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Security vendor settles charges after getting hacked
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:19:36 -0500 (EST)
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/111606-security-vendor-settles-charges-after.html Guidance Software Inc., vendor of computer forensics and security products, has settled a complaint filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which accused it of failing to take reasonable security measures to protect sensitive computer data. Guidance's lax security efforts, which allowed hackers to access sensitive credit-card information for thousands of customers, contradicted promises made on its Web site and violated U.S. law, the FTC said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 141 million compromised records in 469 incidents over 6 years.
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