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Card Skimmers Continue To Fuel Crime At Gas Pumps – Texas, United States
You may be paying for more than gas the next time you fill up at the pump. Card skimming continues to be a big concern across the Houston area. Police in Pearland are among those devoting more and more time to the issue. “Unfortunately, it’s everywhere right now, across the country,” said Pearland Police detective Robert Paquette. Paquette said the financial crimes section currently devotes two-thirds of its time to this type of fraud. “A long time ago we had physical skimmer that they used to get in the pump and they had to get in the pump again to remove them,” said Paquette. “Now, they use Bluetooth technology to just get in proximity and download the data.” Right now, Pearland Police are working a case involving stolen data that ended up on 36 cloned credit cards. And a Pearland resident recently posted on the NextDoor app that $200 was skimmed from her. It comes less than a week after authorities shared photos of skimmers found inside multiple pumps in Northwest Harris County.
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DOD To Move All Websites To HTTPS By The End Of The Year – United States
The US Department of Defense plans to implement HTTPS and HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) for all its public-facing websites by the end of the year. Issues about DOD websites using insecure HTTP connections or problematic SSL certificates have been raised in a letter sent earlier this year, in May, by Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Wyden. In the May letter, Wyden pointed out several problems with DOD’s online presence. The first and most widespread was the low use of HTTPS among the Department’s sites. Second, was the use of SSL certificates (for supporting HTTPS) that were issued by the DOD Root Certificate Authority. Modern browsers don’t trust this certificate authority, and even if some DOD sites are served via HTTPS, browsers mark them as insecure and some block access to these DOD sites with security-related warnings. Third, Wyden urged the DOD to implement HSTS in order to make sure that users arriving on these sites via HTTP links were being redirected to the HTTPS versions of those pages.
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TSA Program Tracked Americans Not Suspected Of Crimes Or Terrorism – United States
In a previously undisclosed Transportation Security Administration program, federal air marshals are tracking American citizens not suspected of a crime, not under investigation or who are not on any terrorist watch list, the Boston Globe first reported and CNN has confirmed. The aim of the program, known as “Quiet Skies,” is to gather details about the peoples’ behavior on the plane to try to thwart any potential aviation threats, the Globe reported and a TSA official confirmed to CNN. Before people board a plane and are watched by federal air marshals, officials use information from the intelligence community and their previous travel patterns to help choose whom to target, according to the TSA official. The official added the program has been in existence in some form since 2010 and said Congress is aware and provides “robust” oversight. The Globe reported that thousands of what it called unsuspecting Americans have been the target of surveillance in the airport and aboard flights by small teams of air marshals, according to government documents it obtained.
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