Recent articles by Dan Kaplan

TJX faces five more breach-related state lawsuits

TJX faces five more breach-related state lawsuits

Five additional states have filed lawsuits against TJX over the massive data breach that exposed some 45.7 million credit card numbers to hackers, the retailer reported on Thursday in a federal regulatory filing.
Dan Kaplan Jun 12 2007 10:20AM Security
Microsoft to release six Patch Tuesday fixes

Microsoft to release six Patch Tuesday fixes

Microsoft said today it plans to release six security bulletins Tuesday as part of its June patch release.
Dan Kaplan Jun 8 2007 9:50AM Security
Folly in Connecticut

Folly in Connecticut

Dan Kaplan Jun 7 2007 10:53AM Security
When private is the new public

When private is the new public

Dan Kaplan Jun 7 2007 10:49AM Security
IBM keeps mind on security with Watchfire buy

IBM keeps mind on security with Watchfire buy

Filling a gap in its growing security portfolio, software giant IBM today announced plans to acquire leading application security vendor Watchfire for an undisclosed amount.
Dan Kaplan Jun 7 2007 9:52AM Security
Privacy advocates concerned with iTunes' DRM-free music

Privacy advocates concerned with iTunes' DRM-free music

Even though Apple's iTunes tracks are now free of digital rights management (DRM) software, privacy advocates are voicing concern over personal information attached to the music files.
Dan Kaplan Jun 6 2007 9:36AM Security
EMC acquires Verid

EMC acquires Verid

EMC today strengthened its already strong grip on the identity market with the acquisition of knowledge-based authentication provider Verid.
Dan Kaplan Jun 5 2007 9:36AM Security
ChoicePoint settles with 44 states over 2005 breach

ChoicePoint settles with 44 states over 2005 breach

ChoicePoint, the data broker hit with the largest fine in Federal Trade Commission (FTC) history, has now settled with 44 states over a 2005 breach that compromised the personal information of 163,000 people.
Dan Kaplan Jun 4 2007 10:37AM Security
Who will fill the void left by indicted Seattle spam king?

Who will fill the void left by indicted Seattle spam king?

One of the world's most reputed spammers, who used his botnet army to deliver up to billions of junk emails each day, was indicted Wednesday in a US District Court in Seattle.
Dan Kaplan Jun 1 2007 10:05AM Security
Student details flaw in Firefox add-ons

Student details flaw in Firefox add-ons

As users await the latest Mozilla Firefox patches, expected to be released today, absent will likely be a fix for a new remote vulnerability in browser extensions reported by a University of Indiana graduate student.
Dan Kaplan May 30 2007 5:35PM Security
Google makes GreenBorder its first security acquisition

Google makes GreenBorder its first security acquisition

Acquisition-happy Google has made its first security purchase by quietly snaring start-up GreenBorder Technologies, a provider of virtualised web browsing anti-malware software, for an undisclosed amount.
Dan Kaplan May 30 2007 10:34AM Security
Wal-Mart, Bank of America, Microsoft to be represented on PCI standards council

Wal-Mart, Bank of America, Microsoft to be represented on PCI standards council

Bank of America, Microsoft and Wal-Mart Stores are three of 14 organisations that will make up the newly formed PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) Board of Advisors.
Dan Kaplan May 28 2007 9:49AM Security
US feds to cut use of Social Security numbers

US feds to cut use of Social Security numbers

Amid an avalanche of federal data breaches, agencies have been ordered to eliminate the unnecessary collection of personal information, including Social Security numbers.
Dan Kaplan May 25 2007 9:57AM Security
Hackers access personal info of 45,000 University of Colorado students

Hackers access personal info of 45,000 University of Colorado students

A disabled firewall and an unapplied patch allowed hackers to infiltrate a server at the University of Colorado, Boulder, exposing the personal information of nearly 45,000 students, the university said Tuesday.
Dan Kaplan May 24 2007 12:46PM Security
Cisco acquires video surveillance provider BroadWare

Cisco acquires video surveillance provider BroadWare

Cisco Systems lent considerable validation to the convergence front when the networking giant announced plans late Monday to acquire IP-based video surveillance provider BroadWare.
Dan Kaplan May 23 2007 10:06AM Security
Sensitive information of 140,000 new parents compromised

Sensitive information of 140,000 new parents compromised

Forms containing the sensitive information of about 140,000 parents of newborns in the US are at risk for compromise after they were not shredded upon disposal, the Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR) has told parents in a letter.
Dan Kaplan May 22 2007 10:48AM Security
Microsoft to boost Patch Tuesday details

Microsoft to boost Patch Tuesday details

A new initiative from Microsoft will take some of the sting out of its Patch Tuesday security updates by offering additional information about the patches five days prior to their release.
Dan Kaplan May 21 2007 3:58AM Security
Microsoft to offer more security details in advance

Microsoft to offer more security details in advance

A new initiative from Microsoft will take some of the sting out of its Patch Tuesday security updates by offering additional information about the patches five days prior to their release.
Dan Kaplan May 18 2007 10:18AM Security
Google and Yahoo beware; month of search engine bugs coming

Google and Yahoo beware; month of search engine bugs coming

A hacker using the alias "Mustlive" announced this week that June will feature the next month-long vulnerability disclosure project, this one dedicated to search engine bugs.
Dan Kaplan May 18 2007 10:04AM Security
IBM loses tapes with employee personal info

IBM loses tapes with employee personal info

IBM, which invented magnetic tape storage more than 50 years ago and has since emerged as a leading provider of data encryption, has lost an undisclosed number of backup tapes containing the personal information of employees.
Dan Kaplan May 17 2007 9:53AM Security

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