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Friday, March 21st, 2008What’s a Presidential candidate to do, other than issue statements and demand investigations?
The State Department said on Friday that it was investigating several incidents in which the passport files of all three presidential contenders were improperly accessed by employees.
The breaches involved electronic files that contained personal information about Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham […]
Obama Passport Breach: Rice Apologizes for “Imprudent Curiosity” of Her Staff
Friday, March 21st, 2008The State Dept. called it “imprudent curiosity.” The Obama campaign called it “an outrageous breach of security and privacy.” Caught between adjectival phrases, Secretary of State Rice apologized to Senator Barack Obama.
More coverage at Hot Air. As the Washington Post reports,
Two State Department employees were fired and a third has been […]
Facebook Sues Canadian Internet Porn Company for Hacking Attempt
Monday, December 17th, 2007The Toronto Star reports on the massive hacking attempts of Ontario porn company, SlickCash, on Facebook’s servers.
A Canadian company specializing in Internet porn is being sued by Facebook amid allegations it hacked the popular social networking website’s computers and tried to access the personal information of users, court documents show.
A numbered Ontario company, which […]
Salesforce.com Employee Conned By Phisher, Reveals Company Database
Thursday, November 8th, 2007As reported by Information Week:
A Salesforce.com employee bit on the bait of a phisher, and now the Web-based CRM software provider is warning customers not to fall for the same cybercriminal tricks.
On its Trust.Salesforce.com Web site this week, Salesforce.com posted a “letter about security” to customers alerting them to be cautious of “phishing and malware […]
TJX Data Breach Affected 94 Million Customers, Possibly the Largest Data Breach in History
Saturday, October 27th, 2007Consumer Affairs reports on details emerging:
New information from a lawsuit against the TJX Corporation over its breach of customer information revealed that as many as 94 million Visa and Mastercard holders were exposed to hackers.
The new number was nearly double the initial estimate of 46 million affected customers that TJX reported in early 2007, […]