This didn't take long!
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=2008010523553669
Class Action Suit Alleges Sears Privacy Failures
Saturday, January 05 2008 @ 11:55 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
Class-action lawyers are circling around retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co., just days after privacy activists revealed that the company's Web site exposed the details of customer purchases going back more than a decade.
In a complaint filed Friday in Cook County, Illinois -- where Sears is headquartered -- the plaintiffs allege that the lack of privacy protections at Sears's managemyhome.com site violated its own privacy promises to consumers, and in so doing ran afoul of the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act, which prohibits "unfair and deceptive practices."
Source - Security Fix
Related - Complaint [pdf]
The device was encrypted, Good! The device was not locked up, Bad.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080105085127516
Identity info stolen from NMSU, but personnel data on laptop hard drive is inaccessible, university says
Saturday, January 05 2008 @ 08:51 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
LAS CRUCES — A computer hard drive containing the names and Social Security numbers of current and former NMSU employees is missing from the Pan American Center, just the latest in a series of thefts from the facility since November 2006, according to police reports.
... The external hard drive was stolen sometime between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2 from an office at the NMSU Special Events Department, housed at the Pan Am. It contained the names and Social Security numbers of every employee hired by the department since 1999, according to a university police report. The hard drive was used as a backup to an employee's computer.
Source - Las Cruces Sun-News
[From the article:
A former acting director of special events at the Pan Am called campus police on Aug. 3 about a series of thefts that began in the fall of 2006. [Not very timely... Bob] The incidents included two thefts of cash totaling $5,000, plasma televisions, watches, 200 feet of electrical cable, a floor buffer and a digital camera. [Must be a great neighborhood. Bob]
Tools & Techniques for Hackers: Don't you love those Flight Simulator games?
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/01/dreamliner_security
FAA: Boeing's New 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack
By Kim Zetter Email 01.04.08 | 7:30 PM
... The computer network in the Dreamliner's passenger compartment, designed to give passengers in-flight internet access, is connected to the plane's control, navigation and communication systems, an FAA report reveals.
Related
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/017051.html
January 06, 2008
FAA Issues Special New Security Regs for Boeing Model 787-8
How rude...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080105084547272
EU Commission insists on enforcing data retention
Saturday, January 05 2008 @ 08:45 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Non-U.S. News
The EU commission has officially put 19 member states on notice for failing to pass national laws implementing controversial EU regulations governing retention of telephone and Internet data. According to the dpa, the commission announced today that only eight of the 27 EU countries had passed such laws and reported back to Brussels.
Source - Heise Online
How employees burn corporate resources. (And we should probably take advantage of it.)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/06/0356213&from=rss
'Video Snacking' New Frontier For Media Creators
Posted by Zonk on Saturday January 05, @10:56PM from the digital-doritos dept.
News.com has up a piece from the NYT about the concept of 'video snacking', a new focus for media companies as they gain a certain savvy about the internet. They're increasingly targeting the 'lunch market' for office workers, creating short to-the-point videos that can be consumed over a sandwich. "The midday spike in Web traffic is not a new phenomenon, but media companies have started responding in a meaningful way over the last year. They are creating new shows, timing the posts to coincide with hunger pangs. And they are rejiggering the way they sell advertising online, recognizing that noontime programs can command a premium. In 2007, a growing number of local television stations, including WNCN in Raleigh, N.C., and WCMH in Columbus, Ohio, began producing noon programming exclusively for the Web."
Me to neighbor's kid: “Hey Ralphy! How would you like to trade in that drum set you got for Christmas for a really cool guitar! ...and $50 bucks?”
http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/Video-tabscom---The-new-way-to-learn-guitar/
Video-tabs.com - The new way to learn guitar
Video-tabs.com is a site that aggregates videos from different sites (mainly YouTube) that teach how to play guitar of all types, styles and level of ability. The site includes a comprehensive database of tabs (music sheets) which are easy to print out and read in order to play the music you are learning. The site can be browsed in different ways: Skills Lessons, Video Song Lessons, Cool Guitar Videos and Chord Lessons. Also, take a look at the most popular videos to check out where other users have been learning their stuff from. The site also permits RSS feeds subscription.
Very cool.
http://digg.com/gadgets/DVD_Laser_Labeling_System_2
DVD Laser Labeling System watch!
metacafe.com — Now you can use this New and Great Technology to burn cool tittles and pictures on the label side of your DVD disks.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/911046/dvd_laser_labeling_system/
Just a shameless plug for Colorado Tech...
FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, January 12, 2007
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, both campuses
Hosted in conjunction with the Lakewood Police Department and Aurora Police Department to promote the new Forensic Investigation concentration degree!
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