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Verizon Business has a new report on data breaches

2008-06-12 20:21:39 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...breaches I have seen. It is great to see the break down of what is the root cause of these expensive and significant computer security failures. While it is interesting to see counts of malware infected computers from Symantec and vulnerability counts from CVE, this report gets to the actual attacks that organizations need to prevent with...
 
Tags: data breaches, breaches, attacks, layer attacks, vulnerability counts, vulnerability, report, exploit unknown vulnerability, actual attacks
 
 
 
 
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Two HSBC breaches with similar circumstances

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2008-06-02 09:40:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...breaches were reported in the past week affecting HSBC customers in Canada and the UK. In Canada, "A Richmond Hill man was driving in his neighbourhood Saturday night when he spotted a bank bag full of cancelled cheques on the side of the road." In the UK "papers, which relate to current bank accounts and applications, were found in a quiet...
 
Tags: customers, bank customers, bank, bank officials, bank bag, bag, bank branch after-hours, street bank hsbc, street
 
 
 
 
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Are data breaches on the rise, or just getting reported more?

2008-08-26 12:24:58 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...breaches this year, in 2008, than for all of last year in 2007. But what does that mean? It could mean data breaches are on the rise, or maybe it just means more are being identified and reported More from Info Week Rather than indicating a deteriorating security situation, the rising number of reported data breaches may just mean corporate...
 
Tags: data breaches, breaches, info week, security auditors, multiple businesses, security situation, single event, actual, story
 
 
 
 
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Some of the other noteworthy breaches last week, 6/16/08 - 6/22/08

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2008-06-23 08:11:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...breaches from the past week (6/16/08 - 6/22/08 Citibank Hack Blamed for Alleged ATM Crime Spree By Kevin Poulsen, Wired.com, 6/18/08 A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least...
 
Tags: major security breach, breach, security breach, data, airline systems data, breaches, noteworthy breaches, indiana bank breach, sensitive data
 
 
 
 
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Data Breaches Targeting Presentation and App Layers

2008-06-13 11:53:58 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...breaches of the 59% of data breaches involve hacking, with the following breakdown Application/Service layer -39 OS/Platform layer - 23 Exploit known vulnerability -18 Exploit unknown vulnerability - 5 Use of back door -15 That is over half - 62% of hacks targeting the OS and App layers. Breaches have been moving up the OSI stack in recent years
 
Tags: breaches, exploit unknown vulnerability, vulnerability, data breaches involve, exploit, app layers, osplatform layer, layer, osi stack
 
 
 
 
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Some firms don't admit security breaches - Geez, ya really think so?

2008-06-29 16:51:24 by HASH0x8b38fc4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...breaches to affected consumers mandatory. The article does caution though that based upon the volume of data being sold in "online black markets", there are many more breaches than we are being told about. I think it good that CBS bangs the drums on this, but frankly that "evidence" is a bit flimsy. I also found it gratifying that the article...
 
Tags: breaches, security, article, article blames, credit card companies, confidential breaches, credit, nice job, parent company
 
 
 
 
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Data breaches: Technology, process or management?

2008-07-28 16:32:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...breaches as mainly to be solved by technology. Well, with a bit of process thrown in for good measure as well! Did not think much about the important role of management till now Just came across an interesting opinion by Jonathan Armstrong , a partner at Eversheds , a law firm. He contends that current best practices of management do not...
 
Tags: management, data breaches, management till, technology, tylenol crisis, crisis, executives, jonathan armstrong, jonathan
 
 
 
 
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Again On Breaches and Stock Price

2008-03-12 00:34:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...breaches and stock prices (some say 4-8% down, some say none, some say 'major impact', whatever He then clarifies: " But let me point out that TJX has attributed $200 million in direct costs to this breach. It is easy to surmise this is bigger than just about anyones security budget. In TJXs case some well known security practices and a...
 
Tags: security, security practices, stock price, data breach, impact, anyones security budget, potential impact, breach, breach impact assessment
 
 
 
 
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Apologies and Data Breaches

2007-10-08 20:51:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...breaches. Maybe getting out front of the issue like TD Ameritrade (not really out front given how long it was going on, but out from of the major press) will help them in the end with respect to how successful the class action suits are, etc I guess we'll just have to see
 
Tags: npr piece, npr piece details, data breaches, class action suits, patients sue, patients, hospital apologies, hospital, major press
 
 
 
 
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Hospitals often fail to notify patients of data breaches