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Computerworld Security
December 18, 2009
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In this issue:
1. Drone incident serves up data encryption lesson
2. Insurgents intercept video feeds from U.S. drones using $26 software, report says
3. Hackers take Twitter offline for a while
4. IT Blogwatch: Twitter hacked by Iranians? No! Here's the background…
5. Heartland pays Amex $3.6M over 2008 data breach
6. Facebook Target of FTC Privacy Complaint
7. Is Backing Up Online Safe?
8. The 2009 data breach hall of shame
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Drone incident serves up data encryption lesson
The disclosure that Iraqi insurgents were able to intercept live video feeds
from U.S. drones has focused the spotlight on a familiar IT security issue: data
encryption.
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Insurgents intercept video feeds from U.S. drones using $26 software, report says
Militants in Iraq and Afghanistan have intercepted live video feeds from
unmanned U.S. Predator drones using $26 off the shelf software made by a Russian
company, says a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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Hackers take Twitter offline for a while
Microblogging site Twitter went offline for a while Friday after hackers calling
themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change DNS records,
redirecting traffic to another Web page.
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IT Blogwatch: Twitter hacked by Iranians? No! Here's the background…
The overnight wires are humming, telling tall tales of Twitter being hacked by
the "Iranian Cyber Army". But all is not as it seems. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers
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Heartland pays Amex $3.6M over 2008 data breach
Heartland Payment Systems will pay American Express $3.6 million to settle
charges relating to the 2008 hacking of its payment system network.
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Facebook Target of FTC Privacy Complaint
Ten privacy groups have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over
recent changes to Facebook's privacy policy.
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Is Backing Up Online Safe?
After reading When the Backup Drive Gets Full, LaTonya Powell asked whether
online backup services such as Mozy (which I recommended in that tip) are really
secure.
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The 2009 data breach hall of shame
If there was anything even vaguely comforting about the data breaches that were
announced this year it was the fact that many of them stemmed from familiar and
downright mundane security failures.
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