVD and CD producers apply for a license from the Press Ministry - the same government department behind recent attempts to censor the mainstream media .
But several blocks from his office, along a route [Konstantin V. Zemchenkov] took every day to get home, an unidentified gunman fired... [zem]
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Thursday, 20. December 2001
Wiretapping equipment compromised: FBI, CALEA
A recent series of four newscasts on the Fox Network alleged that
U. S. telephone call records have been falling into the hands of
international organized crime. Call records allow traffic analysis but do
not disclose the contents of the conversations.
However, the newscasts further alleged that the equipment used by the FBI to
do the wiretaps authorized by the CALEA legislation (1994) has been
compromised. It is said to contain back doors that allow unauthorized
persons to obtain access to the contents of telephone conversations. The
back doors were not put there by the FBI and are not under their control.
Partial transcripts of the newscasts are available at
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40684,00.html
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40747,00.html
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40824,00.html
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40981,00.html
The second newscast cites an example of a 1997 Los Angeles drug case in
which access to telephone call records was used to "completely compromise
the communications of the FBI, the Secret Service, the DEO [sic] and the
LAPD." ["michael e. goldsby" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 83]
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Wednesday, 07. April 1993
``Organized Crime Gets into Phone Fraud''
A new survey by John Haugh's Telecommunications Advisors, Inc., claims that
technically sophisticated organized-crime rings are annually defrauding U.S.
businesses and telephone companies of $4 billion in long-distance calls. 70.3
percent of the almost 700 companies surveyed reported they had been hit by
toll fraud at least once in the past five years, with an average loss of
$125,000 [inferentially, I conclude, per company rather than per hit]. Haugh
predicted that 35,000 companies will be victimized this year. [That
multiplies out to $4.375 billion for the year if the past average holds true.]
[Source: An article by John Eckhouse, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr 1993, p.
D1] ["Peter G. Neumann" via risks-digest Volume 14, Issue 47]
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