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[Chubb]

Crimtrac fingers biometrics for background checks
17 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Australian government agency, Crimtrac, has proposed tying fingerprints to passports and drivers licenses in an effort to reduce false identification for background checks.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

PCI Compliance: Five Things You Need to Know
17 May 2010, 6:00 pm

As a good QSA will tell you, such security standards are meant to be a baseline. Good organizations go beyond cramming for annual PCI reviews.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Google admits Street View cars collected Wi-Fi data
17 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Google has admitted it has been mistakenly collecting data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks for three years.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Google "failed badly" over Wi-Fi data collection
17 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Google has ceased collecting Wi-Fi data as part of its Street View program days after being sent a letter by privacy groups worried about security and privacy.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Facebook and Privacy: Do You Know What I Know?
17 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Psst...have you heard?

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Facebook users hit by hoax sexy video
17 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Thousands of Facebook users have been the victim of a fake video, designed to infect PCs with adware, says Sophos.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

LV= ensures information governance compliance
17 May 2010, 6:00 pm

LV=, the mutual investment and insurance group, has achieved ISO certification in IT governance (ISO 20000) and IT service management (ISO 38500) using software from CA.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Google stops sniffing Wi-Fi data after privacy gaffe
14 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Google has decided to stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networking data after an embarrassing privacy gaffe.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Australian privacy groups target Google Street View
15 May 2010, 6:00 pm

The Electronic Frontiers Association (EFA) and Australia Privacy Foundation (APF) have jointly questioned potential security breaches conducted by search giant. Google's Street View program.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Security guard pleads guilty to hacking his employer
15 May 2010, 6:00 pm

A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Deutsche Bank in £400,000 fine for system breach
14 May 2010, 6:00 pm

A US regulator has fined Deutsche Bank $575,000 (£394,000) for disabling a crucial system that was needed to block incomplete trading orders.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Crypto guru Whit Diffie takes ICANN security job
14 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Six months after leaving his job at Sun Microsystems noted cryptographer Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie has landed a new gig, this time as a security adviser to the corporation that manages the Internet.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Ice cream with (RFID) chips to go
14 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Izzy's Ice Cream Cafe uses RFID technology to give customers real-time updates on all the flavors available in its St. Paul shop.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

New Security Minister plans cyber-defence rethink
14 May 2010, 6:00 pm

The UK has a new Security Minister, Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, who takes up a non-cabinet post that gives her the job of shaking up the UK’s fragmented cybersecurity infrastructure.

Source: Network World on Security

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[Chubb]

Latvian police decline to hold database hacker
14 May 2010, 6:00 pm

Latvian law enforcement officials are close to finishing their investigation of an artificial intelligence researcher who gained access to a government database, releasing sensitive s*l*r* information on Twitter.

Source: Network World on Security

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