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Keith Appleyard

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British Telecom sends Customers personal details unencrypted

[I'm surprised I haven't seen anything elsewhere on Finextra on the ACS:Law fiasco] BT has admitted it sent the personal details of more than 500 customers as an unsecured document to legal firm ACS:Law, following a court order. The unsecured Excel documents were sent in late August by a lawyer working for British Telecom, to Andrew Crossley who ru...

30 September 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

World Cup Data Breach at FIFA

Good old FIFA - in accordance with the EU Data Protection Act they should have deleted data pertaining to Ticket Sales from the 2006 World Cup in Germany shortly thereafter - but they didn't. A database containing the personal details of 250,000 football fans that purchased World Cup tickets through official FIFA-sanctioned outlets has been stole

07 September 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

Manchester Police lose Anti-Terror Secrets

The Daily Star reports that Manchester Police lost an Unencrypted & not Password-protected USB memory stick containing top secret anti-terror documents in the street outside their own Police Station. The memory stick contained a "Manual on Guidance of Keeping the Peace", more than 2,000 pages of highly-sensitive and confidential infor...

06 September 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

Beware HMRC Tax Rebate scam e-mails

Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announced last week that 6 million people in the UK will be told they have paid the wrong amount of Income Tax, with other reports saying that 1.4 million will be told they owe an average of £1,400. Othr reports say that more than 10 million people may be in line for a Tax Refund. This wll lead to a fresh ...

06 September 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

UK Financial Institution loses 675K in 30 days

M86 Security (www.m86security.com) have published a (13-page) white paper on a recent online banking attack which resulted in £675,000 being stolen from approx 3,000 customer accounts at an (unnamed) UK Financial Institution in the 30 day period from 5th July. Multiple techniques were used to spread malicious code, including infecting legitimate w...

03 September 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

University loses nearly 1 million dollars to malware

Thieves appear to have stolen the funds from University of Virginia after compromising a computer belonging to the University's Financial Controller. Malware intercepted the Online Banking Credentials for the University's Bank accounts and initiated a fraudulent wire transfer for $996,000 to a Bank in China. Whereas, because of a £10,000 per day ...

02 September 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

Nigerian stole 500,000 dollars to buy luxury goods

According to the NY Daily News, Iguosade Osahon, a 28-year-old Nigerian-born student, has been charged with stealing the identities of 750 victims and used the $500,000 he stole to buy Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton bags and jewelry at Tiffany & Co. He stole his victim’s personal info by trawling online data traffickers for personal information

01 September 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

UK Building Society lucky not to lose Customer data

Once again one hears of a Building Society not encrypting its laptops, coupled with poor physical security and password management by its employeees. In this instance, an unencrypted laptop belonging to the (former) Chelsea Building Society (which in April 2010 merged with Yorkshire Building Society), was stolen from its Cheltenham premises. It bel...

30 August 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

How to steal 10 million dollars and get away with it

As reported in the New York Times : www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/business/22digi.html Papers filed in court allege that over a 4 year period, thieves created fictitious Merchants through use of accommodation addresses and stealing other peoples identities, charged more than $10 million on consumers’ credit and debit cards, and then moved the money...

30 August 2010 /payments /regulation Whatever...

Cellphone Company doesn't understand Security basics

I had an interesting experience during the volcano disruptions which showed how Phone Companies aren't doing joined up thinking on Security. I was stranded without phone access on my Blackberry. I emailed Virgin Media from my pre-registered e-mail account to ask them to give me international access for my location. Their response was that for my sa...

21 June 2010 /security /regulation Whatever...

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