Archive for ‘September, 2007’

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Sep02

Monster.com information theft not really a hack?

by admin on September 2nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
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Monster.com information theft was not realy a hack but more a case of identitiy theft.  How so? well… some gullable individual working for a recruiter or in the HR department of a company managed to provide their credential via a PHISHING email.  Once the hackers got hold of these credentials, they were able to use TROJANS to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep03

Wikipedia entry cleaned up

by admin on September 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 pm
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Wikipedia entry was updated and the wikipedia folks were able to trace the origin.  This is one of the things I said in my blog earlier, how traceable your activity is on the Internet.  If the folks at wikipedia were able to get into the machine they could get a whole lot of information which […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep05

DHS abandons anti-privacy data mining program

by admin on September 5th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
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This highly intrusive program which violated personal privacy at every level has been abandoned, why?  Because the genii (plural of genius) testing the application violated all security principles by performing test on REAL personal data.  Known as ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement) was initiated in 2003, it was to be used by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep10

Parts of PATRTIOT ACT scrutinized

by admin on September 10th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
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Finally, PATRIOT ACT is being scrutinized for being too one sided and not caring about an individuals privacy.  The questions that are being asked are “should the ISP’s relinquish their customer records on a request from FBI” without proper paperwork.  FBI has in issued NSL‘s (National Security Letters) to get private & personal information from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep13

Google Maps Street View violates Canadian Privacy Laws

by admin on September 13th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
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The new Google Maps feature “Street View” could violate Canadian Privacy Laws, which state that “businesses first obtain consent from individuals before disclosing it”.  The street level views also include individuals’ pictures making them identifiable.  These pictures were taken without individuals consent.  This feature is available for 9 major US cities, and the plans are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep18

TD Ameritrade hacked!

by admin on September 18th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
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TD Ameritrade follows www.monster.com ‘s footsteps.  About 6.3 million customer records were hacked, although TD Ameritrade states that the records did not contain social security numbers and account numbers.  No other details around the incident were disclosed. As a result of this customer have started receiving phishing emails, which could lead to identity theft. In […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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