N.Y. county mandates wireless security
WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- New York"s Westchester County has enacted a law designed to limit identity theft by forcing local businesses to install basic security measures for any wireless network that stores customers" credit card numbers or other fina...
Revealing your identity...for an Easter egg
Research carried out this Easter outside Victoria Station in London has found that 81 percent of people were willing to part with all the personal information needed to steal their identity for the chance to win an Easter egg. The survey by Infosecurity ...
Computer records on 197,000 people breached at UT
Electronic records of nearly 200,000 people, from students to corporate recruiters, have been accessed illegally at the University of Texas" McCombs School of Business, the university announced Sunday. UT President William Powers Jr., speaking at a hastil...
Major banking sites insecure, researcher warns
Online bank customers may want to pay a little more attention to their browsers the next time they log in, because many of the most popular banking sites in the U.S. may be needlessly placing their customers at risk to online thieves, a noted security rese...
New Irish passports to include face biometric data
20.04.2006 - The Government is set to complete a project to begin including biometric information in all passports by October. The project is expected to cost €8.8m this year. The new biometric passport incorporates several security features. A s...
DHS, HHS make secret pact to share airline passenger info
The departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security have a secret agreement to exchange airline passenger information as part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plan to help combat pandemic flu, the Air Transport Association (AT...
Man charged with accessing USC student data
Federal prosecutors charged a San Diego-based computer expert on Thursday with breaching the security of a database server at the University of Southern California last June and accessing confidential student data. A statement from the U.S. Attorney for t...