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
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…
UHW Trustees Working to Address Security Breach (update 1)
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…
UT: Files of personal information discovered by dumpster
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
When everything old is new again?
In what comes as no real surprise to me based on what I had been thinking, Jaikumar of Computerworld reports: Days after Visa Inc. seemingly confirmed that a data breach had taken place at a third payment processor, following on the recent breach disclosures by Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and RBS WorldPay Inc., the credit…
OR: Identity thief gets 36 months in prison
A woman who fled the state in 2007 after being accused of stealing and using multiple credit cards of City Hall employees will get 36 months in prison. Christine Lee Foos, 35, plead guilty on February 23 in the Washington County Circuit Court to burglary in the second degree and three counts of identity theft….