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Laptop containing personal information is stolen from U.S. Foodservice

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2008-07-07 23:35:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently of the theft of a U.S. Foodservice, Inc. ("USF") laptop computer, which contained sensitive personnel information Reference URL New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above We were informed recently of the theft of a...
 
Tags: information, personal information, confidential information, protect information, information security policies, usf, usf policies, policies, security
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Army challenges USAF on network warfare

2008-07-07 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b9fa08 in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. Air Force's Cyber Command might have some competition on its hands, this time from a sister service, with the official activation of the U.S. Army's Network Warfare Battalion recently
 
Tags: official activation, army, sister service, air force, cyber command, competition, time, hands
 
 
 
 
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Diane Greene Ousted from VMware

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2008-07-08 19:09:35 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...recently launched Microsoft Hyper-V and the Citrix offering that we never hear about, but VMware is the dominant virtualization player (and likely to remain so for at least some time given Microsofts track record with new product releases) in an exploding market. Gartner predictions are that the installed base of VMs will grow more than 10x...
 
Tags: vmware, microsoft, microsoft executive, microsoft execs, vmware share prices, microsoft hyper-v, vmware execs, ex-microsoft exec, market
 
 
 
 
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Massive Coordinated Patch Effort To DNS System Flaw

2008-07-08 17:56:25 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...recently, and it's a safe guess that it was for this reason. The advisory credits Dan Kaminsky of IOActive , Paul Vixie of Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) and Daniel J. Bernstein for the research. It also earlier mentions Amit Klein for work he did on one of the constituent attacks. According to CircleID, Kaminsky will reveal details of the...
 
Tags: microsoft monthly patches, microsoft, dns servers, isc bind, isc, servers, attacks, internet systems consortium, status
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Tactics Evolving

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2008-04-21 11:18:17 by HASH0x85bed5c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...recently. Here are some example of recently spammed phishing campaigns hosting the phishing pages on end user's PCs pool-71-116-244-232.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net user-142o3ds.cable.mindspring.com /online.lloydstsb.co.uk/customer.ibc/logon.html user-142o3ds.cable.mindspring.com /onlineid/cgi-bin/onlineid.bankofamerica/sso.login.controller...
 
Tags: halifax-online, halifax, mem binformslogin, user, user-142o3ds, web application vulnerabilities, mem binhalifax loginformslogin, vulnerable sites, turkish defacement
 
 
 
 
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Academy Learning Centres stolen computers affect seniors

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2008-05-29 09:14:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently. The Academy Hearing Centre in Brentwood Mall, which provides hearing tests and equipment, mostly to seniors, recently mailed out letters warning of the theft Reference URL CBC News Report Credit CBC News Response From the online source cited above Dozens of Calgary seniors are alarmed after learning their credit-card numbers,...
 
Tags: seniors, academy, centres, protect confidential information, information, breach description, breach, calgary seniors, health information
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Overconfidence?

2008-04-07 19:31:05 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...recently commissioned a Zogby poll of internet users feelings about online safety. We found that 88 percent of internet users feel safe when accessing the internet, and 84 percent feel they have the information and tools needed to make good decisions to protect their privacy and security online Unfortunately, this confidence does not reflect...
 
Tags: internet users feelings, internet users, internet, online safety, consumer, online, percent, consumer education, security online
 
 
 
 
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WellPoint customer information exposed for a year

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2008-04-09 14:23:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently? WellPoint is a large company with millions of confidential records and conflicting business issues, but is this any excuse WellPoint, which has had other data security issues in the past, recently learned about the problem, fixed it and is notifying customers, spokeswoman Shannon Troughton said The nation's largest health insurer...
 
Tags: data management vendor, vendor, data management, data, medical data, patient data, data security, data security issues, wellpoint
 
 
 
 
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Elliot Health System reports a breach involving health information

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2008-04-16 11:00:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently informed us that on the evening of February 22, 2008, a thief/thieves broke into corporate headquarters, and stole ten computers. The computers contained electronic protected health information and could potentially include your name, procedural dates of service at EHS, name of your insurance company and your date of birth Reference...
 
Tags: information, breach, elliot health system, elliot, health information, contractor information security, ehs andor ampi, ehs, information security program
 
 
 
 
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Patient information on index cards is missing

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2008-05-26 11:20:51 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog