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• On the T-Mobile Incident and Open Questions on Trading Personal Data Online

  
  Marco Casassa Mont's "Research on Identity Management" (Mirror) — Authority: 113
  There has been an incident this week where employees of T-Mobile have been caught selling customer data. On one hand this has shown that there is a thriving market for this kind of data … On the other hand, this has also highlighted “interesting issues as under the Data protection Act, it is a criminal offence ...
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• Effective Security Policy Messaging Important

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 533
  By Christopher Burgess , Senior Security Adviser End users tuning you out? Here’s a three-step process for taking human factors into account in your security program (and even using them to your advantage). Let us begin with the premise that security policies exist to protect an entity’s assets as it ...
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• unbelievable

  
  the nutmeg grater — Authority: 467
  six months to report a very serious data breach. as i said, unbelievable. i know ive talked about it before, but im going to do it again. we have to encrypt everything with a social security # on it (well ANY personal data) if its going outside. we CANNOT use flash drives AT ALL (we used to be able to but no ...
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• Going Out On A Limb With Out Of Scope

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 592
  This week marks the debut of StorefrontBacktalks new PCI columnist, Walter Conway, and Conway debuts by trying to decipher encrypted tea leaves of the PCI Councils position on out-of-scope data. what does “the means to decrypt” include? We need, as always, to look at the Council’s intention and not just dissect ...
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• Privacy, Social Media, Technology and the Law

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker John Sileo — Authority: 112
  Can the Law keep up with technology? CNN has a new article that addresses this growing issue. Cases are continuing to pop up based on an offense or crime committed in cyberspace. Five years ago suing someone for allegedly slamming you on Twitter would have been unimaginable.  But just recently an apartment tenant is ...
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• T-Mobile Data Sold in the United Kingdom

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 438
  T-Mobile is the fourth-biggest wireless phone provider in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Recently, however, the company is suffering a string of public relations fiascoes. In the United States, there was the situation in which Sidekick phone users found that their information went missing — it ...
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• T-Mo UK selling user data like cheap narcotic…

  
  Gadgetsteria — Authority: 586
  Some people sell crafts. Some people sell services. Some people sell drugs while other people sell user data…waaait…what? Chances are your user data has been sold to the highest bidder — if you’re a T-Mobile UK user. While we’d like to believe carriers have our best interests in mind, we are always ...
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• Bright & Early: We Can Swing That Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 476
  Good morning, Nashville. Metro Councilman Mike Jameson has suggested that the Metro Development and Housing Agency stop buying up all of the land around the proposed Music City Center until the project is actually approved . Some businesses targeted by MDHA aren’t going down without a fight, such as the Musicians ...
  4 days ago

• Out-of-Scope Wishful Thinking

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 592
  Isn’t it wonderful how many security vendors are so altruistic that they leap to the microphone to point out the failings of their industry? Somehow, though, solely to advance reality and context, they volunteer that this particular shortcomings don’t apply to their product or service. That vendor ...
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• Blue Cross Blue Shield Data Breach Investigation Extends Credit Protection for Providers to 2 Years

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  Well maybe not the good news we wanted to hear about the notebook possibly being found, but here’s the next best available bit of news on the security breach with providers from Blue Cross, one extra year of credit monitoring.  Just a question, but does anyone really pay for this service unti l there is a ...
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• Starbucks Data Breach Plaintiffs Try Their Luck in the Ninth Circuit

  
  Electronic Communications, Privacy, Data Protection, and More — Authority: 119
  A lost laptop computer containing the personal information of Starbucks employees prompted a class action lawsuit against Starbucks (in Washington).  The lawsuit received some coverage (see, for example Bob McMillan here , and Starbucks Gossip here ), but the trial courts dismissal of the lawsuit received almost no ...
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• Increase Your Information Security IQ

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 533
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a bunch of friends were throwing a party for this person. Collectively they asked me if I’d write a small speech as a version of “This is your life”. Stymied as to why they ...
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• Don’t Hide a Security Breach if You Can’t Do the Time

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 134
  When Will Costs Outweigh Health Information Technololgy? By Darrell K. Pruitt; DDSAt what point will security data breaches become so costly that dentists will abandon computerization and return to pegboards and ledger cards?Senate Judiciary CommitteeA week ago, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved two separate ...
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• What Could Possibly Be Worse Than A Virus?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 533
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Anti-virus protection, critical security patches and a secure wireless connection have always been essential processes on my networks. My main concern has always been to protect my bank account by keeping the bad guy out. In my presentations, I’ve always ...
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• Corporate data breaches raise the risk of consumer ID theft

  
  Endpoint Security Info — Authority: 104
  If a company, bank of hospital handling your private details has suffered a data breach, you are four times more likely to have your identity stolen. So if you have received a notification letting you know your data has been exposed, you should acknowledge the greater risk for ID theft or fraud, says a recent study by ...
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• Heartland, VeriFone Foodfight Flares Up Again

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 592
  In last weeks saga of two security vendors filing exaggerated half-truth accusations at each other, Heartland Payment Systems issued a statement that apparently contradicted its own court filing. This week, the two firms rumble about a federal judges decision, whether a Web site is still up or not and generally ...
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• PCI: Maybe It’s Not Just For Card Data Any More

  
  StorefrontBacktalk — Authority: 592
  With all of the recent fuss about PCI requirements and how to protect payment cards, many companies have opted to take a far too narrow view of data protection. The PCI rules are absolutely designed to only apply to payment cards, but the same common-sense security guidelines will also dramatically help the security ...
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• Congressional Leak Spotlights P2P User Act

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 533
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. It just isn’t happening. The only foolproof way ...
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• It’s Not Just For Card Data Any More

  
  McAfee Security Insights Blog — Authority: 124
  With all of the recent fuss about PCI requirements and how to protect payment cards, many companies have opted to take a far too narrow view of data protection. The PCI rules are absolutely designed to only apply to payment cards, but the same common-sense security guidelines will also dramatically help the security ...
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• End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

  
  PopHomeTech — Authority: 152
  In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...
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