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Montgomery Ward breached, no notification obligation?

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2008-06-27 23:45:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Ward HomeVisions.com SearsHomeCenter.com SearsShowPlace.com SearsRoomForKids.com Victims Customers Number Affected at least 51,000 records Types of Data Names, addresses, phone numbers, card numbers, "security codes", and expiration dates Breach Description NEW YORK (AP) -- The parent company of Montgomery Ward is admitting that it was...
 
Tags: card companies, companies, services, services closely, credit card companies, services retail properties, financial company citigroup, company, montgomery ward
 
 
 
 
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Hackers Selling Stolen Credit Cards Lead To Montgomery Ward Parent Company Breach Exposure

2008-06-29 01:52:17 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
At least 51,000 records were exposed in the breach at the parent company of Montgomery Ward. The venerable Wards chain that began in 1872 went out of business in 2001, but in 2004 a catalog company, Direct Marketing Services Inc., bought the brand name out of bankruptcy. It now runs a Wards.com Web site along
 
Tags: montgomery ward, venerable wards chain, parent company, wards, breach, web site, catalog company, direct, bankruptcy
 
 
 
 
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'Cold Boot' encryption hack unlikely, says Microsoft

2008-02-26 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A Microsoft product manager is downplaying the "Cold Boot" threat posed by attackers trying to snag data off computer memory and said there are steps Vista users can take to ward off such threats
 
Tags: cold boot, microsoft product manager, steps vista users, snag data, threat posed, computer memory, attackers, ward, threats
 
 
 
 
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Linksys, Trend Micro pair security software with routers

2008-03-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b5e434 in Network World on Security
 
Linksys will offer Trend Micro's ProtectLink Gateway to help smaller businesses ward off spam, phishing, and viruses, while allowing control over what sites are visiting, including blocking of known unsafe sites
 
Tags: unsafe sites, sites, offer trend micro, businesses ward, linksys, protectlink gateway, spam, viruses, control
 
 
 
 
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Communicating Risk & Macs Can Do Anything

2008-03-17 13:29:33 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...Ward of Symantec has an IT Risk Management weblog up . The RSS feed is not self-evident, however, and youll have to dig around and copy and paste the link and such NEW CONTENT - ECONOMICS AND SECURITY ENISA, The European Network and Information Security Agency has released a report on the economic barriers to Information Security, pdf here...
 
Tags: information security agency, information security, security, security amrit covers, chicago tribune, junk charts weblog, weblog, long-time chicago tribune, risk
 
 
 
 
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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for some time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media Brave words, but premature. Certainly, there is much more information available to many more people today than there was in...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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Some firms don't admit security breaches - Geez, ya really think so?

2008-06-29 16:51:24 by HASH0x8b38fc4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Ward. It does a good job documenting the breach, the discovery of the breach and how the company complied with credit card company rules by notifying Visa, Mastercard, Discover, etc. but did not notify the 51,000 potentially affected customers. It also does a nice job of giving credit to Affinion Group Inc.'s CardCops for spotting and...
 
Tags: breaches, security, article, article blames, credit card companies, confidential breaches, credit, nice job, parent company
 
 
 
 
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Navy's Scraps Destroyer That Can't Defend Itself

2008-08-04 14:35:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
The stealth destroyer is the world's most expensive surface warship. It's also among the most defenseless, since it was not equipped to ward off missile attacks. That's why the Navy canceled the delivery of an additional five ships
 
Tags: expensive surface warship, stealth destroyer, navy, missile attacks, delivery, ward, ships, world, defenseless
 
 
 
 
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MySpace, Facebook show off tools that can ward off child predators

2008-09-24 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Top social networks MySpace and Facebook outlined their measures for keeping child predators off their sites at a task force meeting in Cambridge, Mass
 
Tags: child predators, task force, facebook, sites, mass, measures, cambridge