[ISN] Linux Advisory Watch - June 16th 2006

2006-06-19 Thread InfoSec News
+-+ | LinuxSecurity.com Weekly Newsletter| | June 16th, 2006Volume 7, Number 25n| | | |

[ISN] Laptop with City Employees' Info Stolen

2006-06-19 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0606/337194.html June 18, 2006 Washington (AP) - Information on 13,000 D.C. government workers and retirees has been stolen, along with the laptop computer where it was stored. Officials with ING Financial Services say the Social Security numbers and other

[ISN] Encryption can save data in laptop lapses

2006-06-19 Thread InfoSec News
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_Laptops_Security.html By STEPHEN MANNING ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER June 17, 2006 ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Reports of data theft often conjure up images of malicious hackers breaking into remote databases to filch Social Security numbers, credit card records

[ISN] Web used to lure terror suspects

2006-06-19 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: William Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid=1150494610771call_pageid=968332188492 By SANDRO CONTENTA EUROPEAN BUREAU June 17, 2006 LONDON - On a cold night last October, police stormed a West

[ISN] Suspected Chinese hacker attacks target AIT, MND

2006-06-19 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/06/19/2003314414 STAFF WRITER June 19, 2006 The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) and the Ministry of National Defense (MND) were both recently targeted by computer hackers believed to be based in China, Defense News reported last week. The