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Record fine of over $2.5M for UK insurer

2007-12-17 22:28:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...fined Norwich Union a record $2.5M (or 1.26M GBP) for incompetence. Seems like criminals pretended to be customers and cashed in on policies worth GBP 3.3M 2.5M - thats a large sum for a fine. The previous high was Nationwide Building Society for GBP 980K , earlier this year. Seems like the regulators are getting tough on companies who are...
 
Tags: fined norwich union, policies worth gbp, financial services authority, 26m gbp, record, fine, gbp 980k, fsa, previous
 
 
 
 
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Using a mobile Web browser? Read the fine print.

2008-02-29 13:14:27 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Mobile devices that allow users to connect with friends, family, and the world via the Internet are commonplace. But how secure are the browsers users are installing on their handhelds? Should they be reading the fine print? In one case, the answer is definitely yes
 
Tags: fine print, users, browsers users, mobile devices, internet, answer, handhelds, friends, secure
 
 
 
 
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IBM fine-tunes model for disaster management

2008-04-01 00:00:00 by John Ribeiro in Network World on Security
 
IBM's research laboratories in the U.S. and India have fine-tuned technology to help model and manage natural disasters such as wildfires, floods, and diseases
 
Tags: manage natural disasters, research laboratories, model, ibm, floods, wildfires, india, diseases, technology
 
 
 
 
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Spammers handed record $234 million fine - eat that

2008-05-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2858c in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. CAN-SPAM law has chewed another alleged spam outfit, this time handing out a world record fine of $234 million (116 million) to two individuals
 
Tags: million, world record fine, spam outfit, can-spam law, time, individuals
 
 
 
 
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Fatal wine waiters

2007-12-20 18:59:04 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...fine old university has wine waiters to spare, and a mess for them to work in Opinions around here differ as to whether this is machine translation (as in all those old stories about Out of sight, out of mind being translated to Russian and then back as Invisible idiot) or imaginative use of a thesaurus where wine waiter is a hyponym of...
 
Tags: windows server, server, windows, unlike windows, professional web site, server components, site, ntp server misuse, compatibility
 
 
 
 
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Stiennon wants to know - it is all about execution

2008-03-21 01:15:44 by HASH0x8b48134 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...fine As far as living up to expectations, that is a question of whose expectations. It was no secret that the analysts were smoking their socks with some of the numbers being thrown around regarding NAC. The fact that you call it magic should not be lost on you or others. NAC ain't magic, it is bread and potatoes security. Internally here at...
 
Tags: stiennon, nac, richard nac, ignorant, ignorant richard, richard, richard stiennon, top richard, nac companies
 
 
 
 
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Stiennon wants to know - it is all about execution

2008-03-21 02:15:44 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...fine As far as living up to expectations, that is a question of whose expectations. It was no secret that the analysts were smoking their socks with some of the numbers being thrown around regarding NAC. The fact that you call it magic should not be lost on you or others. NAC ain't magic, it is bread and potatoes security. Internally here at...
 
Tags: stiennon, nac, richard nac, ignorant, ignorant richard, richard, richard stiennon, top richard, nac companies
 
 
 
 
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Prediction for 2008: Service providers avoid straightforward DTV answers

2008-01-04 21:12:01 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...fine on the analog cable plant for quite some time, youll only see it either in extremely fine print, or omitted as a choice at all in most promotional materials Now, it is also true that for bandwidth utilization reasons, the cable companies would like to convert their cable plant to all-digital. If they somehow manage to convert all their...
 
Tags: ota, digital ota customer, analog, analog customers, analog ota reception, analog cable customers, analog cable systems, analog channels, cheap basic analog
 
 
 
 
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Davidson Companies illegal network intrusion exposes clients

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2008-02-01 14:51:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fine," Burchard said. "Their assets are fine Evan] Not really, I think of a Social Security number is an asset, an information asset. Just as important as protecting financial or physical assets is protecting information assets The computer hacker accessed information on 226,000 current and former clients, Burchard said With the...
 
Tags: davidson, clients, davidson companies president, davidson companies clients, sensitive personal information, davidson login page, personal information, davidson companies, davidson trust