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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/6/08 Organization HSBC Group (UK Contractor/Consultant/Branch Market Place, Easingwold Victims Potentially customers, but no confirmed loss or theft occurred Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Potentially customer banking records Breach Description The HSBC branch in Easingwold was found...
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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15-year-old "hacks" Downingtown Area School District

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2008-05-18 21:54:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/16/08 Organization Downingtown Area School District Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Staff members and county taxpayers Number Affected 71 teachers" and "several thousand tax payers Types of Data W-2 forms, Social Security numbers, and home addresses Breach Description DOWNINGTOWN,...
 
Tags: district, school, school district officials, school district, information, personal information, school board, salary information, school information
 
 
 
 
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New rootkit uses old trick to hide itself

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Over the past month, a new type of malicious software has emerged, using a decades-old technique to hide itself from antivirus software
 
Tags: malicious software, hide, decades-old technique, past month, antivirus software, type
 
 
 
 
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Five-Year-Old Boy Detained by the TSA

2008-01-10 10:53:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
His name is similar to someone on the "no fly" list: A five-year-old boy was taken into custody and thoroughly searched at Sea-Tac because his name is similar to a possible terrorist alias. As the Consumerist reports, "When his mother went to pick him up and hug him and comfort him during the proceedings, she was told not to touch him because he...
 
Tags: common sense, five-year-old boy, proper procedure, interview kip hawley, terrorist, procedure, national security risk, terrorist alias, tsa
 
 
 
 
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Old exploit keeps on tickin' for hackers

2008-01-11 00:00:00 by HASH0x847355c in Network World on Security
 
In the last two weeks, hackers have exploited an 18-month-old vulnerability in Microsoft Windows in three high-profile attack campaigns to infect PCs with advanced rootkits and launch infections from thousands of compromised Web sites
 
Tags: high-profile attack campaigns, launch infections, web sites, microsoft windows, 18-month-old vulnerability, infect pcs, hackers, rootkits, thousands
 
 
 
 
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11-year-old takes school network by the horns

2008-03-29 05:50:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Millbrook, Ala., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. For Penn, its been the experience of a lifetime, even getting to select and install a gateway security appliance largely by himself
 
Tags: school, victory baptist school, gateway security appliance, network manager, computer network, ala, millbrook, install, lifetime
 
 
 
 
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Another Old Presentation: Log Baselining

2008-05-08 12:07:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
As I did in the past , I am releasing another one of my old presentations . This one is about baselining logs and was given at SANS a few years ago as SANS @ Night. It mostly a subset of my "Log Mining" preso , but with some things added and clarified. Keep in mind, this is circa 2006 or so I dug out a few more fun ones, that go as far back as...
 
Tags: log, sans, circa, fun, logs, subset, dug, past, chuvakin
 
 
 
 
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16-Year Old Indian Hacker Says College Useless

2008-06-17 11:10:42 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
A 16-year old boy was arrested and interrogated for his involvement in eBay and PayPal scams, and said that he was happy with his lifestyle and that college was a useless alternative for making money Coming from a modest background, the boy wanted to live lavishly with a fine haircut and brand-name clothes, and he found he could achieve that by...
 
Tags: college, online payment scam, useless alternative, scam, credit card information, ebay, live lavishly, 16-year, fine haircut
 
 
 
 
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Banning function calls, assurance, and retrofitting

2008-03-18 19:48:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
I've been working on some C/C++ secure coding standards lately, and trying to mesh those up with the results from the static analyzer I'm using. As it turns out there is a fine line to be drawn between what you consider best practices, what a static analyzer can find, how much context the static analyzer has, and how much manual review you...
 
Tags: code review experience, code, security sensitive context, context, security critical context, unsafe context, static analyzer, file defects, rand
 
 
 
 
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Tucson area Domino's Pizza customer information exposed

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2008-06-18 10:43:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog