It’s not yet clear what kind of “sensitive” information was involved, but: A 37-year-old Kingston woman reported her laptop computer containing sensitive information was stolen from her garage Saturday. The woman told Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies she put the laptop, which belongs to Boeing, inside her garage after removing it from her car Thursday. She…
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Microsoft loses Sidekick users’ personal data
Martyn Williams reports: Contacts, calendar entries, photographs and other personal information of Sidekick users has almost certainly been lost for good following a service disruption at Sidekick provider Danger, the Microsoft subsidiary said on Saturday. The amount of data and number of users affected wasn’t disclosed by Microsoft or T-Mobile, but the Sidekick support forums…
Losses from EFTPOS frauds at Perth shops hit $450,000
McDonald’s Australia is alerting customers to a huge skimming operation in Perth. As of yesterday, they had reported that about 2500 accounts had been compromised to the tune of $450,000 but today they say that they cannot guarantee that more West Australians will not be fleeced in the fraud scam. While police have so far…
Web mail scam propagates itself
The BBC reports: The industry-wide phishing scam that has affected popular web mail services such as Hotmail and GMail, is spreading, according to experts. Security firm Websense says it has noticed a sharp rise in spam emails from Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail accounts. This is because infected accounts are sending personalised e-mails to contacts suggesting…
Personal documents found in Palm Springs dumpster
WPBF reports that personnel files containing “Social Security cards, tax papers, driver’s licenses, copies, peoples’ information, home IDs, everything” were found in a dumpster. Some of the documents had the CLP Skilled Trade Solutions logo on it — a company located right next to the dumpster. Many of the personnel files appeared to be from…
Researcher refutes phishing account of hijacked Hotmail passwords
Gregg Keizer reports: One researcher isn’t buying Microsoft’s and Google’s explanation that hijacked Hotmail and Gmail passwords were obtained in a massive phishing attack. Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at San Francisco-based ScanSafe, said it’s more likely that the massive lists — which include approximately 30,000 credentials from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and other…