Bankinfosecurity.com has predicted the Greatest Risks to Banks in 2009:
1. ATM Network Fraud
2. Check Fraud
3. ‘Laser-Guided’ Precision Strikes
4. Phishing Attacks To Continue
5. Check Image Fraud
6. Zero Day Attacks
7. Low ‘N Slow Attacks
8. Drive-By Attacks Deliver
9. Phones Will Be Ringing
10. Insider Threat
That seems to cover everything. I see slow and careful, automated, insider, outsider…in other words do not expect a reduction in attack profile for the coming year.
Minute 5:44
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don’t need a receipt for a doughnut. I just give you the money, you give me the doughnut. End of transaction. We don’t need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can not imagine a scenario where I had to prove I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend. Don’t even act like I didn’t get that doughnut. I got the documentation right here. Oh, wait it’s back home in the file. Under D.
This log entry sponsored by Bob’s Doughnuts on Polk Street in San Francisco, where you can find the freshest piping hot doughnuts just after 1 am to close out a live music/comedy night in style, and they don’t give receipts.
Just kidding, I hate doughnuts.
The Huffington Post has the Letter to Sean Hannity of Fox News, after a debate on the Mumbai attacks:
It really doesn’t matter to me personally whether you agree with me or not. Leaving our debate aside, your habit of taking statements out of context and playing the blaming game is sad. You have a powerful platform that influences many people. Why do you use your influence to monger fear, militancy, divisiveness, and jingoism?
I was hoping to come back on your show and have a reflective, intelligent dialogue, but perhaps the attack mode is the only way you know to make a living. The best excuse for your dishonest accusations against me is that you don’t believe what you’re saying. The far right has deflated, so you are there to pump it up with hot air. If you stop blowing, you’ll be out of a job. I empathize.
Ouch.
Chopra also points out the kind of baseless argument that Hannity peddles:
Why are you blaming us?’ We protect 100% of the world’s population. We’re 4% of it.
Uh, huh. Unsubstantiated numbers make everything so much more believable.
Are you familiar with the movie Blast From the Past? Thirty years from now someone might emerge from their bomb shelter…given the news of a military jet crash in San Diego:
An military fighter jet preparing to land at a Marine base crashed near a school and a busy highway in a densely populated San Diego neighborhood Monday, destroying two homes. The pilot of the F/A-18D Hornet jet ejected safely, according to a statement from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. San Diego fire and rescue spokesman Maurice Luque said he doesn’t know whether anyone on the ground was injured.
The latest news is that two people were killed.