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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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New faces and predictions for the New Year...

2008-01-22 22:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Hello all - Dave here For a change of pace, a few of the SDL blog crew decided to take a poke at a "Security Predictions for 2008" posting. In selecting a prediction, the only guiding rule was that the prediction had to cover something that could be influenced by application (or lack thereof) of the Security Development Lifecycle - either within...
 
Tags: sdl team, team, sdl, sdl blog crew, cve, cve vulnerabilities, microsoft, single prediction, microsoft products
 
 
 
 
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Download: Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report

2008-01-23 16:19:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks at it in the context of its predecessor, Windows...
 
Tags: windows, windows vista, security vulnerability profile, security, windows administrators significantly, systems red hat, predecessor, development process, process
 
 
 
 
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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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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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Planning for a new year

2008-09-03 00:00:00 by John McDonald in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
October is creeping up on us, and for most of us that means the beginning of the end of 2008, along with the nagging feeling that we should be doing some planning for 2009. This is the perfect opportunity to take stock of your security and compliance programs, and to develop a plan for improving things next year. If you've been following our...
 
Tags: compliance program based, compliance team, industry segment, compliance programs, information assets, core pillars, security, perfect opportunity, october
 
 
 
 
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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
 
Speaking of Security" the RSA Blog and Podcast will return next year with new bloggers and some fun surprises with our weekly podcast. See you then
 
Tags: weekly podcast, podcast, fun surprises, rsa blog, security, bloggers, return
 
 
 
 
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Mac users warned of bad year for security

2008-01-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b1c7dc in Network World on Security
 
The Mac is no longer immune to Windows-like software exploits, and its users should prepare for a rougher year, a report from security vendor Sophos has said Register for a WAN Acceleration Technology Primer Advertisement This paper explores the differences between commonly used WAN acceleration technologies
 
Tags: wan acceleration technologies, windows-like software exploits, security vendor sophos, paper explores, users, mac, advertisement, differences, register
 
 
 
 
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One year after Mac hack contest, Linux & Vista may be tested