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A coward exposes personal information on 40% of Chileans

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2008-05-16 13:56:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country. The data was posted early Saturday morning on Fayerwayer.com, a popular Chilean technology blog Reference URL Fayerwayer.com Alert ABC News The Tech Herald International Herald Tribune vnunet.com ...
 
Tags: personal, information, chilean residents, residents, poor data protection, data protection, personal data, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Anonymous Coward, commented on The Register Story Comfyllama] Excellent point! If you run a site that acquires, processes, stores, or transmits ANY data that you do NOT want to be PUBLIC data, the you must secure it properly which includes regular vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, code and third-party reviews. Cut corners, lose...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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The Thin Blue Line

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2007-09-05 12:47:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
...Anonymous When I start my tour of duty God Wherever crime may be as I walk the darkened streets alone Let me be close to thee Please give me understanding with both the young and old Let me listen with attention until their story's told Let me never make a judgment in a rash or callous way but let me hold my patience let each man have his...
 
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Oklahoma Data Leak

2008-04-18 06:16:51 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...anonymous, general public. Apparently, the developers at Oklahomas Department of Corrections slept through that day in computer science class, and even managed to skip all of Common Sense 101. You see, not only did they trust anonymous user input on their public-facing website, but they blindly executed it and displayed whatever came back The...
 
Tags: knowledge, basic sql knowledge, computer science class, sql, computer, negligently bad, bad, website, input
 
 
 
 
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Mashup of the Titans

2008-06-25 17:29:25 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...anonymous, interchangeable computers like a breeze through tall grass. A dekstop computer is a scooped-out hole in the beach where information from the Cybersphere wells up like seawater 16. The future is dense with computers. They will hang around everywhere in lush growths like Spanish moss. They will swarm like locusts. But a swarm is not...
 
Tags: protection mechanisms, protection mechanisms correctly, information security, information, implements protection mechanisms, information travels, information security people, protection, potential information path
 
 
 
 
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Your Companies Biggest Security Hole - What is the BGP-style Vuln Lurking in Software Security?

2008-09-05 08:31:58 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...anonymous ftp authorization with no authentication (mq enforces authorization policy on unverifiable tokens) -run your whole book of business transaction backbone on anonymous ftp, but think that you have security What is strange about the MQ Series, enterprise messaging vulns is that there is no need for them, there are no technical...
 
Tags: security, security hole, security protocols, business, business runs, business transaction backbone, improve security, message security, enforces authorization policy
 
 
 
 
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Hackers Hijack Sarah Palins Yahoo Account, E-mails Published Online

2008-09-17 22:47:29 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...Anonymous, a hackers activist group, have apparently hacked into a Yahoo! email account belonging to Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. According to Wikileaks, activists loosely affiliated with Anonymous somehow gained access to the account at around midnight Tuesday the 16th of September (EST)....
 
Tags: account, email account, republican vice presidential, activists loosely, hackers activist, midnight tuesday, yahoo, alaska governor, emails purportedly
 
 
 
 
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The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity

2008-09-18 06:34:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...anonymous The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal. Members of Q6/17 have declined to release key documents, and meetings are closed to the public A second, apparently leaked ITU document offers...
 
Tags: government, chinese government, chinese, articles, negative articles, government publishes articles, source, proposal, original source
 
 
 
 
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University of Florida student info online

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2007-11-28 09:17:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...anonymous downloads. We only secured uploads, much like this UF server. Times have certainly changed, eh Enough of that Any company with a Web presence in the year 2007 should conduct external security audits no less than annually. E-commerce, popular and complex sites require them more often Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: florida, sensitive personal information, information, information systems, comfyllama information security, web site, services web site, independent florida alligator, files
 
 
 
 
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Google Changes Privacy Policy

2007-03-15 08:31:00 by Eric Marvets in