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RIAA Website Wiped Clean by Hackers

2008-01-20 16:20:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been successfully wiped from the site
 
Tags: simple sql injection, wiped, decent programmer, riaa, apparently, propaganda, site, consumers, hire
 
 
 
 
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Who Falls for those Nigerian 419 Scams Anyway?

2008-12-03 08:20:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...wiped out her husband's retirement account, mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car. Both were already paid for For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told her to stop, that it was all a scam. She...
 
Tags: spears, blind spears, law enforcement officials, scammers 400k, scammers, family car, family, money, retirement account
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...wiped out countless millions of dollars in investor equity in a few short minutes. Amazing Of course, E*Trade is not going bankruptany more than Citigroup is going bankrupt, but the information warfare by Citigroups Prashant Bhatia continues. Here is the lastest On January 7th, 2008, Bhatia changes his cyberattack slightlyand reiterates...
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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Laptop missing from Russells Hall Hospital (UK)

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2008-02-15 14:08:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...wiped using a degausser before they are disposed of Evan] Another excellent idea. Remember the University of Glamorgan study ? The Dudley Group of Hospital is stepping it up, and patients will benefit We would like to apologise for any concern this matter has caused those patients affected, and would like to reassure them that the information...
 
Tags: information, personal information, medical information, data, data protection, information security, data encryption software, russells hall hospital, hospital
 
 
 
 
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Most switches help in complying with secure management best practices

2008-03-24 00:00:00 by HASH0x847334c in Network World on Security
 
In assessing switch management and security, we sought to answer three questions: Did devices follow current best practices by default? Could users configure switches to follow these best practices? And could switches be wiped clean of any sensitive information before being taken out of deployment
 
Tags: switches, follow, users configure switches, devices follow current, practices, wiped clean, sensitive information, switch management, answer
 
 
 
 
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Controversy surrounds Royal Perth computers and patients

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2008-04-08 00:21:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...wiped clean The hospital yesterday denied this, saying the computer hard drives were cleaned and the computers were collected every day by contractors to be crushed Evan] If the "computer hard drives were cleaned", then how was The Sunday Times able to get the sensitive information and if the computers are "collected every day" then how was...
 
Tags: hospital claim, hospital, computers, hospital computers, sunday times hired, sunday times, patient details, confidential patient details, times
 
 
 
 
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Security In The Cloud: Introducing Cloud Mashups

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2008-04-21 16:40:49 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...wiped/destroyed Suddenly your cloud storage arrangements have gotten more complex and thus, less secure. Security issues aside, how does an agile business cope with this? With multiple providers, data portability becomes a real issue And we havent even dug into the API level security issues yet! (yeah, you get to assess that too As an...
 
Tags: cloud, cloud mashups, cloud storage arrangements, security, appirio cloud storage, appirio, data, data portability, crm data
 
 
 
 
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Stolen account firm laptop contained personal information

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2008-04-28 09:50:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...wiped off the computer," he said. 'Thats why they notified (employees Coos County Counsel Jacki Haggerty said she had not received any reports from county employees of any unauthorized use of their information. Still, the incident will raise the level of awareness of possible breaches in the future, according to Haggerty I think its...
 
Tags: information, clients personal information, clients, personal information, specific information, store confidential information, client information, confidential information, personal information inside
 
 
 
 
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Hard drives purchased at Oklahoma auction contained personal information

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2008-05-26 14:48:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...wiped. Using a free program like Darik's Boot and Nuke works fine for many applications but can be time consuming Commentary If information is no longer needed by an organization, destroy it. If encryption had been employed by the commission, this would have provided an additional layer in a defense-in-depth approach to information security...
 
Tags: oklahoma, information, personal information, oklahoma tax commission, store confidential information, oklahoma corporation commission, corporation commission, information security, tax commission
 
 
 
 
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AT&T management information on stolen laptop

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2008-06-08 18:28:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...wiped clean and resold for profit Evan] This used to be the ca