Data Breach

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• Court Rejects Request to Consolidate TJX Hacker Cases

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 506
  Court Rejects Request to Consolidate TJX Hacker Cases : Via Threat Level . A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected a request from U.S. attorneys to consolidate a New Jersey case against Albert Gonzalez, who has admitted hacking more than 120 million credit card numbers from Heartland Payment Systems, with two ...
  7 hours ago

• TJX Hacker to Plead Guilty to Heartland Breach

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 506
  TJX Hacker to Plead Guilty to Heartland Breach : Via Threat Level . Admitted TJX intruder Albert Gonzalez has entered into a plea agreement on charges that he hacked into Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven and two other unnamed national retailers. The revelation comes in a filing made by ...
  7 hours ago

• Verizon: Data Breaches Getting More Sophisticated

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 506
  Verizon: Data Breaches Getting More Sophisticated : Via Threat Level . Methods of stealing data are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but attackers are still gaining initial access to networks through known, preventable vulnerabilities, according to a report released by Verizon Business on Wednesday. “Attacks ...
  7 hours ago

• Heartland Lawsuit Dismissed, “Insufficient Evidence” Of Weak Security

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  A federal judge dismissed a data breach-related lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems on Monday (Dec. 7), saying that the plaintiffs hadnt proved any of their allegations that Heartland knew it had inadequate security and lied about it to shareholders. The judges detailed ruling sheds light on the environment data ...
  22 hours ago

• Instant Credit Income Verification: A Retail IT Migraine On The Horizon?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  A U.S. Federal Reserve Board proposal being fought by retailers would have store clerks asking customers for proof of their salaries before issuing instant credit. But the Credit Card Act proposal raises many troubling questions for retail IT execs. To be able to later prove its compliance with the federal rule, will ...
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• Gonzalez’s Mystery Merchant Asks To Stay That Way

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  Albert Gonzalez—who has already pleaded guilty to masterminding a cyberthief ring that stole data from TJX, BJs Wholesale Club, Boston Market and Sports Authority , among other major chains—signed papers this month agreeing to plead guilty to the remaining federal charges against him. But one of the retail chain ...
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• Protecting Mobile Data: Just Kill Me Now

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  Today’s smartphones certainly promise more convenience and functionality. But for IT, these devices promise new nightmares about protecting the data they store. It’s not merely contact data, but files, slides, traffic history, E-mail records, chat transcripts and almost anything else that can be done on a desktop ...
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• Windows File Deletion: Going, Going, Still There

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but its becoming much more difficult to achieve in Windows 7 and Windows Vista thanks to volume shadow copy. And that refusal to go away is becoming a real problem for IT security. Deleting a file—even using top security procedures—doesnt make it go away; another copy is ...
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• The New Franchisee IT Sherriff In Town

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  Billions of dollars are lost each year to employee theft and it is only getting worse. The National Restaurant Association (NRA) estimates that the restaurant industry alone may be losing more than 3 percent of sales each year due to employee theft. This figure is very scary to be sure, especially for franchisees who ...
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• Happy Hour: Yes, We’re Still Giggling About The Tree

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 430
  We asked our Twitter friends for some artistic renderings of the Great Christmas Tree Incident of ‘09 and they delivered. The above piece was submitted by Twitterers @the_beer_snob and @tndotcom , and you can see a few of our other favorites by @missbethd , @thomasruns , @justwinston , @tarajackson and ...
  1 day ago

• Data Protection on the Social Networking Platforms

  
  New Web 2.0 Magazine — Authority: 156
  Giving up email or migrating to a hybrid email/ social networking platform does not absolve individuals and enterprises from protecting the confidential information contained in their messages, status updates and tweets. ...
  2 days ago

• The Corporate Travel Card PCI Challenge

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  When PCI Columnist Walter Conway played high school football, the coach once said to him, “Son, there are three ways you can do things: the right way; the wrong way; and the coach’s way. Which way are you going to do things?” To which he replied, “the coach’s way, sir.” PCI can sometimes get like that ...
  2 days ago

• Passing a Data Privacy Bill (NYT Letter to the Editor)

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 506
  Passing a Data Privacy Bill (NYT Letter to the Editor) : Via NYT > Privacy (NYT Letter to the Editor) . To the Editor: I know that the kind of protection you advocated in “Keeping Personal Data Private” (editorial, Nov. 25) is needed, in part because my own medical history became an open book after somebody ...
  4 days ago

• Microsoft to patch IE flaw

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 146
  In todays podcast : Microsoft to patch IE flaw; PCs sales rebound; and judge throws out data breach complaint. read more
  6 days ago

• Retailers Suing POS Vendor, Questions Raised As To Where PCI Duties Stop

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  Now that a PCI lawsuit brought by four restaurants against a POS vendor and a systems integrator has been given class-action status, the case will survive and force a very interesting debate about exactly where a retailers PCI liability should start. The case involves four Louisiana restaurant groups—doing business ...
  1 week ago

• Recent Death of Data Breach Class Action Resuscitates Lack of Standing Arguments in Identity Exposure Cases

  
  Privacy Law Blog — Authority: 447
  On November 23, 2009, a federal court in Missouri bucked the recent trend in identity exposure lawsuits and refused to recognize Article III standing in a class action lawsuit that alleged simply an increased risk of identity theft resulting from a data breach. In Amburgy v. Express Scripts, Inc. , Magistrate Judge ...
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• Protect Yourself Against Mail Fraud

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker John Sileo — Authority: 111
  The reality is that unsecured, curbside mailboxes are prime targets for people who are intent on committing the crime of identity theft. Although I would suggest to stop using the mail to send and receive identity documents, this is not always possible. Therefore, here are alternative suggestions: Lock Box . ...
  1 week ago

• An NRF StorefrontBacktalk Reader Get-Together?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  By any chance, are you planning to attend the NRF Bigshow (New York City, January 10-13, 2010)? StorefrontBacktalk would love to arrange a casual get-together with our readers at or near the show, so were trying to determine how many readers are both attending the show and might be interested in connecting with us ...
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• A Chilling Reminder Of The Internal Security Threat

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 531
  It’s one of the oldest pieces of security guidance: The biggest threats are always from a company’s employees, not from intruders. But popular perception has never supported this truth because outside intrusions are comparatively highly publicized while internal threats are generally dealt with secretly, with a ...
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• Trade Secrets and Confidential Information

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 518
  By John Watkins , Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil We have addressed the importance of trade secrets and confidential information previously on this blog and in our series of podcasts . We have discussed huge jury verdicts that have recently come down against companies found to have violated ...
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