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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'data leak'


Risks of Consolidation

Consolidating account information in a single service is appealing - log into one place and get a snap shot of your financial state. Sounds good in theory, but the practice went wrong for Rudder, a free personal financial service....

US Missle Defense Details Found on Computer Purchased from eBay

A collaboration of researchers in US, UK and Austrailia trying to raise awareness risks of improperly disposing personal data found their poster child for the year: a computer with details on a US anti-missile defense system....

Unfair and Deceptive Practices in the Cloud

The world of cloud computing is running with few generally accepted rules. It's a one-cloud-provider-one-privacy-policy business right now. One researcher thinks "swamp" is a better term than cloud. I've argued the cloud makes sense in some cases and not others,...

McCain-Palin Data Leak with Used Blackberry

The election is over and we all know how it turned out yet there is still something to be learned from a story out of Fox News. A reporter bought a Blackberry still containing campaign information that should have been...

Data Breaches at Nuclear Labs

Lost in the political and economic news of last week is a story about improving but still insufficient security at U.S. nuclear labs....

Palin Email Hack Shows Why Mixing Business & Personal Emails Such a Bad Idea

Checking your personal email from a corporate system is one thing, using a personal account to conduct business is another. The former is one of those balancing risk and functionality questions. We all have busy lives and many of us...

Gov. Palin's Email Hacked

Wired has confirmed the Gov. Palin's personal Yahoo! email was hacked....

Databases, Data Leaks, and Sieves

At some level networks are like systems of pipes with information flowing from sources to sinks but that's a lousy analogy. I hope our water infrastructure doesn't leak like our information networks can. Take the case of a former employee...

Surplus Computers and Data Leaks

Stories of stolen company or government laptops with confidential information on them are almost routine now. A slight twist on that story line comes out of Kansas were several state computers put up for auction contained employee personal information, Social...

If an Identity Falls in the Forest No One Reads the Notification Letter, Does It Make a Sound?

Identity theft is a hot topic for those pushing monitoring services but it looks like just about no one else cares. I occasionally get comments in this blog promoting identity theft monitoring services and I have to give credit to...

Updated: Lost Tape Not Necessarily a Data Leak

GE Money, which manages store credit cards, was told by Iron Mountain that a backup tape had gone missing. The problem is that tape is unencrypted and it contains personal financial information as well as Social Security Numbers. From PC...

MPAA Toolkit Leaves Schools Vulnerable

Security Fix is reporting that the Motion Picture Association of America, like the RIAA, is enlisting the support of colleges and universities to combat pirated movies. Unfortunately for the schools, the tools provided by MPAA leave their networks vulnerable to...

Yet Another Leak from MediaDefender

For a company that helps their customers control access to content, MediaDefenders is having a rough time. Last week I wrote about the embarrassing email leak reported in TorrentFreak. This week, its code from MediaDefender that getting out. According to...

How to Respond to a Data Breach

Data breaches are becoming so common every organization should be prepared to respond if it suffers a breach. In this podcast we examine examples from TJX, Pfizer, the State of Ohio, and the Veterans Administration on what to do and...

Viver Trojan Target Symbian Smartphones; Data Loss Bigger Threat

The Register is reporting in Symbian malware escapes Russia that three Viver Trojans are running up SMS charges on victim's phones. The Trojans sends premium rate SMS messages to numbers in Russia. These Trojans are an improvement over earlier versions...

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