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UK's Information Commissioner gets expanded powers in Criminal Justice and Immigration Act -- will be able to impose steep fines on organizations

2008-05-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008, the 1998 DPA was updated to enable the Information Commissioner to impose serious fines on organizations. This change in the UK's data protection law was spurred by a string of high-profile breaches of personally-identifiable information in the U.K. over the last year, including the large-scale...
 
Tags: information commissioner, information, fines, immigration act, criminal justice, organizations, levy fines, data protection act, large-scale data breach
 
 
 
 
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Cashing in on employee theft, or honest whistleblower?

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2008-02-25 14:03:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...criminal offence committed by a person unknown directly against the convicted data thief approximately 1,400 client relationships with LGT Treuhand, which were established before the end of 2002. The largest proportion, about 600 clients, are resident in Germany. The figure circulated in the media of 4,527 sets of data represents the number...
 
Tags: confidential, confidential data, kieber, named heinrich kieber, lgt, lgt trust, data, confidential information, information
 
 
 
 
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The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2008

2008-01-05 17:22:36 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Criminal fraud by password and identity theft via phishing, spyware, malware and theft of hardware Criminal use of botnets and botnet-like technologies for economic gain, for example email spam and denial of service attacks Cyberterrorism, bulling, vandalism and other forms of electronic violence and malfeasance Subversion of democratic...
 
Tags: cybersecurity threats, theft, criminal, criminal manipulation, identity theft, top, attacks, comments, service attacks
 
 
 
 
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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
...criminal attempted to purchase a big-screen television at a Sears store in Pennsylvania using the stolen information. One of the four suspects arrested in the attempted theft had two pages of a NSWCDD 1994 report in their possession that contained names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, job titles, salary and employment information ...
 
Tags: company data destruction, company data, employees personal information, personal information, destruction, information, information security, employees, employment information
 
 
 
 
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Student hacks Broward Schools and accesses personal information

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2008-03-24 13:22:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...criminal intent or that he did anything with the information he was able to retrieve," Bromery said. [Evan] Breaking into the school's computer systems is against the law. Michael Wasa also had " credit card generators" in his possession. Yet, "There's still no reason to believe that there was criminal intent Melissa Grimm, a district...
 
Tags: information, personal information, students, information technology team, school students, school, information security, pinnacle gradebook, pinnacle
 
 
 
 
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Drama surrounds People's United Bank breach

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2008-04-08 12:47:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...criminal charges if any of this private information is made public Evan] I can think of a more tactful way for Mr. Hastings to present the information Gniazdowski says Hastings asked People's to hire him as a "fraud consultant." When Gniazdowski asked what would happen if the bank didn't comply, Hastings allegedly said he'd take "great...
 
Tags: bank, financial information, information, confidential information, people, bank deposit, hastings, james hastings dove, bank set
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from the home of a BearingPoint employee

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2008-06-19 15:38:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...criminal conduct Evan] Well, I think "rigorous safeguards" needs to be quantified somewhat. What are "rigorous safeguards" and how do they apply to this breach The Company was recently victimized by such conduct and we are writing to inform you that this criminal conduct might have a direct impact on you Evan] Uh oh, here it comes. Not only...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, bearingpoint, store confidential information, confidential information, laptop, information security, independent contractors
 
 
 
 
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Phish and Foul

2007-07-20 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...criminal sites--typically falsified versions of their real banking sites--and encouraged to enter password information. Having harvested this information, the operators of the criminal sites use it to break into victims' accounts. (As the term suggests, most "phishing" e-mail goes wide of the mark, arriving as spam unconnected with the...
 
Tags: sites, criminal sites, information, enter password information, online con game, e-mail, e-mail messages, security community, term suggests
 
 
 
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...criminal investigation." Maybe law enforcement led to the delay in notification. I would think that a complete list of daycare centers would be available as quickly as it takes to run a simple database query the agency also was concerned that the thieves might not realize they had potentially valuable data, and did not want to publicize it ...
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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What should done about employees stealing in the workplace?

2008-02-21 05:25:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...criminal in nature such as in the case of an employee stealing, with all of the known and pressing problems that the Police have to handle on a daily basis, they usually do not have the manpower to act on a hunch or suspicion If it was a case of suspected drug trafficking or gang activity, they probably would be able to dispatch some...