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PCI Mobile Madness: Council Clarifications Not Helping
Posted on February 12th, 2011 No commentsThe intersection of PCI and mobile—an admittedly murky place—is getting more complicated. The PCI Council has pledged that it won't validate any more mobile applications for quite some time, at least not until it can determine what the best criteria are. Questions have now cropped up about the handful of mobile applications that had already been PCI validated.
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Adobe Prenotification Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Posted on February 5th, 2011 No comments(added February 4, 2011) A full-content feed is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom
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Website hacked and database downloaded including personal information
Posted on February 5th, 2011 No commentsFine Gael data loss incident circa 2011-01-10
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FTC Offers Businesses Tips for Dealing with Medical Identity Theft
Posted on February 4th, 2011 No commentsThe Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, has information for health care providers and insurers about how to help patients minimize the risk of medical identity theft and deal with the consequences if they become victims of it.
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Criminals Working for Debt Collectors May Be Stealing Your Identity
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 No commentsIt appears that many debt collection companies do not perform criminal background checks on call center employees. Many of these employees have criminal records.
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California lawmaker tries again with data breach bill
Posted on February 2nd, 2011 No commentsA California lawmaker has reintroduced a bill that would update the state’s pioneering data breach notification law, SB-1386, to include additional requirements for organizations that lose sensitive data.
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Opera 11.01 Released
Posted on January 30th, 2011 No comments(added January 28, 2011) A full-content feed is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom
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Cyber attacks on social networking sites doubled in 2010
Posted on January 29th, 2011 No commentsThe attacks by spam, phishing and malware upon social-networking sites last year were twice the amount of attacks from 2009, as mentioned in the latest review on cyber threats.
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Facebook suspends developer access to users' phone numbers and addresses after widespread criticism
Posted on January 27th, 2011 No commentsIt’s the flip-side of enjoying instant communication with your friends. Facebook has courted a fresh privacy row after allowing developers of apps access to sensitive information including telephone numbers and addresses. The social networking site announced the change on its blog last Friday, saying: ‘We are now making a user’s address …
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DAK Americas Proceeds with Acquisition
Posted on January 20th, 2011 No commentsDAK Americas LLC , based
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