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Olympus apologises after shipping malware-laced cameras in Japan

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: Olympus has apologised after it distributed a digital camera in Japan that came with added malware on its internal memory card. An estimated 1,700 Stylus Tough 6010 digital compact cameras shipped pre-pwned with auto-run code designed to infect Windows PCs they were connected to, net security firm Sophos reports. The malware uses…

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Ca: Risks remain in wake of mortgage broker breaches, audit shows

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dissent

Several mortgage brokerages improved some privacy and security measures following a string of major data breaches, but failed to implement controls to raise the alarm about any future suspicious activity, a privacy audit has found. The audit by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) was launched after the brokerages reported 14 data…

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Ca: 15-year-old caught in Richmond with hundreds of skimmed credit cards

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dissent

And what is your teenager doing for work this summer? Vivian Luk reports: A 15-year-old boy was arrested last month at a Richmond gas station for connection to a credit card skimming operation. […] The boy is suspected of copying credit card information from several hundred customers without their knowledge, and then selling the stolen…

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Nl: City sends wrong file

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Dissent

Seen at Karin Spaink’s blog: After requesting a directory of the services of city X, a citizen of that city was sent not that directory, but a file containing the names of the circa 2800 people living in that city who may not renew their passport or who have to hand in their passport. Reasons…

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In: BPO employee held for data theft

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Dissent

A young computer engineer was nabbed by the company authorities for data theft from the company computer and uploading it on another data sharing site for future use. He was nabbed by city cyber cell officials on Saturday. According to cyber cell officials, they had received a complaint from Satellite police station officials where Anand…

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NL: Sensitive DoJ data published

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Dissent

From Karin Spaink‘s blog: Various web sites have published ‘documents containing sensitive data’ from the Department of Justice’s national penitentiary task force (Landelijke Bijzondere Bijstandseenheid), who are called in when there are problems in jails. The nature and the scope of the leak is unclear, but it seems that the documents contain information about the…

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