100m US records exposed by security blunders
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ID theft milestone reached The total number of US customer records compromised as a result of security blunders has hit the 100m milestone.â¦
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The FBI was acting illegally when it used the USA Patriot Act to covertly obtain telephone, business and financial records about people living in the United States, according to an audit by the Justice Department. By the Associated Press.
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Complex interception laws confuse Feds and ISPs An internal audit has discovered that the FBI overstepped the mark in intercepting communication records at least 1,000 times since 2002.â¦
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GNUCitizen is describing an apparent vulnerability that could trick people into revealing personal data.
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The personal data of some 237,000 policy holders at Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. -- stored on back-up tapes that were misplaced -- may have been compromised, the company said.
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The transfer of confidential banking records by a Belgium-based company to U.S. authorities for use in anti-terrorism investigations breached Belgian and likely European Union data privacy rules, top government ...Comment
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Both Windows and Mac versions of the multimedia program have a buffer overflow flaw that puts users at risk.
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Personal data on thousands of mostly U.S. residents were found exposed, ripe for spam and hacking.
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An unpatched flaw in antivirus software compromises student data in Colorado.
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eTrust Antivirus mistook a critical security process for malware.
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Hack exposed information on 400 customers, including a U.S. Secret Service agent.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is once again chasing a missing hard drive, this one containing the records of 48,000 military veterans. Approxiately 20,000 of those records were not encrypted according to agency spokespersons.
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A cache found online of usernames and passwords for more than 100 government e-mail accounts includes takings from Iranian, Russian, Indian, U.K., and Kazakh victims.
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A computer technician who prosecutors said made possible the largest identity theft in US history, surpassing $US50 million ($A71.
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The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team released an alert yesterday saying that a flaw in the CryptoStor Tape 700 Series tape backup appliance could allow attackers to bypass one line of defense in a two-factor authentication system.
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The Department of Homeland Security has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open source software projects.
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Malware, carelessness, data leaks--whether internal or external threats, there's too many to count.