Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Brazil’s government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world’s biggest rain forest. The environment and communications ministers signed an agreement Thursday with the Forest People’s Network to provide an Internet signal by satellite to 150 communities, including many reachable only by riverboat, allowing them to report illegal logging and ranching, request help and coordinate efforts to preserve the forest.
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Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Remember last January when you learned that a huge company’s computer system had been breached and that your sensitive financial data and credit card information could have been stolen? We’re now learning just how big that hole really was. TJX, the firm that owns HomeSense and Winners in Canada, along with several big department store chains in the U.S., now admits that as many as 45.7 million credit and debit cards were snatched from its computers over an 18-month period. The massive theft affects people in Canada, the U.S. and even the United Kingdom.
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Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
The research of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is so well respected that our UK Cousins feature what the IC3 has to say in their press: Cyber-crime is alive and kicking in the USA, and playfully swimming through its riches like Scrooge McDuck in a money vault, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center annual report reveals today. The FBI’s Internet Complaint Center has issued its 2006 Report in PDF at www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2006_IC3Report.pdf
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Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
A hacker or hackers stole data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of shoppers at off-price retailers including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls in a case believed to be the largest such breach of consumer information. For the first time since disclosing the theft more than two months ago, the parent company of nearly 2,500 discount stores put a number on how much card data was compromised _ and it’s a number TJX Cos. acknowledges could go still higher.
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Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
The Head of Corporate Audit and Compliance at the United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), Mr. David Isiavwe, has stressed the need for organisations operating in Nigeria to raise their antennae for cyber-terrorism and other forms of internet attacks as a means of protecting employees, core networks and back-end bfacilities.
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