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Personal information record losses reach new heights

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by HASH0x84706a0 in Network World on Security
 
More than 120 million people in the U.S. had personal data exposed in 2007 as identity theft reached record heights. That's according to research from the nonprofit organization the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) which reported 446 separate breaches exposing 128 million records
 
Tags: million people, personal data, nonprofit organization, identity theft, record heights, million records, research, itrc, breaches
 
 
 
 
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Record fine of over $2.5M for UK insurer

2007-12-17 22:28:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...record $2.5M (or 1.26M GBP) for incompetence. Seems like criminals pretended to be customers and cashed in on policies worth GBP 3.3M 2.5M - thats a large sum for a fine. The previous high was Nationwide Building Society for GBP 980K , earlier this year. Seems like the regulators are getting tough on companies who are incompetent. And this...
 
Tags: fined norwich union, policies worth gbp, financial services authority, 26m gbp, record, fine, gbp 980k, fsa, previous
 
 
 
 
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Spammers handed record $234 million fine - eat that

2008-05-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2858c in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. CAN-SPAM law has chewed another alleged spam outfit, this time handing out a world record fine of $234 million (116 million) to two individuals
 
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Building My Windows Vista Media Center (VMC) - Part 3 - MyMovies2

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2007-11-02 23:52:49 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Recorded TV" as "My Movies". There are some nice filtering and sorting features, parental control enforcement and visually it looks a lot like the movies listed under "Recorded TV", showing DVD covers, listing actors and descriptions Collection Management - A back-end Windows application to manage your movie Library. Again, this has a nice...
 
Tags: media center, movie, movie title, home media center, movie file, media center plug-in, vista media center, record movies, record
 
 
 
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...record attached to your name; he or she can put you on this or that secret terrorist watch list. Asking to see the officer's ID in return gives you no comparable power over him or her. The power imbalance is too great, and mutual disclosure does not make it OK You can think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer
 
 
 
 
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NetFlow and Visibility in the Virtual Environment

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2008-03-31 23:21:54 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...records to a listening device that does some data crunching on those flow records to give you a visual picture of the data in the network. With this data you can determine abnormalities in traffic patterns, see who the top talkers are in a network as well as home in on what network applications are running in the environment. With this...
 
Tags: virtual, virtual environment, environment, virtual infrastructure, virtual switch, virtual firewall, virtual security product, physical world, world
 
 
 
 
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Drama surrounds People's United Bank breach

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2008-04-08 12:47:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...record... Credit monitoring helps to alert a person only after they have become an identity theft victim. A one year time frame is insufficient for information that has a life span which far exceeds this limit He said the bank notified police immediately when it found out what Hastings had. That notification resulted in a search of Hastings...
 
Tags: bank, financial information, information, confidential information, people, bank deposit, hastings, james hastings dove, bank set
 
 
 
 
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Risk ROI for Some Provisioning Solutions

2008-04-19 02:22:29 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...records, which include all the information required to provide non-repudiation and event reconstruction for each step in an Entitlement Lifecycle Note: Fulfilling these objectives always involves a mix of manual and automated activities, technical and procedural controls Based on my experiences, having prepared several product selection...
 
Tags: information security, information, entitlement, entitlement lifecycle, solutions, systems, risk roi, information security podcast, identity
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...record numbers Breach Description 05-01) 17:22 PDT San Francisco -- Information on thousands of UCSF patients was accessible on the Internet for more than three months last year, a possible violation of federal privacy regulations that might have exposed the patients to medical identity theft Reference URL San Francisco Chronicle CNET...
 
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