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Security Incidents : Bank of New York Mellon Security Breach Copycat
Posted by Max on 2008/6/6 6:24:35 (1638 reads)
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Following a February 27 security breach in Connecticut by the Bank of New York Mellon in which it lost up to 4.5 million customers' unencrypted financial data from banks including Wachovia, Chief Risk Officer Todd Gibbons said in a statement, "Protecting the confidentiality of our clients' information has long been a top priority at The Bank of New York Mellon."

Security Incidents : Spammers Focus on Cheap Replicas Moving Away From Enhancement Pills
Posted by Max on 2008/5/28 6:27:10 (847 reads)
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Spammers, who were until now pushing sexual performance and male enlargement pills, have switched to promoting pens, cheap jewelry and replica watches as the main products for sale, according to recent data from Marshal's TRACE security team, as reported by MarketWire on May 15, 2008.

Security Incidents : Ensure Data Protection on Laptops, Smartphones & Memory Sticks.
Posted by Max on 2008/5/20 11:24:10 (854 reads)
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There is no doubt that laptops, removable media, handheld organizers, smartphones, memory sticks and cell phones are now essential to business productivity.But how big is the security risk ?

Security Incidents : TJX settles with MasterCard for $24 million
Posted by Max on 2008/4/7 15:56:56 (946 reads)
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Discount retailer TJX, parent of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, has agreed to a $24 million settlement with MasterCard over a security breach that left tens of millions of credit card accounts at risk to identity theft.

Security Incidents : Security Breach on Sony PlayStation Network
Posted by Max on 2008/3/29 16:08:58 (1101 reads)
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The PlayStation Network users received a word of warning from Sony. The alarm signal refers to a possible breach in the security. Because of it, the legitimate users’ private details can be accessed by the wrong people.

Security Incidents : Barack Obama’s Passport Records Got Hacked
Posted by Max on 2008/3/24 16:31:08 (980 reads)
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According to Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, on January 9, February 21 and March 14 of this year, because of "an outrageous breach of security and privacy", the passport records of Sen. Barack Obama were accessed by three contract workers.

Security Incidents : 4.2 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen From Hannaford and Sweetbay Stores
Posted by Max on 2008/3/18 15:56:23 (1710 reads)
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The Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain said a breach of its computer system led to the theft of about 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from its Hannaford and Sweetbay stores and other locations. Local shoppers said they were stunned yesterday by a major supermarket's announcement that 4.2 million customer credit and debit card numbers were exposed in a security breach.

Security Incidents : Homeland Security's Cyber Attack Simulation – Results Kept Secret
Posted by Max on 2008/3/17 16:04:26 (1102 reads)
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The Department of Homeland Security's second iteration of Cyber Storm is responsible for a massive cyber attack simulation. Through it, and with the help of a congressionally mandated exercise, white hat hackers tested whether  the government and business officials can handle cyberthreats to critical networked services.

Security Incidents : Gmail Captcha Broken for Spam
Posted by Max on 2008/3/11 14:51:44 (1477 reads)
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According to security firm MessageLabs, the large number of spam coming from Gmail is the result of those spammers who have broken the captcha mechanism deployed by Gmail, mechanism designed to check if a person and not something else is opening an e-mail account.

Security Incidents : Free Security Tools For The Law Enforcement Agencies
Posted by Max on 2008/3/4 15:51:15 (1156 reads)
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Internet scammers, crooks and other human-malware should watch out! New Security suite including SPEAR Forensics, Chat Watch SPEAR and Forensic P2P  is announced with much ado by Zemerick Software, Inc. This is investigative software and the law enforcement agencies can have it for free.

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