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Illinois Eye Center warns patients of identity theft

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2008-04-04 12:40:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/28/08 Organization Illinois Eye Center Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth Breach Description A former Illinois Eye Center employee could have used confidential patient information for...
 
Tags: eye center, center, illinois eye center, illinois, identity theft, confidential information, information, confidential patient information, occasional
 
 
 
 
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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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/13/08 Organization U.S. Government Contractor/Consultant/Branch Transportation Security Administration (TSA Desyne Web Services Victims Certain people that used the TSA traveler redress website between October 6, 2006 and February 13, 2007 Number Affected thousands Types of Data Name, Social...
 
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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2007

2008-01-17 11:01:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
I have been trying to get the motivation together to blog about my predictions for 2008 but I'm not finding it. So, I've decided to break it up into smaller pieces and hopefully that will make it easier So, looking back 2007 started with me being very motivated, excited and happy. It was going to be a great year with lots of promise. It ended...
 
Tags: mike, mike rothman, security mike, security, security blog world, blog, forums, security catalyst forums, security field
 
 
 
 
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Facebook backs down on Beacon program

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2007-12-11 11:09:46 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
The biggest privacy news lately has been about Facebook's Beacon program . The program was sharing information about purchases made on third-party partner sites with Facebook, even if the user was not signed into Facebook or had deactivated their account. Opt-ing out of the program was a challenge. Facebook, after several weeks has acknowledged...
 
Tags: privacy, privacy impact assessments, program, facebook, beacon program, privacy insensitive developments, business projects, projects, privacy news
 
 
 
 
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Symantec + Vontu: A Marriage Made In Heaven?

2007-11-13 08:55:35 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
Everybody who keeps an eye on the Information Leak Prevention (a.k.a. Data Loss Prevention a.k.a. Outbound Content Compliance a.k.a. Extrusion Prevention a.k.a. you get the picture) space saw this acquisition coming for what seemed liked an eternity. Since last year, Forrester has been forecasting consolidation frenzy and McAfee (Onigma and...
 
Tags: ilp, ilp awareness, ilp wave, ilp vendors compare, ilp leader, ilp functionality, loss, data loss prevention, blown ilp functionality
 
 
 
 
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Out of the Box

2007-07-19 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I went on a date the other night. She was a "set-up" from a new acquaintance at the office who did not know me well enough not to set me up on dates. So here I am sitting across from this blonde beauty, in a tapas bar, and she is gorgeous: her soft golden tresses frame a pale heart-shaped face and her curves are paralleled only by the...
 
Tags: network device drivers, set-up, desperately bored, set, tapas bar, ice-blue eyes, tresses frame, blonde beauty, gorgeous
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
Our new column, Ask the Auditor, answers real questions submitted by real readers. This week, certified internal auditor and certified information systems auditor Dan Swanson answers the question of who is responsible for information security By Dan Swanson A Reader Asks: Who is responsible for information security The Auditor Responds: In...
 
Tags: information, information security, information policy, information security risks, information assurance, information security governance, information security managers, information security management, assign information security
 
 
 
 
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Month Of MySpace Bugs

2007-03-20 22:46:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
I just found this little project called Month of MySpace Bugs . This should be interesting to keep an eye on. As they state, they are only picking on MySpace (they could have found similar problems in any of the poorly crafted social networking sites) because they are trying to get attention, MySpace is extremely popular to get them even more...
 
Tags: myspace bugs, myspace, myspace hack, hack, sounds pretty light, month, half goof, half public, notoriously dickish
 
 
 
 
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Google Changes Privacy Policy

2007-03-15 08:31:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
I personally love Google and have since the first search I made 7+ years ago. I remember it clearly, I was at my first dot com gig and I made a search for some obscure technical detail. I was shocked that the first result took me to what I was looking for, and it has been my homepage ever since Unfortunately Ive had to turn a blind eye to the...
 
Tags: privacy, google, privacy concerns, policy, google chat, financial data, data, google desktop, users privacy
 
 
 
 
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Recent Symantec and IBM vulnerabilities, giblets, banned APIs and the SDL

2008-01-04 23:37:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Hi, Michael here. Happy New Year Recently, Symantec issued a security advisory warning users of critical remote code-execution security vulnerabilities in various Symantec email security products. The bugs caught my eye for a number of reasons First and foremost, security bugs in security products are always of great interest and concern to me,...
 
Tags: linker sdl requirements, sdl requirements, ibm, sdl, requirements, symantec, bugs affect ibm, bugs, sdl refers