March 2, 2010 - IDG News Service - A break-in one evening last October at a shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is proving expensive for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Over the past five months, the company has employed a small army of workers ... Read more
February 11, 2010 - Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 5:27 pm With millions of personal records and payment card information stolen on a regular basis, several recently released reports independently confirm some of the main sources of breaches. Not surprisingly, that.s ... Read more
February 11, 2010 - The University of Texas Medical Branch has mailed letters notifying 1,200 patients that sensitive information about them had been available to a woman charged with identity theft in an unrelated case. Officials sent out the letters this week after ... Read more
February 3, 2010 - Around 53 West Virginia University students’ personal information was available to others following an "operational error" during a routine update of tax information Jan. 15. The students’ 1098-T forms, which include their Social Security number and tax identification numbers, ... Read more
January 30, 2010 - A Humboldt State University computer infected with a virus may have exposed the personal information of 3,500 people employed by the school between 2002 and 2006. HSU spokesman Paul Mann said no employees or former employees have yet reported ... Read more
January 29, 2010 - Having worked in the banking industry for years, Elida Cruz routinely assured her clients that their personal information would remain confidential. So she was understandably horrified Thursday to learn that paperwork carrying her own Social Security number, birth date, ... Read more
January 29, 2010 - The confidential records of millions of British gamblers who bet with top bookmaker Ladbrokes have been offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday. The huge data theft is now at the centre of a criminal investigation after this ... Read more
January 28, 2010 - Laptops containing sensitive records belonging to thousands of Ontario teachers have been stolen, CBC News has learned. The three laptops contained names, addresses, birth dates and social insurance numbers of some 8,600 teachers, most of whom work at elementary ... Read more
January 28, 2010 - The theft of a laptop computer from a medical office has put hundreds of people at a greater risk of identity theft. On Friday, the Methodist Hospital notified 689 people that someone stole a laptop from an office at ... Read more
January 28, 2010 - Why did it take the Commerce Department so long to notify employees that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, had been let loose on the Internet? On Monday, employees were informed by letters mailed to their homes about ... Read more
January 28, 2010 - UC San Francisco said Wednesday that a laptop containing files with information on 4,400 patients was stolen from a UCSF School of Medicine employee on or about November 30. The university said Jan. 27 that it is in the ... Read more
January 28, 2010 - One of the immediate questions about the security leak the state announced today is why did the accounting firm learn about it in early December and reveal it to the state last week? PricewaterhouseCoopers should have acted sooner when ... Read more
January 27, 2010 - Personal information for 250,000 Clinton administration staff and White House visitors sent to the National Archives was compromised after a computer hard drive containing confidential material disappeared nearly a year ago, RollCall.com reported Wednesday. The National Archives and Record ... Read more
January 25, 2010 - The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute's annual study. The average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65 million in 2008 to $6.75 million in ... Read more
December 18, 2009 - Twitter was disrupted Thursday night by attackers who hacked Twitter’s domain name servers and rerouted Twitter traffic as well as posting their own banner on the micro-blogging services page. The service returned to normal by Friday morning.Technology blog Mashable, attributed ... Read more
December 15, 2009 - It used to be that end-of-year security predictions were bold and almost science-fictiony. They have become more conservative this year and therefore more reasonable. I've been barraged with them and have attempted to collect the best here.It's clear to me ... Read more
December 15, 2009 - More news is emerging about the zero-day attack on Adobe Acrobat and Reader revealed by the company last night.The main news comes from the Shadowserver Foundation which claims to have examined the attack. They confirm that the attack ... Read more
December 14, 2009 - From Adobe themselves comes the vague news that an unpatched vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader is being exploited in the wild.That's the extent of what they ... Read more
December 14, 2009 - Security icon Roger Thompson of AVG recently had a problem with his credit card while on the road for business. Because he was in London the bank ... Read more
December 12, 2009 - The PandaLabs blog has a screen shot of an interesting development in rogue anti-virus: One that has been optimized to look like it's part of Windows 7.The program is an exact replica of the Windows 7 Explorer shell program. ... Read more
