http://www.watchyourend.com Endpoint Security Blog - Sponsored by Centennial Software Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:10:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to research by the BBC, personal data about citizens has been lost or wrongly disclosed by 13 London councils in the last year. Twenty-three councils responded to a request made by the broadcaster under the Freedom of Information act. In one exaple, highly-sensitive information about children in ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/04/14/uk-councils-confess-to-lost-data/ The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a not-for-profit organization that helps victims of identity theft, claims that security breaches in the first three months of 2008 have more than doubled over the same period in 2007. Up to this week, the organization had already recorded 167 incidents that exposed 8,391,871 personal ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/04/09/2008-set-for-record-number-of-security-breaches/ The HSBC Bank is today facing the prospect of investigation after admitting that it has lost a computer disk containing details of 370,000 customers. The disk was last around a month ago after being sent via an external courier from the firm’s offices in Southampton to a third party. ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/04/07/hsbc-faces-investigation-over-lost-disk/ According to new research, around ten percent of all malware is designed to use portable storage media, such as removable USB drives, to attack and propagate. The research found that the most common type of malware on USB sticks was INF/Autorun, a generic identification for malware that tries to use ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/04/04/usb-malware-increases/ Security researchers have unveiled a hardware-based hacking tool which can take over a ‘locked’ Windows PC by connecting directly to the machine’s Firewire port. The tool, called Winlockpwn, bypasses Windows’s authentication system and lets an attacker take over a “locked” Windows machine without even stealing its password. With Winlockpwn, the attacker ... http://www.watchyourend.com/2008/03/07/firewire-hacking-tool-breaks-cover/