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Prominent Web sites found to have serious coding flaw

2008-09-30 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2ada4 in Network World on Security
 
Two Princeton University academics have found a type of coding flaw on several prominent Web sites that could jeopardize personal data and in one alarming case, drain a bank account
 
Tags: prominent web sites, princeton university academics, bank account, personal data, flaw, type, drain
 
 
 
 
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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
...prominent Oklahoma County residents were found with ease and in no case did we find a document where the Social Security number had been redacted, or blacked out, as is required under federal law Almost all of some 8.7 million documents - 17 million pages - are online, from mortgage documents, mineral deeds, liens and other legal "papers,"...
 
Tags: county, county commissioner, county clerks, oklahoma county residents, residents, oklahoma county, social security, court documents, county clerk
 
 
 
 
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A breach that hits home with 2008 presidential candidates

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2008-03-22 13:16:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Prominent political figures such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain were all affected. It is expected and assumed that there are more affected individuals, but due to the sensational nature of events, the full extent of the breach is not known Types of Data It is not clear whether the employees saw anything other than the basic...
 
Tags: stanley subcontractor employees, subcontractor employees, subcontractor, confidential information, information, information security, stanley, personal information, employees
 
 
 
 
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Researcher says Sears downloads spyware

2008-01-01 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Sears and Kmart customers who sign up for a new marketing program may be giving up more private information than they'd bargained for, a prominent anti-spyware researcher claims
 
Tags: sears, kmart customers, information, program, sign
 
 
 
 
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Silver Bullet Talks with Mikko Hyppönen

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...prominent work against the Sobig.F, Sasser, and Zotob worms. He's also been active in the discovery of malicious code used for "good," such as Sony's infamous digital rights management rootkit. Featured here is an excerpt adapted from the full interview
 
Tags: chief research officer, malicious code, mikko, zotob worms, excerpt, active, discovery, f-secure, prominent
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...prominent statement that data is being collected to provide ads targeted to the consumer and give consumers the ability to choose whether or not to have their information collected for such purpose To address the concern that data collected for behavioral advertising may find its way into the hands of criminals or other wrongdoers, and...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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The two faces or Privila

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2008-03-06 19:02:12 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
...prominent article and no adverts Curiously, the Windows Live Search, and Yahoo! spiders are presented with an almost empty page: just a header but neither adverts nor articles. You can try this yourself, by using the User Agent Switcher Firefox extension and a list of user-agent strings I expect the interns who wrote these articles will be...
 
Tags: articles, articles re-appear, adverts, user-agent, user-agent strings, google, page, google download, appears
 
 
 
 
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The two faces of Privila

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2008-03-06 19:02:12 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
...prominent article and no adverts Curiously, the Windows Live Search, and Yahoo! spiders are presented with an almost empty page: just a header but neither adverts nor articles. You can try this yourself, by using the User Agent Switcher Firefox extension and a list of user-agent strings I expect the interns who wrote these articles will be...
 
Tags: articles, articles re-appear, adverts, google, page, google download, appears, empty page, web server appears
 
 
 
 
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Hackers expand massive IFRAME attack to prime sites

2008-03-28 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A massive IFRAME attack that began earlier this month has spread to a number of prominent Web sites whose search results have been poisoned with malicious code, according to security researchers
 
Tags: massive iframe attack, prominent web sites, malicious code, security researchers, spread, month, results
 
 
 
 
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Hackers expand massive IFRAME attack to prime sites

2008-03-29 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b36798 in Network World on Security
 
...prominent sites, including those for USA Today, ABC News, Target and Wal-Mart, researchers said Friday Sign up for a FREE NETWORK RISK ASSESSMENT Advertisement MORE THAN 70% OF NETWORKS ARE INFECTED by hidden Malware. Find out if your network is infec