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Documents with Social Security numbers have been available since 2005 on a Web site that contains land records filed in Iowa counties, although access has now been restricted
...site between October 6, 2006 and February 13, 2007
Number Affected
thousands
Types of Data
Name, Social Security number, birth date, birth place, sex, height, weight, hair color, eye color, address, and home and work telephone number
Breach Description
According to the January, 2008 United States House of Representatives Committee on...
...site defacements back in the old school days, is today's ongoing monetization of defaced web sites, a logical development given the consolidation between different underground parties, evidence of which can be seen in the majority of incidents I've been analyzing recently
The Africa Middle Market Fund ' site is the latest example of a web...
...site. Passport Canada officials confirmed the security flaw and breach on Tuesday, December 4th
Reference URL
Reuters Canada News Story
680News.com News Story
The Globe and Mail News Story
The Register News Story (UK - Good commentary
Report Credit
Kenyon Wallace, Globe and Mail (CA
Response
From the sources cited above
A security flaw in...
...site
Excluding the conspiracy theories, a false positive when your solution is integrated in the second most popular search engine is bad, especially when other automated crawling approaches are successfully detecting the site as a non-malicious one. How come? It's all a matter of how you define malicious activity, and what exactly are you...
...site even bigger, the irony is perhaps what truly matters in the situation. Some press coverage - Hackers Turn Antivirus Site Into Virus Spreader ; Antivirus company's Web site downloads ... a virus ; Hackers seed malware on Indian anti-virus site
Hackers planted malicious script on the site of an Indian anti-virus firm this week. The...
...site that is accessible securely through https can be trusted. This is not true. Not all the sites that use https can be trusted. Nothing can stop fraudsters from setting up a https web site. Though https offers security it does not offer trust. Trust is a choice that the user has to make consciously. Here are some tips that help you to...
...site Jobs.ie late on Thursday 27 March, when what the company described as a small number of CVs were illegally downloaded by a third-party that hacked the site and gained access to the database
Reference URL
Jobs.ie Important Notice
SiliconRepublic
The Irish Times
ElectricNews.net Ltd
Report Credit
Jobs.ie
Response
From the online sources...
...site asking you to install Zango before you could view the site content (which happens to be pirated movies ). Well, another site has come to light doing a similar thing - I'm starting to wonder how many of these are actually out there. It's also served to highlight what I feel is a particularly confusing popup box, but we'll get to that...