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Coding Spyware and Malware for Hire

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2008-07-22 03:52:14 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...collects from the ftp acclamation, that is ftp acclamation would you regardless of how the customer uses ftp user, thus can be obtained most valuable ftp aka (even those to which the password is not saved), you can also grab other in a way not only acclamation acclamation and other tasty things more 150 Assembler spam bases Analyzes user...
 
Tags: malware, malware author, malware authors, malware binaries, malware attacks, ftp, ftp user, collects, malware industry
 
 
 
 
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House committee issues report and finds fault with TSA web site

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2008-01-15 09:35:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...collects Answer : TSA takes a number of steps to ensure the security of personal information it collects about individuals. TSAs Office of Privacy Policy & Compliance collaborates with the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) to work with program offices during the design and implementation of systems to ensure compliance with the...
 
Tags: tsa, website, website contract, traveler redress website, tsa moved quickly, security breach, information security breach, security vulnerabilities, multiple security vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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Segregation of data protection duties

2007-12-17 10:12:06 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
...collects on the doings of 500 million people who visit its site every month Fayyad... [is] engaged in a major battle over how freely that information can be used to tailor ads to individuals These goals are almost diametrically opposed. I searched for a chief privacy officer for Yahoo! as well, but did not find any references to one. While I...
 
Tags: protect information, information, business, information yahoo collects, additional business risks, yahoo, chief privacy officer, business week recently, usama fayyad
 
 
 
 
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Roboticsonline.com customer orders compromised

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2008-01-04 14:51:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...collects money online, but doesn't know how to secure the information. I seriously doubt that roboticsonline.com is VISA/PCI DSS compliant, not that this is the holy grail Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: secure administration site, administration site, credit card information, information, site, credit card provider, credit card, password, evan roboticsonline
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...collects or stores consumer data for behavioral advertising should provide reasonable security for that data and should retain data only as long as is necessary to fulfill a legitimate business or law enforcement need To address the concern that companies may not keep their privacy promises when they change their privacy policies, FTC staff...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft IPsec diagnostic tool

2008-02-01 11:39:04 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...collects IPsec policy information on systems and parses IPsec logs to deduce why a failure might have happened. Beyond IPsec, it offers trace collection for VPN, NAP client, Windows Firewall, Group policy updates, Wireless, and System events. The tool's diagnostic report derives its conclusions from the system logs collected by the tool...
 
Tags: windows vista enterprise, windows vista, windows vista business, windows, windows firewall, windows server, ipsec, tool, diagnostic tool
 
 
 
 
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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...collects highly personal and confidential information like credit card numbers, IPs and even addresses. The spyware program gets the credit card entries as the user logs them on a web form or an online application. Some spyware are even programmed to record your usage of the internet, what sites you visit, what files you download and how long...
 
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Throw away your digital picture frames

2008-02-19 03:36:49 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...collects passwords for online games -- and its designers might have larger targets in mind It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence," said Brian Grayek, who heads product development at Computer Associates, a security vendor that analyzed the Trojan Horse... The authors of the new Trojan Horse are well-funded professionals...
 
Tags: frames, picture frames, trojan, generic trojan, digital photo frames, trojan horse, virus apparently, malware, windows
 
 
 
 
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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...COLLECTS, OWNS, MAINTAINS OR USES PERSONAL INFORMATION SHALL DISCLOSE A BREACH OF SECURITY RELATED TO UNENCRYPTED OR NON-REDACTED PERSONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING TWENTY-FIVE OR MORE RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK. THE DISCLOSURE SHALL BE MADE WITHIN TWO BUSINESS DAYS AFTER LEARNING OF THE BREACH OF SECURITY, BUT MAY BE DELAYED IF A LAW ENFORCEMENT...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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LabCorp patient records fall off the back of truck

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2008-03-30 21:19:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog