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Consumer Reports Responds

2008-08-19 16:12:41 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Consumer Reports has sent a response to my recent column Security Software Reviews Done Wrong , which criticized their recent story on computer security and review of security products. This statement is from Jeff Fox, Technology Editor, Consumer Reports: At Consumer Reports, we have always believed that scientific testing is the best way to...
 
Tags: consumer reports, column, measure consumer experiences, products, online transactions avoids, recent story, story, september security reports, security products
 
 
 
 
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Consumer networks for business use

2008-03-10 09:30:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...consumer network that's also being used by your children to share happy slapping videos and news about what happened down the rec on Friday night then you've lost the plot. Show me the business case and cost savings model that led you to believe that it's a good idea. I'll wager that you don't have one, but that you've leapt straight in and...
 
Tags: business, business relationships, real business relationships, swap company information, information, company, company data, contacts, facebook contacts
 
 
 
 
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Errant email exposed Department of Consumer Affairs personal information

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2008-06-24 17:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Consumer Affairs Victims employees, contractors and board members Number Affected 5,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, salaries and job titles Breach Description The state Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has sent letters to 5,000 employees, contractors and board members warning them of a security breach that has...
 
Tags: information, email, volunteer information lost, wrong email address, email address, information security, adequately protect information, credit cards, credit
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Reports on Aviation Security and the TSA

2008-01-10 13:58:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Consumer Reports has an article on aviation security. Much of it you've all heard before, but there are some new bits: Larry Tortorich, a TSA training officer and former representative to the Joint Terrorism Task Force who retired in 2006, also says he saw problems from the inside. "There was a facade of security. There were numerous security...
 
Tags: security, aviation security, security consultancy, doors, double doors, door, consumer reports, secure door, cockpit doors
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Overconfidence?

2008-04-07 19:31:05 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...consumer confidence in purchases, but it seems Americans are still confident in their computers perhaps too confident. StopBadware recently commissioned a Zogby poll of internet users feelings about online safety. We found that 88 percent of internet users feel safe when accessing the internet, and 84 percent feel they have the information...
 
Tags: internet users feelings, internet users, internet, online safety, consumer, online, percent, consumer education, security online
 
 
 
 
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Consumer group slams RealPlayer as 'badware'

2008-02-04 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users
 
Tags: consumer advocacy, software, adware, users, realnetworks, properly
 
 
 
 
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Credit reporting firm sues LifeLock over fraud alerts in consumer history files

2008-02-21 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Experian, one of the three big credit reporting firms in the U.S., filed a lawsuit claiming that LifeLock is illegally placing hundreds of thousands of fraud alerts in consumer credit-history files as part of its identity theft protection service
 
Tags: credit, fraud alerts, consumer credit-history files, lifelock, firms, thousands, experian, filed, hundreds
 
 
 
 
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Symantec confirms ActiveX bugs in its own consumer software

2008-04-04 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Symantec confirmed that Windows versions of its popular consumer security software come with a flawed technical troubleshooting tool called AutoFix
 
Tags: symantec, windows versions, tool, autofix, technical
 
 
 
 
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Red Hat Punts on Consumer Desktops

2008-04-17 10:30:48 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
The Red Hat Desktop Team has announced that they are not going to be building a consumer-focused operating system product for the foreseeable future
 
Tags: system product, foreseeable future
 
 
 
 
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Employees Personal Information Exposed In Department of Consumer Affairs Email Incident

2008-06-25 00:08:54 by