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Student fined for attack against Estonian Web site

2008-01-24 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3c6dc in Network World on Security
 
A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined for participating in a cyberattack that paralyzed Estonian Web sites and soured the country's relationship with Russia, a government official said Thursday
 
Tags: 20-year-old estonian student, estonian web sites, government official, fined, russia, country, relationship, thursday, cyberattack
 
 
 
 
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Cornerstone Fitness for Women information found in discarded file cabinet

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2008-05-05 14:01:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fined if investigators substantiate allegations it left clients' sensitive personal information in a trash bin Reference URL KRGV-TV Newschannel 5 The Monitor The Brownsville Herald Report Credit KRGV-TV Newschannel 5 Response From the online sources cited above EDINBURG - A local company that operates several fitness centers across the...
 
Tags: information, secure personal information, sensitive information, handle personal information, personal, credit card information, cornerstone fitness, cornerstone tells newschannel, newschannel
 
 
 
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...fined ISO17799, ITIL, COBIT frameworks = maybe ( again ); they likely won't be 'hot,' at least not in the US; ad hoc approach (with some use of ideas from the above frameworks) to security management will still rule Risk management Will we know what risk management actually is in the context of IT security = no . Some people (e.g here )...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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"First Ever CyberWar" Cost $1,642? Bua-ha-ha!

2008-01-25 16:01:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Remember "Estonian DoS", the "first cyber-war ever" (gasp A 20-year-old Estonian student has been fined for participating in a cyberattack that paralyzed Estonian Web sites and soured the country's relationship with Russia, a government official said Thursday. [...] Galushkevich must pay $1,642 So, will the scaremongers please shut up About...
 
Tags: 20-year-old estonian student, estonian web sites, government official, estonian dos, russia, country, org, relationship, cyber-war
 
 
 
 
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Estonia fines Russian for DoS 'cyber war'

2008-01-26 03:37:24 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
20 year old ethnic Russian man is the first person to be convicted for taking part in a "cyber war" against Estonia.Dmitri Galushkevich was fined 17,500 kroons (830) for an attack which blocked the website of the Reform Party of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip
 
Tags: cyber war, dmitri galushkevich, estonia, ethnic russian, reform party, kroons, website, attack, fined
 
 
 
 
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The Estonia Cyberwar

2008-01-28 12:36:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fined him 17,500 kroons, or $1,620 dollars, and sent him on his way So much for all of that hype
 
Tags: estonia, 20-year-old ethnic russian, secret service, cyberwar, court fined, cyber warrior, russian military, kroons, russia
 
 
 
 
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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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Tax information exposed in trash

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2008-04-07 13:20:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fined as much as $100,000 Evan] A fine of up to $10,000, loss of customer confidence, bad press, etc., or invest in a $100 paper shredder. Risk management Among the documents found this weekend are Federal T1 tax return forms from 2003 to 2008, including names, financial details, addresses, and social insurance numbers Federal T1013E forms,...
 
Tags: information, tax information, employees information, information security, information security guidance, guidance, information security professional, security, include names
 
 
 
 
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RSA Impressions - 2: Compliance "Megatrends"

2008-04-08 17:47:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...fined $1642? ), 'integrity of data' attacks which are "exceptionally scary" (data loss -> data change!), growth in data volume (huge!) with total lack of how to control it, increased dependency on the Internet - without a corresponding increase in security, SaaS and Web 2.0 will change security and so will virtualization (now, that's...
 
Tags: security, information security, change security, data change, data, panel, bus107 panel session, pci dss standard, data volume
 
 
 
 
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Reverse Compliance or "Logs as Proof of Incompetence?"

2008-05-06 17:27:00 by