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Marathon County, Wisconsin Purchase Card Program breach

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2008-03-06 11:40:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Purchase Card Program" to the county's purchase card administrator, who was not authorized to receive such information Reference URL State of Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection breach notification Report Credit State of Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection Response From the online source cited above Marathon County has a data...
 
Tags: county, breach, marathon county, employees, county employees, information breach, wisconsin, breach description, purchase card administrator
 
 
 
 
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Want Great Technology? Buy TIBCO (TIBX)

2008-01-18 11:42:27 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...purchase of BEA. John thinks TIBCO, the last real middleplayer on the block, will also be purchased, and names IBM as the most likely candidate, but adds that SAP, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) , Oracle (ORCL) , Sun Microsystems (JAVA) , EMC and Cisco (CSCO) all could potentially be interested If Oracle bought TIBCO, a very interesting idea, that...
 
Tags: tibco, tibco spends, ibm buys tibco, tibco culture, tibco employess, oracle buys tibco, sun buys tibco, challenge oracle, oracle
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...purchase plan Number Affected Unknown Types of Data First name, last name, Social Security number and Yahoo! employee ID number Breach Description On November 12th, 2007 Fidelity Investments inadvertently emailed a file containing personal information pertaining to Yahoo! employee stock purchase plan participants to the wrong company ...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Got Milk? Stuff I did not know about data protection and privacy

2007-11-26 01:49:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...purchase frequency and maybe stop coming to the store. And what was the bottom line? Milk is the leading indicator The short shelf life and the ubiquity of milk dictated the purchase frequency of all grocery items in the home and thus timing of trips to the store. If the customer found milk (better, cheaper, organic, closer etc) they are more...
 
Tags: milk purchase, purchase, reduce purchase frequency, data, milk, purchase frequency, mined data, mined, data-centric view
 
 
 
 
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Open Letter to Verizon Wireless

2008-08-25 15:43:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...purchase a new phone with the discount My current phone has a wonderful battery life, but this is the 4th time the charger has snapped off in the phone. The phone is fine, but I keep paying $30 for new chargers. I refuse to purchase another or wait until February when I will be eligible for a new phone. You sold a phone with a design flaw,...
 
Tags: phone, phone workedit, free phone, current phone, verizon, phone selection stinks, verizon wireless store, time, verizon wireless customer
 
 
 
 
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Forget the IPhone, Give me the JPhone

2007-07-25 21:56:46 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...purchase My wife and I are always discussing key things we want in our next home purchase (like more garage space, for example) - though we have no plans to change houses anytime soon. That has been the iPhone for me. I knew immediately I didn't want one and knew that it wasn't going to change Why? The dealbreaker for me is the lack of an...
 
Tags: actual phone, phone, stylish phone, phone vendor, phone vendors, smart phone, keyboard, soft keyboard, change
 
 
 
 
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Embedding Malicious IFRAMEs Through Stolen FTP Accounts

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2008-03-03 10:14:01 by HASH0x8b0b9bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...purchase of FTP login credentials , with additional tools available to help a buyer confirm he's making a smart purchase on the other side of the universe on Neosploit's "purpose in life The information was available for blackmarket trade, along with the NeoSploit version 2 crimeware toolkit, a malicious application specifically designed...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford Supermarkets

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2008-03-22 12:27:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...purchase, amount of purchase, a margin for errors in reads during swipes etc before authorizing a transaction Interesting Update: According to this article, there are around 1800 cases of related fraud so far, and they talk about a $1270 charge going through. Which really means there are authorization engines out there that don't seem to...
 
Tags: card, debit card, pci, track data, pci dss, data, hannaford supermarkets, hannaford, pci compliant
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...purchase, maintain, and operate. Such a device would have to be even more ubiquitous than the electronic credit card machine The problem is that the authenticator itself may be in the possession of the attacker (Perhaps after you authenticate your legitimate purchase the clerk desires to use your identity herself). In the history of security...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics