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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk

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2008-02-28 16:10:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/28/07 Organization The Home Office (UK The Home Office is the government department responsible for leading the national effort to protect the public from terrorism, crime and anti-social behaviour." - Source Home Office About Us page Contractor/Consultant/Branch Leapfrog Computers Victims...
 
Tags: home office, disk, laptop, source home office, home office spokesman, director lee bevan, lee bevan, highly confidential, leapfrog computers
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Detroit Update, Home Network-Fi, Piggyback-Fi, PHL Free-Fi

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2008-06-16 11:21:48 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
The Detroit Free Press rounds up free and fee Wi-Fi efforts around it: The city and its suburban and exurban surroundings could use more broadband, but Wi-Fi has arrived only slowly as an option. It hasn't disappeared outright, and it's made inroads in some places. The project to unwire Oakland County is on hold as even though the county and...
 
Tags: free, wi-fi, wi-fi steals hash, free wi-fi, wi-fi network setup, home, networks, personal networks, fee wi-fi efforts
 
 
 
 
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[OT rant] Are there any home WiFi routers that DON'T SUCK?

2008-08-23 00:12:38 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
Warning: rant ahead, and names named When I'm not traveling, I like to work from home some days rather than endure the trek from Seattle to Redmond (although it's much better now that our own employee transit service has expanded into my neighborhood -- the existence of which is sad commentary on the availability and reliability of Seattle's...
 
Tags: decent wireless router, home, router, lenovo, d-link dir-628, lenovo t61p, intel, dir-628, intel 4965abgn adapter
 
 
 
 
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Group points to VOIP flaw in DSL home gateway

2008-01-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b63830 in Network World on Security
 
A flaw in a DSL home gateway could lead broadband users to divulge personal information over the phone to someone they erroneously believe is calling from their bank, according to a group of self-styled ethical hackers
 
Tags: dsl home gateway, lead broadband users, divulge personal information, flaw, ethical hackers, erroneously, phone, bank
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft to patch Home Server corruption bug - in June

2008-03-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b63140 in Network World on Security
 
Microsoft Monday said its engineers were still "heads down working" on the data corruption bug that has plagued Windows Home Server since late last year, but acknowledged that a fix wouldn't be released until June at the earliest
 
Tags: windows home server, data corruption bug, june, microsoft monday, fix, heads, engineers
 
 
 
 
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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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/20/08 Organization U.S. Government Contractor/Consultant/Branch U.S. Department of State Stanley, Inc The Analysis Corporation Victims United States passport applicants Number Affected Unknown Prominent political figures such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain were all affected....
 
Tags: stanley subcontractor employees, subcontractor employees, subcontractor, confidential information, information, information security, stanley, personal information, employees
 
 
 
 
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Researcher: BT Home Hub Wi-Fi security easy to crack

2008-04-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b6c2c4 in Network World on Security
 
A security researcher claims to have found a significant weakness in the wireless encryption of a DSL home gateway made by Thomson and distributed to broadband subscribers in the U.K. by network operator BT
 
Tags: dsl home gateway, security researcher claims, broadband subscribers, significant weakness, wireless encryption, network operator, thomson
 
 
 
 
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Google asked to add home page link to privacy policies

2008-06-03 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Privacy groups have asked Google to add a link to its privacy policies on its home page, saying failure to do so violates California's privacy law
 
Tags: privacy policies, privacy, home page, privacy law, link, google, failure, california
 
 
 
 
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Ask.com places privacy policy link in home page

2008-06-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8bf4408 in Network World on Security
 
Ask.com has decided to put a link to its privacy policy on its home page, something that search-engine rival Google has declined to do and that has earned it criticism from privacy advocates
 
Tags: privacy policy, privacy, home page, search-engine rival google, link, criticism