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Banks Rush to Fix Security Flaws in Wireless Apps

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Dissent

If you use a wireless app for banking, you’ll want to read this. Spencer E. Ante reports: A number of top financial companies and banks such as Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and USAA are rushing out updates to fix security flaws in wireless banking applications that could allow a computer criminal…

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Pointer: Information Commissioner to issue fines – Finally!

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Dissent

Over on Cervello Consultants, Lindsay comments on an issue I raised earlier today blog post about fines for data breaches. Lindsay writes, in part: Do I think that the time has come for these floggings to take place in public? I’m afraid to say in my opinion it is. […] Fines and public humiliation are…

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What’s with the increasing demands to have breached entities fined?

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Dissent

There’s been a growing clamor both here and abroad to have entities who have had data breaches fined. And while the ICO has been promising that such fines are “imminent” and will be announced before the end of this month, I find myself wondering why we, the public, are becoming increasingly strident in our call for…

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Is it legal to use Firesheep at Starbucks?

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Dissent

Gregg Keizer reports: People using the Firesheep add-on may be breaking federal wiretapping laws, legal experts said today. Or maybe not. “I honestly don’t know the answer,” said Phil Malone, a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School as well as the director of the school’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet…

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Indiana sues WellPoint over delayed breach notification

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Dissent

The Indychannel reports: The attorney general’s office is suing health insurance giant WellPoint Inc. for $300,000 for waiting months to notify customers that their medical records, credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been exposed online. The lawsuit filed Friday in Marion County accuses WellPoint of violating a state law that requires businesses to…

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Ca: Personal data at risk, study found

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dissent

Dana Flavelle reports that private investigators hired by an association of secure document disposal companies found lots of personal information in dumpsters in the Greater Toronto area. Doctors offices and car dealers got an unwanted shout-out in their findings. Most organizations, especially large banks and hospitals, are doing a good job of disposing of sensitive…

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