Fraud police buckling under mountains of data; TJX offer no good for 99% of breach sufferers

Security News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by StillSecure Having Trouble Deploying NAC? NAC authority Alan Shimel, CSO at StillSecure, says: "The industry has been crying out for something to ease the pain of implementing NAC." Now with Safe Access Lite, you can download NAC for free to test your endpoints' security posture and policy compliance without disrupting your network. To find out more, click here! Network World's Security News Alert, 09/27/07 Fraud police buckling under mountains of data, 09/26/07: Fraud investigators are struggling to cope with vast quantities of data sent to them by financial institutions, meaning some crimes may go uninvestigated or even unnoticed, experts said on Wednesday. TJX credit-monitoring offer no good for 99% of breach sufferers, 09/26/07: TJX customers who lost a whopping 45.2 million credit or debit card numbers will not be offered credit monitoring in the tentative settlement TJX drafted in hopes of smoothing over its data breach controversy. eBay denies security breach led to posting of user data, 09/26/07: When the names and personal information of 1,200 eBay users, along with credit card numbers, suddenly appeared yesterday on eBay’s Trust & Safety Discussion Board where public comment is shared, eBay responded by immediately shutting down the discussion board. Straight Talk from Security Experts Leading security experts share their advice, secrets and real-world experiences in Network World's latest Executive Guide, "The Security Treadmill." Learn how to get inside users' heads, fight for a bigger security budget and much more. Click here to download this Executive Guide. Researchers say AIM vulnerable to worm attack, 09/26/07: A critical flaw in the way that the AOL's instant messaging client displays Web-based graphics could be exploited by criminals to create a self-copying worm attack, security researchers are warning. Trend Micro anti-malware update targets online transactions, 09/26/07: Trend Micro today announced updated consumer desktop anti-malware packages, and released a new product, Internet Security Pro, intended to protect customers engaged in online transactions. Canadian probe finds TJX breach followed wireless hack, 09/25/07: After months of speculation about how exactly the intrusion at TJX Companies happened, officials now know what happened. iPhone hacks void warranty, Apple says, 09/25/07: Less than a week after CEO Steve Jobs said that Apple would fight hacks that unlocked the iPhone, the company said any modification, unlocks included, voids the phone's warranty. iPhone unlock hackers promise to fight Apple updates, 09/25/07: The programmers who wrote free software that unlocks Apple's iPhone Tuesday disputed the company's claim that their hacks can damage the device, and they promised to battle any attempt by Apple to "brick" modified phones. Blue Lane updates virtual machine protection, 09/26/07: Blue Lane Technologies next week plans to release an updated version of its VirtualShield software product, which provides monitoring, protection and patch-update assistance for VMware’s clustered ESX virtual-machine platform. Security experts pitch 'culture of data', 09/26/07: The companies that are having the most success in advancing their data security efforts today are those that are finding a way to protect sensitive information without getting in the way of business users, industry experts maintain. Chat with Amazon.com’s CTO live: If ever there were a man that knew how to eek out capacity and secure a data center, it would be Werner Vogels, vice president & CTO of Amazon.com. Join him for a live chat on Monday Oct. 1 from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EDT. No registration is required, but those who RSVP “yes” to community editor Julie Bort in advance will be eligible for a Network World T-shirt.

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