LexisNexis flap draws outcry from Congress

Grok Headline matches for LexisNexis flap draws outcry from Congress

New scourge of Web, spyware draws fire
from US Congress, others (AFP)

New scourge of Web, spyware draws fire
from US Congress, others (AFP) 05/06/2004 11:10 PM
AFP - Internet surfers have been bombarded with spam, and sucked into downloading viruses. But some see a more insidious problem, known as "spyware," which can lurk in the background, track movements and sometimes "hijack" a computer.

Israel continues offensive despite
outcry

Israel continues offensive despite
outcry 05/20/2004 10:08 AM

Outcry over 'upsetting' Sats test

Outcry over 'upsetting' Sats test 05/13/2004 09:39 AM
Head teachers and parents criticise an English test about a girl's feelings about her grand-father's stroke.

Outcry as Chinese Net dissident arrested

Outcry as Chinese Net dissident arrested 02/17/2004 01:13 PM
Claims of subversion 'abusive'

"After Outcry, Rumsfeld Says He Will
Sign Condolence Letters"

"After Outcry, Rumsfeld Says He Will
Sign Condolence Letters" 12/22/2004 01:31 AM

Israel Pushes Gaza Offensive Despite
World Outcry

Israel Pushes Gaza Offensive Despite
World Outcry 05/20/2004 06:56 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 20 2004 11:05AM GMT

Take Two agrees to edit Vice City
following Haitian outcry

Take Two agrees to edit Vice City
following Haitian outcry 12/12/2003 12:52 PM

Apple-Intel Chip Deal Outcry Keeps
Growing

Apple-Intel Chip Deal Outcry Keeps
Growing 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
Smoke? Or fire? Analysts and online posters debate the merits of Apple Computer moving its Macintosh hardware lines over to Intel's processors.

Israel Presses Gaza Offensive Despite
World Outcry

Israel Presses Gaza Offensive Despite
World Outcry 05/19/2004 08:45 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 20 2004 1:27AM GMT

iPod mini Outcry Prompts Price Review

iPod mini Outcry Prompts Price Review 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
A senior Apple executive has said the company will review its pricing outside the US, and blamed the high pricing on the continuing weakness of the dollar against other currencies. By Neil McIntosh (The Guardian via MyAppleMenu)

Israel Defies World Outcry, Expands Gaza
Offensive

Israel Defies World Outcry, Expands Gaza
Offensive 05/20/2004 01:11 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 20 2004 5:54AM GMT

Israel Defies World Outcry, Expands Gaza
Offensive (Reuters)

Israel Defies World Outcry, Expands Gaza
Offensive (Reuters) 05/19/2004 11:31 PM
Reuters - Israel defied international fury at the killing of nearly 40 Palestinians in the Rafah refugee camp, a militant stronghold, to expand its bloodiest Gaza Strip raid in years on Thursday.

LexisNexis: Files May Have Been Breached
(AP)

LexisNexis: Files May Have Been Breached
(AP) 04/12/2005 07:58 PM
AP - Criminals may have breached computer files containing the personal information of 310,000 people, a tenfold increase over a previous estimate of how much data was stolen from information broker LexisNexis, the company's parent said Tuesday.

LexisNexis acknowledges more ID theft

LexisNexis acknowledges more ID theft 04/12/2005 08:45 AM
CNN Money Apr 12 2005 1:12PM GMT

LexisNexis May Have Had Earlier Breach
(AP)

LexisNexis May Have Had Earlier Breach
(AP) 04/13/2005 07:46 PM
AP - A LexisNexis executive said Wednesday there may have been an earlier breach of consumers' personal data that was never reported to the public.

Congress Loves Spam -- If It's From
Congress

Congress Loves Spam -- If It's From
Congress 12/28/2003 06:31 AM

LexisNexis Warns 280,000 of Info Breach
(AP)

LexisNexis Warns 280,000 of Info Breach
(AP) 04/18/2005 07:13 PM
AP - LexisNexis said on Monday that it has begun notifying about 280,000 people whose personal information may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals using stolen passwords and IDs.

LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Thought

LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Thought 04/12/2005 10:20 AM
LexisNexis said on Tuesday that a security breach which resulted in personal information of thousands its customers potentially being compromised could be ten times worse than originally thought. An investigation has discovered that 310,000 U.S. citizens may have had their addresses and Social Security numbers accessed.

LexisNexis acknowledges more ID theft on
310,000 people

LexisNexis acknowledges more ID theft on
310,000 people 04/13/2005 04:36 AM
LexisNexis, which compiles and sells personal and financial data on U.S. consumers, said Tuesday that personal information on 310,000 people nationwide may have been stolen. That number is nearly 10 times higher than the figure LexisNexis disclosed last month when it first reported that its databases had been breached. LexisNexis said in March that 32,000 people had been potentially affected by the breaches.

Today's disclosure comes just after an investigation by Reed Elsevier determined that its databases had been fraudulently breached 59 times using stolen passwords. The thieves, who obtained information including addresses and Social Security numbers, did not hack into the computer system and although they were able to get ahold of sensitive password information, the company says it is not certain how the passwords were acquired.

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Massive LexisNexis ID Theft Feared

Massive LexisNexis ID Theft Feared 04/12/2005 09:54 AM
CBS News Apr 12 2005 1:54PM GMT

Other News: Massive LexisNexis Breach

Other News: Massive LexisNexis Breach 04/12/2005 11:37 AM
Sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people has been breached at LexisNexis.

LexisNexis Breach May Be Worse Than
Thought (AP)

LexisNexis Breach May Be Worse Than
Thought (AP) 04/12/2005 11:50 AM
AP - Up to 10 times as many people as originally thought may have had their profiles stolen from a LexisNexis database in the United States, publisher and data broker Reed Elsevier Group PLC said Tuesday.

LexisNexis Tightens Data Security

LexisNexis Tightens Data Security 03/19/2005 02:32 AM
AP via Newsday Mar 19 2005 4:44AM GMT

LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed

LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed 04/12/2005 01:30 PM

LexisNexis: 280,000 more possible data
theft victims

LexisNexis: 280,000 more possible data
theft victims 04/12/2005 01:39 PM
An internal investigation at the LexisNexis division of Reed Elsevier has uncovered evidence that as many as 310,000 more people may have had their personal information exposed to unauthorized individuals who compromised the security of a massive database of public and private information, including Social Security and drivers license numbers.

LexisNexis data on 310,000 people feared
stolen

LexisNexis data on 310,000 people feared
stolen 04/12/2005 02:37 PM
Data broker LexisNexis said personal information may have been stolen on 310,000 U.S. citizens, or nearly 10 times the number found in a data breach announced last month.

LexisNexis: More Consumer Data Breaches
(Reuters)

LexisNexis: More Consumer Data Breaches
(Reuters) 04/12/2005 11:10 AM
Reuters - Data broker LexisNexis said on Tuesday that personal information on 310,000 U.S. citizens may have been stolen from its computer systems, 10 times more than its initial estimate last month.

LexisNexis Uncovers More Consumer Data
Breaches

LexisNexis Uncovers More Consumer Data
Breaches 04/12/2005 01:17 PM
Personal information on 310,000 U.S. citizens may have been stolen from its computer systems, 10 times more than its initial estimate last month, data broker LexisNexis said.

LexisNexis data breach far worse than
reported

LexisNexis data breach far worse than
reported 04/13/2005 04:06 AM
300,000+ affected

Security Breach at LexisNexis Now
Appears Larger

Security Breach at LexisNexis Now
Appears Larger 04/13/2005 12:06 AM
Social Security numbers and the addresses of 310,000 people may have been stolen from the LexisNexis databases, 10 times more than originally reported.

LexisNexis Says Data Breach May Affect
310,000 People

LexisNexis Says Data Breach May Affect
310,000 People 04/12/2005 04:38 PM
The LexisNexis Group said today that the security breach at its data brokering unit appeared to be about 10 times larger than it originally reported.

It's official: ChoicePoint, LexisNexis
rooted many times

It's official: ChoicePoint, LexisNexis
rooted many times 04/14/2005 02:34 AM
Calif disclosure law puts a stop to cover-ups

LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people
feared stolen

LexisNexis: Data on 310,000 people
feared stolen 04/14/2005 02:08 AM

Turnabout in fee flap

Turnabout in fee flap 09/24/2004 05:16 AM
USA Today Sep 24 2004 9:09AM GMT

Big Flap Over Future Flight

Big Flap Over Future Flight 05/18/2004 04:44 AM
In the hunt for a more versatile aircraft, researchers are mimicking the beasts that have been flying for years -- birds. By Lakshmi Sandhana.

CBS may be fined $550,000 for Jackson
flap

CBS may be fined $550,000 for Jackson
flap 07/01/2004 10:25 AM

CBS May Be Fined $550,000 for
Jackson Flap (AP)

CBS May Be Fined $550,000 for
Jackson Flap (AP) 06/30/2004 06:10 PM
AP - CBS could face a fine of $550,000 for airing Janet Jackson's breast-baring performance during the Super Bowl, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

Followup on Dashboard flap

Followup on Dashboard flap 07/01/2004 03:47 PM

OK - I've now had time to cool down, rea d all the rebutts and opinions and I even spammed by friends list with a "Boycott Apple" plea.

So now we can get some perspective on all this.

Dashboard appears to be little HTML panes - which indeed should enable anyone to add anything they like. It kind of reminds me of the Bl ogrolling Commons distribution idea - I gave to Jason DeFillippo last year.

This is what drew me to help Laszlo and their BlogBox objects and recently the Tribe Cast objects.

So believe me - I live, breath and sleep toolbars, add-ins, bookmarklets and any sort of anything that's open and can be used for enabling software to get used anywhere.

Certainly this is where the mobile services world is going too - becoming an extension of our PC lives.

Alf Eaton brings up a obvious point:

I guess the widgets won't be able to load the actual code in from outside, unlike Macromedia Central or Laszlo widgets - so maybe there could be a separate kind of floaty widget that could load in code pages (rather than just data) from the net but wouldn't be able to access the system.

Without being able to "API Into" a system, these little HTML pages are nothing more than just - well HTML pages.

But just imagine if we had open APIs to inter-connect modules together!

Man oh man I'm getting excited, I'd better call David Temkin and Sarah Allen. Oliver Steele too.

Canadian flag causes flap in the U.S

Canadian flag causes flap in the U.S 12/09/2003 08:28 AM
it pisses Americans off .. Ottawa Citizen .. more

canada.com/national/story.asp?id=D333BE79-44EE-407B-B960-BF1FA4 9CAE39
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