Re: [privacy] UK: Individual Banking Data Details Being Sold in N igeria

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

An afternoon of fun is buying 10 - 20 yardsale/garagesale/ebay harddrives
and going through them with EnCase to see what is found....

  Hones the old forensic skills and you never know who you may find in a
tiny little bikini!  Sometimes it's people that SHOULDN'T be wearing a tiny
bikini though :-( 


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 
Office: (508)898-7102      


-----Original Message-----
From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:15 PM
To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
Subject: [privacy] UK: Individual Banking Data Details Being Sold in Nigeria

While this is not really new, it _does_ reiterate the issue of
securely destroying your old computer information before discarding
it. :-)

Via The BBC.

[snip]

Bank account details belonging to thousands of Britons are being sold
in West Africa for less than £20 each, the BBC's Real Story programme
has found.

It discovered that fraudsters in Nigeria were able to find internet
banking data stored on recycled PCs sent from the UK to Africa.

[snip]

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4790293.stm

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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