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What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 227<br />

31.05.<strong>2006</strong> Independent 22 another attempt at imposing government control on the internet. The US has<br />

never taken computer hacking seriously, and the proof is that when a known<br />

hacker was identified to the FBI, the FBI refused to investigate. I was told off<br />

the record that the FBI has a policy that they will not investigate hackers who<br />

target pro-peace websites<br />

31.05.<strong>2006</strong> X 22 Symantec began providing a repairing patch <strong>for</strong> its software over the<br />

weekend ... The speedy response ... underscored the seriousness of the<br />

threat - The speedy response suggests to me that Symantec knew this hole<br />

was there all along<br />

02.06.<strong>2006</strong> MSNBC 22 Finance firm loses data on 1.3M customers - A Hummingbird employee<br />

downloaded, decrypted and stored the files on a piece of equipment that was<br />

later lost<br />

04.06.<strong>2006</strong> X 22 Hotels.com is warning nearly a quarter of a million customers that they may<br />

have had their credit card numbers stolen, following the theft of an<br />

unencrypted laptop belonging to the travel Web site's auditor<br />

09.06.<strong>2006</strong> New Scientist 22 New Scientist has discovered that NSA .. is funding research into the mass<br />

harvesting of the in<strong>for</strong>mation that people post about themselves on social<br />

networks ... to combine data from social networking websites with details<br />

such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build<br />

extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals<br />

09.06.<strong>2006</strong> Yahoo 22 The data theft occurred in a computer system at a service center belonging to the<br />

National Nuclear Security Administration in Albuquerque, N.M. The file contained<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation about [1,500] contract workers throughout the agency<br />

13.06.<strong>2006</strong> Times of India 22 Apple is pulling out its software development and support operations in India<br />

16.06.<strong>2006</strong> X 22 Israelis Hold Keys to NSA and U.S. Gov. Computers - The most critical<br />

computer and communication networks used by the U.S. gov. and military are<br />

secured by encryption software written by an Israeli "code breaker" tied to an<br />

Israeli state-run scientific institution<br />

16.06.<strong>2006</strong> X 22 Google accused of spying on Israel - Originally sensitive to a nation which is<br />

more militarized than Ancient Sparta, Google [Earth] had only previously<br />

shown low-resolutions snaps of Israel ... last week Google suddenly improved<br />

the service so that it matched the same standards that it has <strong>for</strong> the rest of<br />

the world<br />

18.06.<strong>2006</strong> Wash Post 22 A laptop containing personal data -- including Social Security numbers -- of 13,000<br />

District workers and retirees was stolen from the home of an employee of ING U.S.<br />

Financial Services ... Social Security number can be used by thieves to open new<br />

lines of credit in the victim's name. In the past 15 months, > 85 million U.S.<br />

consumers have been told that their personal or financial data might have been<br />

compromised because of data breaches, disgruntled employees or incompetence ~<br />

½ of all Americans with credit cards<br />

22.06.<strong>2006</strong> SF Gate 22 AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The<br />

changes are significant because they appear to give the telecom giant more<br />

latitude when it comes to sharing customers' personal data with government<br />

officials<br />

26.06.<strong>2006</strong> X 22 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have completed a<br />

prototype device that can block digital-camera function in a given area<br />

03.07.<strong>2006</strong> USA today 22 Insurance giant AIG .. has lost personal identifying in<strong>for</strong>mation on about<br />

970,000 consumers through a burglary at an undisclosed office<br />

04.07.<strong>2006</strong> X 22 Net Neutrality: America's Last Defense against Fascism - "Allowing the Bells<br />

and cable companies to act like gatekeepers with control over access to the<br />

internet would make the internet like cable - a producer-driven market with<br />

barriers to entry <strong>for</strong> website creators and preferential treatment <strong>for</strong> specific<br />

sites based not on merit or number of hits, but on their relationship with the<br />

corporate gatekeepers‖<br />

25.07.<strong>2006</strong> NY Times 22 names, addresses and Social Security numbers of as many as 540,000<br />

injured workers have been lost, and the state and its contracted company are<br />

trying to protect the workers from identity theft. Company and state officials<br />

confirmed that the in<strong>for</strong>mation was on computer hardware that is missing<br />

from a secured facility of the company, Chicago-based CS Stars<br />

31.07.<strong>2006</strong> X 22 ―This may be the worst security flaw we have seen in touch screen voting machines,‖<br />

says Open Voting Foundation president, Alan Dechert. Upon exami-ning the<br />

inner workings of one of the most popular paperless touch screen voting machines<br />

used in public elections in the United States, it has been determined that with the flip<br />

of a single switch inside, the machine can behave in a completely different manner<br />

compared to the tested and certified version

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