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New Banking Code shifts more liability to customers

2008-04-09 14:08:49 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...dump the cost of their omission onto customers When the person responsible for securing a system is not liable for breaches, the system is likely to fail. This situation of misaligned incentives is common , and here we see a further example. There might be a short-term benefit to banks of shifting liability, as they can resist introducing...
 
Tags: code, customers, banks, fraud-detection algorithms, fraud, code claims, electronic fraud, code deals, fraud threat
 
 
 
 
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LPL Financial reports eighteen compromised logons

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2008-05-20 08:56:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...dump" penny stocks Reference URL Maryland State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit Maryland State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above We write to advise you of incidents in which hackers compromised the logon passwords of fourteen financial advisors and four assistants of LPL Financial ("LPL Evan]...
 
Tags: lpl financial, lpl, lpl financial recently, lpl recently, login information, information, information security governance, information privacy, data
 
 
 
 
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Off the wire: Pump-and-dump scam spam switches on video

2007-12-27 13:42:18 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
Uses video clips to shill stock and dodge antispam defenses
 
Tags: dodge antispam defenses, shill stock, video clips
 
 
 
 
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Pump-and-dump spam goes Hollywood

2007-12-27 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Spam artists have begun linking to legitimate-appearing video clips
 
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U.S. indicts 11 over pump-and-dump stock spam

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x89801ac in Network World on Security
 
Eleven people, including one of the top spammers in the world, were indicted on Thursday for allegedly sending millions of unsolicited e-mails intended to inflate the price of Chinese penny stocks
 
Tags: chinese penny stocks, top spammers, e-mails, millions, people, thursday, world, price, allegedly
 
 
 
 
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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...dump file. More recent versions have included the ability to monitor for CPU and memory spikes as well as enabling full page heap settings on all processes launched from the mini-debugger As a general rule, all exceptions must be triaged (reviewed) by the tester to determine if a bug needs to be filed. When fuzzing over a period of time...
 
Tags: chance exceptions, exceptions, exception handler, exception, divide-by-zero exception, exception code, triage process, process, first-chance exceptions
 
 
 
 
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Skype plugs critical cross-zone scripting hole

2008-02-05 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473550 in Network World on Security
 
Skype Tuesday patched a critical vulnerability that forced it to dump several features from its VoIP and chat software to prevent attackers from hijacking Windows PCs
 
Tags: windows pcs, skype tuesday, prevent attackers, critical vulnerability, chat software, features, dump, voip
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...dump descriptions from some 6,900 bills that county officials feared included names of people who had court-ordered psychiatric exams, other patient service information and guardianship case details The information had been displayed on the group's Web site for six days, after CRG obtained a database on all county spending for the last two...
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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Confidential Texas A & M personnel file exposed on the Internet

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2008-02-18 23:51:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...dump" -- also was unclear, though he noted the file had been created intentionally Evan] This is the result of poor data management. Nobody knows where the file came from, why it was there, or who is responsible. Confidential information needs more control than this Current or former employees who think they might be affected are encouraged...
 
Tags: texas, sensitive personal information, personal information, texas agrilife extension, file, texas agrilife research, information, texas cooperative extension, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-19 00:24:05 by HASH0x8baa6ec in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...dump Windows ", I was struck by the parallels (no pun intended with the Mac VM program which enables so much Mac adoption) between Microsoft and the US. Like the US, about 10 or 15 years ago Microsoft was officially declared a monopoly. It was the one true superpower of IT. Yeah, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy could tweak Bill's nose and...