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Former LendingTree employees sold access to customer information

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2008-04-23 13:08:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...promptly enhanced the security of our system so that this situation couldn't happen again. We also brought lawsuits against the lenders and other persons involved Evan] What? How do you promptly fix human behavior? If there were such a simple fix for the problem that led to this incident then why wasn't it implemented prior to the incident? I...
 
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700,000 records on stolen CCB server

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2008-04-22 14:57:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...promptly contacted the police and is working with the Indiana Attorney General's office The company also promptly installed additional locks, a security system, and a motion detection system to help minimize the risk of any further unauthorized access to its information Evan] These will help with physical security. Full-disk encryption and a...
 
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On virtualisation

2007-05-29 16:20:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Security Team Following Panayiotis' and Niels' post on malware, I'd like to discuss a somewhat related topic, virtualisation. Virtual machines are often used by security researchers to sandbox malware samples for analysis, or to protect a machine from a potentially hazardous activity. The theory is that any security...
 
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Franklin University student information posted on Web

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2008-01-30 18:33:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...promptly. Personally, I have not had the opportunity to look We deeply regret this unfortunate situation Because we value our students and alumni, we are offering you credit monitoring through Experian@ for 12 months, at no expense to you We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you. To view Frequently Asked...
 
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Insecure folder on NSK Americas' internal network

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2008-02-11 11:11:51 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...promptly retained Kroll On-Track, an industry-leading security consulting firm, to help us. As a part of this investigation and with the assistance of Kroll, we conducted a detailed review of all network logs to determine if the information was inappropriately accessed or downloaded to personal computers Based on our investigation, security...
 
Tags: nsk americas, nsk, nsk employees, non-nsk employees, sensitive personal information, personal information, breach description, breach, secure personal information
 
 
 
 
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Lasell College IT employee suspected in breach

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2008-03-21 11:44:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...promptly began an investigation. They said they notified local law enforcement authorities and attorneys general and other officials in states where the affected individuals reside We deeply regret this situation and are taking steps to investigate what has happened and to put measures in place to improve the protection of our data and to...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security studies, lasell college, lasell, chief information officer, information systems, information technology, information security
 
 
 
 
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Intrusion at Okemo Mountain Resort exposes customers

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2008-04-01 20:44:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...promptly initiated security measures to block the infiltration and protect any personal information transmitted through its system from any further unauthorized access Evan] How do you suppose Okemo discovered this intrusion? Did a customer report unauthorized charges? Was the incident stumbled upon or detected during information security...
 
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A false accusation of hacking

2008-04-02 17:03:46 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...promptly asked for the evidence, and he sent back a copy of the email. Unfortunately, the University of Cambridge spam filter quietly discarded it, because it contained a phishing URL. Everyone here assumed that the matter had been forgotten about, and nothing proactive was done to follow it up Unfortunately, at the other end of the...
 
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Unauthorized access to the Stryker Corporation VPN

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2008-04-17 12:45:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...promptly began investigating the incident and engaged an independent computer forensics investigator to determine the scope of the breach and the identity of the unauthorized user Evan] The identity of the unauthorized user is "administrator" (or something similar), right? In a way yes, but this isn't what they mean The investigation...
 
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Stolen account firm laptop contained personal information

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2008-04-28 09:50:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...promptly It was one of those unfortunate faux pas," Gardner said of the theft. "This was an unusual situation and proper steps (were) taken to coach and correct that employee Evan] A faux pas (false step) yes, but I would argue against "unfortunate". Unfortunate for the victims, certainly, but not for the firm. Information mismanagement...
 
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