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Former Verizon Wireless employee charged with identity theft

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2008-04-27 09:43:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...appears that he may have taken sensitive personal information belonging to Verizon Wireless customers during his employment from November, 2003 to January, 2005 Reference URL New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above a former...
 
Tags: verizon wireless, verizon, verizon wireless customers, employee, identity, identity theft, theft, sensitive personal information, social security
 
 
 
 
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268,000 donors exposed through stolen Memorial Blood Centers laptop

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2007-12-06 14:09:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...appears to have not been encrypted Reference URL Press Release on BusinessWire Press Release on the Memorial Blood Centers Press Release Report Credit Memorial Blood Centers Response From the official press release cited above Memorial Blood Centers reported today that it has begun notifying blood donors of the theft of a laptop computer...
 
Tags: donors, blood, security, security cameras, store social security, memorial blood centers, donors social security, breach description, blood components
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)

2007-12-19 11:03:29 by HASH0x89eb6f0 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...appears to work! You can call it up and leave a message, but if it goes anywhere, it is not going to us! In the past, when we've lost our K7 number, the number has been inactive to some period of time, so callers just got a message saying that the number was no longer in use. Now it appears that the number has been reallocated already - or at...
 
Tags: comment, standard comment line, comment line, wrong comment line, call, call control xml, net call-in, net, fax message
 
 
 
 
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Recent Symantec and IBM vulnerabilities, giblets, banned APIs and the SDL

2008-01-04 23:37:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...appears none have been assigned. However, all of these bugs are explained in detail at the vuln.sg Web site, and include an assembly-level analysis, which I used to determine the offending code, and sample exploit code. .WPD File Parser Vulnerability The WPD bug is due to an integer overflow it is possible to cause more than 2400 bytes to be...
 
Tags: linker sdl requirements, sdl requirements, ibm, sdl, requirements, symantec, bugs affect ibm, bugs, sdl refers
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)

2007-12-19 12:01:39 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...appears to work! You can call it up and leave a message, but if it goes anywhere, it is not going to us! In the past, when we've lost our K7 number, the number has been inactive to some period of time, so callers just got a message saying that the number was no longer in use. Now it appears that the number has been reallocated already - or at...
 
Tags: comment, standard comment line, comment line, wrong comment line, call, call control xml, net call-in, net, fax message
 
 
 
 
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Moto Q9 DoS and Fingerprinting

2008-01-12 18:10:21 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...appears to crash mobile Opera instantly. So back to keeping JS turned off, I guess (I havent tested if there is another way to cause the crash using a redirection or an iframe, but it takes a long time to test, so Ill leave that to another day Then I start messing with the other options, like the Identify as function. With it turned to...
 
Tags: accept language, accept, devcap, devcap charset, devcap numsoftkeys, accept charset, devcap screenpixels, cell phone hacker, phone
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...appears the code present on the USB sticks is used to program a component (HAAT) of their client (WinEDS) to prepare for a specific election. The valid concern noted by the study is that USB sticks used by WinEDS to configure the HAAT are implicitly trusted to have appropriate authorization to program the voting devices for an election, and...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees

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2008-02-12 15:03:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...appears that they notified employees in a timely manner. The school also appears to know a thing or two about information security as demonstrated by encrypting the data and now recognizing the importance of evaluating vendor security practices Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: district officials, district, district employees, school district, school district employees, employees, sensitive personal information, information, provide information
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...appears to come from your bank, dont read itdelete it. Then call your bank; if they need something from you, their customer service department can handle it. Legitimate businesses simply dont use e-mail to conduct account maintenance transactions, because e-mail itself is insecure. Never click on links to any kind of online payment service...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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