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Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s Hacker Attack
Posted on October 14th, 2009 No commentsWal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain’s point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe, Wired.com has learned.
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McAfee – Password Stealing Malware Multiplied to 400% in 2008
Posted on October 14th, 2009 No commentsPublishing the report known as “Inside the Password-Stealing Business: the Who and How of Identity Theft”, the security firm said – in 2008, almost 400,000 variants of Trojans designed to log keystrokes and record passwords were discovered.
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Blumenthal: State Was ‘Cavalier And Careless’ In Theft Of Laptop With Sensitive Data On It
Posted on October 14th, 2009 No commentsIt was a major security breach when a state-owned laptop was stolen on Long Island in August 2007 and the Social Security numbers of 106,000 citizens were lost. Now, more than two years later, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has released a 37-page report that says the state tax department failed to safeguard the sensitive data after act…
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Identify Theft: Fact or Fiction?
Posted on October 14th, 2009 No commentsMy column this week, “The Fallacy of Identity Theft,” prompted a rash of comments from readers defending the serious nature of the crime.
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Identify Theft: Fact or Fiction?
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