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Confidential information sent to PinPay.net and SoftCard.biz is exposed

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2008-05-08 13:26:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...formation Reference URL Merchant 911 Blog Report Credit Tom Mahoney, the Founder and Director of Merchant 911 Response From the online source cited above and my own cursory investigation Back in January, I had short email dialog with a Kip Long, who claimed to be one of the principles of a company called Softcard out of Huntington Beach,...
 
Tags: information, drivers license card, license card, card, free card, social security card, sensitive information, sensitive personal information, encrypt sensitive information
 
 
 
 
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Getting vulnerabilities in the application fixed

2007-10-27 13:20:07 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...form. The risk acceptance form could be as simple as a word document with a list of high severity/threat vulnerabilities and a narrative that states that signatories of the form acknowledge the existence of vulnerabilities (that you communicated) and have accepted the risk (posed by the vulnerabilities) for a time period specified in the...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, software development manager, vulnerabilities based, risk acceptance form, risk, severitythreat vulnerabilities, form, form acknowledge, application
 
 
 
 
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Another Wisconsin mailing exposes Social Security numbers

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2008-01-15 13:32:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Form 1099-G Reference URL Wisconsin Department of Revenue News Release The Associated Press Story at greenbaygazette.com Report Credit Wisconsin Department of Revenue Response From the online sources cited above The Department of Administration (DOA) and Department of Revenue (DOR) learned on January 9, 2008, that during a mailing, a...
 
Tags: security, taxpayers, taxpayers social security, social security, wisconsin, credit bureau, credit, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Security Between Virtual Machines?

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2008-06-22 15:30:57 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...Form Field Validation properly. A Form field is something you fill out on a web page like a form that asks for the user name and password. User names and passwords to log into the web site are stored on whats called a Database Server. Hmmm... So this means the web server needs to talk to the database server right? Yes! Keep this in the back...
 
Tags: web, web page, web site sends, server, file server, database backend server, web front, vulnerable web site, database server
 
 
 
 
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Russia's FSB vs Cybercrime

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2007-12-20 15:44:16 by HASH0x89b8758 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...formation, it was announced that it had been established who was the author of the notorious Pinch Trojan - two Russian virus writers called Ermishkin and Farkhutdinov. The investigation will soon be completed and taken to court. The arrest of the Pinch authors is on a level with the arrests of other well known virus writers such as the...
 
Tags: pinch, pinch authors, diy malware pinch, authors, malware authors, malware, notorious pinch trojan, source malware, pinch-ing
 
 
 
 
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35,000 T. Rowe price plan participants alerted

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2008-01-29 12:51:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...formation belonging to participants in several hundred T. Rowe Price retirement plans. CBIZ is a vendor for T. Rowe Price that was helping the company to prepare IRS Form 5500's Reference URL Investment News online story Report Credit Investment News Response From the online source cited above T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, rowe price, insurance, identity theft insurance, cbiz benefits, cbiz
 
 
 
 
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Difference Between of Adware, Spyware and Anti-virus

2007-04-18 04:24:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...formation that it had gathered to the spyware author. The agent will then use this information for advertising and marketing purposes. They even sell the information to advertisers and other parties Adware, on the other hand, are more legitimate form of freeware. Similar to spyware, adwares are advertising materials which are packaged into a...
 
Tags: virus, spyware, computer virus share, adware, anti-virus, computer, spyware author, computer system, system
 
 
 
 
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Security Incident Strikes and You are on the Hot Seat..

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2007-07-27 07:00:39 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...form; this will help to cover your rear during security incidents. Make sure to get a business risk acceptance form signed by the business owner. An example is a business owner signs a business risk acceptance form if there is no budget to mitigate the vulnerability Scenario 2: The vulnerability that resulted in the incident was an unknown....
 
Tags: incident, security incident, incident playbook, incident management plan, earthquake incident, sound incident, security incidents, nasty security incidents, plan
 
 
 
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...formation access or to inhibit law enforcement agencies from monitoring sites There're three perspectives related to cyber jihad, should the virtual communities be shut down, monitored, or censored so that they cannot be accessed by people who would potentially get radicalized and brainwashed by the amazingly well created propaganda in the...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists