The final thing you can do if your credit card data has been compromised is to cancel all your credit cards, and get new ones. The cost of this is typically borne by you (in nuisance) and by your credit card issuing bank, and is estimated at from $3.00 to $35.00 for a simple reissuance [...]

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By Mark Rasch, SecurityFocus
Comment How much does a security breach actually “cost,” and who pays for it? When the breach involves personal information, like credit card data, the answer is, a lot more than you may think. The problem is that the people who “pay” for the cost of the breach are rarely the ones [...]

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Summary
Cisco Security Agent (CSA) is a network security software agent that provides threat protection for server and desktop computing systems.
A malicious attacker may be able to send a crafted IP packet to a Windows workstation or server running CSA 4.5 which may cause the device to halt and/or reload.
Repeated exploitation will create a sustained DoS [...]

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By John Leyden
Hackers attacked a site promoting Firefox last weekend in order to commandeer it to send spam, the Mozilla Foundation said on Friday. The attack was limited to community marketing site SpreadFirefox.com. In a statement, the Mozilla Foundation said the unspecified security vulnerabilities were exploited to mount the attack.
SpreadFirefox.com was taken down after the [...]

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Know Who You’re Buying From
The second step is to make sure that the people you buy from are protecting your information. Question any request beyond what’s needed to complete the transaction.
Let’s face it, they really don’t need your social security number for most transactions, and you shouldn’t give it to them. And of course, [...]

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By Wayne Rash
E-commerce is buried beneath a blanket of fear. Online purchases, according to some observers, are down by nearly half; Internet banking by nearly a third.
Tales of lost credit information, worms in credit processing computers and missing tapes have made customers —and everyone else — nervous about revealing personal information over the Web. [...]

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