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- Reckoning day for ChoicePoint?
- You may remember when Choicepoint, the data aggregator and vendor of personally identifiable information fell prey to a very simple ploy. Some Nigerian data thieves became customers and proceeded to download thousands of records. ChoicePoint is finally settling a class action law suit that arose from that incident...
- Tags: Bureau, Price Tag, ChoicePoint Inc., Culprit, Lesson, Social Security, Identity Theft, Financial Services, Government, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Man faces new charges in ChoicePoint ID theft
- Man faces new charges in ChoicePoint ID theftKeep nailing the PoS to the Wall - I'll drive a spike"Hangings' to good for him, killings' to good for him...." Hanover FistThey can catch everyone of the ba5tard5, punish them to the full extent of...
- Tags: ChoicePoint ID theft, ChoicePoint Inc., identity theft
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
- Lawmakers to act on ChoicePoint ID theft
- Lawmakers to act on ChoicePoint ID theftIronic" A Nigerian man was sentenced to 16 months in prison..."Gee, maybe he was the one that started the original Nigerian scam still running around the Internet? :-)Seriously though, as it is with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, we should hold the ChoicePoint executives personnaly responsible for...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Storage, Databases, industry, identity theft, ChoicePoint Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-02-24
- ChoicePoint hit with ID theft lawsuit
- ChoicePoint hit with ID theft lawsuitExcellentI am of the opinion that companies should be held responsible for security breaches that results in theft of personal data. Note I'm not talking about the software vendors, but the companies doing the hosting themselves, ESPECIALLY if the breach was caused by something other...
- Tags: SECURITY, ChoicePoint Inc., private information, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2005-02-23
- ChoicePoint data theft widens to 145,000 people
- ChoicePoint data theft widens to 145,000 peopleALERT! Rant Ahead You have been warnedFirst of all this is totally unacceptable. Companies that warehouse our private information need to take steps that insure people are legit that request information from them.Next Choice Point should be civily liable for any...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Choice-Point, ChoicePoint Inc., identity theft, CREDIT FREEZE
- Discussion threads 2005-02-18
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- Keeping the web open, by letting the EU deal with things
- Privacy International have said that Google's new Street View tool could breach data protection laws if people's faces are shown, according to the BBC, whereas the creator of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has made it clear that the success of the web has been because it's open for...
- Tags: Imagery, Google Inc., Web, European Commission, Europe, Street View, Channel Management, Marketing, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithmSchneier thought the sameIf you read Bruce Schneier's history on his website, he claim to have discovered the same revelation. He says he used to believe that if he found the perfect encryption, the world would be secure. He later...
- Tags: encryption algorithm
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Attack Fish Chronicles Volume I: The Omega (zip)
- Times are harsh, and everyone has been affected by the recent events. You will not find loot tucked away in treasure chests at random locations, and you will not obtain gold from killing beasts outside of town. Whether you are mining for ore in a remote cave, skinning sheep and...
- Tags: Quest, Adventure, Attack, Times
- Software downloads 2008-07-07
- Stolen: Google employees' personal data
- Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external...
- Tags: Google Inc., Social Security, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Sales, Finance, ZDNet Australia, Privacy & data protection
- News items 2008-07-03
- AV Voice Changer Software Gold Edition (exe)
- AV Voice Changer Software Gold can change your voice in real time to sound like the voice of a young or old man, a sexy woman, the lovely voice of a baby, or an infinite number of variations. With these altered voices, you can complete any audio project such as...
- Tags: Software, Voice, Avnex, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System
- If you consider this upper midrange $3,220 AVADirect's Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System representative of the value and build quality available from this small custom builder, we can report that we were mostly happy with this PC, even if we found it loud and its gaming performance a bit...
- Tags: Games, AVADirect Core 2 SLI DDR3 Gaming System
- Product reviews 2008-07-02
- Antivirus vendor introducing virtual keyboard for secure Ebanking
- Kaspersky's most recent product launch of the Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, is featuring a virtual keyboard "a secure pop-up that enables logins, passwords, bank card details and other important personal information to be entered safely to prevent the theft of confidential information" aiming to protect users from keyloggers, and consequently...
- Tags: Bank, Antivirus, Virtual Keyboard, Malware, Kaspersky, Ebanking Malware, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8
- When Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 hits the Beta 2 milestone in August, the browser makeover will feature a full-fledged anti-malware blocker and new protections against some forms of cross-site scripting attacks. The existing phishing filter IE 7 has been renamed SmartScreen Filter and will include blacklist-based blocking...
- Tags: XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer, SmartScreen Filter, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests
- Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading, reported on research conducted by Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, who has been performing social engineering exploits for numerous clients in the past year and has apparently stolen thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. ...
- Tags: Social Engineering, Identity, Dark Reading Article, Identity Theft, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search
- Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language searchYes, It is..I think it is a right move.. Google's monopoly over search comes from the fact it has a great software the search engine. That's it, plain and simple. Only if Microsoft can offer better search results, then it can compute with Google. Offering...
- Tags: SEARCH, Powerset, natural-language search, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- IdPhotos 2008 (exe)
- IdPhotos 2008 is an advanced but easy-to-use tool designed for automatic image processing of ID photos so that they meet the specific requirements of international ID regulations. A standard catalogue of ready-to-use templates - for passports, visas, driving licenses and other identity card photographs - is included. With the IdPhotos...
- Tags: Photograph, PIXEL-TECH, IdPhotos 2008
- Software downloads 2008-07-01
- Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?
- A British study, as reported by the BBC has found that physics is not only being taught less and less by those who specialize in the subject, but also not emphasized outside of a general science curriculum. While the research is focused on the UK, it brings up some...
- Tags: Physics, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Thoughts on Bill Gates
- Thoughts on Bill GatesGood lawyeringOne thing that is often forgotten is the fact that, when Gates purchased and licensed dos to IBM, the contract was the "killer app".It required IBM to pay for DOS on every machine whether they used it or not, while allowing MS to license DOS...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Internet Explorer 'feature' causing drive-by malware attacks
- My colleague at Kaspersky Lab Roel Schouwenberg see disclosure has discovered a drive-by malware download taking advantage of what Microsoft describes as an Internet Explorer "feature" to launch cross-site scripting attacks. The attack, discovered at a compromised legitimate site, is using a modified GIF file to exploit...
- Tags: GIF, XSS, Malware, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Schouwenberg, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride
- A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free. This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...
- Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
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