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TSA Screener Boards Plane Sans Ticket

A security screener at Kennedy International Airport trying to see his parents off on a trip boarded their plane without a ticket or a boarding pass Thursday and was arrested, authorities said.

Hacker Breaches Marketing Software Maker

A marketing software company serving nonprofits across the country including The American Red Cross said Tuesday that a hacker stole e-mail addresses and password information from its clients' databases.

Passenger Guilty in JFK Security Breach

A passenger who bypassed security after a smoke break at Kennedy International Airport, forcing an evacuation and flight delays, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal misdemeanor.

Data Theft Believed to Be Biggest Hack

A hacker or hackers stole data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of shoppers at off-price retailers including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls in a case believed to be the largest such breach of consumer information.

Alleged Drunk Man Breaks Into Airport

An intoxicated 28-year-old man apparently broke into a secure area near McCarran International Airport and stole a luggage cart tug car before being arrested early Tuesday.

University of Texas Probes Computer Breach

Nearly 200,000 electronic records at the University of Texas at Austin's business school have been illegally accessed, the school said Sunday.

Chicago Man Sentenced for Trespassing

A 22-year-old man was sentenced Monday to 18 months of court supervision for walking through a security gate and onto an airfield at Midway International Airport last month, prompting a brief shutdown of the airfield.

Man Charged With Hacking Into GM Database

A former security guard at General Motors Corp.'s Warren technical center is accused of taking employee Social Security numbers and using them to hack into the company's employee vehicle database.

The Vine

Sweden misplaces military secrets

Source: BBC News

Sweden's military is investigating a major security breach after a member of staff left a memory stick holding classified data on a public computer.

Record data breaches in 2007, groups say - Yahoo! News

Source: Yahoo! News

BOSTON - The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information.

Former Nevada State employee claims he was fired for revealing data breach

Source: http://fraudwar.blogspot.com

It never ceases to amaze me how a lack of information security translates into official statements that no one is aware of any identity theft that has occurred.

UK Government guilty of breaching Data Protection Act after blogger spills the beans

Source: DaniWeb

Bloggers 1 - UK Government 0 after the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was today found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act as a direct result of an investigation that simply would not have happened had not a blogger got hot under the collar about an online visa applicatio …

GP may be struck off for her 'think twice' plea to abortion patients

Source: This is London

A family doctor faces being struck off for daring to suggest to women seeking an abortion that they should think twice. Dr Tammie Downes says at least eight grateful mothers have children today which they would have terminated until she asked them to consider the consequences.

Larisa Alexandrovna: Spying on the spy: Interview : former FBI investigator Eric O'Neill

Source: Raw Story

Ask anyone in the intelligence community who was the most damaging spy in US history and the answer comes quickly: Robert Hanssen, a senior FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union – and, after the Cold War, for the Russians – on and off for a period of 15 years.

Hackers exploit unpatched flaw, disabled firewall to access personal info of 45,000 University of Colorado students

Source: SC Magazine

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.

Flaws in numerous McAfee products allow system compromise

Source: SC Magazine

Vulnerability monitoring organizations have reported a flaw in numerous McAfee products that can be exploited to compromise systems.

A Huge Hole in Airport Security

Source: The New York Times

While enormous effort is focused on screening airline passengers for explosives or weapons before they can board a commercial flight, it remains shockingly easy for airport employees to sneak into secure areas and carry dangerous materials onto a plane without detection.

Dream Home Nightmare!

You would think when you buy a new house that it would be more straightforward than buying a older build........ This is not the case! We moved into our new build house in July 2005 and have had nothing but problems .

Ryan Phillippe Talks 'Breach'

Source: -

In his new film "Breach," Ryan Phillippe plays Eric O'Neill -- an FBI up-and-comer promoted to work under respected longtime agent Robert Hanssen.

Teens spark police chase across U.S. anti-terror base - Sep 20, 2006

Source: CNN

MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Two teenagers Wednesday drove a stolen car onto the U.S. military base that commands much of the war on terror, triggering an investigation into the security breach, police and military officials said.

Security Breach at California Airport

Source: CBS 11

A woman made it through the security checkpoint without being screened. The result was an alarm and all people in the terminals and the airplanes being put through a second screening.

Catawba County schools sue Google over breach

Source: The Winston-Salem Journal

"School system officials say Google broke through the password and username protected server the information was stored in and took a photo of the page, which it posted to the Internet." -- ummmmmmm....

USDA says hacker may have stolen employees' data

Source: Yahoo! News

I doubt the criminals would have done anything bad with the info in the 3 weeks it took the Ag Department to let its employees know.

The politics of data security

Source: CNET

Declan McCullagh interviews Ed Mierzwinski, the consumer program director for the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups (US PIRG) regarding the possibility of a federal data breach notification law.