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If you think 2008 was a bad year for data breaches (and it was), don’t expect 2009 to be any better. In fact, 2009 is expected to be worse, and the end of failing security efforts is nowhere in sight, according to the 600 IT professionals interviewed by the Ponemon Institute.

The biggest risks the participants identified are: (more…)

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If you haven’t seen President-elect Barack Obama’s acceptance speech yet but are still interested, find it on the Internet from a reliable source. But whatever you do, don’t fall for the spam flooding inboxes everywhere. Click on the link for an Adobe Flash Player update, and what you’ll really get is malware carrying a Trojan horse that’s going to steal your data, according to an article that ran Friday on WashingtonPost.com.

Besides the message offering a chance to hear the acceptance speech, there are others with subject lines “election results winner” and “the new president’s cabinet?” and “fear of a black president.”

Clinking on the link sends the recipients to an official-looking site, where they’ll be asked to download “adobe_flash9.exe”. Don’t do it–that’s the Trojan horse. (more…)

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Express Scripts has gone public today with information that they were contacted early in October by extortionists who threatened to disclose personal and medical information on millions of the company’s customers if Express Scripts doesn’t meet their ransom demands.

The ransom request was sent by mail and accompanied by the names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and, in some cases, prescription details, of 75 of the firm’s 50 million customers.

George Paz, Express Scripts’ chief executive, said the company will not pay the ransom, but declined to say how much money the extortionists demanded. (more…)

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