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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...
 
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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
...recently discovered that a group of index cards from Greil Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama that contact a limited amount of patient information is missing Reference URL Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Press Release Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Breach Notification WSFA Channel 12 News ...
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...recently arrested in Thailand. The United States is requesting his extradition on charges of supplying arms to a terrorist organization Two Marines lower the trim vane on the front of an Iraqi BMP-1 mechanizedinfantry combat vehicle that was captured during Operation Desert Storm. TheAmerican defense consulting firm Defense Solutions has...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Oracle misplaces computer containing personal information

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2007-12-13 12:07:05 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently disclosed a breach involving an "unaccounted for" computer to the New Hampshire State Attorney General, that contained sensitive personal information. The personal information belonged to employees and contractors of Lodestar, a company acquired by Oracle in the first half of 2007 Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney...
 
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Some Massachusetts seniors are at risk

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2007-12-04 16:17:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recently began notifying 150,000 members potentially affected, as required by state data-breach laws A few members were recently the victims of attempted identity theft," the state said in a Nov. 19 letter sent to possible victims Comfyllama] OK, here it states that a few members were victims of identity theft and earlier statements said the...
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
Recently in the newsgroups ( news:microsoft.public.security , to be specific) the question of password polices and the out-of-box defaults came up. The poster lamented a number of things: that Microsoft doesn't enable account lockout by default, that we don't have a built-in mechanism for automatically disabling unused accounts, that the 42-day...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires