password breach
RSS password breachMissing: 25 million child benefit records
News In a statement to Parliament, Darling said the delay in notifying the public of the security breach was necessary to allow the banks time to flag up affected bank accounts and monitor them for any unusual activity. [20 Nov 2007]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News Salesforce.com is refusing to reveal details of a security breach caused when one of its employees surrendered their password in a phishing attack against the company. Salesforce.com first noticed a possible security breach when it saw a rise in... [08 Nov 2007]
Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing
Leader It's not everyday you applaud the taxman - but HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC) deserves praise for its response to a recent potential data breach which followed the theft of a laptop containing sensitive information. [09 Oct 2007]
How to clean up after a data breach
News Any organisation trying to cope with the consequences of a data breach should beware of get bogged down in the details, according to a former US Air Force major. The US Air Force experienced a data breach in May 2005 when 33,000 personal staff... [19 Sep 2007]
Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'
Comment California's data breach law has forced organisations to take data security seriously - and has given consumers the tools to protect themselves against fraud, according to one of the architects of the legislation. [03 Sep 2007]
Seagate to padlock mobile data
News Data breach and privacy legislation has made security a hot topic, in particular for portable PCs and storage devices. The new Seagate DriveTrust Technology automatically encrypts all the data written to the disk, making it inaccessible to anyone... [31 Oct 2006]
Loan company loses data on 1.3 million students
News Texas Guaranteed Student Loan said it plans to notify by mail each individual affected by the breach. The data was encrypted and password-protected but subsequently decrypted and stored on the now-lost hardware by the Hummingbird employee, TGSL said. [02 Jun 2006]
San Diego man charged over uni hack
News The FBI, which investigated the breach, found McCarty through the IP number on his home computer. According to the complaint, McCarty allegedly used his home computer on 17 June last year to hack into a password-protected USC database. [21 Apr 2006]
Analysis: Protecting yourself from an inside job
Comment In addition, nine per cent of large companies had experienced a breach of confidentiality through wrong information being emailed out or being copied on to a USB memory device. Naturally, they tend to get forgotten, with the result that nearly half... [19 Apr 2006]
Visa to spend $200m fighting fraud
News Earlier this year, 40 million card accounts were reported exposed to potential fraud as the result of a data breach. However, the use of spyware has risen - in April, 77 attacks contained password stealing programs, a figure which rose to 174 in July. [07 Oct 2005]
Don't Spread Firefox: Hack attack strikes again
News The breach was limited to SpreadFirefox.com and did not affect the main Mozilla.org website or Mozilla software, according to the emailed message. Still, people should change their password when the site comes back online, the team suggested. [05 Oct 2005]
SafeNet seals $20m anti-piracy deal
News Likewise there is also the threat to the company of those media files being in breach of copyright and exposing the company to the threat of legal action. As with password management and greater workforce mobility the bad habits of media consuming... [14 Jun 2005]
KPMG 'scaremongering' with VoIP warning
News Warhurst suggests that companies look for VoIP systems that have voice encryption using the 128-bit AES standard, which "provides a level of security that is almost impossible to breach". Password protected logins. [08 Nov 2004]
5 years ago... Hotmail continues to suffer security scares
News 23.09.99: Microsoft's free email service, Hotmail, is still struggling with security gremlins that caused a systems' breach at the end of August. The software giant is investigating a glitch that allows a bogus password entry screen to be opened by... [23 Sep 2004]
Leader: British justice a laughing stock
Leader Yesterday a teenage hacker was up in court for sentencing having been found guilty of serious cybercrimes - including a breach of US defence security. McElroy even sectioned off areas of the breached network and password protected them for his own... [03 Feb 2004]
