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Biometric Security for Financial Meltdown Solutions

2008-10-06 10:43:28 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Wall Street was dominated by 5 major investment banking firms at the beginning of 2008. Nine months later, only 2 of these investment banking firms remain. This is probably the worst financial turmoil
 
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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
...Financial Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected 10,219 Types of Data names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth Breach Description LPL Financial recently notified the Maryland State Attorney General of a breach in which "hackers compromised the logon...
 
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Thousands of Canadian Chrysler Financial customers at risk

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2008-04-30 22:04:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Financial (Canada United Parcel Service ("UPS Victims Canadian customers Number Affected thousands Types of Data names, addresses and social insurance numbers Breach Description TORONTO - The lending arm of the Chrysler Corporation says the U-P-S courier service may have lost a data tape containing personal information about thousands of...
 
Tags: chrysler, chrysler financial spokeswoman, chrysler financial, lost tape, tape, chrysler financial claims, data tape, customers, tape drive
 
 
 
 
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Skipton Financial Services personal customer data on stolen laptop

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2008-01-04 22:21:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Financial Services (SFS Moore Stephens Consulting Victims Skipton clients with money invested in the Fidelity FundsNetwork Number Affected Up to 14,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, dates of birth, National Insurance numbers*, and fund investment details including how much was invested equivalent to Social Security numbers in US Breach...
 
Tags: skipton, information includes names, information, information security practices, skipton financial services, financial giant skipton, store confidential information, skipton spokesman, security
 
 
 
 
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First Magnus Financial customer data found in dumpster

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2008-02-21 13:56:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Financial Corporation Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Loan and financial documents containing names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, financial account information, etc Breach Description Stacked boxes containing thousands of sensitive loan...
 
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Axcess Financial reports stolen laptop to New Hampshire AG

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2008-05-28 11:45:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Financial Services, Inc Axcess Financial Services, Inc. appears to be affiliated or another name for CNG Financial Corp. aka Check 'n Go Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Axcess informed the New Hampshire State Attorney General of 142 residents affected in her state Types of Data personal...
 
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Modelling The Global Financial Meltdown

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2008-10-02 06:33:20 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...financial crisis could have been avoided with more or better use of technology. This is expected, as software companies and IT professionals will often try to piggy-backtheir business development strategy on the crisis of the day to sell more goods and services. Honestly, in this current situation, the main technology that we needed was...
 
Tags: simple financial models, financial models, current financial crisis, crisis, simple, technology, wall street, main technology, folks
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...financial markets Well, folks in New Yorkhave barely finished cleaning the colorful New Years confettioff Wall Street and a vivid example of manipulating the market appears in the news. We have yet to see the second week of January and the cyberattacks are upon us Notice how a direct competitor to E*Trade Bank , Citigroup , used the power of...
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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Why Don't Financial Institutions Have Vulnerability Reporting Policies Online?

2007-09-16 12:36:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...financial institutions. I tried finding disclosure policies online for major financial institutions such as Citibank, Wells Fargo, Washington Mutual, Chase, Fidelity, etc. I was unable to find a externally accessible security reporting/disclosure policy for any of the major financial institutions I looked at Why is that Fear that a...
 
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Financial Ombudsman losing it?

2008-01-23 15:14:58 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper