U.K. gov't laptop with confidential disc sold on eBay
The Home Office has launched an investigation after a buyer acquired a laptop on eBay that contained a disc with confidential information
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UK gov't laptop with confidential disc sold on eBay
A laptop purchased on eBay recently arrived with a special bonus: Under the keyboard, a CD or DVD disc labeled "Home Office" and "Confidential
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HSBC loses disc with 370,000 customer details
The HSBC banking group has lost an unencrypted, password-protected computer disc with the details of 370,000 customers
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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk
...discovered the encrypted compact disc
Reference URL
The Bolton Evening News
BBC News
Associated Press
Leapfrog Computers online statement
Report Credit
Lee Bevan, Leapfrog Computers, brought to the attention of The Breach Blog by an informed reader
Response
From the online sources cited above
A highly confidential Home Office disk was...
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Turn off Autorun - yet another reminder
...disc start to play once you put it in
Actually, not so much. If any of that media is malicious, you've got no defense. If you remember back to the original Sony Rootkit issue from a few years back, most folks ended up installing the rootkit because they had Autorun engaged and the software automatically launched when the disc was loaded
It...
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What Happens When You Mix A Real Infection With A Mass Mail Hoax?
...disc C of your computer
This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list. This is the reason why you need to send this e-mail to all your contacts It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it
If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even though sent to you by...
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Autorun: good for you?
...disc (a little peanut butter on your fingers helps with the grip), slide it in the drive, and wait for the game to start. Groovy
No, if you're a security administrator. Many people still aren't aware of the security risk that autorun raises. It isn't new anymore, but DarkReading's Social engineering, the USB way is still the best story the...
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Two HSBC breaches with similar circumstances
...disclosure, modification, and destruction of confidential information to an "acceptable level" no matter what form the confidential information takes. Unauthorized disclosure of confidential information on paper is just as damaging as unauthorized disclosure of confidential information on a backup tape, CD, laptop, etc
he was in the Bayview...
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Lost Virgin Media CD contains customer information
...disc containing the bank account details of 3000 UK customers
The incident came to light inside the company on 29 May
Virgin Media is part way through individually contacting the people affected, who all signed up in Carphone Warehouse stores nationwide from January this year
It is not known why the data was burned onto a CD
Evan] This is...
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