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Heartland data breach could be the largest in US history

Details are emerging on what could well become that largest data breach in US History.
Heartland, a company that processes payments for more than 250,000 businesses, is saying today that up to one million customers may have had their credit information stolen, a number easily eclipsing the 47 million customers potentially at risk of credit fraud [...]

January 20, 2009  Tags: bank processing, banking, carders, cybercrime, data breach, Defense in Depth, forensics, hackers, Heartland, identity fraud, identity theft, MasterCard, Robert Vamosi  Posted in: Defense in Depth, Heartland, MasterCard, Robert Baldwin, Robert Vamosi, TJX, US Secret Service, Visa, carders, cybercrmie, data breach, forensics, hackers, identity theft, indentity fraud  Comments Closed

HBGary announces FastDump Pro for physical memory investigations

HBGary, a computer security firm in Scramento, California, today announced FastDump Pro, the first memory acquisition software to offer 32- and 64-bit support for all supported versions of Windows with more than 4 gigabytes of RAM. FastDump Pro allows organizations and investigators to preserve and analyze physical memory snapshots of 32- and 64-bit editions [...]

January 13, 2009   Posted in: Greg Hoglund, HBGary, Robert Vamosi, cybercrime, forensics, investigations, physical memory, security  No Comments

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  When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of our Infatuation with New Technologies.

  Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details these gadgets might reveal about us.

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