Ameriprise Loses Laptop Too: 230,000 IDs
Ameriprise Financial, a spinoff from American Express, lost a laptop computer with upwards of 230,000 customers' and advisors personal information on it. 230,000 names were compromised because a laptop computer was stolen from an employee's parked car. This sounds like déjà vu all over again. Did I mention the info was unencrypted?
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Date: 2006-01-31
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180Solutions Drops Lawsuit Against Zone Labs
Back in November, 180Solutions filed a lawsuit against Zone Labs, a company best known for its firewall software. 180Solutions filed suit because Zone Labs listed their software as spyware. 180Solutions didn't like that. But today, the lawsuit was dropped with strong attached and no reason for dumping the suit.
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Date: 2006-01-30
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VoIP Getting Dangerous?
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is like a barn full of grain, waiting for rodents to move in according to a new report released by Cambridge and MIT. The study released on Thursday suggested VoIP is ripe for the picking of hackers around the world.
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Date: 2006-01-27
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FTC Top 10 List For Fraud
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released their top 10 list on Wednesday and it's got some interesting details. Identity theft topped the list and accounted for about 255,000 of the 686,000 complaints filed over 2005.
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Date: 2006-01-26
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Harvard & Oxford Mashing Malware
The folks at Harvard's Berkman Center and Oxford's Internet Institute launched a new "Neighborhood Watch" system for the net. They're calling it www.stopbadware.com. Some major players including Google, Lenovo, and Sun back the initiative, and Consumer Reports WebWatch will act as an unpaid special advisor.
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Date: 2006-01-25
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WikiPedia.de Goes Down
A German court ordered the German version of Wikipedia, Wikipedia.de, closed on Monday. The order came as a result of a lawsuit against Wikimedia Deutschland filed by the family of a deceased hacker after the online encyclopedia printed the full name of the man.
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Date: 2006-01-24
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CDT Files Suit Against 180Solutions
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) requested the Federal Trade Commission levy charges of "illegal and deceptive" practices against Internet marketing firm 180Solutions Inc. for distributing intrusive adware.
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Date: 2006-01-23
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Google’s Fighting For Your Privacy Online
Online privacy is an issue of constant debate. That debate shot through the roof when the Justice Department demanded Google adhere to a subpoena issued a year ago. The subpoena demanded the search engine company turn over a number of records in the name of online child pornography.
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Date: 2006-01-19
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Windows Vista Security Update: WMF Lives On
The WMF issue has been a real thorn in the side of Microsoft. The kids in Redmond plopped out their first update for Windows Vista and it appears to be for the same problem wit the WMF images that riddle other versions of Windows.
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Date: 2006-01-17
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Spanish Hacker Cracked Defense Department
The bell tolled for an 18-year-old hacker in Spain after he was picked up and charged with cracking into a top-secret computer at the U.S. Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego. As an adult the young man could see serious time in prison or get a serious job with some government agency.
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Date: 2006-01-16
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Spyware Defined
The Anti-Spyware Coalition completed its guidelines for providing a common way to classify spyware. Big companies including Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, AOL, Yahoo and Computer Associates are on in this program. Spyware remains one of the top annoyances on the Internet and has been for quite some time.
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Date: 2006-01-13
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Symantec Rootkittin’ Around
We thought we could trust our security software companies, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Symantec recently got caught with their pants down… er… cloaked when they came clean about a rootkit they put into their Norton SystemWorks product. Apparently, the Sony BMG fiasco caused them to rethink things a bit.
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Date: 2006-01-12
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Hodges Leaves McAfee, Joins WebSense
Gene Hodges, president of McAfee, jumped ship and became President and CEO of WebSense, another security software firm. All this comes hot on the heels of an agreement McAfee reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission after they charged McAfee with cooking the books.
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Date: 2006-01-11
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New WMF Vulnerabilities Found
Microsoft continues to have problems with its WMF handling. While the zero-day problem was corrected, other problems have crept up around the very same program. Microsoft released the fix last week but it looks like they've got some more work to do.
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Date: 2006-01-10
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Google’s DRM: Is It Safe?
Last week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) dominated the tech industry in recent days and many are still talking about it. One major point was Google's new video service and perhaps more interesting from a security point of view is the new Google DRM.
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Date: 2006-01-09
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WMF: The Fix Is In
Late on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft put out an announcement they would be releasing their patch for the WMF exploit that afternoon. By about 4:30 pm EST, they started the distributing the patch. This was crucial for Microsoft, who had already been beaten to the punch by a third party developer.
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Date: 2006-01-06
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McAfee Tangles With SEC Over Securities Fraud
McAfee Inc, one of the top names in the security software industry, recently worked out a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding securities fraud. While McAfee agreed to pay penalties, they were able to walk away without admitting guilt.
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Date: 2006-01-05
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Unofficial WMF Fix; Microsoft WMF Patch Leaked
The big ugly known as the WMF exploit continues to be a point of nervous pessimism as many XP users wait for Microsoft to release their fix as part of the patch day package. Even though an unofficial patch has been floating around for a couple of days, the official fix, planned for release on Jan. 10th, leaked out on Wednesday.
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Date: 2006-01-04
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WMF Exploit Still On The Move
The WMF exploit appears to be the nastiest exploit for any software in quite some time. The zero-day vulnerability has no known cure at this point as the first worm surfaced. There are some workarounds but they aren't the best choice. Microsoft is working on the fix. They say they've got it and it's in the testing stages. They plan on releasing it on Patch Tuesday.
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Date: 2006-01-03
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