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Mecklenburg County (NC) account numbers in the trunk

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2008-02-26 16:28:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...accounts Number Affected 400 Types of Data Bank draft transaction information Breach Description A group of three teenagers allegedly stole a car belonging to a Mecklenburg County, North Carolina worker. Located in the trunk of the stolen car was sensitive personal information in the form of one or more printed documents. One teen has been...
 
Tags: county, mecklenburg county, information confidentiality, information, sensitive personal information, account, sensitive information, county official, evan account
 
 
 
 
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Mastering account lockout values

2008-05-13 13:46:14 by Gary Olsen, Contributor in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Tweaking account lockout values can save money for your company by eliminating help desk calls for users' account lockouts
 
Tags: account lockout values, account lockouts, desk calls, save money, users, company
 
 
 
 
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2504 Steps to Closing Your Facebook Account

2008-01-11 03:50:14 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Yes, it's true! I finally managed to close my Facebook account. It was a long, arduous road - the hardest part was slaying the Gorgon on level 16 - and I'm glad it's finally over
 
Tags: facebook account, arduous road, gorgon, level, close, glad, true
 
 
 
 
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RBN's Fake Account Suspended Notices

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2008-01-15 19:07:34 by HASH0x8b4a7ec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...account suspended notices, but continuing the malware and exploit serving campaigns on them. And since I constantly monitor RBN activity, in particular their relationship with the New Media Malware Gang and Storm Worm, a relationship that I've in fact established several times before, a recently assessed malicious domain further expands their...
 
Tags: media malware gang, malware gang, malware, rbn, exe, russian business network, actual operational department, fake account, network
 
 
 
 
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The finer points of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista

2008-05-06 10:38:26 by Joel Scambray, Hacking Exposed Windows in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
User Account Control (UAC) has received plenty of scrutiny since Vista's release, but since you no longer need to give out administrator rights to allow users to make changes, it is definitely making life harder for clever hackers. Find out how in this excerpt from Hacking Exposed Windows
 
Tags: user account control, clever hackers, windows, uac, life harder, vista, administrator rights, plenty, excerpt
 
 
 
 
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Quick hits: Troubleshooting service account failure, batch job execution

2008-06-03 11:25:27 by Gary Olsen in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Find details on three interesting problems for Windows administrators, with info on how to solve each one. Topics include issues with service account passwords, batch jobs and returning user properties with the RunAs command
 
Tags: service account passwords, topics include issues, windows administrators, batch jobs, runas command, user properties, info, solve, details
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...account details Breach Description The announcement from AIB sums this breach up well; "A technical problem occurred in the issuing of these advice notices to some AIB customers that made international payments between the 13th and 15th November 2007. This affected 15,000 payment advices, which were sent in error to the wrong customers ...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...account lockout by default, that we don't have a built-in mechanism for automatically disabling unused accounts, that the 42-day default expiration is troublesome. Here's my response; figured that it would make for a useful blog post, too. Account lockouts Account lockout is a poor substitute for good passwords -- and is one of the most...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...account information, including name, address, account number, social security number and telephone number Breach Description The Target Fraud Prevention team discovered that three employees of a company that provides call center assistance for Target National Bank used the privileges granted as part of their job to commit fraud. The...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank