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Visa and Mastercard warn of breach at "major retailer"

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2008-03-17 15:27:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...major retailer Update pending as details become available Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unknown Victims consumers in Massachusetts and northern New England states Number Affected MBA estimates that hundreds of thousands MBA is the Massachusetts Bankers Association which represents approximately 200 commercial, savings and co-operative...
 
Tags: breach, breach description, security breach, retail data breach, major retailer, retailer, data, major breach, data breach
 
 
 
 
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VMware to unveil major partnerships

2008-02-22 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
VMware has formed partnerships with Symantec, IBM and other major security vendors to boost protection of computers running on its virtualization software, Reuters reported this week
 
Tags: major security vendors, vmware, boost protection, partnerships, virtualization software, symantec, week, ibm, reuters
 
 
 
 
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Major Career Web Sites Hit by Spammers Attack

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2008-05-12 12:15:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances , like the ones already offered for use on demand? Its targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages, to ultimately set...
 
Tags: major career sites, employment history, malware campaigns, ultimately set, complete assessment, personal data, perfect foundation, country basis, appliances
 
 
 
 
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Power Outages Are A Major Risk That Most Companies Overlook

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2008-07-10 17:31:34 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
...major business disruption To prevent power failures, businesses must ensure that they have multiple diverse connections to the power grid as well as install backup power generators and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) at the data center. But it's not enough to have these preventative measures in place, businesses must test the ability to...
 
Tags: prevent power failures, failures, data center, recovery data center, backup power, backup power generators, power failures, power failure, rackspace power failure
 
 
 
 
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Details of major Internet flaw posted by accident

2008-07-22 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A computer security company on Monday inadvertently published details of a major flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) several weeks before they were due to be disclosed
 
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Researchers discover new cross-browser exploit that affects all major desktop platforms

2008-09-27 01:11:29 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a new browser security threat that affects all major desktop platforms: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash. The threat, called Clickjacking, was to be discussed at the OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference but, at the request of Adobe and
 
Tags: major desktop platforms, threat, browser security threat, owasp nyc appsec, microsoft internet explorer, adobe flash, adobe, researchers, affects
 
 
 
 
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Major Industries Drop The Ball On Data Security

2008-10-03 14:10:17 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Verizon, recently analyzed "four years of data from over 500 cases worked by the Verizon Business Investigative Response team," to produce a report that gives an in-depth look into how data breaches are occurring in four major industry groups: financial services, food and beverage, retail, and technology services
 
Tags: data, data breaches, technology services, financial services, major industry, recently, in-depth, produce, verizon
 
 
 
 
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Biometric Security for Financial Meltdown Solutions

2008-10-06 10:43:28 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Wall Street was dominated by 5 major investment banking firms at the beginning of 2008. Nine months later, only 2 of these investment banking firms remain. This is probably the worst financial turmoil
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Major utility/SCADA hack = no (not yet). Everybody predicts this one forever (as Rich mentions ), but I am guessing we would need to wait another year or so for this Cyber-terrorism = no (again, not yet!) Will it be a reality in the future? You bet! Just not now A massive data theft to dwarf TJX = yes . And it will include not some silly...
 
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