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Daily Report Monday, November 6, 2006
Daily HighlightsThe Seattle Times reports Starbucks said on Friday, November 3, that personal data on 60,000present and former employees and contractors was on two laptop computers missing from itsSeattle headquarters. (See item 8)The FBI has arrested more than a dozen people in the U.S. and other countries in aninternational identity theft operation −− called Operation Cardkeeper −− that involves thetrading of social security numbers, the sale of stolen credit card account information, andphishing. (See item 10)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector
35. November 03, IDG News Service — Security threat changing, says Symantec CEO. The
threat posed to computer users and companies by hackers is shifting from attacks on the computers to attacks on electronic transactions, according to the head of one of the world's largest security software vendors. John Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec, said the change has been taking place over the last few years but has recently been accelerating. "The attacks that we see today are more targeted and more silent and their objective is to create true financial harm as opposed to visibility for the attackers," he said. The head of Symantec's Asia Pacific business, Bill Robbins, explained in an interview that this changing threat would mean businesses will have to spend more time and energy on making sure that data is not just secure but also recording which users are accessing and manipulating information stored in corporate databases.
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