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Breach Investigations Show Alarming Advances In Malware
Posted on January 31st, 2011 No commentsHackers continue to improve malware, third-party vendors continue to serve their clients poorly when it comes to data security, and the evidence points to Russia as the single biggest source of attacks on databases. Those are some of the highlights in the new Global Security Report 2011…
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Only The Commerce Department Could Make Retail Self-Regulation Look Good
Posted on November 18th, 2010 No commentsA data breach is a nightmare, and not just because it means thieves have broken through a retailer’s security. The second half of the nightmare is dealing with the wide range of state laws about reporting data breaches and managing data privacy. But some help would seem to be on the way, according to a Commerce Department report leaked last Friday (Nov.
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Playing Token Trick Or Treat
Posted on October 1st, 2010 No commentsNext month, millions of adorable merchant IT executives will dress up and pretend to be responsible adults who are experts in all manner of security. They'll walk down Tokenization Street, going from one security vendor to another, holding out their brightly colored IT environment bags and ask, “Token Trick Or Treat?” Some will get delicious chocolate, which will cost-effectively protect their payment data. Others, unfortunately—like CSO Charlie Brown—will get a rock
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FTC Testifies on Data Security Legislation
Posted on September 22nd, 2010 No commentsThe Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate Subcommittee that it supports proposed legislation that would require many companies to use reasonable data security policies and procedures and require those companies to notify consumers when there is a security breach.
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Calling all IT security pros
Posted on September 21st, 2010 No commentsYou can get all the insight you need to protect your corporation's critical data now. Just sign up for our data security online event now.
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Senate panel approves data security bills
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsPlans would tighten data security procedures and beef up notification of breaches.
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Facebook application security hole exposes millions to hacking, researcher says
Posted on October 20th, 2009 No commentsA security researcher is warning Facebook users about potential vulnerabilities in Facebook applications that could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) hacker attacks for hijacking user accounts.
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ChoicePoint to Pay Fine for Second Data Breach
Posted on October 20th, 2009 No commentsData broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay a fine for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
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Does Visa’s Encryption Statement Offer A “Tacit Endorsement”?
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsVisa’s just-announced best practices are designed to provide guidance and give tacit endorsement to existing end-to-end encryption and, to some extent, tokenization. Merchants are likely to see it as “something else to do” and as further evidence that the card brands will continue to go their own way relative to data security, despite the PCI DSS industry standards.But PCI Columnist David Taylor sees something else interesting here. “For the last 4-5 years, companies have been told that achieving PCI compliance is much easier if they segment their network.
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New Law Firm / New Blog! (www.infolawgroup.com)
Posted on October 6th, 2009 No commentsHello to all of the loyal ISC readers! I am pleased to announce that I have formed a new law firm: The Information Law Group. The new firm is comprised of myself and several other attorneys that concentrate on legal issues concerning privacy, data security, information technology, e-commerce and intellectual property. We address a broad
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