Posts for the incidents Category

21.1.09the Zune failure and Microsoft

33.29.08Going public with website vulnerabilities that expose credit card numbers

32.8.08Fraudulent Microsoft Update

01.16.08New severe home/small business router vulnerability requires attention

012.18.07Prediction about consumer online confidence comes true, a little late

010.27.07TJX breach twice the size of earlier estimates

28.20.07Skype restored, but executives still in hiding

28.19.07Skype: not one disaster, but two

17.19.07FBI implanted spyware leads to arrest of bomb threat suspect

06.17.07It was the employer’s policy to have data kept in employees homes for “safe keeping”

06.1.07Breach of the week: Baghdad embassy plans posted on the Internet

05.5.07TSA loses hard drive containing data on 100,000 employees

05.4.07TJX intrusion was a WEP (WiFi) hack

45.3.07For an interesting account of the TJX breach, read their 10-K

02.8.07DNS attack was a shot across the bow

02.7.07Was the Internet slow yesterday? Here is why

02.4.07A chronology of data breaches

01.26.07Another zero-day attack, ho hum

01.26.07Latest Breach May Force a New Approach to Data Security

01.18.07Possibly the largest credit card breach yet