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New survey: Consumers plan to sharply limit use of cards (AKA, have we awakened a sleeping giant?)

2007-11-28 15:39:00 by Michael Concordia in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...adequately protecting their data Two-thirds of consumers plan to use their credit card for less than 25% of their holiday purchases Only around 2% say they will continue shopping at a retailer they have heard does not do a good job of protecting data More than 40% have had their identity stolen or know of someone who has 75% of respondents...
 
Tags: data, customer data, cards, sloppy data protection, consumers, data protection, consumers plan, credit cards, credit
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...adequately addressed. If Fidelity SPS's representatives have not adequately addressed your concerns, please let us know by emailing stockadmin@yahoo-inc.com Commentary It sounds like this is a human error. Information security breaches resulting from human error are one of the most (if not the most) challenging to protect against. Us humans...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Drama surrounds People's United Bank breach

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2008-04-08 12:47:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...adequately secure the personal information of some of it's customers. If the documents had been destroyed appropriately, we would have no story, no search warrant, no restraining order, no court case, no victims, etc., etc. This is all a waste of valuable resources due to poor security (business) practices We believe this is an isolated...
 
Tags: bank, financial information, information, confidential information, people, bank deposit, hastings, james hastings dove, bank set
 
 
 
 
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Spring ISD mobile devices stolen along with personal student information

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2008-05-18 23:01:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...adequately protected The flash drive contains the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) results of third and fifth graders who have taken the first round of reading and math tests, eighth graders who have taken the first round of math tests and 11th and 12th graders who have taken the exit level retest In addition, the drive...
 
Tags: information, students personal information, personal information, isd, students, individual students, isd laptop computer, external flash drive, drive
 
 
 
 
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Auditing open source software

2007-10-08 16:13:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...adequately sanity checking it. Integer abuse issues are still very common in code, particular code which is decoding untrusted binary data or protocols. We recommend being careful using any such code until it has been vetted for security (by extensive code auditing, fuzz testing, or preferably both). It is also important to watch for security...
 
Tags: image, malicious image file, libtiff image, values, jpeg image, tiff header values, source, evil tiff file, evil
 
 
 
 
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New Research Outlines Key Steps to Protect Sensitive Data - December 5, 2007

2007-12-28 12:18:16 by zaruba in Security Links
 
...adequately protecting their sensitive data. The report also analyzes the variables between those companies that are leaders and laggards in the area of data protection, providing insight into which actions and best practices can lead to less data loss, improved compliance results and sustained competitive advantage About IT Policy Compliance...
 
Tags: research, benchmark research, sensitive data, protect sensitive data, benchmark research report, policy, policy compliance, report, institute
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Wendy's laptop affects 1,092 employees

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2008-01-03 14:08:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...adequately secured. It baffles me that there is a question as to whether or not the actions that led to this breach are against company policy. If the storage of confidential information on mobile media (thumb drives, CDs, DVDs, laptops, etc.) without encryption (and other controls) is not in policy, it certainly should be! Information...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security, confidential information, information security policies, wendy, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Maryland Department of Assessments & Taxation web exposure

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2008-01-05 14:02:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...adequately secured with encryption leaving some sensitive personal information un-protected while transferred from clients to the Web server Reference URL Washington Times News Story Report Credit Gary Emerling, The Washington Times Response From the online source cited above Officials said residents applying Monday for the homestead-tax...
 
Tags: maryland, sensitive personal information, personal information, secure server hadhas, server, web application server, application, information, information security
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...adequately to meet security requirements, needs, or expectations 2) Implementation vulnerabilities software that exposes risk based on implementation deficiencies 3) Deployment vulnerabilities software that was misconfigured in deployment as to expose risk that might have been prevented by other configurations Lets talk about each of these...
 
Tags: criteria, fails, common criteria fails, common criteria, common criteria arguably, common, arguably, arguably deficient, security
 
 
 
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in