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UK's Information Commissioner gets expanded powers in Criminal Justice and Immigration Act -- will be able to impose steep fines on organizations

2008-05-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office received new authority to levy fines on organizations that "deliberately" or "recklessly" violate the U.K.'s "Data Protection Act", or DPA, of 1998. In a little noticed amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008, the 1998 DPA was updated to enable the Information...
 
Tags: information commissioner, information, fines, immigration act, criminal justice, organizations, levy fines, data protection act, large-scale data breach
 
 
 
 
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Report: Government's Cyber-Security Plan Is Riddled With New Spying Programs

2008-05-15 19:30:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Major parts of the government's proposed $17 billion computer-security plan are actually spying programs, according to a Senate committee's budget report. The committee also faulted the plan for excessive secrecy around privacy and civil liberties issues and for funding experimental and possibly illegal technologies
 
Tags: plan, possibly illegal technologies, civil liberties issues, government, committee, excessive secrecy, budget report, programs, billion
 
 
 
 
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Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers

2008-05-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic
 
Tags: routers, malicious rootkit software, security researcher, cisco systems, traffic, internet, carry, scrutiny, majority
 
 
 
 
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S&K Menswear two-phased attack

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2008-01-03 10:40:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/10/07 (backdated from 1/3/08 Organization S&K Famous Brands (S&K Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Online customers of www.skmenswear.com Number Affected Unknown 25 reported New Hampshire residents Types of Data Names, addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers, and expiration...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security practices, notification, information security, breach notification letter, sample customer letter, credit card, credit card data
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Wendy's laptop affects 1,092 employees

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2008-01-03 14:08:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/21/07 Organization Wendy's International, Inc Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Wendy's employees Number Affected 1,092 Types of Data Name, email address, Social Security number, employee identification number, and salary information Breach Description A Wendy's laptop was stolen...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security, confidential information, information security policies, wendy, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 4/6/08 Organization People's United Bank Contractor/Consultant/Branch Various branches Victims Customers Number Affected hundreds Types of Data confidential financial data" and "private information, including customers' Social Security numbers and account information Breach Description For...
 
Tags: bank, financial information, information, confidential information, people, bank deposit, hastings, james hastings dove, bank set
 
 
 
 
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China's CERT Annual Security Report - 2007

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2008-04-21 02:34:07 by HASH0x8b2001c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Every coin has two sides, and while China has long embraced unrestricted warfare and people's information warfare for conducting cyber espionage, China's networked infrastructure is also under attack, and is logically used as stepping stone to hit others country's infrastructures, thereby contributing to the possibility to engineer cyber warfare...
 
Tags: china, internet infrastructure, chinese internet infrastructure, chinese, zombie network flow, zombie network, interestingly chinese, infrastructure, chinese underground economy
 
 
 
 
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Inside a Botnet's Phishing Activities

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2008-02-25 09:34:49 by HASH0x8b44f48 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
The following incident response assessment will demonstrate how a botnet's infected hosts can not only be used as stepping stones , but also for the purpose of sending out phishing emails, and hosting the domains used in the scams themselves, thereby forwarding the responsibility for the scams to the infected parties, in between remaining...
 
Tags: net, botnet, bkdr agent, agent, microsoft, hosts phone, domains, hosts, ecosystem
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This article from The Wall Street Journal outlines how the NSA is increasingly engaging in domestic surveillance, data collection, and data mining. The result is essentially the same as Total Information Awareness. According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness