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News – At least 51,000 records were exposed in the breach at the parent company of Montgomery Ward. The financial company Citigroup detected the computer invasion in December. By going through HomeVisions.com, hackers had plundered the database that holds account information for all the company's retail properties.
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Voted for on June 28, 2008 09:58pm
News – Altman Weil online store was compromised by a virus that may have exposed the credit card information of certain store customers. It has been discovered on May 16, 2008 by the company that hosts the online store website.
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Voted for on June 16, 2008 08:25pm
News – Cotton Traders clothing firm website was hacked earlier this year and credit card details of up to 38,000 customers were stolen by unidentified attackers. Customer addresses were also stolen in this incident.
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Voted for on June 10, 2008 12:14pm
News – The recently introduced data availability initiative at MySpace allowing everyone to share their profile data with other community and social networking sites across the Web, is vulnerable to a major privacy flaw exposing the private photos of MySpace users.
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Voted for on June 04, 2008 10:41am
News – Sensitive information on about 1,000 patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military hospitals was exposed in a security breach, rising identity theft concerns and an investigation by the Army. The medical center learned of the breach on May 21 from an outside data mining company, which officials did not identify.
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Voted for on June 03, 2008 03:59pm
News – State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) said on May 29 that a disk drive containing personal details from 5,500 employees and 40,000 customer accounts was stolen. Lost details included individuals names, addresses, dates of birth, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers. The theft occurred in December and was reported to State Street in January.
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Voted for on June 03, 2008 03:58pm
News – Computers at Pocono Mountain School District were breached by a hacker in May 30, who apparently tapped into confidential information concerning students and their parents
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Voted for on June 02, 2008 04:29pm
News – Routine University of California San Francisco monitoring of the campus computer network shows that an unauthorized movie-sharing program had been installed on a computer containing personal patient information of 3569 patients.
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Voted for on May 31, 2008 01:53pm
News – Adobe Flash Player is prone to an unspecified remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application.
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Voted for on May 27, 2008 04:43pm
News – eBay is vulnerable to cross-site scripting that might be abused by scammers in order to take advantage of eBay users account. JavaScript code injection can redirect users to fake phishing pages where users are asked to login to their account. Victims who click on what appears to be a genuine eBay search results are also vulnerable to malware
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Voted for on May 27, 2008 01:01pm
News – Facebook is vulnerable to a cross site scripting flaw that leaves its users at risk from scripting attacks and logins phishing. The flaw could leave surfers vulnerable to malware and attackers could also trick users into handing over their credentials through fake logins served up from third party sites.
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Voted for on May 23, 2008 03:37pm
News – In one report scammers sent out text messages enticing people to send donations to fund the aid for helpless victims. Another spam message allegedly from a Filipino seeking financial aid to follow his wounded wife in China. Even the official Web site for donations to the eathquake victims in China, the Chinese Red Cross, has itself been hacked
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Voted for on May 22, 2008 01:32pm
News – Hackers used compromised logon passwords of fourteen financial advisors and four assistants of LPL Financial to gain access to customer accounts in order to "pump and dump" penny stocks
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Voted for on May 20, 2008 11:13am
News – Trojan, discovered by Sophos, targets the fear of legally forbidden pornographic content and forces users into purchasing a fake anti-spyware/anti-virus application.
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Voted for on May 17, 2008 06:53pm
News – A cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) has been found in PayPal, an online payment processing firm website. The vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution and could be used in a phishing attack to gather data from unsuspecting users
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Voted for on May 16, 2008 11:48am