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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt server breach leads to notification

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2008-07-08 12:22:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...actively investigating the incident Evan] I question how "actively" the U.S. Secret Service is investigating this incident. The incident doesn't seem to be significant enough. Sad but usually true. The Secret Service has to prioritize just like everyone else As part of its internal investigation, which is still ongoing, HMH retained digital...
 
Tags: houghton mifflin harcourt, information, information security professionals, sensitive personal information, information security, server, notification, hmh, company based
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Tactics Evolving

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2008-04-21 11:18:17 by HASH0x85bed5c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...actively consolidating for the past couple of years, and until they figure out to to vertically integrate and limit the participation of other pa rties in their activities, this development will continue to remain so. Malware infected hosts are not getting used as stepping stones these days, for OSINT or cyber espionage purposes, but also,...
 
Tags: halifax-online, halifax, mem binformslogin, user, user-142o3ds, web application vulnerabilities, mem binhalifax loginformslogin, vulnerable sites, turkish defacement
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...actively engaging in cyber reconnaissance by probing the computer networks of U.S.government agencies as well as private companies. The data collected from these computer reconnaissance campaigns can be used for myriad purposes, including identifying weak points in the networks; understanding how leaders in the United States think;...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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Managing Security Event Information

2007-07-16 06:21:00 by Blog Editors in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...actively pursuing strategies to move more and more of the information management burden to specialized service providers. I guess they're getting more comfortable with the security provisions of these offerings
 
Tags: information, information security, information management, service providers, network devices, service provider, event data, security provisions, customers
 
 
 
 
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Passes 1000 Vulnerabilities

2007-10-16 17:23:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...actively support that theory, I have some fantastic news for them! According to my calculations, in July 2007, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 team fixed their 1000th unique security vulnerability. Now, 164 of these were Low severity and 479 were Medium severity, but still, that is a ton of work accomplished by that team, especially given that...
 
Tags: red hat, fixed, software flaws fixed, red hat truth, team fixed, microsoft, security vulnerabilities, team, minor bugs
 
 
 
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...actively adopted Dark horses, that will influence security in a major but unknown way in 2008 Virtualization = people talk about hypervisor security and virtual security appliances as well as other fun stuff (e.g. this ), but, in all honesty, we can't yet fathom the impact that the coming virtualization wave will have on information security...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center warns employees

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2008-01-16 09:51:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...actively used to commit fraud. It took awareness and good work to catch the four suspects in the identity fraud case They had in their possession two pages of a hard copy report dated July 7, 1994, containing personally identifiable information (PII) names, social security numbers and dates of birth of nearly 100 individuals with the last...
 
Tags: company data destruction, company data, employees personal information, personal information, destruction, information, information security, employees, employment information
 
 
 
 
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Love lure used to spread mobile malware

2008-01-22 13:20:49 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
A strain of mobile malware targeting Symbian-based phones is "actively infecting" a small number of smartphones, according to security vendor Fortinet
 
Tags: mobile malware, security vendor fortinet, smartphones, strain, actively, phones
 
 
 
 
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Spreading worm hits Nokia handsets

2008-01-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b55734 in Network World on Security
 
Security vendor Fortinet has uncovered a malicious SymbianOS Worm that is actively spreading on mobile phone networks
 
Tags: security vendor fortinet, mobile phone networks, malicious symbianos worm, actively
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Power Networks

2008-01-22 14:24:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...actively and thoroughly considered the benefits and risks of making this information public, and came down on the side of disclosure I'll bet. There's nothing like an vague unsubstantiated rumor to forestall reasoned discussion. But, of course, everyone is writing about it anyway SANS's Alan Paller is happy to add details : In the past two...