Archive for March, 2008
Chinese hackers attack Save Darfur
The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation of a report that China-based hackers have penetrated the e-mail accounts of leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition, a national advocacy group pushing to end the six-year-old conflict in Sudan. The accounts of 10 members were hacked into between early February and last week, and the [...]
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Privacy lapses on sale in aisle 7
So common and so under reported…
A security breach at an East Coast supermarket chain exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers and led to 1,800 cases of fraud, the Hannaford Bros. grocery chain announced Monday.
Hannaford said credit and debit card numbers were stolen during the card authorization process and about 4.2 million unique account [...]
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Remember kids, that’s gwb@whitehouse.com
A British factory worker has shut down a tourism site he owned at the request of the U.S. air force after he received thousands of e-mails sent to his domain that were meant for military personnel — among them e-mails with flight plans for Air Force One, the U.S. presidential plane, as well as passwords [...]
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You down with OPD (other people’s data)?
“Files containing confidential data on about 5,000 employees at MTV Networks were illegally accessed by someone outside the company, the network told employees on Friday in a memo obtained by Reuters. When asked for comment on the contents of the memo, MTV said in a statement that the security breach occurred after an Internet connection [...]
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Its sad when a business that has the potential to be admired thru out the world as being there for ...