Lorenzo's Security Blog

  Image via Wikipedia Citigroup Inc.’s (C) brokerage and securities arm, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., has been fined $$650,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The fine is due to disclosure and supervisory violations associated with the operation of its Direct Borrow Program (DBP). It was the first such enforcement action by FINRA involving [...]

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined brokerage firm Davidson & Co. $375,000 over a 2007 data breach in an action that highlights the growing attention regulators are paying to the controls companies have in place for protecting customer data. Image via Wikipedia   The breach resulted in the exposure of customer names, account [...]

  Image via Wikipedia PNC Financial Services Group is investigating a possible security breach involving some debit cards issued by the former National City Corp., which it acquired in December 2008. The problem surfaced when former National City customers began reporting unauthorized charges on their accounts. The breach involves a small number of cards in [...]

RockYou, the popular provider of third-party apps for Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking services, is being hit with a proposed class-action accusing the company of having such poor data security that at least one hacker got away with 32 million e-mails and their passwords. The suit accuses the maker of apps like “Slideshow” for MySpace [...]

Image via Wikipedia A Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia laptop computer containing Social Security numbers and other personal information for 943 people was stolen from a car outside an employee’s home on Oct. 20. The billing information on the computer was password-protected, but an analysis found it was “possible to decode the security controls on the [...]