| Security Incidents : Security Breach : Fitchburg Savings Bank must replace cards says Visa USA |
| Posted by Max on 2007/1/18 2:12:54 (1480 reads) |
About 1,300 debit-ATM cards issued by Fitchburg Savings Bank were disabled yesterday after the bank was told by Visa USA that a “large-scale data compromise” may have included its check cards.
None of the cards was used illegally and all are being substituted, said Martin F. Connors Jr., bank president and chief executive officer. “If someone has the person’s information, at this point they can’t do anything with it,” he said. |
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| Security Incidents : 4000 Indian Websites Under Attack |
| Posted by Max on 2006/12/26 13:17:24 (873 reads) |
Even among growing concern over cyber security, hacker groups defaced at least 340 Indian websites during November 2006, up from 244 sites targeted during last month. This takes the total number of Indian sites (government and non-government), that were under attack by hackers in the first three quarters of the year, to over 4,000. |
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| Security Incidents : MessageLabs Intelligence Annual Email Security Report 2006 |
| Posted by Max on 2006/12/16 12:11:18 (986 reads) |
This report sets out to summarize the major security trends and developments for 2006, outlining the key issues that have developed over the course of the year and how they have affected the security market. The report also aims to provide some insights into the key threats and security issues that are expected to emerge in 2007. |
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| Security Incidents : Theft Of A Boeing Laptop Puts 382,000 Past And Present Employees At Risk |
| Posted by mrJ on 2006/12/13 13:05:06 (839 reads) |
A laptop with personal data on hundreds of thousands of Boeing Co. employees was stolen earlier this month, and the aerospace company will notify those potentially affected by the theft in a company e-mail today.
"In the first week of December, a laptop was stolen from an employee's car," Boeing spokeswoman Kelly Danaghy said. "That laptop had files that contained Social Security numbers for about 382,000 past and present employees, and in most cases it also included a home address, phone number and date of birth."
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| Security Incidents : 98,783,585 Personal Information Compromised In Less Than 2 Years |
| Posted by Max on 2006/12/11 14:27:07 (824 reads) |
It started on Feb. 15, 2005 with ChoicePoint (Alpharetta, GA) by bogus accounts established by ID thieves. The initial number of affected records was estimated at 145,000 but was later revised to 163,000.
The latest entry is on Dec. 9, 2006 when Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) Personal information of 561 students was inadvertently sent as attachments on Nov. 20 in an e-mail, including names, SSNs, local and permanent addresses and grade-point averages. The e-mail was sent to 195 students to inform them of their eligibility for scholarships.
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