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House committee issues report and finds fault with TSA web site

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2008-01-15 09:35:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...October 6, 2006 and February 13, 2007 Number Affected thousands Types of Data Name, Social Security number, birth date, birth place, sex, height, weight, hair color, eye color, address, and home and work telephone number Breach Description According to the January, 2008 United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and...
 
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UltimateBet cheating goes undetected for almost 21 months

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2008-06-04 10:55:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...October 2006 Evan] Shouldn't an information security and risk assessment be conducted as part of the acquisition and integration? If so, then wouldn't a code review of the proprietary software that came with the acquisition be included? This is the proprietary software that really drives the purpose of the site The player or players behind...
 
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YWCA Retirement Fund participants exposed in stolen computer

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2007-12-11 12:23:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...October 1st, 2007 YWCA Retirement Fund employees noticed that a computer had been stolen from the Fund's office in New York. The computer contained sensitive personal information including names and Social Security numbers for active fund participants from January 1st, 2002 to September 28th, 2007 Reference URL State of New Hampshire...
 
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The Breach Blog November Review

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2007-12-04 13:55:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...October. November ranks second to September (44) in the number of breaches reported in a month, since The Breach Blog began compiling reports in August The month started out like most of the others, with our first breach report coming on the first day of the month. On October 27th, Art.com, Inc. issued a statement to customers alerting them...
 
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S&K Menswear two-phased attack

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2008-01-03 10:40:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...October 24th, 2007 personal information belonging to S&K online customers was accessed without proper authorization. S&K became aware of the unauthorized access after reports of fictitious spear phishing emails began circulating in which the attacker requested the CVV2 codes to match the credit card numbers. It is unknown how many customers...
 
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J.C. Penney customers affected by lost GE Money backup tape

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2008-01-18 10:24:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...October, 2007 Reference URL Associated Press Story State of New Hampshire Breach notification dated December 28, 2007 Original Breach Blog Report Report Credit The Associated Press Response From the online sources cited above Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised...
 
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Axcess Financial reports stolen laptop to New Hampshire AG

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2008-05-28 11:45:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...October 23, 2007, and we filed a police report with state law enforcement officials Evan] October 23, 2007 Following the discovery of this crime, an extensive forensic investigation was required to determine the information contained within the stolen property There has been no indication that any misuse of this information has occurred in...
 
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Williamson County Schools learns of breach reported nine months ago

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2008-07-13 00:12:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...October, 2007, many months before the victims were ever made aware Yesterday afternoon, the Liberty Coalition was able to provide the names of the students affected Our investigation indicates that the student information was posted on a private website created by Mr. Nugent sometime during the month of August, 2007 On August 28, 2007, the...
 
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Spamhaus litigation: Will spammers get a second wind?

2006-10-16 01:38:55 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...October 5 : e360 submits an order to suspend www.spamhaus.org since Spamhaus failed to comply with the courts previous order. If signed, the order will call for ICANN and/or Tucows (Spamhaus Registrar) to take the Spamhaus website down October 9 : ICANN makes a statement warning that they do not have the ability nor the authorization to...
 
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National Cyber Security Month Kicks Off at the National Press Club

2007-10-03 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...October 1st Below, you will find a post from the Summit I was encouraged by the strong turnout at the inaugural National Cyber Security Awareness Summit, the 4th time that October has been recognized officially as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. You know that you are going to have good event when the room is half full 30 minutes...
 
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