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Malaysia resident sentenced in brokerage hacking scheme

2008-09-09 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
A resident of Malaysia was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison on a conspiracy charge related to an international fraud scheme that hacked into online brokerage accounts in the U.S. in an attempt to manipulate stock prices, the U.S. Department of Justice said
 
Tags: online brokerage accounts, international fraud scheme, malaysia, stock prices, conspiracy charge, resident, department, prison, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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Maryland Department of Assessments & Taxation web exposure

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2008-01-05 14:02:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...residents applying for a homestead tax credit Number Affected Unknown roughly 900 people used the system on the day in question Types of Data Names, addresses and Social Security numbers Breach Description A web application used to collect information from residents over the internet was not adequately secured with encryption leaving some...
 
Tags: maryland, sensitive personal information, personal information, secure server hadhas, server, web application server, application, information, information security
 
 
 
 
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GE Money and Iron Mountain unable to locate tape

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2008-01-07 14:01:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...resident's name and ~20 cases where a SSN was included" This is New Hampshire information ONLY as stated in the breach notification Types of Data Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and credit card numbers Breach Description GE Money and it's backup storage vendor, Iron Mountain are unable to locate a backup tape. The unencrypted...
 
Tags: money, sensitive personal information, personal information, iron mountain, breach, hampshire breach notification, information, sensitive consumer information, tape
 
 
 
 
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ARCO gas pumps targeted by fraudsters

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2007-12-27 13:58:30 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...resident Douglas Trujillo, a victim of $1,100 I do online banking and I looked at my account and I noticed my checking account at zero dollars," he said. "That set alarms off for me I'm actually going to change my whole process," Trujillo said. "Now that I've seen how easy (thieves) can do this, I'm just going to stick to using cash and...
 
Tags: arco gas pumps, pumps, gas pumps, arco, gas stations, arco gas stations, card, debit card identification, creditdebit card data
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Minnesota Department of Commerce vendor

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2007-12-29 00:01:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...residents was stolen from an employee of Promissor Corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Promissor is a vendor used by the Minnesota Department of Commerce to manage licensing data for the real estate, mortgage, and debt collection industries in Minnesota The theft of this computer has been reported to the Philadelphia Police Department...
 
Tags: minnesota, minnesota real estate, sensitive personal information, personal information, minnesota department, department, minnesota licensees, real, information
 
 
 
 
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TSA Misses the Point, Again

2008-01-29 15:13:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...resident ID cards, and forged driver's licenses. Many of them were arrested on immigration charges ID checks have nothing to do with airport security. And even if they did, anyone can fly on a fake ID. And enforcing immigration laws is not what the TSA does In related news, look at this page from the TSA's website: We screen every passenger;...
 
Tags: tsa, tsa screeners, tsa agent, tsa document checker, screeners, passenger ids, passenger, screeners inspect, airport
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Customs Seizing Laptops

2008-02-12 12:23:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...resident. "So now, every time I travel, I basically clean out my phone. It's better for me to keep my colleagues and friends safe than to get them on the list as well Privacy? There's no need to worry: Hollinger said customs officers "are trained to protect confidential information I know I feel better I strongly recommend the two-tier...
 
Tags: customs, border, border agents, laptop, customs officers, san francisco, strongly recommend, electronic devices, laptops
 
 
 
 
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Giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Immigrants

2008-02-13 05:57:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...residents, calling it "one more tool in our initiative to bolster Michigan's border and document security In reality, we are a much more secure nation if we do issue driver's licenses and/or state IDs to every resident who applies, regardless of immigration status. Issuing them doesn't make us any less secure, and refusing puts us at risk The...
 
Tags: licenses, driver licenses, illegal immigrants, licenses helps, licenses andor, deny licenses, driver, law, respects law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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Cashing in on employee theft, or honest whistleblower?

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2008-02-25 14:03:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...resident in Germany. The figure circulated in the media of 4,527 sets of data represents the number of beneficiaries of all the foundations it has become increasingly clear that the so-called "informant" of the BND German intelligence service is indeed the same convicted data thief who illegally disclosed the client data in 2002 Acting on...
 
Tags: confidential, confidential data, kieber, named heinrich kieber, lgt, lgt trust, data, confidential information, information
 
 
 
 
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Botnet hunter pleads guilty

2008-04-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x84734cc in Network World on Security
 
...resident also known as Akill, has pleaded guilty to all charges he was facing under the Crimes Act for his part in attacking the University of Pennsylvania's computer system and in a global adware scheme Get a FREEMICROSOFT DYNAMICSERP/CRM RESOURCE DVD Advertisement See how ERP and CRM solutions from Microsoft Dynamics work BETTER with...
 
Tags: global adware scheme, 18-year-old whitianga resident, microsoft dynamics, computer system, everyday software, guilty, crimes act, crm solutions, advertisement