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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
...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 sensitive personal information un-protected while transferred from...
 
Tags: maryland, sensitive personal information, personal information, secure server hadhas, server, web application server, application, information, information security
 
 
 
 
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Crimeware in the Middle - Zeus

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2008-04-24 04:37:46 by HASH0x8ae4648 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...roughly $700. This means that the Rock group did not need to develop new skill-sets to write Trojan horses; they just purchased it on the open market. In the past 6 months RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center has detected more than 150 different uses of the Zeus kit, each one infecting on average roughly 4,000 different computers a day 2....
 
Tags: zeus, file, remote file, zeus trojan, binary file, file system32 drivers, kit, metaphisher kit, configuration file
 
 
 
 
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Transport-Fi: Wired Reviews Air-Fi; Buses Break out the Internet

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2008-06-12 10:22:29 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...roughly $6 an hour, $10 for a 3-hour flight or less, and $13 for a flight longer than 3 hours. That's from Aircell in various statements, and it appears to be roughly the charges expected from its competitors in the US. In Europe, mobile calls and texting prices are also known: about US$2.50 per minute for calls, and something like 25 to 50...
 
Tags: connexion service, service, sidewalk-pickup boltbus service, access, cost roughly, internet access, roughly, cost, bus
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...roughly 80 million domain names reveals the web server software distribution shown below. Note that these figures may have some margin of error as it is not unusual to find hundreds of domains served by a single IP address Web server software across the Internet Web server software distribution across the Internet Our numbers report a...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...roughly 0.1% . The analysis described in our paper covers billions of URLs. Using targeted feature extraction and classification, we select a subset of URLs believed to be suspicious for in-depth investigation. So far, we have investigated about 12 million suspicious URLs and found about 1 million that engage in drive-by downloads. In most...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...roughly equivalent to a U.K. version of an American Social Security number Breach Description A laptop computer was stolen from an employee of Citizens Advice (UK) that contained sensitive personal information about people who sought advice from the bureau. The laptop was stolen early on December 5th, 2007 and mainly affects clients from the...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...roughly 1,100 emails and resulted in the compromise of personal information pertaining to lab visitors over a 14 year period Reference URL eWeek.com Story SecurityFocus.com Story MyEyeWitnessNews.com Story Oak Ridge National Laboratory Potential Identity Theft Page Report Credit Oak Ridge National Laboratory Response From the official...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...roughly followed this model Historical approaches to security have placed most emphasis on the network, with decreasing consideration of individual computers and the applications they run, and the least amount of consideration for the security of the data. (Ive purposefully placed the physical layer outside the triangle, partly as a joke and...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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Zune Killer App - Windows Media Center

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2007-11-26 21:55:40 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...roughly 3 weeks of shows). I browsed over to http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/tvshows.html just now and found this blurb Be a watercooler hero. For as little as $1.99, you can own the latest episode of your favorite show as early as one day after it airs, or purchase past episodes that you missed (or want to watch over and over). Choose a...
 
Tags: zune, apple tv, apple, tv, tv movies, zune software, zune tv comparison, media center, windows media center