Security breach may have compromised millions of debit and credit cards - Washington Post

The two companies say they have notified law enforcement officials and alerted banks about the potential data theft, even as they seek to assure customers that their own systems had not been breached. Both companies also emphasize that customers are ...

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Gov't efforts target online counterfeits much more than digital piracy - PC Advisor

"The sale of counterfeit goods that are dangerous to American consumers and the theft of American digital products are both facilitated by criminal websites operating overseas. That's why it's so critically important for all parties involved to come ...

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Alleged robber arrested for revisiting crime scene - Gresham Outlook

Readers are solely responsible for the content of the comments they post here. Comments are subject to the site's terms and conditions of use and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or approval of The Gresham Outlook. • Only a comment submitted with ...

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Sex offender disclosure scheme used 258 times in a year by concerned parents - Scottish Daily Record

DOZENS of sex offenders have been investigated under a scheme which allows parents to know who is coming into contact with their children. Keeping Children Safe, a police disclosure scheme which allows the public to apply for information about an ...

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Rack & Reel - Tehelka

Week after week, an unhappy partner would confess to the good-looking Angad Singh Bedi (and later former Mr India Pravesh Rana) that their lover was inattentive and possibly unfaithful. Once EA's secret cameras invariably caught the cheating partner ...

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Megaupload: Sometimes, Stealing Isn't Really Stealing - Jakarta Globe

Prices for this type of content have generally plummeted in the west but have little effect on developing countries where even a $10 DVD or music disc can be many days pay for most citizens. In reality I believe they would make much more money if ...

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Australian data breaches costs rising: Symantec - Australian Techworld

Data breach costs are continuing to have an impact on Australian companies with some organisations reporting a loss of $2.16 million, according to a new study from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute. The 2011 Cost of Data Breach Study: Australia report ...

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Security Breach: Lost Data Cartridges May Have Exposed Personal Records From ... - Huffington Post

California Says IBM, Iron Mountain Lost State Agency Data
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Rising Risk: Foreign Firms Sense Hostility in India - Wall Street Journal

Internet executives from Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are facing criminal prosecution for not removing Web content that some consider objectionable even though the companies have said they followed the letter of the law. And long-promised efforts to ...

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Kids' tour? Scrap that, it's South Africa now for new England coach Lancaster - Daily Mail

By Chris Foy In the circumstances, it was remarkable that Stuart Lancaster managed to keep the news under wraps, aside from telling his wife, Nina. He didn't let his children, Sophie and Dan, in on the secret until it was a secret no more.

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Nature deficit disorder 'damaging Britain's children' - BBC News

Traffic, the lure of video screens and parental anxieties are conspiring to keep children indoors, it says. Evidence suggests the problem is worse in the UK than other parts of Europe, and may help explain poor UK rankings in childhood satisfaction ...

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Kaspersky PURE 2.0: Ultimate PC Protection for Your Home - HEXUS

Kaspersky PURE 2.0 meets these needs by delivering the ultimate protection for PCs, user identity, passwords, photos and financial data, and by keeping children safe and responsible online. Plus, it's incredibly simple to use, allowing users to easily ...

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Hacktivists nicked more data than CYBER-CROOKS in 2011 - Register

By John Leyden • Get more from this author More than half (58 per cent) of data stolen last year can be attributed to hacktivism - hacking to advance political and social objectives - according to the latest edition of the Data Breach Investigations ...

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How child predators cover their tracks online - CSO (blog)

The report, released this morning, details how pedophiles are successfully hiding the evil they do online. Criminals are 'disguising' websites to appear as if they host only legal content. However, if an internet user follows a predetermined digital ...

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Ciena, SafeNet partner on Ethernet link encryption services - Telecompaper (subscription)

Ciena and SafeNet Join Forces to Protect Data and Reduce Security Breaches in ...
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Nuclear Workers Data Breach Revealed - HNN Huntingtonnews.net

ANWAG was alerted to this issue by a claimant's authorized representative, Gary Vander Boegh, who forwarded this article on the break-in: http://www.databreaches.net/?p=23593. 'I confirmed with OWCP Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness ...

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Protecting public data from criminals and hacktivists - Public Service

The message is clear: it is time to think more intelligently about the risk of data breaches and IT security, and have in place measures for a nightmare scenario. A common scenario facing organisations is where two independently designed (and very ...

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Cost of data breaches in Australia going up, criminal attacks to blame: Symantec - PC Advisor

The caution comes by the way of Symantec's recent 2011 Cost of Data Breach Study, which has found that the average cost of a data breach reported by Australian organisations has maintained an upward trend for the third year in a row.

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'Sadist' lover posed as American footballer on Facebook and forced young ... - Daily Mail

The elaborate plot began when Bingham posed as 'Grant' and befriended his girlfriend on Facebook. He pestered her to send him a topless picture of herself - which she did. He then ordered her to perform sex acts on herself day and night on a webcam, ...

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EU to get tough on cybercrime, file-sharers to be spared - Network World

By Jennifer Baker, IDG News Service TechBriefcase is a new, free service where IT Professionals can Search, Store and Share IT white papers and content like this. Learn more Speed up your research efforts with content across the web.

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Keeping kids safe - Minneapolis Star Tribune

She says it breaks her heart to tell her children that they aren't necessarily safe, even if they've done nothing more threatening than walk the streets of their neighborhood. The instructions go like this: Keep your hands out of your pockets.

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10 Tips When Considering Cyber Insurance - PropertyCasualty360

By Rick Kam, CIPP, Jeremy Henley, CHPC Data breaches are like lighting: one never knows when or where they'll strikeâ€"or how much damage they will cause. Given their unpredictable nature, data breaches are difficult to budget for.

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ICO Sony Data Breach Decision Coming in Six Weeks - TechWeekEurope UK

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will announce its decision on whether to punish Sony over last year's significant data breach in the next six weeks, TechWeekEurope has learned. Deputy commissioner David Smith revealed the body was close to ...

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Lawless Oz bucks trend on data breaches - ZDNet Australia

A study into data breaches has found that the cost of compromised records to organisations is decreasing in the US, but increasing in Australia, likely due to a lack of data breach notification laws, according to Symantec director of security and ...

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Identity theft tax fraud on the rise - WBIR-TV

The number of cases almost tripled between 2009 and 2011, data show. As law enforcement and the IRS attempt to address the problem, it continues to grow as criminals find new ways to thwart a system designed to quickly process and refund money to ...

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Pedophiles Hide Child Porn in Web Stores - WebProNews

Emerging trend hides content behind digital "fronts." Limited to users with access to specific referrers. By Jonathan Fisher · 13 hours ago · Leave a Comment Nearly every large, well-organized criminal operation needs a good 'front' â€" a seemingly ...

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App to help keep your kids safe - Adelaide Now

Isuzu provides new ute for Morcombes
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LulzSec redux dumps data after raiding military dating site - SC Magazine

But someone claiming to be an administrator posted a comment on the DataBreaches.net website, which chronicles information loss incidents, and said it's possible the breach claim was "false" but that it would investigate. More spilled information ...

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Ciena, SafeNet team to sell security bundle - ITWorld Canada

Ciena and SafeNet Join Forces to Protect Data and Reduce Security Breaches in ...
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RockYou settles FTC charges related to breach - PC Advisor

2009 data breach that exposed email addresses and passwords of more than 30 million people. As part of the settlement announced Tuesday, the online social gaming company will also pay a $250000 civil penalty to settle charges that it violated the ...

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Cost of data breaches in Australia going up, criminal attacks to blame: Symantec - ARNnet

How to manage and disclose data breaches
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Child abuse "disguised" as legitimate sites - PC Pro

By Stewart Mitchell Child pornographers are using new ways to hide illegal content online by disguising it as legal material. According to the Internet Watch Foundation, the content appears on sites that provide legal material to most users, ...

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Google under fire in UK MPs' report into privacy - BBC News

Its report said that online firms needed to be brought in line with offline media in such cases. "We recommend that, when granting an injunction, courts should be proactive in directing the claimant to serve notice on internet content platforms such as ...

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Keep Safe controversy: a response to Barns - ABC Online

The truth is that Ditto's Keep Safe Adventure Personal Safety show and the Activity Book have been delivered to over 200000 Australian children aged between three and eight years old since 2005 without these particular issues ever being raised.

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Keeping LGBT students safe from bullying - Washington Times

But with a recent high profile string of teen suicides linked to harassment in public schools, parents are also worrying about their children's safety in ways they never have before. Parents deserve to know that the schools they are entrusting their ...

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LulzSec Reborn Claims Military Dating Site Hack - InformationWeek

But according to DataBreaches.net, instead of members' images displaying on the website Monday, there was instead this text: "Error: Slideshow data cannot load due to security issue." By Tuesday, however, the site's images appeared to once again be ...

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Costs of a data breach falling, but cost per record rising - SearchStorage.co.uk

Negligent Employees Top Cause of Data Breaches â€" Malicious Attacks Most Costly
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Google under fire in UK MPs report into privacy - BBC News

Its report said that online firms needed to be brought in line with offline media in such cases. "We recommend that, when granting an injunction, courts should be proactive in directing the claimant to serve notice on internet content platforms such as ...

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Munster players turn out in support of competition - Consumer Tech

TechLife | 27 Mar 2012 : In order to generate awareness about online safety among children, Trend Micro, a global cloud security organisation with EMEA headquarters in Cork, recently launched a special competition for kids called What's Your Story.

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School bans cerebral palsy girl from using walker... because it is 'unsafe ... - Daily Mail

But when the contraption collapsed causing her to fall in the car park the school's head of special needs said she would have to leave it at home to keep the other children safe. Now the little girl's mother, Kristi, wants to sue New Caney Independent ...

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What the Verizon Data Breach Report Says About the State of Security - CIO Insight

By CIOinsight The latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report finds that the best way to prevent data breaches is not expensive or new, but rather simple. The fact that businesses don t adhere to good security practices is more frightening than ...

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US: Represent an Important Effort Toward Fulfilling Human Rights Commitments - Salem-News.Com

The Department of Labor's move to narrow the companionship exemption and ensure basic minimum wage and overtime protections for hundreds of thousands of caregiving services employees who help people with disabilities and the elderly in their homes, ...

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VASCO enhances security of business intelligence solution for GM Brazil - RFPConnect.com

VASCO DIGIPASS GO3 in Combination with IDENTIKEY Enhances the Security of ...
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'Sadist' jailed for sexually abusing lover on Facebook - Metro

Darrell Bingham has been jailed for seven years after using Facebook to blackmail his girlfriend into sex acts. Bingham posed as an American football player called Grant to pester his 21-year-old partner to send him a topless picture.

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Phuket Gazette: Pedophiles flourishing on the Web - Phuket Gazette

A new trend has emerged in which criminals disguise illegal websites to appear as if they host only legal content. "We received reports to our Hotline by online users who have stumbled across these sites," said IWF Chief Executive Susie Hargreaves.

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Gov't: Pa. church put reputation over kids' safety - Knoxville News Sentinel

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) PHILADELPHIA (AP) â€" The Archdiocese of Philadelphia protected sexual predators in its ranks for more than 70 years, putting the church's reputation over the safety of children, a prosecutor said Monday at the start of a landmark ...

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Why people like this are your worst nightmare - Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph

Following the case, Northamptonshire Police issued a warning to parents to keep a close eye on their children's safety online. Det Con Katy Tyrrell said: 'This case has illustrated that it is absolutely vital that parents and guardians know what is ...

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How to Rob a Bank and Get Away With It - ABC News

Of those cases, approximately 580 were investigated, and of those investigations, 429 cases, or 8 percent, ended with convictions, according to FBI data. In other words, employees had a 92 percent chance of robbing a bank and getting away with it that ...

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Former soldier 'murdered' girlfriend's fictional Facebook lover after ... - This is Hull and East Riding

A WOMAN has revealed how she was subjected to an elaborate six-month blackmail plot by her jealous boyfriend. Darrell Bingham, 49, created fake Facebook identities to blackmail his girlfriend into performing sex acts on a webcam.

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Exploiting legitimate online technology - Help Net Security

Criminals are 'disguising' websites to appear as if they host only legal content. However, if an internet user follows a predetermined digital path which leads them to the website, they will see images and videos of children being sexually abused.

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