Always good for a laugh...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071202171108825
Websites sell secret bank data and PINs
Sunday, December 02 2007 @ 05:11 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches
Security breaches that are allowing the financial details of tens of thousands of Britons to be sold on the internet are to be investigated by the country’s information watchdog.
Without paying a single penny, The Times downloaded banking information belonging to 32 people, including a High Court deputy judge and a managing director. The private account numbers, PINs and security codes were offered as tasters by illegal hacking sites in the hope that purchases would follow.
... The Times found:
More than 100 websites trafficking British bank details
A fraudster offering to sell 30,000 British credit card numbers for less than £1 each
A British “e-passport” for sale, although the Government insists that they are unhackable.
Source - TimesOnline
...because Osama might be using IRC?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/02/1515247&from=rss
Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 02, @12:30PM from the that-eliza-can't-keep-her-mouth-shut dept. Privacy
jessekeys writes "Two days ago an article on TechCrunch about IRSeeK revealed to the community that a service logs conversations of public IRC channels and put them into a public searchable database. What is especially shocking for the community is that the logging bots are very hard to identify. They have human-like nicks, connect via anonymous Tor nodes and authenticate as mIRC clients. IRSeeK never asked for permission and violates the privacy terms of networks and users. A lot of chatters were deeply disturbed finding themselves on the search engine in logs which could date back to 2005. As a result, Freenode, the largest FOSS IRC network in existence, immediately banned all tor connections while the community gathered and set up a public wiki page to share knowledge and news about IRSeeK. The demands are clear: remove all existing logs and stop covert operations in our channels and networks. Right now, the IRSeeK search is unavailable as there are talks talking place with Freenode Staff."
e-Discovery Not sure I'd trust this... Assumes complete knowledge of data to be discovered...
Autonomy to offer first remote legal hold application
Desktop Legal Hold finds documents relevant to a litigation whether or not they have been deleted
By Ephraim Schwartz December 03, 2007
On Monday, December 3, the first anniversary of changes to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP), Autonomy, an archiving and e-discovery company, announced Desktop Legal Hold, calling it an industry first.
The compliance and e-discovery application remotely enforces legal holds on documents stored on local, desktop, or laptop hard drives.
... Of the 105 cases heard this year that addressed e-discovery issues, in 24 percent of those cases, there was a sanction for some sort of bad act of document or data destruction, otherwise known as spoliation, according Kroll Ontrack, a computer forensics services company.
... The Autonomy software adds a small piece of code to a desktop or laptop that is administered from a central console. When a notification is sent to employees requesting a legal hold, the program searches laptops and desktops for all keyword and relevant concepts and words, and when it finds relevant data, it locks down the file in place. As soon as the user connects back to the network, the relevant data is uploaded.
Even if personal emails are deleted by the user, the program searches all empty spaces on a hard disk.
How to keep a child occupied for hours...
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