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A data breach that would have affected all barristers in England and Wales was averted via the use of disk encryption software.  Without the data protection software in place, the theft of a laptop and four hard disk drives would have meant the possible disclosure of names, bank account numbers, and sort codes for 3,000 barristers who pay the Bar Council via direct deposit (the Bar Council is

FRENTE REVOLUCIONARIA DO TIMOR-LESTE INDEPENDENTE F R E T I L I N MEDIA RELEASE Dili, 16 November 2008 Timor Leste budget crisis: AMP Government appears determined to breach court ruling Timor Leste's de facto government appears determined to try to thwart the Court of Appeal's decision against its failed 2009 budget, FRETILIN's parliamentary leader Aniceto Guterres warned today. The

Seoul National University is in the news due to a data breach, yet again.  A file with the information on 4500 SNU students was uploaded in May of this year, and was not taken off their site until last week.  From what I gather, the file in question was uploaded to an on-line bulletin board…and nobody noticed for six months!  This data breach could have been prevented if someone h

Medical Mutual of Ohio, a health insurer, has announced the loss of eleven computer disks that may affect 36,000 retired Ohio employees.  A preliminary investigation has laid the blame on insufficient postage.  Medical Mutual hasn’t revealed whether the contents on those disks were encrypted, although one hopes something like hard drive encryption or file encryption was used to protect

The Planet seems to have suffered a security breach, and issued the following email to their customers. Please note, Aventure Host is not hosted at The Planet, and this does not effect us in any way. Message from The Planet (theplanet.com) In the course of the last two days, our Computer Security Incident Response Center team has [...]

A laptop computer belonging to Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has been stolen.  This is the second laptop reported missing in as many weeks.  Just like in the previously reported case, the HSE did not avail itself of laptop encryption software like AlertBoot to protect its contents.  The laptop computer, stolen from the HSE administration headquarters, holds thousands o

Philippine Daily InquirerFirst Posted 02:16:00 10/05/2008MANILA, Philippines—From youngest to brightest.A few days before turning 15 years old, Wesley So, currently the world’s youngest Grandmaster, added another entry to his sterling credentials by becoming the youngest ever player to breach the 2600 rating of the World Chess Federation.In its third quarterly rating released recently, the Fid

It will be a serious issues if documents stored by you in your Google Docs can be seen by someone else. Imaging what happened when your financial data is compromised. Google needs to tighten the security for its SaaS applications, otherwise many customers may move back to traditional systems. Read more about the security breach in Google docs in (ISC)²BLOGHTTP://BLOG.ISC2.ORG/ISC2_BLOG/2008/09/SE

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If you haven’t already taken adequate steps to ensure your data and computer security systems are up to date and working to protect you against hackers and other potential threats, then you should do it right now to ensure the chances of being subjected to a security breach are as small as possible. Unfortunately some [...]

£6.99.  That’s how much a 36 year old anonymous computer programmer paid for a computer on eBay that held the details of 35,000 taxpayers in the UK.  This is the second case where a computer sold on eBay with sensitive information ended up in the hands of a civic‑minded person.  And this is just another example where the use of full disk encryption solutions like AlertBoot

John Holmes has decided to file suit against Jesus in Ohio today. The suit alleges that Jesus “willfully neglected to fulfill certain verbal obligations made by the defendant.” “I just don’t understand it,” John explains. “When I tell someone that I am going to do something, I do it. I mean, a man is only as [...]

The site pogowasright.org is carrying a post in the Electronic Data Records Law blog by Benjamin Wright, an attorney and “specialist in email compliance and risk management controls and services.”  I usually tend to offer commentary on stories where a data breach could have been avoided via the use of disk encryption services like AlertBoot.  But, I’d like to cover this latest post

NCAS Pulls the Sword of Damocles on Junior Doctor Professor Scotland is an interesting man. He appears to be director of NCAS. Despite his accolades, no one has taught him how to behave. Moreover, no one seems to have appraised him of the Human Rights Act 1998. Scotland has been found leaking confidential and qualified correspondence [emails between NCAS Solicitor [Capsticks] Mr Mason and Dr X]. S

Recent News reports reveal that both Lil Kim & Foxy Brown are being sued by the Simon & Schuster Book Publisher to the tune of $110,000. for Breach of Contract.The Publishing company paid Lil Kim (real name Kimberly Jones) an advance payment of $40,000. in 2004 for writing a novel of which Jones did not deliver.Foxy Brown (real name Inga Marchand) was paid an advance payment of $75,000. in 2006 to

Wireless networks and endpoints offer convenience and connectivity. Unless properly secured, they also offer a means of egress into the network. This article will describe the vulnerabilities and strategies for mitigation. In the wake of undiscovered data breaches and subsequent public exposure, hackers have begun to turn their eye towards breaching wireless networks and taking advantage [...]

Wagner Resource Group, an investment firm in Virginia is in the news thanks to the wayward actions of an employee who installed LimeWire on his computer.  Most people tend to use encryption if they are security conscious and believe they possess sensitive information.  As far as I can tell from the story at Information Week, this wasn’t a concern for the employee.  Because he

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Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the online file-sharing network LimeWire while using a company computer. In doing so, he inadvertently opened the private files of his firm, Wagner Resource Group, to the public. That exposed the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of about 2,000 o

It looks like CNet is not the only technology company to be affected by Colt Express’s computer theft.  It is being reported that Google has been affected as well.  Not only that, the comments section to the article also has someone commenting that ValueClick employees are affected due to the incident.  Hard disk encryption like AlertBoot or any other form of data security solutio

A data breach at a California company that administers benefit plans to businesses across the country involved personal information on all Google employees hired prior to Dec. 31, 2005, the search engine giant said. Google’s disclosure came in a letter (PDF) to the New Hampshire Attorney General, which revealed that Google was a [...]

Auditors have today released their reports on the HMRC data fiasco from last year.  At the time, a junior employee was blamed for the loss of sensitive data affecting 25 million UK citizens.  The audit reports place the blame squarely on…nobody.  There are many covering this news, but the UK ZDNet seems to sum things up nicely.  And when one reads the conclusions, it mak

Citibank ATM's become the target of fraudulent withdrawals by at least two men this February. Allegedly, the entire incident was related to a computer security breach into Citibank's servers that process ATM transaction.This is a first time that actual major financial fraud is related to a computer security incident. However, Citibank denied that any of their systems were compromised.The Threat Le

Citibank ATM's become the target of fraudulent withdrawals by at least two men this February. Allegedly, the entire incident was related to a computer security breach into Citibank's servers that process ATM transaction.This is a first time that actual major financial fraud is related to a computer security incident. However, Citibank denied that any of their systems were compromised.The Threat Le

GAZA - PalestineNews : At least three Israeli violations of the fresh truce that was sponsored by Egypt in the Gaza Strip were recoded few hours after that truce started on Thursday as IOF troops opened their machinegun fire at Palestinian fishermen, and farmers. Local Palestinian sources said that Israeli gunboats fired at Palestinian fishermen trying to earn a living, no casualties were recorde

Big reason: Plaintiff’s lawyers would get almost $2 million while the class-action plaintiffs, among 6.2 million individuals whose personal info was exposed by TD Ameritrade’s carelessness, would get a year’s worth of free (after rebate) antispam service. Even by class-action standards, the judge is finding this one hard to swallow.

Looks like I jumped the gun on the happy ending for the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics.  If readers recollect, Perpetual Storage Inc. lost backup tapes that contained information on 2.2 million patients treated at the U of U.  Word is out on the street that the U of U may be sued; it’s just a matter of time.  On the other hand, the company that actually lost the tapes ha

And I agree.  Encryption solutions and other data protection solutions are an infinitely better way of protecting consumer data than letting people know they should be on the look out for financial fraud.  However, I do find issues with the points raised by Bart Lazar in a column he wrote for computerworld.com.  Granted, I’m not a lawyer, and I think he is, so I’m at a disadvant

Red tape failing to stanch losses Widespread information security breach laws in the US have failed to do much to reduce identity theft. The finding, by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, comes as calls are growing in Europe to enact laws that would oblige organisations to notify customers in cases where their personal details become [...]

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On June 4, 2008, the New Jersey Supreme Court in Romagnola v. Gillispie, Inc. (A-57-07), held that a litigant who complied with a procedural court rule that was subsequently amended was entitled to enforce the rule as it existed pre-amendment. The plaintiff in this case availed himself of the offer of judgment rule, R. 4:58-2, which allows a litigant to recover his/her counsel fees if the litigant

SGL Viet Mam Development Ltd. said it has decided not to pursue the joint venture with Dung Thanh Manufacturing, Construction & Trading Co. Ltd. as the latter has materially breached the conditions of the agreement. The joint venture between AIM-listed SGL Viet Nam and Dung Thanh was for the development of residential and commercial property in the Thu Duc district of Ho Chi Minh City. The

Wayne Rooney today agreed to pay a substantional amount of money to his former manager David Moyes. Moyes was Rooney’s manager at Everton before his big money switch to Manchester United and in his book of 2006, the striker accused Moyes of “a serious breach of trust towards a young player under his management”. This all [...]

The negative aspects of the digital world have begun to rear their ugly heads.  It took some time, but they’re here, and in full force.  Going digital has meant that everything happens at the speed of light, as one CEO had stated when this particular revolution began.  The problem is, of course, that when everything happens at the speed of light, the bad stuff happens at that same

This movie is about a man serving a life sentence in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.  For 15 years Robert Hanssen sold his country’s secrets to the Russians. Suspected by his own organisation for some time, it wasn’t until the CIA stuck wannabe-agent Eric O’Neill [...]

This movie is about a man serving a life sentence in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. For 15 years Robert Hanssen sold his country’s secrets to the Russians. Suspected by his own organisation for some time, it wasn’t until the CIA stuck wannabe-agent Eric [...]

A trio of computer security researchers say they've successfully compromised Microsoft's CardSpace, a technology intended to strengthen the security of personal information on the Internet. CardSpace ships with the Windows Vista operating system. It works in concert with a browser when someone uses a Web site that asks for information such as an address or a credit card number. That personal info

Another hospital in the UK has fallen to a data breach due to the lack of data encryption.  The Isle of Wight NHS (National Health Services) has announced that they’re moving rapidly to encrypt their data, and is recommending it to all medical practices, according to the healthcarerepublic.com.  I, too, would agree that full disk encryption solutions like AlertBoot are necessary in med

In this second part I am going to talk about utilizing different methods of protecting sensitive data-at-rest by using system hardening. The overall goal is to obviously implement an effective strategy to reduce the potential of a data breach (keeping in mind it’s all about best efforts when meeting compliancy). First of all we have to understand how a data breach is [...]

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I know the protocol for Mother's Day blog posts is write about what an honor and a gift it is to be a mom. Leave it to me to break protocol. A good percentage of my posts are written on this subject, so why be redundant? I'm just gonna fill you in on how the day was . . . My first mother's day as a mom was very low key . . . Just the way I like it. I've always thought we have it a little

London, May 7 : China has announced that it will probe the alleged breaching of state secrecy laws and showing “illegal” maps of the country by the Internet search engine Google and other websites. The Telegraph quoted Min Yiren, vice head of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, as saying that the authorities hope [...]

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In this second part I am going to talk about utilizing different methods of hardening web-facing applications. The goal is to obviously implement an effective strategy to reduce the potential of a data breach. First of all we have to understand how a data breach is conducted and what methods are used to access internal protected information. The purpose behind such an [...]

Copyright breach: Clients of Virtual Map switch providers  - SIngapore Ban on firm from using govt-owned material also applies to its customers By Chua Hian Hou  LOOKING FOR DIRECTIONS: Users of streetdirectory.com can no longer access Virtual Map’s online maps. Instead, they are greeted by a tongue-in-cheek notice saying the maps ‘have escaped out the window’. — MUGILAN [...]

Watch new movie trailerBreach 2007Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura LinneyDirector: Billy RayRunning Time: 1 hr. 50 min.Release Date: February 16th, 2007Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) is promoted to a job inside FBI headquarters working for respected agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper). Then O'Neill learns his true mission: finding proof that Hanssen has been selling American secrets to the Soviet Union for years.Trailer - BreachCrime | Drama | Mystery | ThrillerBest Movie Trailers

In 2007 and 2008 the industry has seen an upsurge in data breaches affecting millions of consumers and causing corporations to pay heavily in fines. Data breaches can lead to exposure of consumer information through a number of different ways that vary in complexity. The common perception associated with a data breach is the difference between data being extracted from physical [...]

An investigation has been opened by the US Department of Justice into a possible breach of antitrust laws after Yahoo! announced Google Adsense would be implemented in limited trials on Yahoo! search results, in an effort to scupper Microsofts hostile ultimatum to accept a $44.6bn takeover bid. Concerns were raised by regulators after a telephone call [...]

Supermarket chain Hannaford Bros. is spending millions of dollars to upgrade its security in a bid to close the holes that allowed thieves to steal up to 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from store networks. The remarkable thing about this case is not that the company was hacked, despite being certified as [...]

Watch free online full movieBreach 2007Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura LinneyDirector: Billy RayEric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) is promoted to a job inside FBI headquarters working for respected agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper). Then O'Neill learns his true mission: finding proof that Hanssen has been selling American secrets to the Soviet Union for years.Full Movie - BreachWatch movie in full screenCrime / Drama / Mystery / ThrillerVideo not working? Look for an alternativeBreachBreachBreachBest Movie Trailers

The Royal Perth Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, has been accused of being remiss with customer data by The Sunday Times.  According to the newspaper, up to 500 computers containing personal information—including names, addresses, dates of birth, and medical conditions—have been tossed away by the hospital with nary a thought on data security. Supposedly, the old computers were placed in a dumpster behind the hospital; some of them have been there since November.  This is hotly being contested by the hospital which claims that computers are collected every day by contractors specifically hired to crush and dispose of the computers.  In addition, the hospital says, the hard drives are wiped clean when they’re thrown out.  Even the health minister got into the

BlueCross BlueShield is certainly having a busy 2008.  And it’s just the beginning of the year!  A CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield dental HMO, The Dental Network, has announced that the private information, of mostly Maryland and D.C. residents, has been available on the internet for a period of two weeks.  The accident may have affected approximately 75,000 people by exposing names, addresses, and dates of birth.  Incidents like these are nothing new, and will continue to happen due to human error: move or save the contents of a sensitive file to the wrong computer directory (aka, document folder), and all of a sudden it can be found on the internet.  The principle is not unlike that of P2P software, if you’re familiar with such applications.  Most P2P so

The Democratic chairman and top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee don't want to wait around for an internal State Department investigation into why contractors poked around in the passport files of the three presidential candidates.Sens. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), in a letter today to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, say they want Justice to open a criminal investigation into whether federal privacy laws were violated and whether there are extra measures that should be taken to prevent contractors from accessing such high profile passport files. The passport files of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain were all viewed by State Department contractors, but the department has not identified the contractors.   ~ more... ~  

By ANNE FLAHERTY and DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON - Two companies that provide workers for the State Department say they fired or otherwise punished those who improperly accessed the passport records of the three major presidential candidates. The security breaches touched off demands for a congressional investigation. “None of us wants to have a circumstance [...]

Having admitted on Thursday, that Barack Obama's personal passport file had been breached on 3 separate occasions by 3 separate people, the State Department were forced Friday into another humiliating admission.Both Hillary Clinton and John McCain's personal files had also been breached.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has phoned all three candidates and apologized for the breaches.Although the breach of Clinton's file at this stage appears relatively minor, the inquiry into McCain's file was made by the same person who had looked into Obama's.Speaking before the latest revelations on his own passport had come to light, McCain said that "If anyone's privacy is breached, then they deserve an apology and a full investigation and I believe that will take place."The Obama campaign have plac

"Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama "without a need to do so," State Department officials confirmed to NBC News." This is continuing to develop so more is coming in each minute.read more | digg story

Was there a political motive behind the breach in security that allowed 3 individuals to access Barack Obama's personal passport file on 3 separate occassions this year?That is something the Obama campaign will seek to find out as they call for a full investigation."This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government's duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes," spokesperson for the Obama campaign Bill Burton said yesterday."This is a serious matter that merits a complete investigation, and we demand to know who looked at Senator Obama's passport file, for what purpose and why it took so long for them to reveal this secur

Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama "without a need to do so," State Department officials confirmed to NBC News.

On March 18, two federal class action lawsuits were filed against Delhaize, the parent company of Hannaford and Sweetwater supermarkets. These filings were made only one day after the two retail grocery chains announced that hackers had accessed 4.2 million customer credit card numbers.Plaintiffs filed suit in Florida, where Sweetwater operates, and in Maine, where Hannaford operates. See Dobryniewski v. Delhaize America, Inc. et al, No. 2:2008cv00235 (M.D. Fla. filed Mar. 18, 2008); Ryan v. Delhaize America, Inc. et al., No. 1:08-cv-00086 (D. Maine filed Mar. 18, 2008). According to their press release, the attorneys who filed the Maine suit also represented plaintiffs in the recent TJX settlement.Hackers accessed the information during the card authorization process, which may not have

* Picture: No, don't  show my body!  - Edison Chen As I am not a fan of Edison Chen, now even getting sick of him, let's see some funny things around current Edison Chen. He is now Sending "Breach Of Law" Emails To Websites? Hope not. The following words are grabbed from GutterUncensored.com, if the [...]

Starling Insurance and Associates, a Colorado‑based company, is notifying their customers that their personal data may be compromised, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, drivers license numbers, account information, and names.  The data breach appears to have occurred earlier this month, and those affected were notified beginning March 5.   A letter to the Attorney General of New Hampshire shows that the data breach was caused by the theft of a server from a locked office, and while the computer in question had password‑protection (a misnomer, in such cases), there was no encryption in place to protect the data.  Currently, it appears that the company has no idea how the data breach came to be, or what kind of information was actually lost, as they are in

Hannaford supermarkets has been alerting their customers that there has been a data breach of credit card and debit card numbers.  The statement that they’ve released made an emphatic point to let the public know that the information breach concerns those numbers alone, and does not extend to other personal information such as names and addresses, which Hannaford does not collect.  And good for them, too: personal data collection and retention was one of the root problems following the TJX data breach a little over a year ago.   Hannaford has also pointed out that they’re using the latest encryption protocols which are in compliance with PCI.  In fact, they were certified as PCI compliant last year and recertified just this past February.  However, 4.2 million

Customer Data Exposed - Delhaize-owned Hannaford Bros and Sweetbay grocery store chains announced on Monday that a computer hacker stole its customers' debit and credit card numbers and expiration dates. About 4.2 million cards were affected, and 1,800 cases of fraud have been linked to the breach so far, including use of the card data in Houston, Detroit, San Francisco, France, and Brazil. (Reuters). Recent Security Breaches Involving Other Merchants - This is the latest of numerous security lapses in the last few years involving exposure of private consumer information, including several lapses by retailers or consumer goods companies. On March 3, 2008, for example, Kraft reported the theft of a company laptop containing 20,000 names and possibly social security numbers of employees. On

The Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain said Monday that a breach of its computer systems may have given criminals access to more than four million credit and debit cards issued by nearly 70 banks nationwide. While the banks appear all but ready to blame Hannaford for failing to follow payment card industry standards on security, [...]

A laptop computer carrying the information of 3,500 teachers in California has been recovered.  It was stolen about a month ago from a printer that specialized in printing customized benefit statements for district employees.  The stolen computer was not encrypted nor was there any other type of data security measure in place.  As I recall, not even the common “password protected” statement was not included when the issue was reported.  Well, it turns out that those involved had been hiding a key detail.  There was something installed on that laptop as a contingency to theft.  It doesn’t ensure data security, however.  What was installed on that laptop was tracking software: once the stolen laptop comes on‑line, the location of the machine can be

MTV Networks, owned by Viacom, experienced a data breach this Friday, and five thousand of its employees may have fallen victim to the socially‑engineered attack.  While MTV is trying to find out what exactly happened, the information so far indicates that an outsider successfully convinced an MTV employee to download a Trojan to be installed in a company computer.   Once installed, the hacker was able to access the computer and gain entry to employee data stored on that machine, including SSNs, birth dates, salaries, and names.  Based on the articles covering this story, it seems the employee data was secured with a password, although there is no mention of encryption at all, so one can assume none was employed.  In instances like this, it matters what kind of encry

Let’s say you’ve got a laptop.  Because you’ve got the correct data retention policies in place, and you follow them to a “T,” you ensure that there is no significant data stored on the computer.  That is, no sensitive or personal information like SSNs and other forms of ID are stored.  Plus, you ensure that any temporary files are erased.  Let’s also say you use an application that does multiple writes over unused hard drive space, nearly eliminating any possible data breaches from advanced data extraction techniques.  And, of course, you also ensure that sectors are written over multiple times whenever a file is deleted. (It’d be weird to find someone do the former without doing the latter.)  In other words, if someone is not working on that

A couple of weeks back I picked up on an article that had the Brazilian government mobilizing its intelligence and police forces to recover stolen laptops and hard drives.  The devices stored data on recently discovered oil and gas fields found off the coast of Brazil.  The loss of data led to much speculation on who could have done it and why, including whether it was a case of industrial espionage.  I pointed out at the time that I couldn’t see how spies would make use of any stolen data: oil fields hundreds of feet beneath the sea surface are not something you can steal.  (On further thought, perhaps the data will be useful if the rights to pump parts of the field are auctioned off or something.  I mean, who wants the risk of pumping the wrong part of the fie

According to this Reuters report (via LGF and Power Line), Hamas may be plotting to pull a gimmick to breach the fence that keeps them in Gaza, and it's quite possible that they'll be using women and children as human shields against Israeli forces.

Storming into his lawyer’s office, a Texas oil magnate demanded that divorce proceedings begin at once against his young bride.“What’s the problem?” asked the lawyer.“I want to hit that adulterin’ bitch for breach of contract,” snapped the oil man.“I don’t know if that will fly,” said the lawyer. “I mean your wife isn’t a piece of property, you don’t own her!”“Damn right,” the tycoon rejoined, “but I sure as hell expect exclusive drillin’ rights!”

The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that a personal computer and a memory card belonging to a test writer were stolen.  The test writer in this case was writing for the National Center for University Entrance Examinations, which is in charge of creating the college entrance exam that is given once a year in Japan.  The next upcoming one is given on January 19 and 20.   According to the article, over 400 teachers and professors at national, public, and private universities spent two years formulating the questions.  And while the test writer wasn't storing the actual questions in the stolen goods (these are to be secured in a vault), he was carrying enough material used to create the questions to create problems—i.e., anyone who gets to see the contents of the laptop and memory card would be able to seriously narrow the field on what to study.  That helps a lot when twenty‑eight subjects are covered in the exams.  The national exams are more akin to AP exams

Starring:Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Kathleen Quinlan, Dennis Haysbert, Gary Cole, Caroline DhavernasDirector:Billy Ray (Shattered Glass)MPAA Rating:PG-13 for violence, sexual content and language.Release Date:February 2007Synopsis:Soon after landing a plum job working for FBI operative Robert Hanssen, Eric O'Neill realizes he's been brought in to spy on his boss, who's suspected of selling secrets to the Soviets. But can O'Neill handle such an important assignment with so little field experience, or will Hanssen get to him first? Based on the true story of the worst security breach in U.S. history.My Two Cents:This is a spy movie, but if you're expecting James Bond-type of action and adventure, you will be greatly disappointed. Breach deals with real life people who put their lives on the line for their country.Junior FBI employee Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) is working hard to go from lame surveillance assignments to full-blown special agent assignments. Alth

A very important update for everyone! It appears that earlier today a third party gained access to our mywebpayment.com billing system. Upon determining that there might be a security breach we immediately terminated the access to everyone by disabling the billing website. At this time we’re still uncertain as to the total scope of the data they accessed. We are going to be as transparent as possible about what happened, what our plans are to correct it, and also how we plan to make sure that this never happens again. To start with it appears that the breach was made through some malware/spyware installed on an employee’s office computer. His username and password for the billing system were stored in a document unencrypted on his computer. This information was used to access parts of our billing system that, in retrospect, should have been protected better. There are many tools that we can use to limit the access to sensitive information, unfortunately the measures we had

A very important update for everyone! It appears that earlier today a third party gained access to our mywebpayment.com billing system. Upon determining that there might be a security breach we immediately terminated the access to everyone by disabling the billing website. At this time we’re still uncertain as to the total scope of the [...]

From Oregon Wild:According to an old fable, heaven and hell are nearly the same.  Both have spirits gathered before a never-ending banquet, the most delicious food imaginable.  Both feast tables are set with utensils slightly too long for banqueters to feed themselves.  The difference:  The souls in heaven discover their utensils are just long enough to feed their neighbors, and the spirits feast in eternal, merry community.  Meanwhile the souls in hell struggle in vain to feed only themselves, never realizing heaven is just across the table.That seems to be an ongoing theme of the more successful conservation projects in the U.S.  Yet even the successful are reported into a simplified oblivion. Last week, a series of videos flooded the news outlets.  On October 30th, more than 100 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil were strategically detonated along four sections of a Klamath Basin levee system.  The explosions were the culmination of a two-

MALACCA: A former state agency official who was awarded a datukship on Monday by Malacca was convicted of criminal breach of trust in 1995.Former international manager of Malacca International Trade Centre, Hasnoor Sdg Husin, was found guilty and convicted of criminal breach of trust and was sentenced to nine months’ jail by a Sessions Court here on April 28, 1995, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said.He appealed and the High Court in Malacca set aside the sentence and replaced it with one day's jail and a RM1,500 fine or six months' jail, Lim said during a press conference here yesterday.Hasnoor did not appeal against the conviction and paid the fine.When contacted, Hasnoor said he had nothing to comment except that the award was given by the state.He received the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka (DMSM) on Monday in conjunction with the 69th birthday celebrations of Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob.Lim said he received many letters from the people who expressed unhappiness t

The largest digital data theft ever recorded was bigger than originally thought. TJX, the Massachusetts retail giant that earlier this year disclosed that a series of network and computer intrusions had compromised more than 45 million credit- and debit-card numbers, may have lost more than twice that number, according to reports. A group [...]

Charts of the Week by Invest Tech - 10/16/07 snip:Existing home sales in August remained weak and continued to decline for the sixth month in a row. Now sitting at levels not seen since the fall of 2002, downward pressures continue to mount as bank lending standards are tight and affordability for first-time buyers is problematic. (chart -->)More ugly housing numbers expectedby MarketWatch - 10/21/07 snips:... The tightening of credit conditions meant that mortgages were either unavailable or much more expensive for many (but not all) buyers. "We are expecting big drops in the housing sales numbers over the next two to three months," said Brian Bethune and Nigel Gault, economists for Global Insight, in their weekly outlook. The National Association of Realtors will report on existing-home sales for September on Wednesday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch look for another 4.5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.25 million, which would be the lowest sales pace since the recess

Sinopse: Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) é um jovem agente em treinamento, que foi designado para trabalhar em conjunto com Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) em uma nova divisão do FBI, criada para proteger informações confidenciais. Entretanto O'Neill logo sabe da real intenção de sua promoção: investigar Hanssen, que é acusado de estar vendendo informações à União Soviética. Para realizar sua missão

I'm had just been updating the original post, but now that it looks like a settlement is going to be reached, I think that warrants another post.Click (here) for my original post on the TJX security breach and my recommendation to use FreeCreditReport.com (at least for the 30 day free trial) to monitor your credit report.Originally TJX had proposed giving $30 TJX vouchers to the customers that had been affected by the hack. The judge in charge (mad props to him for standing up for the little guy) told them that it wasn't enough and now TJX has come back with a proposal for $30 vouchers along with $15 checks.Click (here) to read yesterday's article about how the judge is now leaning towards approving this new proposal.And just to reiterate, the gravity of the situation. I'm mentioning again the real world situation that happened recently:I just read another article last week about stolen credit card numbers and it said that in cases like this, the numbers are never used right away

With Apec just down the road kinda this week .. a peekRussia and Australia ink uranium dealNEWS.com.au, Australia - 18 minutes agoPRIME Minister John Howard and President Vladimir Putin have signed a deal for Australia to sell uranium to Russia. The two leaders signed the deal after ...[ ]Bush bloopers Apec Opec Australia Austria news story hereLucky it was us and not Al Qaeda, says Chaser read moreA fake motorcade carrying cast members from an Australian television show, including one dressed as Osama Bin Laden, nearly reached President Bush's hotel at APEC. The motorcade was stopped after clearing two security checkpoints. ...Yesterday Chaser team make mockery of APEC security ,Top security????????Waved through wearing an insecurity pass and dressed like Osama bin ladenfake security passhttp://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,5025515-5007150,00.html $140 million dollar security price tag for the City of Sydney Yet......

We stand on opposite sides of a chasm. I try to care if you fall. I do not care. Fall. If you reach out to me, I will not catch you. I will not reach back. I will simply wait…watch…take a snapshot of your face as you fail. People will call me mean, sadistic. They do not know you. They do not know me. They have never watched you across the chasm. They have never felt the depth and the breadth of your deceit. Soul-devouring mistakes that erode all but you. I do not wish your downfall. I do not wish you success. I wish you nothing. I wish to wait…watch…witness. Will your last meal be what you want or what you deserve?

One of the complaints I hear about the military, and usually by those with no military experience, is that the soldier’s freedom of speech is restricted. Not surprisingly, those with the least real concern for the soldier, and whose real agenda is to criticize the military, usually level this charge. Being a soldier is not the same as being a dentist or insurance salesperson or a mechanic. When you take the oath to support and defend your country you give up some rights. This is made very clear to you ahead of time. When I took the oath, my eyes were wide open and I knew exactly what I was getting into. And interestingly enough when it comes to complaints from the soldiers themselves of being censored it is almost universally self proclaimed liberals making the charge. To me this would seem to indicate one of two things 1) They do not take what they have been told seriously or 2) they do not think the rules apply to them. Sadly enough, both are common occurrences with the left. The re

Breach is directed by Billy Ray, who’s also written Suspect Zero, Flightplan and Hart’s War. It’s his second time in the director’s chair, after Shattered Glass, based on the true story of a young writer who fabricated over half his articles for a reputable publication. His second film was also inspired by a true story [...]

By Leslie Halpern Lesson to employers: Be careful to whom you assign the offices with windows – and without. Based on the true story of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who sold government secrets to the Russians for 22 years in the worst case of treason in modern American history, “Breach” delivers on its promise of suspense and thrills. We follow the final two nail-biting months before Hanssen’s arrest as a young FBI trainee spies on him.Chris Cooper convincingly portrays Hanssen as a cold-hearted, homophobic traitor with a penchant for pornography. Devoted (at least outwardly) to his wife, family, and religion, he clandestinely sells secrets to the Russians in order to get even with his bosses and co-workers who fail to appreciate his hard work and impressive abilities. While gun-toting spies with the FBI get all the glory, the intelligence side of the agency toils away in near obscurity. Selling U.S. secrets – and thus compromising the lives of KGB double-agents – provides Han

By Leslie Halpern Lesson to employers: Be careful to whom you assign the offices with windows – and without. Based on the true story of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who sold government secrets to the Russians for 22 years in the worst case of treason in modern American history, “Breach” delivers on its promise of suspense and thrills. We follow the final two nail-biting months before Hanssen’s arrest as a young FBI trainee spies on him.Chris Cooper convincingly portrays Hanssen as a cold-hearted, homophobic traitor with a penchant for pornography. Devoted (at least outwardly) to his wife, family, and religion, he clandestinely sells secrets to the Russians in order to get even with his bosses and co-workers who fail to appreciate his hard work and impressive abilities. While gun-toting spies with the FBI get all the glory, the intelligence side of the agency toils away in near obscurity. Selling U.S. secrets – and thus compromising the lives of KGB double-agents – provides Han

Breach (2007) Starring: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe Director: Billy Ray Genre: Drama/History PG13: for violence, sexual content and language My Rating: 3.5 /5 - A movie based on a real-life story about an FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and allegedly a sexual deviant (an ironic fate for such a conservative religious fanatic). I feel sorry for this man. Surprisingly intense

Ti­tulo original: BreachAño: 2007Pi­s: USAEstreno en España: 2007Estreno en USA: 16-02-2007Director: Billy RayReparto: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Kathleen Quinlan, Gary Cole, Caroline Dhavernas, Bruce Davison, Mary Jo Deschanel, Gary ColeGuion: Adam Mazer, William Rotko, Billy RayProductora: Universal PicturesGenero: ThrillerCalidad: DVDripIdioma: V.O.S.Sinopsis: Se centra en el mes anterior a la captura por parte del ejercito soviático de Robert Hanssen, un agente del FBI que espió a los rusos durante más de 22 añosos. La causa de su captura pareció deberse a la controvertida decisión que tomó el mando federal al colocar a Eric O'Neil, un inexperto joven de 26 años que ni tan siquiera era un agente, como ayudante de Hanssen.Trailer:Descarga en DvdRipCapturas: parte1 parte2 parte3 parte4 parte5 parte6 parte7 parte8mirror parte1 parte2 parte3 parte4 parte5 parte6 parte7 parte8Subtítulos: subtitulosEstrenos de hoy: pelicul