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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...Online Behavioral Advertising " (The Principles are excerpted below). The FTC has suggested that these should be considered for implementation as private sector self-regulation in the same way that earlier online privacy principles had been adopted by the US private sector self-regulation in response to the Safe Harbor agreement to meet the...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Online intruder makes off with SwimwearBoutique.com customer data

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2008-04-27 00:22:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...online source cited above I am writing to you on behalf of my client SwimwearBoutique.com ("SWB") because it determined on March 28, 2008 that it was the victim of an illegal intrusion into its systems Criminals unlawfully obtained access to certain databases containing various information, which could have included names, addresses, and...
 
Tags: credit card account, credit card, time credit card, information, personal information, information security, credit card information, customers, swb customers
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...online. Usernames and passwords are a thing of the past: you can safely assume that you will use a computer to log in which has a keylogger or trojan capturing your keystrokes, and with it your username and password Savvy customers are increasingly turning towards online retailers and financial institutions which provide at least some form of...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Covert Online Spies

2007-08-01 19:20:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...Online Spies The Internet is a powerful tool that provides everyone online a way to be connected to each other, gather a lot of information and enjoy convenient services like online shopping and banking. However, many of us Internet users are at constant risk of adware and spyware downloads that make us extremely vulnerable to malicious...
 
Tags: anti spyware program, anti spyware, free anti spyware, proper anti spyware, anti spyware system, spyware, spyware downloads, spyware programs, anti-spyware system
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma County Social Security numbers online

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2008-03-13 09:46:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...online source cited above The Social Security numbers of thousands of Oklahoma County residents are available on County Clerk Carolynn Caudill's website to anyone who wants to look, apparently in violation of federal law The numbers are contained on numerous documents filed of record in the county and are easily found by anyone with...
 
Tags: county, county commissioner, county clerks, oklahoma county residents, residents, oklahoma county, social security, court documents, county clerk
 
 
 
 
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Personal Las Cruces Public Schools Special Ed information posted online

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2008-05-09 10:02:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...online sources cited above LAS CRUCES - The Las Cruces Public Schools has announced that confidential student and staff information, including some personal identifying data, was unintentionally posted on the Internet. Immediately upon learning that the data was posted, the district took steps to remove the data from the Internet site where...
 
Tags: information, lcps, lcps employees, special education students, lcps press conference, special education, specific information, data security, data
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...Online security is an important topic for Google, our users, and anyone who uses the Internet. The related issues are complex and dynamic and we've been looking for a way to foster discussion on the topic and keep users informed. Thus, we've started this blog where we hope to periodically provide updates on recent trends, interesting...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Malware Serving Online Casinos

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2007-11-29 16:37:13 by HASH0x8968208 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...online casinos are currently serving embedded malware in the form of IFRAMES and the average javascript obfuscation The first one is poker.gagnantscasino.com (213.186.33.4) with current obfuscation loading statistics-gdf.cn/ad/index.php (116.0.103.133) where another obfuscation loads, deobfuscated attempts to load p423ck.exe (Zlob) at...
 
Tags: obfuscation, current obfuscation, obfuscation loads, play poker, poker, internal url statistics-gdf, statistics-gdf, average javascript obfuscation, php
 
 
 
 
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Guidelines for fighting online fraud

2008-03-20 12:07:12 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Online fraud causes more problems than just user and business financial losses directly related to a specific incident. One long term effect is loss in online business due to user fears of identity theft and exploitation
 
Tags: online fraud, online business due, user fears, user, term effect, identity theft, specific incident, loss, exploitation