Information about MV Sun Sea migrants stolen from Tamil group's office

Information about MV Sun Sea migrants stolen from Tamil group's office

Information about MV Sun Sea migrants stolen from Tamil group's office

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InfoSec News: Information about MV Sun Sea migrants stolen from Tamil group's office: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/information-about-mv-sun-sea-migrants-stolen-from-tamil-groups-office/article1704561/
By Kelly Grant Globe and Mail Sept 12, 2010
Canada's most prominent Tamil organization is concerned about the safety [...]

Report: HP to buy ArcSight for $1.5 billion

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InfoSec News: Report: HP to buy ArcSight for $1.5 billion: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/091210-report-hp-to-buy-arcsight.html
By Robert McMillan IDG News Service September 12, 2010
Hewlett-Packard will soon purchase security vendor ArcSight for $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. [...]

JPMorgan Said to Test IPhone, BlackBerry Alternatives

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InfoSec News: JPMorgan Said to Test IPhone, BlackBerry Alternatives: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-10/jpmorgan-said-to-test-iphone-for-e-mail-as-more-bankers-bypass-blackberry.html
By Hugo Miller, Elena Logutenkova and Adam Satariano Bloomberg September 10, 2010
JPMorgan Chase & Co. may soon let employees use iPhones for corporate [...]

Newly Discovered World Cup Database Breach Exposed 250, 000 Attendees' Details

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InfoSec News: Newly Discovered World Cup Database Breach Exposed 250, 000 Attendees' Details: http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400151
By Ericka Chickowski Special To Dark Reading DarkReading Sept 10, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of attendees at the 2006 World Cup in Germany were put at risk of identity theft, though the major breach of a FIFA database was only recently uncovered.
Initially reported by Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, the breach came to light when an employee of the firm in charge of World Cup 2010 ticketing circulated an e-mail peddling more than 250,000 2006 World Cup customer details, including such personal information as birth dates and passport information.
According to Rob Rachwald, director of security strategy at database monitoring firm Imperva, the interesting hook to this story is that the customer data in question came from the Germany event four years ago and not the South African World Cup last summer. He says the event is indicative of a number of failures, including carelessness with older databases and unused data, a failure to think beyond the conclusion of the event, and a failure to have a full data security protection and destruction strategy.
"At the end of the '06 World Cup, a data destruction process should have been performed, and it clearly didn't occur to anyone [with FIFA or its IT firm]," Rachwald says. "[A good strategy should] identify what you have, attach risk and design a protection and destruction program."
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Quantum Cryptography Breached With Lasers

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InfoSec News: Quantum Cryptography Breached With Lasers: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227300318
By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek September 8, 2010
Norwegian computer scientists have perfected a laser-based attack against quantum cryptography systems that allows them to eavesdrop on [...]

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