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Design flaws, besides vulnerabilities, hurt banking sites

2008-07-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472e80 in Network World on Security
 
Banking Web sites suffer from design flaws that undermine their security, exclusive of software vulnerabilities, according to a University of Michigan study to be released Friday
 
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A breach that hits home with 2008 presidential candidates

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2008-03-22 13:16:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Friday, after officials were made aware of the unauthorized access of Obama's records and a separate search was conducted Evan] Are we safe to assume that the unauthorized access to McCain and Clinton's passport files would have gone unnoticed without the discovery of the Obama access The incidents raise questions as to whether the...
 
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Pocono Mountain School District "irregularities"

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2008-06-02 12:36:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Friday District Superintendent Dwight Pfennig sent home letters on Friday afternoon telling parents about the apparent breach, which the district found out about the previous evening, according to Wendy Frable, director of public information Reference URL Pocono Mountain School District "Letter to Parents Pocono Record The Morning Call ...
 
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Burglars make off with Crosslines Ministries files

2008-02-18 16:46:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...Friday, February 15th 2008. Computer equipment and files containing sensitive personal information belonging to clients are missing Reference URL The Carthage Press online story The Carthage Press online story (updated The Joplin Globe online story KOAM-TV Channel 7 News story Report Credit John Hacker, The Carthage Press Response From the...
 
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Binghamton University mistaken email exposes students

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2008-03-19 14:10:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Friday", 3/14/08 Reference URL BU Pipe Dream Press & Sun-Bulletin Report Credit John Hill, Press & Sun-Bulletin Response From the online sources cited above One wrong move has left more than 300 School of Management students vulnerable to identity theft. An e-mail containing the names, Social Security numbers and grade point averages of...
 
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Did the Rent-a-Center manager knowingly expose personal information?

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2008-05-12 15:05:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Friday morning In the files were photocopies of Social Security cards and driver's licenses, credit card numbers, home addresses and phone numbers of people who leased furniture, TVs and appliances from RentWay A Manatee Sheriff's deputy arrived at about 10:30 a.m. and called workers from Rent-A-Center, which acquired RentWay in 2006, to...
 
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Duke School of Law breach affects 3,200

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2007-12-06 11:37:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Friday, it appeared that we had removed the unauthorized content, and we reposted the web site Comfyllama] Ugh. Thursday afternoon until Friday was all it took to re-certify the site? Doesn't seem like a good incident response. If a site is compromised, it is usually a better practice to replace it with a new rebuilt server so that the...
 
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Highly sensitive medical information found in the road

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2008-01-10 14:11:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Friday January 4th, 2008 a motorbike bag was discovered in the street near the Kingston Hospital. The bag held hundreds of documents containing sensitive medical information belonging to a variety of patients Reference URL BBC News Story The Hastings Observer Story Report Credit BBC News Response From the online sources cited above ...
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Friday afternoon, OmniAmerican placed temporary limits on some ATM and debit-card transactions and suspended some electronic banking services, which were restored Sunday, Carter said. At no time were customer deposits at risk, he stressed. "We reduced by half the dollar amount that could be withdrawn and limited [access] to Texas. We cut out...
 
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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
...Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday The computer break-in occurred earlier this month, Burchard said. Authorities investigating the crime asked the company to keep the news extremely confidential during the early stages of the investigation This was a "very, very sophisticated hacker," Burchard said. "We don't know where this person is; we...
 
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