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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...irresponsible., Liam Fox Evan] My vote is lax procedure and poor practice The stolen laptop contained personal information relating to some 600,000 people who have either expressed an interest in, or have joined, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the Royal Air Force The information held is not the same for every individual. In some cases,...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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Wikileaks: Voice of the people or just bad news?

2008-02-20 08:27:18 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
I'm all for getting the bad guys, and it's been my experience that law enforcement officials will deal with issues brought to their attention if there is sufficient evidence--and evidence (i.e. proof) is very important. A set of documents alone is often insufficient to prove guilt or to understand all the ramifications of a case. So posting...
 
Tags: sufficient evidence, evidence, law enforcement officials, bad guys, documents, irresponsible behavior, prove guilt, issues, experience
 
 
 
 
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GoDaddy Is the First Escrowed Registrar

2008-02-27 10:13:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Many months ago we described how ICANN was going to set up a Registrar Data Escrow Service to deal with the potential for registrar failure. Some months later they approved Iron Mountain as a service provider. Now GoDaddy has announced that they are the first to back up all of their customer data under the requirements of the program. The...
 
Tags: godaddy, months ago, months, customer data, potential, iron mountain, irresponsible registrars, program, set
 
 
 
 
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GoDaddy Is the First Escrowed Registrar

2008-02-27 10:13:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Many months ago we described how ICANN was going to set up a Registrar Data Escrow Service to deal with the potential for registrar failure. Some months later they approved Iron Mountain as a service provider. Now GoDaddy has announced that they are the first to back up all of their customer data under the requirements of the program. The...
 
Tags: godaddy, months ago, months, customer data, potential, iron mountain, irresponsible registrars, program, set
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...irresponsible) handling of the realities of the biometric authentication challenge. They gloss over the real security challenges with creating a national biometric infrastructure. Here are the two quotes that are most misleading Confusing privacy with anonymity has delayed implementation of robust, virtually tamper-proof biometric...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics
 
 
 
 
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Responsible-ish Disclosure

2008-05-08 20:50:57 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...irresponsible. But look at the code its completely generic, just a textbook example of what it looks like when you forget to check a return value after calling operator new. Sure, Core gives you the exact offsets into the executable, but so what? If I have the binary, then its not going to be too hard to find the vulnerability anyway. Its not...
 
Tags: text, esi, 00405c1b mov esi, ecx, 00405c31 push esi, 00405c3e mov ecx, recent dos vulnerability, vulnerability, 00405c21 test esi
 
 
 
 
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A coward exposes personal information on 40% of Chileans

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2008-05-16 13:56:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...irresponsible and has left almost 40 per cent of Chile's population at risk of identity theft Cluley added that all organisations around the world should see this as a wake-up call and ensure that all personal and sensitive information is stored securely Evan] You would think that the 94,000,000 credit card numbers stolen from TJX, or the...
 
Tags: personal, information, chilean residents, residents, poor data protection, data protection, personal data, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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When do you have an obligation to go public?

2008-05-29 21:13:01 by HASH0x8b01008 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...irresponsible behavior go on the right posture? I say not I think CrYpTiC felt strong enough about what TJX was doing was wrong that he posted it publicly. Though he did it anonymously and did not think it would be traced back to him, he felt strong enough that what TJX was doing was wrong and he wanted the world to know. When he made that...
 
Tags: public, public forum, tjx, tjx fraud, martin, cryptic, confidential information, cryptic mauler, ipo public
 
 
 
 
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Viacom's Statement on YouTube User Data Controversy

2008-07-04 23:30:20 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
It is unfortunate that we have been compelled to go to court ...YouTube and Google have put us in this position by continuing to defend their illegal and irresponsible conduct and profiting from copyright infringement, when they could be implementing the safe and legal user generated content experience they promise
 
Tags: irresponsible conduct, copyright infringement, youtube, content experience, legal user, safe, google, court, illegal