New data breach research looks at 'misuse and abuse' of corporate resources
2009-07-28 02:00:00 I recently came across the very useful '2009 Data Breach Investigations Report' from Verizon Business. It makes some particularly interesting points about insider risk.
Iran Uses P2P Program To Breach US Security And Steal Blueprints To Obamas
2009-03-01 22:39:00 Makes one wonder how often this type of thing happens.According to WPXI, a Pennsylvania company has uncovered a security breach involving the President's Marine One helicopters, a P2P file-sharing program, and an IP address in Tehran, the capital of Iran.Although President Obama and other high-ranking American government officials have access to a fleet of high-tech and security-enhanced helicopters, the term "Marine One" is used to refer specifically to the helicopter in which the President currently is flying. The technical specifications for all of the helicopters in the fleet are highly classified, and any security breach, particularly to a hostile foreign power, is naturally of great concern.The fact that it is happening through simple file-sharing programs, which most people seem to think are just for the "harmless" sharing of music and video files, is even more alarming.Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, the company who discovered the breach, explains, "We found a file containing e...
Criminal Hacker; Another Huge Credit Card Data Breach
2009-02-24 02:39:00 Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Hackers have breached another huge payment processor. Who? As of this writing they aren?t saying. A statement issued by the Community Bankers Association of Illinois state ?Visa announced that an unnamed processor recently reported that it discovered a data breach. The processors name has been withheld pending completion of the forensic ...
A Giant Breach in Earth?s Magnetic Field
2008-12-17 21:28:00 Logrithmic sent this in — NASA researchers have discovered a giant breach in the Earth’s magnetic field. “The opening was huge?four times wider than Earth itself,” says Wenhui Li, a space physicist at the University of New Hampshire who has been analyzing the data. Li’s colleague Jimmy Raeder, also of New Hampshire, says “1027 particles per ...
Company Fined For Asbestos Breach
2008-08-14 04:08:00 A company from Painesville , Illinois , has been fined twenty five thousand dollars by the Environmental Protection Agency over asbestos related breaches, according to a recent report. The company is said to have violated air pollution laws during a project that was carried out last year in March 2007. The report claims that the ...
News: truth in shredding playlists breach 2000 videos
2008-07-10 22:50:00 News: 10-07-2008: Looking for a good night in with some guitar videos... look no further than these playlists that capture the best of guitar videos posted on youtube. Truth In Shredding 1 Truth In Shredding 2 Truth In Shredding 3 Truth In Shredding 4 Truth In Shredding 5 Truth In Shredding 6 Truth In Shredding 7 Truth In Shredding 8 Truth In Shredding 9 Truth In Shredding 10 This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
L.A. Area Hospitals Breach Celebrity Privacy
2008-06-10 00:32:00 Feds probing the alleged sale of cancer-stricken Farrah Fawcett’s medical records to The National Enquirer could find a long mole tunnel between the hospitals and the tabloids. Daily News reports, Former UCLA Medical Center staffer Lawanda Jackson was indicted on April 9 after allegedly leaking private info about Fawcett, Maria Shriver and 60 other patients. Now vets ...
By: Gone Hollywood
Horseplay becomes breach of peace at Conn. school
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2008-06-07 05:46:00 AP - Cocoa the pony may have been quiet, but police in Connecticut say a high school student and her father were breaching the peace.
Intel Fined with $26 Million for Antitrust Rules Breach
2008-06-05 21:16:00 Leading chip manufacturer, Intel Corp. will be forced to pay a $26 million fine, following an investigation by South Korea’s antitrust regulator concerning Intel’s actions of offering discounts to prevent customers from buying products from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
MySpace, Yahoo blame bad APIs for celebrity photos breach
2008-06-05 03:10:00 MySpace, Yahoo blame bad APIs for celebrity photos breach Private photos of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan found through bad APIs, rekindling debate on whether there is such a thing as privacy on social networks. http-://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
Breach (2007)
2008-06-03 01:21:00 This movie is about a man serving a life sentence in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. For 15 years Robert Hanssen sold his country’s secrets to the Russians. Suspected by his own organisation for some time, it wasn’t until the CIA stuck wannabe-agent Eric ...
Anatomy of a data breach part 2
2008-05-22 10:48:00 In this second part I am going to talk about utilizing different methods of protecting sensitive data-at-rest by using system hardening. The overall goal is to obviously implement an effective strategy to reduce the potential of a data breach (keeping in mind it’s all about best efforts when meeting compliancy). First of all we have to understand how a data breach is ...
Responding To A Financial Security Breach
2008-05-15 15:44:00 There has been a large number of data security breaches recently involving financial institutions. Here is a write up by Inno Eroraha on the response to a breach. From SC Magazine: Financial institutions are heavily regulated. They are required to implement security programs following regulations such as SOX, GLBA, SEC, NASD, etc. In fact, most of these ...
Oziel Zinho: once more unto the breach dear friends
2008-05-14 22:05:00 News: 14-05-2008: I guess that it had to happen, one of the contestants was a fake http://www.guitar-idol.co.uk/kl-angbaumherz... so one of the last remaining undiscovered Brazilian players has not entered the competition... er ... until now that is! He's back and has thrown his hat into the guitar idol ring! Will this be the last entrant from Brazil? There are plenty more that haven't entered...... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Pfizer Faces Possible Data Breach
2008-05-14 00:09:00 Pfizer has been having a rough year with respect to data breaches. It turns out that a laptop containing the info for roughly 13,000 Pfizer employees is now in the wind. From The Day: The company said late Friday in an e-mail to affected employees, including many at Pfizer Global Research and Development campuses in Groton ...
The Federal Breach Of Trust
2008-05-12 03:03:00 The People of this country formed a social compact; that compact was contained and detailed within the written Constitution giving the exact extent of powers they deemed necessary to the government. As you note, these were powers that were delegated to the government by the People, not relinquished. There has never been a single power relinquished by the People, any power within the function of the government is isolated through the action of Delegated Trust based upon the Sovereignty of the People.This was to ensure that the People themselves enjoyed a very qualified Liberty of Action, Freedom from unnecessary restraints, unnecessary requisitions or extractions from the government. Of those limitations, the People in their Sovereignty gave their limited Consent to the government to function within a very, very narrow frame of action primarily for the sole purpose of the defense of the Liberty and the Rights for which they formed the government in the first place.Any measures incons...
Fines re-jigged for securities breach
2008-05-08 01:05:00 Prime minister's office on May 5 announced amended ordinance of dealing with administrative violation. Accordingly, the maximum punishment on violations relating to securities, environmental protection, construction, land, banking, intellectual property, petroleum exploration and development. Under the amended... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Anatomy of a data breach part 2
2008-05-07 02:48:00 In this second part I am going to talk about utilizing different methods of hardening web-facing applications. The goal is to obviously implement an effective strategy to reduce the potential of a data breach. First of all we have to understand how a data breach is conducted and what methods are used to access internal protected information. The purpose behind such an ...
Copyright breach: Clients of Virtual Map switch providers - SIngapore
2008-05-05 08:11:00 Copyright breach: Clients of Virtual Map switch providers - SIngapore Ban on firm from using govt-owned material also applies to its customers By Chua Hian Hou LOOKING FOR DIRECTIONS: Users of streetdirectory.com can no longer access Virtual Map’s online maps. Instead, they are greeted by a tongue-in-cheek notice saying the maps ‘have escaped out the window’. — MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN  COMPANIES still using Virtual Map’s online maps on their websites are starting to look for alternative providers. This is because a court order banning Virtual Map from using copyrighted material owned by the Government also applies to the maps it supplies to customers. While Virtual Map did not say how many of these have switched map providers, there are signs that some are deserting it. Yellow Pages’ website, for instance, switched its map provider just two weeks ago, said the directory service’s marketing communications manager, Ms Sharon Liew. Meanwhile,...
Does the Proposed Class Action Settlement In the Certegy Data Breach Case L
2008-05-04 21:14:00 I happened to notice, I was getting a lot of hits on some posts about the Certegy data breach and discovered that there is a proposed settlement in the class action law suit against them. Tim Wilson at Dark Reading pointed out that this settlement amounts to Certegy paying less than $1 per victim and wrote: Certegy Check ...
Anatomy of a data breach
2008-05-04 20:08:00 In 2007 and 2008 the industry has seen an upsurge in data breaches affecting millions of consumers and causing corporations to pay heavily in fines. Data breaches can lead to exposure of consumer information through a number of different ways that vary in complexity. The common perception associated with a data breach is the difference between data being extracted from physical ...
Sullivan Square Las Vegas Developer Sues Ireland Investor For Breach
2008-05-02 08:19:00 Sullivan Square Las Vegas developer sues Ireland investor for breach of contract to finance the mixed use real estate project for up to $800 million. Filed this week in the Clark Country District Court, the lawsuit alleges Harcourt Nevada failed to perform funding and breach of fiduciary duty. The attorney for Sullivan Square real estate in ... Tags: Las Vegas Real Estate, Las Vegas Condos, Las Vegas Construction News, sullivan square, sullivan square las vegas, sullivan square real estate, sullivan square condos, las vegas condos, las vegas high rise, las vegas condominiums, condos for sale in las vegas (Comments)
Former bosses of consulting firm PCI nabbed for breach of trust
2008-04-24 00:00:00 {mosgoogle right}Three former presidents of Pacific Consultants International (PCI), a major Japanese consulting firm, have been arrested on suspicion of causing the firm 120 million yen in losses in connection with a project to clean up discarded chemical weapons in China.Public prosecutors arrested former company presidents Tamio Araki, 71, Shota Morita, 66, and Masayoshi Taga, 62, along with a fourth suspect on suspicion of aggravated breach of trust. The suspects allegedly caus ...
LendingTree sues mortgage firms over security breach
2008-04-23 00:00:00 LendingTree sues mortgage firms over security breachOnline lender says former employees gave passwords to outside lenders who then access sensitive customer data. http://w-ww.news.com/8301-10784_3-992600-7-7.html?part=rss&subj=news-&tag=2547-1_...
Once more unto the breach ...
2008-04-22 09:42:00 This week is a rare pause in a fairly comprehensive schedule of multilateral disarmament meetings that stretches until June. We've reported on the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons' (CCW) work earlier this month, and last week and this week there were regional events on cluster munitions in Mexico City and Bangkok.While all of this was going on, the second five-yearly review meeting of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) met in The Hague. With the mainly bilateral focus of other diplomatic activity there, those involved in the CWC - not least on the civil society side - sometimes find the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) a bit of a lonely outpost compared with the multilateral hothouse atmospheres in Geneva, New York and even Vienna. In his very useful daily reports on the CWC review conference, researcher Richard Guthrie had this to say:"The Hague remains less NGO-friendly than Geneva, New York or Vienna. A major part of this derives from...
Obama Campaign: Sen. Clinton?s Remarks On Bosnia Were A Breach Of Honor
2008-04-19 22:07:00 With approximately 10 minutes notice to reporters, the Obama campaign held a conference call today with Pennysylvania Bosnia veterans to discuss Sen. Clinton’s previous remarks on Bosnia. The timing of the call is somewhat odd, especially in light of Sen. Obama’s statements regarding political distractions at ABC’s debate earlier this week. Maj. Gen. Walter Stewart observed: “Imagine ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama Campaign: Sen. Clinton’s Remarks On Bosnia Were A Breach Of Honor", url: "http://2008central.net/2008/04-/19/obama-campaign-sen-clintons--remarks-on-bosnia-were-a-breac-h-of-honor/" });
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Tesla now on the receiving end of a lawsuit, Magna sues for breach of contr
2008-04-16 02:08:00 By now we are all aware of the sad saga of Tesla Motors and their quest for a reliable two-speed transmission for the battery powered Roadster. After failing to get the necessary durability from the original gearbox supplied by X-Trac, Tesla turned to Magna to try and create a new unit. That obviously didn't work out any better, so they tried to design their own before giving up and revising the motor instead and going to a single speed transmission. Unfortunately Magna apparently didn't take the break-up well and has now resorted to courts for redress. According to Magna Powertrain's suit against Tesla, they didn't get the money they were owed for the design and development work they did. Interestingly, Magna is claiming that they suggested to Tesla as far back as September 2006 that they should go with a single speed unit, but that path wasn't followed at the time. The suit claims that Tesla had Magna stop work in October 2007 and the Canadian company isn't taking issue with...
TJX could pay Mastercard $24M for breach
2008-04-02 23:20:00 Discount retailer TJX Cos. could pay as much as $24 million in a settlement Wednesday with MasterCard Inc. over a massive breach that exposed tens of millions of payment card numbers to hackers.
Hannaford Breach Followup: Malware on All of Their Servers
2008-04-01 23:07:00 Geeks are Sexy Technology News – ?All your groceries are belong to us.? According to a ComputerWorld article, the Hannaford Breach was not just a single keylogger installed at a critical point in the enterprise. Malware was installed on each and every server that handled the credit card processing at their stores in New England, Florida and New ... read more
Chucho steps into the breach
2008-04-01 16:38:00 With Hugo Sanchez's 16-month reign as Mexico coach coming to an end, youth boss Jesus Ramirez has slipped into the caretaker's role.
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Effects of Breach in Partnership Agreements
2008-03-31 15:41:00 I happen to read, by chance, the suit filed by Amazon against Expedia for a Partnership Breach. Despite such breach, Amazon continued to renew its ties Expedia. Ir is interesting to know how breach occurs and what happen when it does occurs. Well, suits like that often happen between partners or between a partner and the partnership for breach in their partnership agreements.
Malware to blame in supermarket data breach
2008-03-29 19:00:00 Malware to blame in supermarket data breachMalicious software somehow found its way onto a Maine-based supermarket chain's servers, which led to the security breach announced earlier this month compromising up to 4.2 million credit cards. ht...
Sony Reports Possible Security Breach On PlayStation Network
2008-03-28 01:46:00 Sony Reports Possible Security Breach On PlayStation NetworkThe company said people who can log in with their preset passwords have not been affected.http://www.information-week.com/security/showArticle.j-html?articleID=207000284&ci-d=RSSfeed_Te...
Sony Reports Possible Security Breach On PlayStation Network
2008-03-28 00:57:00 Sony Reports Possible Security Breach On PlayStation NetworkThe company said people who can log in with their pre-set password have not been affected.http://www.information-week.com/security/showArticle.j-html?articleID=207000284&ci-d=RSSfeed_Te...
Warning: Check your PlayStation Network account. A security breach may have
2008-03-27 12:23:00 Sony Computer Entertainment has issued the following statement warning that a “small percentage” of PlayStation Store accounts may have been breached, and subsequently had their passwords changed. To quote Sony: “We have found out that there has been a possibility of unauthorized access to personal information on the PlayStation Store through PCs, a content download service ...
HMO Data Breach Exposes Private Information On?Line. How Device Encryption
2008-03-27 06:04:00 BlueCross BlueShield is certainly having a busy 2008. And it?s just the beginning of the year! A CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield dental HMO, The Dental Network, has announced that the private information, of mostly Maryland and D.C. residents, has been available on the internet for a period of two weeks. The accident may have affected approximately 75,000 people by exposing names, addresses, and dates of birth. Incidents like these are nothing new, and will continue to happen due to human error: move or save the contents of a sensitive file to the wrong computer directory (aka, document folder), and all of a sudden it can be found on the internet. The principle is not unlike that of P2P software, if you?re familiar with such applications. Most P2P software gives you exact control on which folders are available for sharing. Share the wrong folder, and all the files in that directory can be accessed by anyone. Likewise, a website is comp...
Presidential passport breach: Why do contractors have easy access to sensit
2008-03-23 19:25:00 The accessing of private passport-based travel data of all three Presidential candidates by contractors working for the State Department has finally galvanized Capitol Hill to address the issue of privacy–something we’ve been begging them to do for years. Ron Wyden sums it up succinctly: “The Government Accountability Office has been warning about this problem for a decade. And it seems to me in this administration, there’s been pretty much a culture of disregard for privacy, and that’s part of the problem,” he said. Wyden may have been referring to a 2006 report from the GAO documenting the lack of oversight in sharing Social Security Numbers with contractors working for various federal agencies, including the IRS and the FBI, as well as within the private sector. It is but one of many reports the investigative agency has issued documenting the serious vulnerabilities our government’s mad drive to outsource its functions to the private sect...
Chief of firm involved in breach is Obama adviser
2008-03-23 12:15:00 The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack O1 Vote(s)
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Supermarket Breach Calls PCI Compliance Into Question
2008-03-22 05:00:00 Supermarket Breach Calls PCI Compliance Into QuestionHannaford Bros. exposed millions of credit and debit card numbers.http://www.informationw-eek.com/security/showArticle.jh-tml?articleID=206904986&cid-=RSSfeed_TechWeb
Condoleezza Rice and the Passport Privacy Breach
2008-03-22 00:50:00 Good Friday penance took on a new meaning for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as she found herself calling presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to apologize for the huge egg laid by State Department employees who viewed the passport files of all three Presidential candidates, in separate incidents dating back to last summer.
By: pajamadeen
Obama Press Release: STATE DEPT BREACH - Complete investigation required
2008-03-21 15:58:00 [Obama Campaign Press Release from March 20, 2008] ?This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an Administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government?s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes. This is ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama Press Release: STATE DEPT BREACH - Complete investigation required", url: "http://2008central.net/2008/03-/21/obama-press-release-state-d-ept-breach-complete-investigati-on-required/" });
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[News] State Department confirms breach of Barack Obama?s passport data - t
2008-03-21 01:52:00 MSNBC
Breaking News: 2 Fired Over Obama Passport File Breach
2008-03-21 01:39:00 This unequivocally appears to be a politically motivated move by the grossly incompetent and arrogant Bush administration.NBC NewsTwo contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama "without a need to do so," State Department officials confirmed to NBC News.The three people who had access to Obama's passport records were contract employees of the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, NBC News has learned. The unauthorized activity concerning Obama's passport information occurred in January. "A monitoring system was tripped when an employee accessed the records of a high-profile individual,? a department official told NBC News. "When the monitoring system is tripped, we immediately seek an explanation for the records access. If the explanation is not satisfactory, the supervisor is notified."Explaining why the contractors had access to the files, the official said: "The State Department...
Hannaford breach raises new fears
2008-03-20 23:45:00 At first, it sounded like another in a long line of credit card breaches: Up to 4.2 million account numbers were stolen by thieves who cracked computers at Hannaford Bros. Co., an Eastern supermarket chain.
Visa-less EU workers face 10-year ban if they breach migrant worker rules
2008-03-20 13:46:00 An imminent statement on the next stage of the UK's points-based immigration system could see non-EU nationals banned from the country for 10 years for attending meetings here. Legal experts have warned that visa-less staf
Breach (2007)
2008-03-19 23:32:00 ?HANET Yön: Billy Ray Yazar: Adam Mazer, William Rotko Süre: 110 dk. Ülke: ABD .
By: Filmometre
Hannaford Brothers data breach might reveal current security standards are
2008-03-19 18:46:00 Hannaford Bros. Co., a grocery retailer based in the Eastern United States is the latest corporation to be victimized by a substantial data breach. Saying that, customers of Hannaford Bros. are going to be victimized, also. So will a lot of financial institutions, who have to deal with the fraud claims and trying to prevent ...
Insurance Company Suffers Data Breach. Considering The Use Of Device Encry
2008-03-19 06:36:00 Starling Insurance and Associates, a Colorado?based company, is notifying their customers that their personal data may be compromised, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, drivers license numbers, account information, and names. The data breach appears to have occurred earlier this month, and those affected were notified beginning March 5. A letter to the Attorney General of New Hampshire shows that the data breach was caused by the theft of a server from a locked office, and while the computer in question had password?protection (a misnomer, in such cases), there was no encryption in place to protect the data. Currently, it appears that the company has no idea how the data breach came to be, or what kind of information was actually lost, as they are in the process of reconstituting the information from backups. However, they?re pretty sure that some or all of the information listed above are included in the lost server. What more could ...
Hannaford Suffers Credit Card Data Breach. Could Their Drive Encryption Pr
2008-03-19 06:27:00 Hannaford supermarkets has been alerting their customers that there has been a data breach of credit card and debit card numbers. The statement that they?ve released made an emphatic point to let the public know that the information breach concerns those numbers alone, and does not extend to other personal information such as names and addresses, which Hannaford does not collect. And good for them, too: personal data collection and retention was one of the root problems following the TJX data breach a little over a year ago. Hannaford has also pointed out that they?re using the latest encryption protocols which are in compliance with PCI. In fact, they were certified as PCI compliant last year and recertified just this past February. However, 4.2 million credit card and debit card numbers were exposed in a breach that lasted four months from December 7 to March 10. About 1800 cases of fraud have been linked to the breach. Law enforcement a...
Supermarket data breach still unsolved
2008-03-19 00:15:00 It was during the card approval process that more than 4 million customer accounts at grocery stores in the Northeast and Florida were exposed to fraud, even though the company meets the latest standards for data security, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. |
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