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Data breach fines can risk more harm than good, experts say

Posted April 22, 2011 - 9:55 am

Are regulatory and security breach fines protecting the consumer, or beginning to unduly drive security policy? As penalties begin to be levied against organizations who have been attacked, or employees violated data policy, some experts now question whether the government is penalizing one of the victims in a crime, rather than helping to mitigate the risk of identity theft -- as the laws were first intended.
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Amazon's east coast cloud crashes, brings down customers

Posted April 21, 2011 - 11:36 am

Amazon's EC2, poster child for enterprise class cloud computing, had major problems overnight, bringing down a series of web sites and other customers, marring its own reputation.
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Epsilon pledges to build 'Fort Knox' around breached system

Posted April 21, 2011 - 10:15 am

Epsilon plans to increase security measures following a March 30 data breach.
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Mich. State Police confiscate cell data at traffic stops; won't say when or why

Posted April 20, 2011 - 11:35 am

Using forensic hardware from CelleBrite, Michigan State Police search and confiscate digital data at routine stops, even with no reason to suspect the victim of any crime.
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Oak Ridge National Lab shuts down Internet, email after cyberattack

Posted April 19, 2011 - 6:50 pm

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been forced to shut down its email systems and all Internet access for employees since late last Friday, following a sophisticated cyberattack.
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'Wind turbine hacker' full of hot air

Posted April 19, 2011 - 11:33 am

Though noted as probably fake, the wind turbine hack hoax got lots of attention for its target and 'evidence;' could propaganda-generating fake attacks be the next hactivist weapon?
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Iran official threatens retaliation for Stuxnet

Posted April 18, 2011 - 1:40 pm

While angry Iranian officials shouting at the West seemed to reduce tension over attacks on their nuclear facilities, Americans started attacking their own utilities.
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Security firm to Facebook: Clean up your act

Posted April 18, 2011 - 11:07 am

Facebook needs to make some simple, yet crucial, changes to secure users more effectively, according to security firm Sophos
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Report says Chinese far outstrip U.S. cyber-spy fight for military, business secrets

Posted April 14, 2011 - 5:34 pm

Hackers trained and directed by the Chinese military use spear-phishing and malware in attacks on thousands of U.S. companies, making reliance on perimeter security obsolete.
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Tests show reputation of firewall's effectiveness 'grossly overstated'

Posted April 13, 2011 - 3:53 pm

Tests by NSS labs show six leading firewalls are far less secure, stable and fast than vendors promised.
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Data breach notification fatigue: Do consumers tune out?

Posted April 12, 2011 - 2:10 pm

Data breach notifications are flying en masse following the Epsilon Interactive breach, but are they doing customers any good?
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Texas security gaffe dwarfs data breach at Epsilon

Posted April 11, 2011 - 3:49 pm

Bad enough to put personal records on a public server unencrypted, but then to leave them there for a year?
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'Minimal' financial impact of massive data breach could reach $100M

Posted April 11, 2011 - 2:05 pm

Alliance Data promises investors almost no impact from gaping data breach because it believes it can woo customers back. Good luck with that.
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UK police arrest three men over 'SpyEye' malware

Posted April 11, 2011 - 6:42 am

U.K. police arrested three men late last week in connection with using the SpyEye malware program to steal online banking details.
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Warning came four months before huge Epsilon data breach

Posted April 8, 2011 - 2:46 pm

Epsilon data was warned about phishing attacks like the one that cracked it -- four months before it was eventually cracked, according to reports.
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Verizon admits it was among Epsilon customers in data breach

Posted April 6, 2011 - 2:49 pm

Verizon admitted in emails directly to customers that its data was among that stolen from email service company Epsilon, presumably widening the pool of potential victims.
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FAQ: Epsilon email breach

Posted April 5, 2011 - 5:39 pm

A server breach at Epsilon Interactive exposed the names and email addresses of millions of people. This explainer tells what happened and how you can protect yourself.
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'We regret to inform you': The Epsilon breach letters you don't want to see

Posted April 5, 2011 - 2:50 pm

"We regret to inform you ..." are five words you never want to see in an email. But over the weekend thousands of people did as Epsilon began warning its customers that it had suffered a break-in and email addresses were stolen.
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About 50 clients hit by Epsilon e-mail marketing breach

Posted April 4, 2011 - 8:46 pm

Epsilon Interactive says that about 50 customers were affected in security breach
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Giant April Fool's day Web attack has little effect?

Posted April 4, 2011 - 1:13 pm

A SQL injection attack that infected millions of Web pages could have been prevented relatively cheaply and easily; why are so many Web sites unprotected?
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Thieves are stealing children's identities

Posted April 1, 2011 - 5:43 pm

Identity theft has saddled thousands of children with debt, sometimes for years before they ever discover their personal information has been stolen, a study says.
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Comodo compromise expands, hacker talks

Posted April 1, 2011 - 12:49 pm

The attacker who breached the certificate authority speaks, prompting Comodo to acknowledge that two more of its partners were breached.
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SCADA security arms race underway

Posted April 1, 2011 - 8:45 am

Following Stuxnet, security researchers are now taking a closer look at the software that controls industrial systems.
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Failure to encrypt portable devices inexcusable, say analysts

Posted March 31, 2011 - 9:19 pm

The continuing failure by most enterprises to encrypt sensitive data stored on laptops and other mobile devices is inexcusable, analysts said following BP's disclosure this week of a data compromise involving a lost laptop.
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BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants

Posted March 29, 2011 - 9:02 pm

The personal information of 13,000 individuals who had filed compensation claims with BP after last years disastrous oil spill may have been potentially compromised after a laptop containing the data was lost by a BP employee.
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