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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Passport Canada As mandated by the Canadian Passport Order, Passport Canada is responsible for issuing, revoking, withholding, recovering, and providing instructions on the use of Canadian passports Victims Certain persons applying for Canadian passports online Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names, addresses, phone numbers, birth...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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UK Electronic Passport Cloned

2008-08-07 06:11:52 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...passport is cloned in minutes Does this surprise anyone? This is what I wrote about electronic passports two years ago in The Washington Post : The other security mechanisms are also vulnerable, and several security researchers have already discovered flaws. One found that he could identify individual chips via unique characteristics of the...
 
Tags: passport, passport chip, fakeproof e-passport, security, passport security, security researchers, security mechanisms, chip, antenna technology
 
 
 
 
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E-Passport Threats

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
The author focuses on the cryptographic protection of e-passports, working from the assumption that even if people can peacefully live with their e-passports, what sort of cryptography technology is involved here? Can e-passport holders protect their privacy without resorting to subterfuge
 
Tags: e-passport holders protect, e-passports, cryptography technology, author focuses, cryptographic protection, subterfuge, assumption, people, sort
 
 
 
 
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Passport Fraud

2008-01-08 13:59:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...passport fraud worldwide. Six years after 9/11, an NBC News undercover investigation has found that the black market in fraudulent passports is thriving. On the streets of South America, NBC documented the sale of stolen and doctored passports, and travel papers prized by terrorists: genuine passports issued under false names. For a few...
 
Tags: passports, fraudulent passports, genuine passports, venezuelan passports, investigator, corrupt government employees, undercover investigator, passport fraud worldwide, travel widely
 
 
 
 
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Passport card with chatty RFID chip draws privacy ire

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x84705f8 in Network World on Security
 
A proposed new RFID-enabled passport card intended for use by Americans frequently travelling to Canada, Mexico. Bermuda and the Caribbean poses serious security and privacy risks for users, the Centers for Democracy and Technology (CDT) warned this week
 
Tags: passport card, privacy risks, americans frequently, caribbean poses, bermuda, week, users, mexico, democracy
 
 
 
 
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FAQ: The Obama breach: What exactly is a passport record?

2008-03-21 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The passport files accessed improperly by State Department contract workers looking into Sen. Barack Obama's records include an extensive array of data, according to publicly available information on the system
 
Tags: department contract workers, records include, passport files, barack obama, extensive array, system, information, data, publicly
 
 
 
 
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State Dept. Apologizes to Obama for Passport Snooping

2008-03-21 15:45:00 by Associated Press in Wired Security
 
Calling it an unauthorized breach of his privacy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls Barack Obama and apologizes after three State Department contractors are caught looking through the Democratic presidential candidate's passport file
 
Tags: passport file, democratic presidential, department contractors, secretary, privacy, breach
 
 
 
 
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FAQ: The Obama breach: What exactly is a passport record

2008-03-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8afc9b8 in Network World on Security
 
...passport records of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), has sparked a firestorm of controversy. While State Department officials characterized the incident as the result of "imprudent curiosity," Obama's campaign spokesman called the breach an "outrageous breach of security and privacy." The breaches occurred Jan. 9, Feb. 12 and March 14, but were...
 
Tags: obama, breach, department, department officials, department employees, outrageous breach, barack obama, imprudent curiosity, passport records
 
 
 
 
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State Department workers ignored passport data access warnings

2008-03-21 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The federal contract workers who viewed the passport records of the three leading presidential candidates didn't break through any technical controls. But they did breach the internal trust that balances security and access to data
 
Tags: federal contract workers, internal trust, passport records, access, data, balances security, technical controls, presidential, breach
 
 
 
 
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Senators want criminal prosecutions of passport snoopers

2008-07-10 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. Department of State inspector general's office has recommended criminal prosecution for five employees or contractors who accessed electronic passport records without permission, but two U.S. senators on Thursday called for more criminal cases to be filed