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Pointer: Heartland’s Lonely Quest For Reform

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Rebecca Sausner has an article in Bank Technology News, in which Avivah Litan of Gartner is quoted as saying, “Visa’s next.” But the more interesting question, of course, is what’s next? …. Visa is sticking to its guns with the PCI standards. “…While no guarantee, maintaining compliance with the PCI DSS remains the best protection…

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National City Bank apologizes for misdelivered dividend tax statments

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Law firm Prokauer Rose has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that its client, Developers Diversified Realty Corporation, became aware of a “potential security breach” on or about February 2nd. According to the report (pdf), National City Bank, one of DDR’s dividend disbursing agents, mailed some 1099-DIV tax forms on January 29th. In some…

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Rogue app ruins Facebook’s weekend

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Social networks Facebook and MySpace were dealing with new security issues on Friday that could compromise personal information and communications from friends. […] One of the problems is that Facebook allows anybody to write an application, and third-party applications are not vetted before they are made available to the public. So, even as Facebook stamps…

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OK: City loses disk of account info

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Dissent

Keith Purtell  reports: Officials at the city of Muskogee recently discovered that a computer “zip” disk containing personal information has been in public circulation since 2000. The citizen who found the disk noticed the official city label and returned it. Late Friday afternoon, the city issued a press release saying they had discovered a “possible…

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UHW Trustees Working to Address Security Breach (update 1)

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Dissent

Statement of Dave Regan, Trustee of United Healthcare Workers West (UHW), regarding the recent disclosure of a security breach at UHW in July 2007 of 29,500 workers, resulting in credit and identity theft problems for 155 employees of Kaiser Permanente: Last month, UHW was placed in trusteeship after an outside hearing officer confirmed a number…

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UT: Files of personal information discovered by dumpster

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Dissent

Sam Penrod reports: Personal information including bank account and social security numbers was free for anyone to steal near the dumpster of a Draper real estate office Friday. North Star Realty says they were thrown out by accident. Read more on KSL

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