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The merchant strikes back: Cisero’s sues processor and bank over pass-along fines following alleged breach

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dissent

There’s an interesting lawsuit to watch in Utah. The owner of Cisero’s in Park City is suing their payment processor and bank for deducting money from their account after card issuers fined them over an alleged breach of the restaurant’s system. The case stems from  a March 2008 incident. According to Cisero’s, Visa had notified…

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Chinese Hacks May Be a Challenge to Real-Name Registration

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Dissent

C. Custer writes that the recent release of so many old (and large!) Chinese databases might be politically motivated as a challenge to China’s real-name registration policy: The data released on the internet last week was already widely available in hacking circles, according to Wan Tao, the founder of a popular hacking online community. Wan…

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The six worst data breaches of 2011

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dissent

If you’re looking for the biggest breaches of the year in terms of numbers affected, you can find them over on DataLossDB.org or in others’ reviews. Certainly there were some really big breaches this year, but those were not necessarily the worst, in my opinion. So here’s my short list of the year’s worst breaches…

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Step up Social Security number protection, OIG says

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dissent

Alice Lipowicz reports: The Social Security Administration should do more to protect against identity theft by increasing security controls on Social Security numbers and programs, according to two new federal audits. One of the audits targeted the millions of SSN printouts distributed by the agency each year, which have much looser security controls than Social…

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Data Security: Your Information, Their Loot

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Dissent

According to the DataLossDB project run by the Open Source Foundation, hundreds of millions of medical records, bank account numbers, names, and addresses were stolen or accidentally leaked in 2011. Read the article by Evan Applegate in Bloomberg Businessweek.

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2011 is the Year of the Hacktivist, Verizon Report Suggests

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports: Postal workers, department store clerks and elves aren’t the only ones working like crazy this holiday season. For Bryan Sartin, it’s the busiest time of year. Sartin is a director of investigative response with Verizon Business. He’s the guy you call when you’ve been hacked and he usually doesn’t get much of…

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