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WellPoint customer information exposed for a year

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2008-04-09 14:23:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 4/8/08 Organization WellPoint, Inc Contractor/Consultant/Branch An unnamed data management vendor Victims Customers Number Affected 128,000 Types of Data may have included Social Security numbers and pharmacy or medical data Breach Description Personal information that may have included Social...
 
Tags: data management vendor, vendor, data management, data, medical data, patient data, data security, data security issues, wellpoint
 
 
 
 
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File containing Interbank FX customer information exposed for almost a year

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2008-04-15 23:57:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 4/9/08 Organization Interbank FX, LLC ("IBFX Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers and prospective customers prior to April 2, 2007 Number Affected Unknown Types of Data social security number, driver's license, and passport information, and may also include your Interbank FX...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, application information, handle sensitive information, information security, interbank, file, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/6/08 Organization HSBC Group (UK Contractor/Consultant/Branch Market Place, Easingwold Victims Potentially customers, but no confirmed loss or theft occurred Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Potentially customer banking records Breach Description The HSBC branch in Easingwold was found...
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Is PCI Really Working? 2007 Worst Year Yet

2007-12-31 03:32:31 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
Wired has a good article covering the fact that 2007 was the worst year on record when it comes to the amount of credit card and social security numbers disclosed to third parties Seriously people wake up. PCI might be nice and it might set a baseline and all that nice stuff. It is still way to slow and eats way too much budget to be effective....
 
Tags: worst, security stories, pci, windows machines, nice stuff, grumpy security guy, nice, secure, install malware
 
 
 
 
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2008 - The Year of IT Risk Management, Part 2 - Rise of IT GRC

2008-01-11 12:43:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
The customer success stories, industry partnerships, market predictions, etc. drumbeat for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (IT GRC) continues to get louder and louder. Just caught this article over on TechTarget " Security Management 2008 - What's in Store. " About halfway through Mike highlights the GRC space snip Hopefully,...
 
Tags: grc, grc space, risk, risk management, grc products, security professionals, mike, mike highlights, frustrations security team
 
 
 
 
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11-year-old takes school network by the horns

2008-03-29 05:50:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Millbrook, Ala., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. For Penn, its been the experience of a lifetime, even getting to select and install a gateway security appliance largely by himself
 
Tags: school, victory baptist school, gateway security appliance, network manager, computer network, ala, millbrook, install, lifetime
 
 
 
 
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15-year-old "hacks" Downingtown Area School District

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2008-05-18 21:54:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/16/08 Organization Downingtown Area School District Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Staff members and county taxpayers Number Affected 71 teachers" and "several thousand tax payers Types of Data W-2 forms, Social Security numbers, and home addresses Breach Description DOWNINGTOWN,...
 
Tags: district, school, school district officials, school district, information, personal information, school board, salary information, school information
 
 
 
 
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2% of all laptops sold every year are stolen from airports?

2008-07-01 16:58:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
Interesting analogy from NetworkWorld on rising rates of laptop loss , but it works! Apparently laptop loss is giving IHOP a run for its money. From the article Some of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly...
 
Tags: laptops, 630k laptops lost, laptops lost, airports, lost, laptop loss, apparently laptop loss, airports report close, 31m laptops
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft explains seven-year-old patch delay

2008-11-12 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Microsoft says it was unable to patch a seven-year-old bug until recently because it was only in the last year that it figured out how to fix the flaw without breaking most network-based applications
 
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See you next year!

2006-12-19 00:00:00 by Blog Editor in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast