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• Citigroup, law enforcement refute cyber heist report

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  Citigroup, law enforcement refute cyber heist report : Via Computerworld Cybercrime/Hacking News . Citigroup says no system breach, no losses of customer or bank data, funds Citigroup and a federal law enforcement source on Tuesday refuted a claim that the banks customers lost millions of dollars in an advanced ...
  23 hours ago

• Social Engineering: Scams that play on your Human Emotion

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker John Sileo — Authority: 111
  If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. That is the best way to Think Like A Spy and be alert of Identity Theft Grinches that are trying to manipulate you.  With such a gloomy economy, the expenses of the Holiday Season and many people without work, offers for fast cash and huge discounts become more ...
  1 day ago

• Albert Gonzalez Enters Plea Agreement in Heartland, Hannaford Cases

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  Albert Gonzalez Enters Plea Agreement in Heartland, Hannaford Cases : Via Threat Level . Albert Gonzalez, who has admitted hacking into TJX and other companies, has filed a plea agreement in charges that he breached Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford, 7-Eleven and two other companies. Under the terms of the ...
  1 day ago

• Heartland Reaches Settlement with AmEx Over Data Breach

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 123
  Heartland Payment Systems announced it has reached a settlement with American Express regarding the massive data breach revealed earlier this year. The $3.6 million dollar settlement is only the beginning for Heartland as they are also working on reaching settlements with MasterCard and Visa. The breach was the ...
  1 day ago

• Santas Naughty–Nice Database Hacked ;-)

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  Santas Naughty–Nice Database Hacked : Via Schneier on Security . This is very serious . Read Original Article :(Via Schneier on Security .) Advertisement: [ Read more ... ] Bookmark/Search this post with: Twitter Digg StumbleUpon Technorati del.icio.us Facebook ...
  2 days ago

• Heartland pays Amex $3.6M over 2008 data breach

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  Heartland pays Amex $3.6M over 2008 data breach : Via Computerworld. Heartland Payment Systems will pay American Express $3.6 million to settle charges relating to the 2008 hacking of its payment system network. This is the first settlement Heartland has reached with a card brand since disclosing the incident in ...
  4 days ago

• Practice the Privacy Reflex

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker John Sileo — Authority: 111
  The Privacy Reflex When I am training corporate executives, managers and employees to detect fraud and social engineering (manipulative information-gathering techniques), I take them through what it feels like to be conned. In other words, I actually socially engineer them several times throughout the presentation so ...
  6 days ago

• MasterCard Blinks, Drops Dec. 31 Level 2 PCI Deadline

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 498
  MasterCard has quietly backed off from a much-complained-about plan to require Level 2 merchants to—for the first time—have an onsite QSA assessment completed by the end of 2010. Having a New Years Eve deadline—on the heels of the all-encompassing holiday season—was a recipe for tons of missed deadlines. The ...
  6 days ago

• ISP Dynamic IP Address Switch Knocks Dollar Tree Store Off The Network For Two Days

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 498
  A mistake by an Internet service provider recently disconnected a South Carolina store within the $4.6 billion, 3,803-store Dollar Tree chain from its corporate network for two days, an unusually long duration for such an outage. Making matters even worse, some store employees interpreted the outage as a cyberattack ...
  1 week ago

• Security Flub Exposes 32 Million Names, Passwords At Social App Site

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 498
  Weak security at RockYou.com, a social networking application development site, allowed unauthorized access to more than 32 million user log-in credentials stored in an unencrypted database, according to the site’s chief technology officer. The SQL injection flaw allowed access to those credentials, and because ...
  1 week ago

• Data Breach Class Action Fails - Court Dismisses Securities Fraud Case Against Heartland

  
  Privacy Law Blog — Authority: 455
  On December 7, 2009, a federal district court sitting in New Jersey dismissed a securities fraud class action lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems arising from a massive breach of credit and debit card information and, in doing so, reinforced the difficulties private plaintiffs face in bringing data breach ...
  1 week ago

• Express Script hackers update: 1,700 added to victim list

  
  LifeLock — Authority: 109
  Apparently, hackers stole even more of Express Scripts’ member information than was initially revealed last fall. An additional 1,771 New Hampshire residents are being sent data breach notification letters this week, according to a September 14 letter from Express Scripts. Express Scripts, one of the world’s ...
  1 week ago

• Why Are You More Afraid Of A QSA Than A Cyberthief?

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 498
  Do cybercriminals concern you? Are you afraid that you might lose cardholder data? Are you worried that your internal users are downloading malware from the Web? If so, PCI Columnist Walt Conway has a question for you: Why are you more afraid of your QSA than you are of a cyberthief? Consider this example: A merchant ...
  1 week ago

• Gonzalez Attorney: He May Not Have Known Right From Wrong

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 498
  Accused cyberthief ringleader Albert Gonzalez may not have had the "capacity to knowingly evaluate the wrongfulness of his actions and consciously behave lawfully and avoid crime" and his criminal "behavior was consistent with the description of Aspergers disorder," according to a government filing on Tuesday (Dec. ...
  1 week ago

• John Sileo, Identity Theft Expert Teaches Military Families to ‘Think Like A Spy”

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker John Sileo — Authority: 111
  The Department of Defense recently published an article about a speech I gave at the Joint Family Readiness Conference hosted by the Office of Military Community and Family Policy. Military family members gathered here to learn how to prevent identity theft and I taught them to “think like a spy” in every aspect ...
  1 week ago

• Cyberthief Seeks Hit Man to Kill Informant

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  Cyberthief Seeks Hit Man to Kill Informant : Via Threat Level . A convicted credit card thief and bank fraudster has pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder. He attempted to put out a contract on a federal informant. Pavel Igorevich Valkovich, 28, admitted last week that he discussed hiring a hit man to kill the ...
  1 week ago

• New Hampshire Security Incident Demonstrates Importance of Documenting Any Decision to Forego Security Breach Notification

  
  Workplace Privacy Counsel — Authority: 473
  The New Hampshire Attorney General and the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services are investigating Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s decision not to notify patients or the Attorney General of a security incident that occurred more than two years ago. The security incident, which lasted from May 2006 until ...
  1 week ago

• Lawsuit Dismissed against Heartland Payment Systems

  
  Legal News — Authority: 122
  Shareholders of Heartland Payment Systems brought suit to the executives of Heartland for misleading them on how secure the information in the payroll system actually was.  In December of 2007, a cyber attack occurred on the Heartland payroll system, and by January, the mess was cleaned up, and it was concluded ...
  1 week ago

• House Passes Data Breach Notification Bill

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 134
  The House has passed a bill that would introduce national rules surrounding the need to notify potential victims of identity theft following data breaches. According to the bill, companies that possess personal data will be required to notify any US citizens and residents along with the FTC if a data breach occurs ...
  1 week ago

• Serious Data Security Breach at Health Net

  
  Philadelphia Personal Injury Lawyer — Authority: 115
  Hundreds of thousands of patients have been affected by Health Nets loss of a portable disk drive that contained their personal information. However, many patients found out about the data security breach not from Health Net, but rather from watching t.v. news. According to Connecticut Attorney General Richard ...
  1 week ago

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