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Credit Card Hackers Lead To Montgomery Ward Breach Exposure

News – At least 51,000 records were exposed in the breach at the parent company of Montgomery Ward. The financial company Citigroup detected the computer invasion in December. By going through HomeVisions.com, hackers had plundered the database that holds account information for all the company's retail properties.

Submitted and Voted for on June 28, 2008 09:58pm

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Customers Credit Cards Possible Theft In Compromised Altman Weil Online Store

News – Altman Weil online store was compromised by a virus that may have exposed the credit card information of certain store customers. It has been discovered on May 16, 2008 by the company that hosts the online store website.

Submitted and Voted for on June 16, 2008 08:25pm

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Cotton Traders Clothing Firm Customers Credit Card Details Stolen From Hacked Website

News – Cotton Traders clothing firm website was hacked earlier this year and credit card details of up to 38,000 customers were stolen by unidentified attackers. Customer addresses were also stolen in this incident.

Submitted and Voted for on June 10, 2008 12:14pm

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Social Networks Information Sharing Flaw Exposes Private MySpace Users Photos

News – The recently introduced data availability initiative at MySpace allowing everyone to share their profile data with other community and social networking sites across the Web, is vulnerable to a major privacy flaw exposing the private photos of MySpace users.

Submitted and Voted for on June 04, 2008 10:41am

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Patients Personal Data Compromised In Walter Reed Army Medical Center

News – Sensitive information on about 1,000 patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military hospitals was exposed in a security breach, rising identity theft concerns and an investigation by the Army. The medical center learned of the breach on May 21 from an outside data mining company, which officials did not identify.

Submitted and Voted for on June 03, 2008 03:59pm

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Personal Information Sent To An Analysis Firm Stolen From State Street Corporation

News – State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) said on May 29 that a disk drive containing personal details from 5,500 employees and 40,000 customer accounts was stolen. Lost details included individuals names, addresses, dates of birth, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers. The theft occurred in December and was reported to State Street in January.

Submitted and Voted for on June 03, 2008 03:58pm

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Computers Storing Personal Data Breached At Pocono Mountain School District

News – Computers at Pocono Mountain School District were breached by a hacker in May 30, who apparently tapped into confidential information concerning students and their parents

Submitted and Voted for on June 02, 2008 04:29pm

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Movie Sharing Program Causes A Security Breach In University Of California San Francisco

News – Routine University of California San Francisco monitoring of the campus computer network shows that an unauthorized movie-sharing program had been installed on a computer containing personal patient information of 3569 patients.

Submitted and Voted for on May 31, 2008 01:53pm

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Adobe Flash Player SWF File Zero-Day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

News – Adobe Flash Player is prone to an unspecified remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application.

Submitted and Voted for on May 27, 2008 04:43pm

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Another Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability On eBay Domain Sites Allows Phishing

News – eBay is vulnerable to cross-site scripting that might be abused by scammers in order to take advantage of eBay users account. JavaScript code injection can redirect users to fake phishing pages where users are asked to login to their account. Victims who click on what appears to be a genuine eBay search results are also vulnerable to malware

Submitted and Voted for on May 27, 2008 01:01pm

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New Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Found On Facebook

News – Facebook is vulnerable to a cross site scripting flaw that leaves its users at risk from scripting attacks and logins phishing. The flaw could leave surfers vulnerable to malware and attackers could also trick users into handing over their credentials through fake logins served up from third party sites.

Submitted and Voted for on May 23, 2008 03:37pm

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Hackers And Scammers Continue Exploit China Earthquake

News – In one report scammers sent out text messages enticing people to send donations to fund the aid for helpless victims. Another spam message allegedly from a Filipino seeking financial aid to follow his wounded wife in China. Even the official Web site for donations to the eathquake victims in China, the Chinese Red Cross, has itself been hacked

Submitted and Voted for on May 22, 2008 01:32pm

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LPL Financial Compromised Advisors Logons Used In Stocks Manipulations

News – Hackers used compromised logon passwords of fourteen financial advisors and four assistants of LPL Financial to gain access to customer accounts in order to "pump and dump" penny stocks

Submitted and Voted for on May 20, 2008 11:13am

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Users Fear Of Illegal Content Targeted By Social Engineering Trojan

News – Trojan, discovered by Sophos, targets the fear of legally forbidden pornographic content and forces users into purchasing a fake anti-spyware/anti-virus application.

Submitted and Voted for on May 17, 2008 06:53pm

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Another Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability On Paypal

News – A cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) has been found in PayPal, an online payment processing firm website. The vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution and could be used in a phishing attack to gather data from unsuspecting users

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 11:48am