Hack3rCon in Today's Charleston Daily Mail
For more information about Hack3rCon visit http://hack3rcon.org/. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Hackers for Charity.
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The view from the server room.
Welcome to Hack3rCon 2010 from The 304 Geeks on Vimeo.
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Labels: Appalachian Institute of Digital Evidence, Cyber Security, Digital Evidence, Electronic Discovery, Internet Investigations, John Sammons, Network Forensics
Last spring, a Long Beach law firm received an e-mail from a Hong Kong businessman seeking help collecting debts from American customers. An attorney with the firm saw it as a great opportunity to reel in more business during the economic downturn and agreed to help.
After a month of signing paperwork and exchanging telephone calls with his client, the attorney received word from one debtor who sent a $200,000 cashier's check to pay off his balance. The attorney deposited it in his firm's account, subtracted his $10,000 fee and wired the remaining amount to his Hong Kong client.
An hour-and-a-half later, the attorney's bank called and told him the check bounced. Fortunately, the bank was able to prevent the wire transfer from reaching its destination. He almost had been duped out of $190,000.
"They send me a nice, big, worthless check," said the attorney, who asked to remain anonymous. "Needless to say that was not a fun day. They were the hardest 24 hours of my life.
...Alex Stamos, a founding partner at iSEC Partners, a San Francisco security consulting firm that recently published research identifying about 100 organizations hit by the attack, said that law firms are on the list of organizations most at risk of being targets in the future.
"Most law firms are going to be in trouble if this is the level of adversary they're going to deal with," he said. "It's impossible even for the largest law firms to have a dedicated security team that can hold their own against these people."
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