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TD Ameritrade discovers database breach

TD Ameritrade discovers database breachThat's greatThat's great, I'd given them one of my "keeper" email addresses because I thought their site was secure. I wondered why I started getting so much spam on it. Now I know.Should I believe that, even though my SSN was in the same database, it...

Tags: E-mail, Storage, TD Ameritrade, database breach, data breach, database

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

U.K.'s Home Office admits to database breaches

U.K.'s Home Office admits to database breachesGood thing this can never happen in the US.I mean all of the hundreds of thousands of Federal Employees are 100% trust worthy,,,, right?What we don't know won't hurt us....So that's 5 breaches in 5 years, that averages to about 1 data breach per...

Tags: data breach, database breach, database

Discussion threads 2006-08-31

Additional Resources

Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Mozilla shuts online store after security breach

Mozilla shuts online store after security breachMozilla shuts online store after security breachThey must have been running linux.RE: Mozilla shuts online store after security breachIts unfortunate that this has occurred, as Mozilla's name is now partly associated with a crime that would be difficult for them to have prevented. This...

Tags: Linux, Mozilla Corp., online store, security breach, security

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Coleman donor data breached in January, but donors alerted by Wikileaks not campaign

Coleman donor data breached in January, but donors alerted by Wikileaks not campaignYou make it sound like they had a breach and then rebut it in the storythat doesnt make sense.Its not a bad story to cover.. but your topic is misleading.. just like their email.RE: Coleman donor data breached...

Tags: Federal government, Wikileaks, donor, Coleman, donor data

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Kaspersky suffers attack on support site, no apparent data breach

Word came out this weekend that the U.S. support site for the AV Vendor Kaspersky Labs was compromised by attackers. Earlier this week an attacker used a SQL Injection attack to compromise a section of the usa.kaspersky.com website and posted a list of database tables fetched via...

Tags: Kaspersky Lab, Attacker, Attack, Kaspersky, Security, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-02-09

News to know: Windows 7; Tax software guide; Extending your system's life

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Robin Harris: Give your system a mid-life kicker Ed Bott: How well does Windows 7 handle 512MB? Andrew Nusca: ZDNet's Ultimate Tax...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Microsoft Windows 7, Tax, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Monster.com hacked; user ID, e-mail, phone numbers stolen

Monster.com recently posted a PSA on their site notifying users that their database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, "including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data." The information accessed does not include resumes....

Tags: Phone, Password, user-ID, Monster, E-mail, Social Security, Online Communications, Government, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-26

The Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID): Trends in Web Application Security

What are the emerging trends in web application security? The presenter of this webcast will provide an overview of web application security and valuable industry tools. Many organizations today have a difficult time finding reliable data on web attacks and web defects because the number of web attacks reported is...

Tags: Web, Web Application, Breach Security, Web Attack, Channel Management, Security, Marketing

Webcasts 2009-01-01

Think You Are Immune From a Web Application Attack - Think Again!

Breach Security recently announced that web attackers unleashed a new type of SQL injection attack in 2008 that compromised more than 500,000 websites, according to its Web Hacking Incidents Database WHID 2008 Annual Report. The presenter will give and overview on the WHID 2008 Annual Report.

Tags: Web, Web Application, Attack, Channel Management, Security, Marketing

Webcasts 2009-01-01

The 10 best IT certifications

Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog: IT pros tend to have strong opinions when debating the value of professional certification â€" and views become even more polarized when it comes down to a discussion of which certs are meaningful. TechRepublic's Erik Eckel put together a list of the accreditations...

Tags: Project Management, Security, Expertise, Certification, Skill, Exam, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., MCITP, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Certification, Project Management Professional Certification, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-11

Red Hat (belatedly) confirms security breach

Red Hat belatedly confirms security breachthis is the evidence that open source linux security sucks!this is the evidence that open source linux security sucks!RE: Red Hat belatedly confirms security breachLOL!! What have I been saying all along? That linux is NOT secure and is NOT suitable for any purpose....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., security, Linux, security breach, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Fear and enterprise in the PaaS channel

Fear and enterprise in the PaaS channelSaaS and PaaS still not an Enterprise SolutionInternet based solutions whether they are software or platform do not pass any type of sanity test.1. Data ownership. No matter what the license agreements always have 2 clauses that allow them to do what ever they...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, PaaS, storage

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

News to know: Yang's runway; Apple patch; Google; Gates' last week

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yang's recovery runway: Months to days and board should go too. Techmeme Google's display ad gravy train rests with YouTube Richard Koman: Ad targeting technology violate privacy, groups say Ryan Naraine: Microsoft blames 'human issues' for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Data Center, Apple Inc., Data Centers, Web Browsers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Security breach hits DivShare, unauthorized access to its database

The popular document and media sharing service DivShare, suffered a security breach according to a security announcement posted by DivShare's support team earlier this week : Late last night we were alerted of a security breach that allowed a malicious user to access our database, which included user e-mail...

Tags: Database, Security Breach, DivShare, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer records

Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer recordsData lost AGAIN.............What has me curious is whether or not the information ON the tapes is encrypted, whether it be residing in database files, flat files or whatever? This "data at rest" all should be stored in encrypted formats.........http://whistlersear.wordpress.comLost? Yeah right!Its always...

Tags: Financial services, NetBackup, Bank of NY, bank

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Secure coding: the invisible elephant

The last couple of weeks, I've been trying to vaguely connect the dots between social computing, cloud computing and traditional process based systems. There are multiple legs to the story but one that had pretty much escaped my attention was the security angle. I will not claim any special expertise...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Database, Cloud Computing, Information Technology, Computer Science, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Ms Davidson, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Will you trust your medical information to Google?

Will you trust your medical information to Google?MedicalRecords247.comI agree with you and am curious, what do you think of www.MedicalRecords247.com ?Google will try to mine my own medical record, then present adsI would only trust my medical records to a third-party repository that implmented HIPAA and agreed to store the...

Tags: Google Inc., medical information, medical record

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

Oracle on the psychology of patching

Oracle on the psychology of patchingPatching is absolutely mandatoryI agree that there are two ways to think about patches; mandatory and impact based. But there is no way to guage potential impact to an event that might occur due to not applying a patch, and there is also no...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Databases, Enterprise software, Oracle Corp., patch management, patch set, Microsoft SQL Server, patch

Discussion threads 2008-02-01