Monster Trojan monsters job seekers' records
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| Monster.com suffered a major data breach at the weekend, with a Trojan horse
| stealing more than 1.6 million records from the job search site's database.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/21/monster_trojan_steals_millions_of_records/
Related:
Update -- TJX Reveals Extent Of Hacker Damage
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| In Wednesday's filing, TJX said for the first time that it first learned
| that there was suspicious software on its computer system on Dec. 18, 2006.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/29/tjx-companies-fraud-markets-equity-cx_mk_0329markets35.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/38tyyq
Details of the largest breach of customer data are starting to come to light.
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| "The people who started the breach opened up the back of those terminals and
| used USB drives to load software onto those terminals," says the source. In a
| March filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,TJX acknowledged
| finding "suspicious software" on its computer systems.
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| The USB drives contained a utility program that let the intruder or intruders
| take control of these computer kiosks and turn them into remote terminals
| that connected into TJX's networks, according to the source. The firewalls on
| TJX's main network weren't set to defend against malicious traffic coming
| from the kiosks, the source says. Typically, the USB drives in the computer
| kiosks are used to plug in mice or printers. The kiosks "shouldn't have been
| on the corporate LAN, and the USB ports should have been disabled," the
| source says.
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http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=201400171
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