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After Sears, It’s J.C. Penny: User Data Compromised
The credit card operations of J.C. Penny are run by GE Money. Yesterday, GE Money came out with an announcement that it has misplaced a back up tape that contained the personal information of about 650,000 J.C. Penny shoppers. This includes about 150, 000 social security numbers.
The remarkable part of the incident is that it [...]
2008 And The New Phishing Sites
It is 2008 and information security experts from all over have unanimously predicted that phishing and other forms of social engineering will continue to be rampant… only this time, they will target the hugely popular social security sites.
Over the last couple of years, the popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut and Bebo has risen [...]