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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
 
Tags: computer security company, internet, details, monday inadvertently, major flaw, due, dns, system, domain
 
 
 
 
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Is there any reason to go to Black Hat still?

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2008-07-23 07:58:05 by HASH0x8b10820 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...major Internet flaw posted by accident The Kaminsky Hack: DNS Exploits in the Wild Is Kaminsky's DNS flaw public Kaminsky on the net-shaking DNS bug Details of major Internet flaw posted by accident
 
Tags: dns flaw, dns flaw public, dns, dns bug, black hat, dns leak, kaminsky, kaminsky hack, major internet flaw
 
 
 
 
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The Not-So-Sweet Life of Supplicants

2008-07-23 15:23:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...major obstacles we face with 802.1X center around creating a smooth end user experience. We, as integrators, have the distinct ability to make whatever work- we find a way. But, what I hear most from my customers is it has to be easy for the end user. (Sometimes they go on a little further, but Ill leave it at that Why does it matter...
 
Tags: user, end-user interactions, user experience, machine andor user, users, multiple unique users, user expectations, endpoint, expectations
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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Lost Tennessee Tech flash drive affects 990 students

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2008-01-17 10:14:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...major credit reporting agencies and inform them that some of our students personal information may have been compromised because we want to err on the side of caution Evan] The act of copying personal information to a flash drive without additional controls is reckless and lacks caution university officials recommend students on the list...
 
Tags: flash, flash drive, ban flash, 16gb flash drive, students, confidential data, data, students personal information, personal information