CHRIST valleystar.com Nation Thursday, January 23, 2014 Experts: Target hackers will be tough to find By BREE FOWLER The Associated Press NEW YORK The hackers behind the recent Target data breach are likely a world away and nearly impossible to find. That's the consensus among outside cybercrime experts as Target, the Secret Service and the FBI continue their investigation of the pre-Christmas dataheist in which hackers stole about 40 million debit and credit card numbers and also took personal information including email addresses, phone numbers, names and home addresses for another 70 million people. In the aftermath of the breach, millions of Americans have been left to wonder what has become of their precious personal information. The information can be used in a variety of nefarious ways. Criminals can attempt to use the credit card numbers and place charges on Death Notices DONNA Jose Luis Venegas, 62, passed away Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at his residence.
Funeral arrangements are pending with Hawkins Funeral Home in Donna. HARLINGENAntonio Martinez Ortega, 71, passed away Saturday, January 18, 2014 at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen. Arrangements with buck Ashcraft Funeral Home. RAYMONDVILLESonia C. Berrones, 39, passed away Sunday, January 19, 2013 at Valley Baptist Medical Center.
Arrangements with Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home. HARLINGENDavid Allen Packer, 62, passed away Monday, January 20, 2014 at his residence in Harlingen. Arrangements with Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home. HARLINGEN- Mildred A. Cragg, 90, passed away Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at Harlingen Nursing Center.
Arrangements with Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home. WESLACOGerald Raleigh, 61, passed away January 22, 2014 at Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco. Arrangements are under the direction of McCaleb Funeral Home of Weslaco. HARLINGEN- Victor Tello, 68 of Harlingen, TX passed away Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Arrangements are under the direction of Rudy Garza Funeral Home in Harlingen.
LASARA-Manuela V. Chavez 89, passed away on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at her residence. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Duddlesten Funeral Home. Funerals Today LA FERIAFuneral services for William E. Barbee will be held today at at St.
Francis Xavier Catholic Church with burial to follow at Restlawn Memorial Park in La Feria. SAN BENITO Regina Cardona, Funeral Mass 10:00 am at St. Theresa Catholic Church. Interment will follow at San Benito City Cemetery. Funeral arrangements entrusted to the care of Thomae -Garza Funeral Directors, 395 S.
Sam Houston, San Benito, Texas, (956) 399-1331. PORT ISABEL Susana C. Garcia, Funeral service will be held at 10:00 am at ThomaeGarza Funeral Home Chapel. Cremation will follow the original owners' accounts or they can use other pieces of personal information to steal people's identities and apply for new lines of credit. In cases where such a massive amount of information is stolen, criminals generally divide the data into chunks and sell the parcels through online black markets, says Chester Wisniewski, senior security adviser for the computer security firm Sophos.
In many ways, those markets behave much like any legitimate marketplace ruled by the forces of supply and demand. Groups of higher-end cards are worth significantly more than those with lower credit limits and so are cards tied to additional personal information, such as names, addresses and zip codes, which make them easier to use. After thieves purchase the numbers, they can encode the data onto new, service in accordance to her wishes. Funeral arrangements entrusted to the care of Thomae-Garza Funeral Directors, 395 S. Sam Houston, San Benito, Texas, (956) 399-1331.
HARLINGENA memorial service for Jean Armstrong Brown will be held today, Thursday, January 23, 2014, 11:00 am, at Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home. Arrangements are with Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home. RAYMONDVILLEA chapel service for Maria Antonia Garcia will be held at 10:00 A.M. at Good Shepherd Funeral Home in Raymondville where all services will conclude. Arrangements have been entrusted to the caring hands of Good Shepherd Funeral Home of Raymondville.
William Robert (Billy Bob) English HARLINGEN, TX.William Robert (Billy Bob) English, 70, passed away Sunday, January 19, 2014 at Harlingen Medical Center. Billy Bob was born in Edinburg, TX on January 7, 1944 to Margaret S. Clements and Dwight L. English. He graduated from Edinburg High School in 1961 and The University of Texas in Austin in 1965 with a BBA.
He played tennis at an early age and was ranked as doubles team 18 and under with John Hunter in Texas after winning the Texas Sectionals Tennis Tournament in 1961. Around 30 years old he became an avid golfer and enjoyed numerous golfing trips with many fellow golfers. His highlight of golfing experiences was winning the "Life Begins At 40" Golf Tournament and the Rio Grande Valley Golf Championship in 1995. After graduating from college, Billy Bob started Gulf Packing Co. with his father in 1965.
He sold the business in 1980 and became an insurance agent with his wife at English Insurance Agency. In 1990, 1 Credit cards that were confiscated Police Department in McAllen, a man and a woman on fraud police chief, the suspects used the Target security breach to buy worth of merchandise, but a said Tuesday that an investigation a link between the Target data blank cards with an inexpensive, -use gadget. Or they can skip the card-writing process and simply use the card num- he and Lee Fisher started Auto Sales which they operated together until 1995. Since then Billy Bob and his wife, son and stepdaughter have operated the business. He also was a longtime member of Wesley United Methodist Church in Harlingen.
Billy Bob is survived by his wife, Ellen (Perk) Lauree English, son, Anthony "Alan" English, step-daughter, Julie Kay Herrington, granddaughter, Vivian Leigh English, nephews, Dwight E. Wright and Clint B. Wright and niece, M. Elizabeth Elrod. He was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Jo Ann Wright.
A memorial service celebrating Billy Bob's life will be held at Wesley United Methodist Church in Harlingen, 2:00 PM, Saturday, January 25, 2014. In lieu of flowers the family request that memorial donations may be made to Wesley United Methodist Church, 1406 E. Austin, Harlingen, TX 78550, Sunny Glen's Children Home, 2380 W. Exp. 83, San Benito, TX 78586 or to Loaves and Fishes, 514 S.
Harlingen, TX 78550. You are invited to sign the guestbook at: www.buckashcraft.com. Arrangements are with Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home. Sign the guestbook at: http://www.legacy.com/ Buck FUNERAL CREMATION SERVICES "We tale cave of cocapthing" (956) 423-3636 Ruth B. (Runyan) Pegg HARLINGEN, Ruth B.
(Runyan) Pegg, 101, passed away Sunday, January 19, 2014 at her residence in Harlingen. Ruth was born July 26, 1912 in rural Columbia PA to Robert B. and Mary Ellen (Bogert) Runyan. She grew up in Town Hill, PA, where she and her younger brother Al got their first 8 years of education in cards attract less attention from the banks that issued them. That could explain why some debit and credit card numbers of Target customers from South Texas turned up in the arrest of a pair of Mexican citizens at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this week.
According to police in McAllen, Texas, the pair used account information stolen during the Target breach to buy tens of thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise at national retailers in the area. But the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday its investigation into the possibility of a link between the Target datatheft and the arrests remains ongoing. The underground markets where hackers sell the bundles of stolen numbers always have a steady supply of card numbers on sale and their locations are always moving as they try to elude law enforcement, says Daniel Ingevaldson, GABE MONITOR are displayed at the McAllen Texas, after McAllen police arrested charges, on Jan. 20.
According to the account information stolen during tens of thousands of spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service is ongoing into the possibility of breach and the arrests. bers online. Crooks often have the option to buy cards last used in their area. That way, Wisniewski says, the OBITUARIES a one room schoolhouse, giving her a life-long admiration for teachers who were able to juggle 8 grades of lively children at one time.
In 1930 she graduated from nearby Huntington Mills High School. Ruth decided on her future career as a nurse when at age 6, she watched in fascination as her family helped the local doctor turn their kitchen into an emergency operating room. After high school she entered training at Geisinger Hospital in Danville, PA and received her RN degree in 1933, followed by postgraduate work in obstetrics at the Margaret Hague Hospital in New Jersey and Jewish Hospital in New York City. While i in training, Ruth met her future husband, Robert W. "Bob" Pegg.
They were married on April 22, 1936 and settled in Danville Following her husband's retirement from the military at the end of 1960, they came to the Valley. In Harlingen Ruth was an active member of Grace Lutheran Church, where she held numerous offices in the women's organizations and served on the church council. She was a volunteer for 13 years at the former State Chest Hospital on Rangerville Road and a volunteer with the VBMC Auxiliary for 12 years, serving as president and operating the gift shop. She was a member of the US Customs Wives organization, the Newcomers Club and Fine Arts Club, and the Elks and the Harlingen Country Club; organized trips and tours for the Sheperd's Center senior citizens group; and was a life member of Town and Country Garden Club. Ruth enjoyed golfing and playing bridge and belonged to several dance clubs and bowling leagues.
So important were her contributions to Harlingen that the City Commission presented her with a proclamation on her 100th birthday. A widow since 1978, Ruth has one daughter, Marlene Pegg of Harlingen; one son, Col. (Ret.) Robert W. (Raina) Pegg Il of Corpus Christi, TX; grandchildren, Maj. (Ret.) Robert W.
(Laura) Pegg Ill of Flower Mound, TX: Cmdr. (Ret.) Mark A. (Capt. Kerri) Pegg of San Diego, CA; and Kelly J. Pegg of Combine, TX; step-grandchildren, Reba (Rudy) Gandera of San Antonio, TX and James Clark and William Jordan of Corpus Christi, TX; and 5 great-grandchildren and 6 step-great-grandchildren.
A memorial service celebrating Ruth's life will be held at the Grace Lutheran chief technology officer at Easy Solutions a firm that sells anti-fraud products and tracks the activity of the online black markets. A big jump in inventory usually indicates there's been a breach of a major retailer. That's what Ingevaldson's firm saw in the cases of both Target and Neiman Marcus, which also recently reported a breach. While many of these online bazaars and forums are based in Russia and Eastern Europe, much of the chatter is in English and appears to have been written by Americans, Ingevaldson says. The types of criminals who buy the card numbers run the gamut, ranging from purely online whitecollar crooks to street gangs.
"In reality, card numbers can be bought by anybody with access to the forums and a few Bitcoins in their pocket," Ingevaldson says. Church in Harlingen, 11:30 AM, Saturday, January 25, 2014 with Rev. Ryan Pederson officiating. Since Ruth enjoyed gardening and her own flowers she would prefer that in lieu of flowers any memorial contributions may be made to the Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 E. Jackson, Harlingen, TX 78550 or to the Humane Society of Harlingen, 1106 Markowsky, Harlingen, TX 78550.
You are invited to sign the guestbook or leave a memory at: www.buckashcraft.com Arrangements are with Buck Ashcraft Funeral Home. Sign the guestbook at: http://www.legacy.com/ Buck FUNERAL HOME CREMATION SERVICES "We take cave of (956) 423-3636 Manuela Villarreal Chavez LASARA, TX.Manuela Villarreal Chavez, 89, beloved mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother entered into rest Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at her residence, surrounded by her loving family. She was born August 24, 1924 to Higinio and Tiburcia (Lopez) Villarreal, Sr. She is preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, Higinio Villarreal, Jr. and Marcial Villarreal; five sisters, Concepcion Zamarripa, Beatriz Garcia, Hortencia Ybarra, Juanita Gonzales and Trinidad Martinez.
Manuela is survived by two sons, Adan (Leticia) Chavez and Oscar (Maria) Chavez, both of Lasara; and six daughters, Eva (Jose) Guerra of San Antonio, Elva Doria of Lasara, Anna Maria Trevino of Harlingen, Olga (Ramiro) Garcia of Sandia, Norma Benavides of Sacramento, CA, Nelda Chavez of Lasara; 13 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. She will be remembered for the love she had for her family, and we will miss her kindness, smile, humor, home cooking and quick wit. The loving memory of our "mama" will forever live within our hearts. The family would like to thank all of our family and friends for all the love and support shown to our dear "mama" during her courageous battle with ovarian cancer. We would also like to thank the staff of Odyssey Hospice and a special thanks to her nurse Hinelda and Chaplain Oscar.
Honored to serve as pallbearers will be her grandsons: Eloy and Omar Garcia, Joseph G. Guerra, Adrian Chavez, and Steven and Michael Rodriguez. Honorary Pallbearers will be Steven Rodriguez, Andrew and Logan Garcia, Ayden Rodriguez, Ryan Chavez and Dominic Garcia. Visitation will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at Duddlesten Funeral Home, with a rosary being recited at 7:00 p.m. Funeral procession will depart on Friday, January 24, 2014 for a 2:00 p.m.
mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 693 N. 3rd, Raymondville. Burial will follow in the Chavez Cemetery, Lasara, TX. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Duddlesten Funeral Home, 604 W. Hidalgo, Raymondville, TX.
Sign the guestbook at: http://www.legacy.com/ Duddlesten Funeral Home Raymondville, TX (956) 689-2151 Albert Marshall Pickard 1921-2014 RAYMONDVILLE, TX Albert Marshall Pickard, visitation will be held on Friday, January 24, 2014 with family receiving friends from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at Duddlesten Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 192 S. 3rd, Raymondville, followed by interment in the Raymondville Memorial Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Duddlesten Funeral Home, 604 W. Hidalgo Raymondville, TX. Sign the guestbook at: http://www.legacy.com/.
