By Pokey Anderson opednews.com 1. Dan Rocco -- April 1, 2002 -- ChoicePoint VP -- plane crash He died on April 1, 2002, in a plane crash in Gainesville, Georgia. He was an executive vice president at ChoicePoint, the firm that gained infamy with their faulty "felons" list supplied to Katherine Harris during the 2000 election in Florida. As a result of this list, over 90,000 voters (mostly...
Link to MP3 OK, Episode 27 is FINALLY here. Sincere apologies to all of our listeners. We really could not avoid the long break. Work and family and everything else seriously pounded us this time. ENJOY! Show Notes: InfoSec News Update - FTC Orders ChoicePoint To Pay $275,000 For 2008 Data Breach – Link Here Senator [...]
Here is this morning’s Interim Management Statement from Reed Elsevier. Note the interested bolded statement on R&D in the legal research sector. LexisNexis has seen a modest decline in underlying revenues with softer legal and corporate markets in the US and internationally. Overall revenues benefit from a full year contribution from the ChoicePoint business acquired [...]
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ChoicePoint Inc. will pay federal regulators $275,000 for a data breach in 2008 that compromised the personal information of 13,750 people and put them at risk of identify theft, the Federal Trade Commission reported.
A look back at all things security for the past week: 10 things you need to know about Windows 7 Windows 7 officially shipped this week, which means end users and administrators running Windows XP (and to a lesser extent, Windows Vista) have some interesting decisions to make. FTC slams MoneyGram with $18M charge to settle fraud complaints This place sounds like scam central. The second-largest money...
ChoicePoint was supposed to take steps to protect consumer data. But the FTC alleged that in April 2008 the company switched off an internal electronic monitoring system designed to watch customer accounts for signs of unauthorized or suspicious activity....
U.S. Federal Trade Commission says data broker ChoicePoint failed to notice that database access monitoring tool was off for four months, allowing unauthorized access and exposing data of 13,750 people.
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Secure telework without a VPN; Going Shopping? Cisco Could Be Watching You Security Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend > > > Sponsored by Trend Micro Addressing Web Threats Recent research among senior IT managers reveals that, although organizations are taking steps to protect against Web-related threats to the enterprise, significant vulnerabilities still...
Once again, one of the biggest collectors and sellers of confidential consumer information is paying a fine to the Federal Trade Commission for sloppy data handling. From the FTC release : "This failure left the door open to a data breach in 2008 that compromised the personal information of 13,750 people and put them at risk of identify theft." As powerful interests are wont to do (last...
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