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RIM reportedly gets ultimatum over Indian BlackBerry service

2008-06-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472e44 in Network World on Security
 
Indian officials have reportedly issued an ultimatum to Research in Motion asking the Canadian company to provide a way for the government to monitor BlackBerry communications if it wants its service to continue in that country
 
Tags: monitor blackberry communications, service, canadian company, indian officials, ultimatum, reportedly, country, government, research
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma Department of Corrections SQL exposure

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2008-04-21 11:23:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reportedly been hit this week with the bad news that tens of thousands of their names, social security numbers and allied data were effectively available on the Web for around three years Reference URL The Daily WTF ComputerWeekly The Register SecurityProPortal Report Credit Alex Papadimoulis, The Daily WTF Response From the online sources...
 
Tags: social security, oklahoma, sql, residents, oklahoma residents, bad, bad news, department, sql query
 
 
 
 
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The Breach Blog November Review

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2007-12-04 13:55:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reportedly affects ½ of the British population! The head of HMRC resigned, and victims are left wondering. This breach occurred not only because of poor security but also lack of common sense It was an interesting month to say the least Summary Anytime there is even one breach to report it means that someones life has been impacted by a...
 
Tags: breach, breach report, popular breach type, breach blog month, breach blog, november, security breach, single breach, breach offender
 
 
 
 
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Is the Bush Administration Getting Serious About Information Security?

2007-11-16 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...reportedly be focused on expanding DHS's "Einstein" program , which is run by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team . See this Federal Computer Week story by Jason Miller titled White House officials ask for $154 million in new cybersecurity spending for more background
 
Tags: cyber security initiatives, white house officials, homeland security, million, jason miller, federal agencies, dhs, president bush, initial budget
 
 
 
 
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Supporting Complex Passwords

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2007-12-04 08:56:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...reportedly had issues with this in the past. If that is the case for your ID, you may want to consider changing the password temporarily to see if it allows you to activate I'm sure you've seen this before. Many systems out there that deal with passwords assume that users will supply short, simple passwords, not randomly generated, strong...
 
Tags: passwords, complex passwords, complex, passwords hit, password temporarily, temporarily, password, strong passwords, password minder
 
 
 
 
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Inside the Chinese Underground Economy

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2007-12-09 22:34:23 by HASH0x89e9090 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...reportedly has 20,000 members after regrouping in April 2005
 
Tags: chinese, chinese underground, underground, underground economy, chinese web, chinese red hackers, china, china eagle union, underground black market
 
 
 
 
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Review of My 2007 Security Predictions: Too Wimpy

2007-12-23 15:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...reportedly slowed down. Small vendors scatter, larger ones repurposed NAC tools. NAC - in whatever shape or form - will become more common, but only after it sinks into the "trough of disillusionment", pardon my Gartnerese PVI. 0-days : 2006 was the year when this previously obscure term fell victim to malignant marketeers. 2007 will see more...
 
Tags: status check iii, status check, status check viii, security, security predictions, status check vii, check, predictions, status
 
 
 
 
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Geeks.com customer credit card data compromised

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2008-01-07 21:34:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reportedly noticed the breach on December 5th, 2007 and began sending letters to customers on January 4th, 2008 Reference URL The Consumerist Story Computerworld Story Report Credit The Consumerist Response From the online sources cited above The purpose of this letter is to notify you that Genica dba Geeks.com ("Genica") recently...
 
Tags: credit, credit card, card, geeks, credit reports, report credit, breach description, breach, apparent breach
 
 
 
 
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Wealthy investor information falls out of DHL van

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2008-01-14 12:04:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reportedly belonging to three National Lottery winners In the box were cheques and other sensitive papers which criminals could potentially have used to hack into customers' accounts The documents were found by a vehicle recovery driver on a roundabout near a sliproad for Junction 11 of the M4 near Reading in Berkshire The box was meant to...
 
Tags: dhl van, dhl, dhl courier, van, dhl drivers, dhl courier van, secure, secure storage facility, prudential plc
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...reportedly told the audience Gabbard, the Wal-Mart employee fired for recording reporters' phone calls, said in his interview with The Wall Street Journal that Wal-Mart uses software from Raytheon Oakley Networks to monitor activity on its network. The Oakley product was originally developed for the U.S. Department of Defense The Oakley...