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Employee fraud at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage affects some customers

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2008-07-08 12:58:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...notice to approximately 24 residents of the state of New Hampshire of a potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and mortgage loan account numbers We have learned that a former Wells Fargo employee working in our reverse mortgage servicing department inappropriately used another customer's account information Evan] Employee...
 
Tags: fargo, fargo home mortgage, employee, fargo employee, reverse mortgage loan, reverse mortgage, social security, evan cool, evan
 
 
 
 
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ICANN's Announcement Of Anti-Domain Tasting Measures To Registrars

2008-07-08 15:42:32 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...notice periods on the implementation documents. Domain tasting motion approved by the GNSO Council 17 April 2008 Whereas, the GNSO Council has discussed the Issues Report on Domain Tasting and the Final Outcomes Report of the ad hoc group on Domain Tasting; Whereas, the GNSO Council resolved on 31 October 2007 to launch a PDP on Domain...
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...notice. The second is to make people feel more secure without making them actually more secure, and hope they don't notice The key here is whether we notice. The feeling and reality of security tend to converge when we take notice, and diverge when we don't. People notice when 1) there are enough positive and negative examples to draw a...
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...notice. The second is to make people feel more secure without making them actually more secure, and hope they don't notice The key here is whether we notice. The feeling and reality of security tend to converge when we take notice, and diverge when we don't. People notice when 1) there are enough positive and negative examples to draw a...
 
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Phishing Emails Generating Botnet Scaling

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2008-04-18 14:57:30 by HASH0x8aef3f0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...notice! *** This is robot generated message please do not reply *** (C) 2008 Natwest Bankline. All Rights Reserved. Attached File: "ods096.gif" (image/gif Sender Address: "NatWest Bank On-line Banking'2008" to Recipient: Subject: Natwest OnLine Banking Important Notice From Technical Department Id: 9044 Email Content:...
 
Tags: bank, bank digital, ns1, bank bankline, ns2, bank internet, malware, malware variants signal, botnet
 
 
 
 
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The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...notice most security problems I've often speculated about how much of this is innate, and how much is teachable. In general, I think it's a particular way of looking at the world, and that it's far easier to teach someone domain expertise -- cryptography or software security or safecracking or document forgery -- than it is to teach someone a...
 
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The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...notice most security problems I've often speculated about how much of this is innate, and how much is teachable. In general, I think it's a particular way of looking at the world, and that it's far easier to teach someone domain expertise -- cryptography or software security or safecracking or document forgery -- than it is to teach someone a...
 
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Intrusion at Okemo Mountain Resort exposes customers

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2008-04-01 20:44:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...notice to Visa, MasterCard and American Express and is cooperating fully with the credit card companies to notify potentially affected cardholders Okemo does not have sufficient information to directly contact cardholders Okemo has been informed that the banks, which issued the credit cards, will be provided with information necessary to...
 
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Unauthorized access to the Stryker Corporation VPN

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2008-04-17 12:45:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...notice of the security incident, so as not to interfere with its investigation But on March 20, 2008, the FBI informed Stryker that based on current information, it would not pursue a criminal investigation Stryker will provide a notice of the security incident to each potentially affected employee Stryker intends to mail the notice to...
 
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Slow removal of child sexual abuse image websites

2008-06-11 14:02:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper