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Permanent TSB hit by cyber criminals

2008-01-18 16:22:43 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
Permanent TSB is examining an incident that saw cyber criminals steal money from 40 of its customers' accounts
 
 
 
 
 
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University of Florida doctor loses job over breach

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2008-05-22 09:47:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...permanent loss of most of the patient information Evan] Not true. Formatting and re-installing an operating system will not result in permanent loss of data. Depending on factors such as disk size, amount of previously stored data and location on disk, much of the confidential information could still be retrieved with relative ease The family...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Pros and Cons of LifeLock

2008-06-12 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...permanent This service pisses off the credit bureaus and their financial customers. The reason lenders don't routinely verify your identity before issuing you credit is that it takes time, costs money and is one more hurdle between you and another credit card. (Buy, buy, buy -- it's the American way.) So in the eyes of credit bureaus,...
 
 
 
 
 
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LifeLock and Identity Theft

2008-06-17 06:51:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...permanent This service pisses off the credit bureaus and their financial customers. The reason lenders don't routinely verify your identity before issuing you credit is that it takes time, costs money and is one more hurdle between you and another credit card. (Buy, buy, buy -- it's the American way.) So in the eyes of credit bureaus,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptop contained Centocor speaker-consultant information

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2008-01-29 11:08:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Permanent information protected with one year of monitoring doesn't do much to reduce the risk to the affected individual. Monitoring is after the fact, and one year is 365 days Centocor is committed to working with the local law enforcement to try and recover the missing assets and your information Evan] It is important to remember that...
 
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Customs Seizing Laptops

2008-02-12 12:23:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...permanent U.S. resident. "So now, every time I travel, I basically clean out my phone. It's better for me to keep my colleagues and friends safe than to get them on the list as well Privacy? There's no need to worry: Hollinger said customs officers "are trained to protect confidential information I know I feel better I strongly recommend the...
 
 
 
 
 
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MITM on jury duty

2008-02-22 12:29:38 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
Yesterday I reported to my local Hall of Justice for jury duty They offer free wireless for jurors waiting to be called into the court. In the vicinity was the state-run access point, and a host-to-host wireless network calling itself Free Internet Service What could that be but a man-in-the-middle attacker interested in packet capture? It could...
 
 
 
 
 
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Email is a Practice

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2007-07-27 15:50:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...permanent and searchable and can be forwarded as easily to a thousand people as to just one. And the results can range from embarrassing to costly to disastrous. All the goodwill you've built up over years or decades can be destroyed with one bad e-mail from anyone in your organization
 
 
 
 
 
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Security in Montana

2008-03-17 13:17:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Three items The first is about the difficulty of implementing REAL ID in areas so remote they don't have a permanent DMV. The second is about airport security at airports so remote they average only two passengers per flight . The third -- and this is the best -- is Brian Schweitzer, Montana's governor, speaking about his opposition to REAL ID
 
 
 
 
 
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ICQ Messenger Controlled Malware

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2008-04-14 07:28:05 by HASH0x8b20134 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...permanent development phrase, with malware authors trying to adapt their releases in order for them to bypass popular detection mechanisms. IM controlled malware is a great example of such a development, and now that I've already covered a Yahoo Messenger controlled malware in previous post, it would be logical to come up with more evidence...