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Senate delays vote on spy bill
A bill that would modernize the United States' legal framework for eavesdropping and grant telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for wiretapping customers will have to wait until January. 2007-12-18 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11498 Researchers reverse Netflix anonymization Two computer scientists show that a large set of transactional data poses privacy risks by finding a way to link movie ratings from the Netflix Prize dataset to publicly available information. 2007-12-04 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11497 Group drafts rules to nix credit-card storage The organization responsible for technical and best-practice standards in the payment industry plans to require the makers of merchant software to certify that their programs do not store sensitive data. 2007-11-19 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11496 Task force aims to improve U.S. cybersecurity A blue-ribbon panel of three dozen security experts hopes to craft a strategy to improve cybersecurity by the time the next president takes office. 2007-11-01 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11494 Court filings double estimate of TJX breach Online attackers stole information on more than 94 million credit- and debit-card accounts, more than double the original estimates, according to court documents. 2007-10-26 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11493 Identity thieves likely to be first-timers, strangers Six years of U.S. Secret Service cases reveal that the majority of identity thieves do not know their victims and do not have a prior criminal record. 2007-10-22 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11492 Retailers look to exorcise credit-card data The National Retail Federation sends a letter asking that its members be allowed to decide what credit-card data to keep. 2007-10-09 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11491 DHS, Unisys scrutinized after data breach A Congressional committee claims that Unisys allowed malicious code to infect federal systems. 2007-09-25 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11489 Customers: TD Ameritrade failed to warn of breach Numerous account holders complained over the past year that the consumer brokerage had sold or leaked e-mail addresses to pump-and-dump spammers. 2007-09-18 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11488 Max Vision charged with hacking -- again Federal prosecutors charge former security consultant Max Butler, better known amongst security researchers as "Max Vision," alleging that he supplied and managed a ring of identity thieves. 2007-09-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11487 |
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