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Guardian job site hack hits half a million users

Posted on October 26th, 2009 admin No comments

The Guardian’s jobs website has been hacked, with half a million user accounts affected. In a statement on its website, the Guardian said the site was now secure, and that the incident had been reported to the Police’s central e-crime unit.

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Guardian job site hack hits half a million users

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Recycling project causes breach when social insurance numbers are redistributed in notebooks

Posted on September 29th, 2009 admin No comments

Memorial University of Newfoundland data loss incident circa 2009-09-29

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Recycling project causes breach when social insurance numbers are redistributed in notebooks

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Data Breach Trends: How to Avoid a Hack

Posted on September 29th, 2009 admin No comments

Chris Novak, Verizon Business: Monitoring, Incident Response are KeyHeartland Payment Systems, Radisson Hotels and Network Solutions have made the big headlines so far this year.

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Data Breach Trends: How to Avoid a Hack

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How Safe Is Social Media? (Opinion)

Posted on September 29th, 2009 admin No comments

Don’t make ‘bear shaving’ your security policy for Web 2.0.

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How Safe Is Social Media? (Opinion)

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DBA steals thousands of cardmember data and creates his own plastics

Posted on July 8th, 2009 admin No comments

American Express (Technologies) data loss incident circa 2009-07-02

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DBA steals thousands of cardmember data and creates his own plastics

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Unencrypted disk containing personal details of 2100 policyholders is lost

Posted on July 8th, 2009 admin No comments

Jubilee Managing Agency Limited data loss incident circa 2009-07-07

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Unencrypted disk containing personal details of 2100 policyholders is lost

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Pci Dss Incident Response: The Legal Perspective

Posted on July 8th, 2009 admin No comments

The SANS Institute InfoSec Reading Room recently published an article by Christian J. Moldes entitled PCI DSS and Incident Handling: What is required before, during and after an incident. Moldes’ whitepaper is a good starting point for developing an incident response plan to address payment card security breaches

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Nascio Releases Mobile Device Management Paper

Posted on July 8th, 2009 admin No comments

“Many states have made substantial efforts and investments to encrypt the data on mobile devices and to further protect them through use of strong policies, physical controls and end-user education.

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