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Breach in Texas
The University of Texas suffered its second major data breach in three years when more than 197,000 personal records were exposed at the McCombs School of Business.
The breach compromised the Social Security numbers and other biographical information of alumni, faculty, staff and students of the business school.
Not much is known about the source of the breach, though UT officials said they are working on an investigation. In the meantime, the university set up a website and toll-free numbers to direct those potentially affected to protect their identities.
Jun 5 2006 10:41PM
Security
Company news
Lumeta, a provider of network intelligence solutions, has promoted David Arbeitel to CTO and senior vice president of product strategy. He previously served as senior vice president of strategic development. Arbeitel’s new role comes as Lumeta is expanding its overall technology focus to help businesses with compliance, IT optimization and security risk management.
Jun 5 2006 10:04PM
Security
Advance commerce through innovation
Smart cards make perpetrating fraud considerably more difficult than "traditional" magstripe cards. In regions where offline processing is the dominant method for processing transactions this especially is true. As a result — and even though we have driven payment card fraud to an all-time low — our industry is now seriously exploring how smart card technology can become the primary driver in the evolution of payment card security.
Jun 5 2006 9:03PM
Security
