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What security can learn from the $15M Sprint employee breach
Explore Article CSO Online (6 hours, 20 min ago)
Several former Sprint employees are charged with cloning customer information to make fraudulent phone calls. What researchers are learning about this type of insider breachComment on Article Mentions: Tampa CSO Magazine Joan Goodchild
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KCI working to contain employee data breach
Explore Article San Antonio News, Weather, Sports (6 hours, 13 min ago)
San Antonio-based Kinetic Concepts Inc. was offering credit monitoring and other identity-theft prevention services to its U.S. employees Thursday after an inadvertent e-mail containing an attachment listing employees' vital information was sent internally Wednesday, a KCI spokesman said Thursday. The e-mail's attachment listed names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and salaries of the approximately 4,000 KCI employees in the United States... -
Heartland Payment, Discover settle data breach claims
Explore Article Reuters.com (Sep 2 2010)
Credit and debit card processor Heartland Payment Systems (HPY.N) agreed to pay $5 million to Discover Financial Services (DFS.N) to settle data security breach claims and said this was the final agreement with a card brand related to a cyber theft in its systems in 2008.Comment on Article Mentions: Discover Financial Services Albert Gonzalez Heartland Payment Systems
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Union pension mailer reveals recepient's Social Security numbers
Explore Article stltoday.com (Sep 2 2010)
A local union pension fund sent mailers that included Social Security numbers of the recipients printed on the outside of the envelopes, according to members of the Carpenters District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity who received the letter. The mailer states that there are more than 24,000 beneficiaries of the pension fund.Comment on Article Mentions: Illinois Metro
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Implementation of Red Flags Rule delayed until appeals court rules on lawsuit
Explore Article Modern Medicine (Sep 2 2010)
Under intense pressure from numerous businesses and members of Congress, the FTC on May 28 delayed enforcement of the Red Flags Rule from the previous effective date of June 1, 2010, to Dec. 31. The latest action means that physician compliance likely will be delayed past that date. The extension until Dec. 31 was the fifth delay to which the ...
Comment on Article Mentions: FTC Washington Health Insurance Portability
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How to Protect Consumers from ID Theft
View all 2 articles » Explore Article bankinfosecurity.com (Sep 2 2010)
Financial losses associated with account takeover and intercepted personal information not only adversely affect a consumer's relationship with his banking institution, but also can have a devastating impact on an institution's reputation and financial well-being. -
Top Seven Social Media Landmines
Explore Article Infosec Island (Sep 1 2010)
Top Seven Social Media Landmines The basis for much of social media identity theft revolves around social engineering. When a profile claims to represent a certain person or brand, it is generally taken at face value. Lies propagated from such a credible source are likely to be taken as fact for quite a long time, if not indefinitely...Comment on Article Mentions: Robert Siciliano
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Bad network configurations a top data breach threat, survey reveals
Explore Article ComputerWeekly.com (Sep 1 2010)
Badly configured networks are one of the biggest causes of data breaches according to a majority of IT security professionals. Some 76% of IT professionals polled at the Defcon 18 hacking conference in Las Vegas said badly configured networks are the easiest IT resource to exploit.Comment on Article Mentions: Las Vegas
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Senators Want Breach Law Across Industries
View all 7 articles » Explore Article Insurance Networking News (Aug 18 2010)
Text of S. 3742 is available at congress.gov. The bill is one of several introduced during this session of Congress to strengthen protection of consumer information. For instance, Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Robert Bennett (R-Utah) on July 14 introduced a similar bill, S. 3579, titled "The Data Security Act of 2010." That bill is in the Bank...Comment on Article Mentions: Senate Health Data Management Tom Carper
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California Legislation Would Require Companies To Specify The Data Exposed In Breaches
View all 2 articles » Explore Article Dark Reading (Aug 26 2010)
New legislation sitting on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk raises issue of standard breach notificationsComment on Article Mentions: California California Senate ESG
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Drugstore Schlecker customer information exposed on web
Explore Article The Local (Aug 27 2010)
German drugstore chain Schlecker has suffered a major online data breach, with the names, addresses and profiles of about 150,000 customers being exposed on the internet, the company announced Friday.
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Is your company data safe in the hands of your mobile workers?
View all 2 articles » Explore Article IT security news, reviews and opinion (Aug 27 2010)
Colin Woodland, VP EMEA at IronKey, outlines the issues business and IT must face as they continue the push towards mobility. He warns that without the right preparation, the move towards mobile workforce holds potentially hidden and debilitating costs. -
Almost one in four security breaches affected health centers in 2010: survey
Explore Article DOTmed.com (Aug 9 2010)
Almost one out of four data security breaches affected health care centers in 2010, according to reports, though the numbers are likely somewhat padded by mandatory breach reporting data added this year. Still, the numbers are leading privacy rights advocates to push for tougher disclosure laws.Comment on Article Mentions: HHS Itrc Health Insurance Portability
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VARs warned of ID theft dangers
Explore Article channelweb.co.uk (Aug 25 2010)
Channel firms must do more to protect themselves against identity theft, the Identity Fraud Communication Awareness Group (IFCAG) has warned.
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Mortgage Fraud Is On the Rise Again
Explore Article online.wsj.com (Aug 22 2010)
Mortgage fraud, which helped inflate the housing bubble and left banks and government housing agencies with an avalanche of bad debt, is up again. The crime rose last year after declining for two years from its 2006 peak.
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Derek Beckwith » New Law Aims to Shore Up Retail Data Security
Businesses large and small should take note of this important compliance development.
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Actually, the law impacts any business storing the PII (personally identifiable information) of any Massachusetts ...
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