Deliberate coverup of security breaches confessed by ChoicePoint and LexisNexisApril 14th, 2005 Privacy invasion behemoths ChoicePoint and LexisNexis have lost control of sensitive data in the past, but deliberately covered it up because no law required them to come clean, executives from both outfits confessed Wednesday during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the recent epidemic of ID theft plaguing the USA. Numerous past breaches went without notification, ChoicePoint President and COO Douglas Curling admitted under questioning from Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (Republican, Pennsylvania).
Privacy is Easy to Breach - Exposing an Undercover CIA OperativeJuly 16th, 2005 After Karl Rove, one of Jr. Bush's most trusted advisers, publicly outed an undercover CIA operative, David Lazarus of SF Gate takes it a step further by uncovering the full details of the operative, including her address, personally identifiable information and complete with a detailed map of her home.
Job Search Site Monster Hacked; 1.6 Million User Records StolenAugust 23rd, 2007 A Trojan horse, with a descriptive name Infostealer.Monstres, was used to steal more than 1.6 million records from several hundred thousand people who posted resumes on Monster.com, Symantec has reported. The personal details of hundreds of thousands of candidates, such as name, surname, email address, country, home address, work/mobile/home phone numbers and resume ID etc.
UK Ministry of Defence Adapts Blackberry.. Is It Safe?September 15th, 2007 UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry's to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators.
Google's Orkut Hit by Malicious Internet WormJune 20th, 2006 A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users is circulating via Orkut, Google's social networking service, FaceTime Communications, Instant-messaging service provider, warned on Monday. FaceTime said its software security lab had detected the spread of the electronic virus, the third such threat to disseminate itself via messages posted on Orkut users' personal Web pages.
Now its DMV's turn to leak personal informationMarch 15th, 2005 A laptop from Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles was stolen with unencrypted data exposing personal information of more then 8, 900 Southern Nevada residents. By personal information I mean everything - name, age, DOB, SSN, photographs and signatures of residents who obtained drivers licenses between November 25th and March 4th.
Major ID theft uncovered, affecting thousands of CaliforniansFebruary 17th, 2005 ChoicePoint is working with the California authorities on this, assuming that the impact is on Californian residents only. However security experts diasgree.
US Department of Transportation Loses 133, 000 Social Security & Address Records of Florida ResidentsAugust 10th, 2006 The US Department of Transportation has announced that a Dell laptop computer containing names, addresses and social security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen two weeks ago. The information on the missing laptop included people in Miami-Dade County who hold commercial drivers licenses, Florida residents who have pilot's licenses and people who got their Florida drivers licenses from a facility in Largo, Fla.
Microsoft Makes Inroads in Data Storage & Replication MarketOctober 2nd, 2006 Microsoft introduced on Sept. 27 the public beta of its System Center Data Protection Manager version 2 at the Storage Decisions conference in New York.
$50, 000 Reward For Missing ComputerAugust 17th, 2006 Unisys is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of a missing desktop computer that belongs to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The computer, which contains personal information on 38,000 veterans treated at VA medical facilities in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, went missing from the offices of Unisys, the subcontractor hired to assist in insurance collection for those facilities.
Vanish: Digital data Self-destruction SoftwareAugust 10th, 2009 You must have heard of spy paper, the self-destructive paper in which the content vanishes after a certain time. For more there are self destructive message services that are sand lost to the surf once read. The same idea works for the web world.
Is Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Spyware?July 18th, 2006 As you know two class action lawsuits have been filed in US against Microsoft which alleges Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Tool is a spyware. Is WGA really a spyware? Let's take a look from different angles.
Hackers Steal 19, 000 AT&T DSL Customer's Credit Card InformationAugust 30th, 2006 AT&T said hackers broke into one of its computer systems and accessed personal data, including credit card information, on thousands of customers who used its online store. The attack affects about 19,000 customers who purchased equipment for high-speed DSL Internet connections through AT&T's Web site.
Security Vulnerability: Firewall Site Exposes Sensitive Data Through phpMyAdminSeptember 9th, 2007 I was looking for the wiki of a popular Linux based firewall site. The main url was 404, so I went up one level hoping to find a new url.
Call Center Girl Defrauds $4500 For "Fun" Using Stolen Credit Cards Details of CustomersSeptember 3rd, 2006 A Kolkata girl, Sulagna Ray, was arrested on Friday morning from her Behala home for using stolen credit card details of US residents, whom she served during her work at a call center selling DishTV, to buy goods worth $4, 500. The call centre, where Sulagna worked, does the back-end operations of another e-commerce site in the US.
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