Cyber Security News
Border Patrol Fails To Secure Financial System
A Department of Homeland Security report indicates that the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has failed to correct a series of "significant" security deficiencies in its financial system.
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24,000 Social Security numbers of the recipients printed on the outside of the envelopes
Carpenters District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity data loss incident circa 2010-09-02
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Google Trims Privacy Policy
Moving to improve user privacy, Google has made it easier to understand the company's privacy policies and to find its privacy tools.
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300 credit card numbers stolen via virus from restaraunt
Jason's Deli data loss incident circa 2010-08-31
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4,000 employee names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and salaries sent via inadvertent e-mail
Kinetic Concepts Inc. data loss incident circa 2010-09-02
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9 Steps To Enabling Remote Access, Safely
Security goes beyond encryption, authentication, and monitoring employees. We also need to ensure privileged users aren't betraying trust. Here's how.
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Virginia May Lose Data From Outage
Though state agencies have resumed IT operations, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and Northrop Grumman, which has apologized for a more than weeklong failure, are still working to recover data.
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Feds Issue Smart Grid Cybersecurity Guidelines
Stuxnet served to catalyze concerns about smart grid security, which the 537-page "Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security" strives to address by providing security requirements and a risk assessment framework.
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Facebook Ups Security With Remote Log Out
Users can view their active sessions of the social network and shut them down from one central control.
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Inventors Demo Ubiquitous, Hands Free Interfaces
The VMworld closing general session in San Francisco showcased potential advances in the user interface that may allow more direct interaction with computer systems.
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Global CIO: IBM-Google Security Snafu Shows #1 Vulnerability Is Ignorance
IBM's ranking of software vendors by vulnerabilities is riddled with errors, so Google intervenes and goes from worst to first.
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600 patients' data stolen with laptop
Fraser Health Authority data loss incident circa 2010-09-02
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Verizon Announces Prepaid Data Plans For Smartphones
No contract, $30 a month unlimited data plans are planned for some smartphones including select Motorola and HTC Droid handsets and some RIM BlackBerry models.
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DARPA Soliciting Bids On Insider Threat Prevention
Defense Department agency to develop system that can identify and stop people from removing information from its networks.
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Metal Manufacture Breakthrough Promises Transformer Objects
A novel manufacturing process for shape-memory alloys could bring shape-shifting jewelery and transforming stents.
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Global CIO: IBM's Blazing New Mainframe Wins Raves From Citigroup
Citigroup says the z196's record-setting chips help deliver massive performance increase and flexibility that will result in greater innovation and value for customers.
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Google Releases SketchUp 8
The latest version of Google's modeling software offers improved tools to amateur and professional 3D artists alike.
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