The Security Eunoia

In 1982 Johnson & Johnson the company making Tylenol had to contend with a major financial and image problem when contaminated Tylenol capsules caused the deaths of 7 people. Investigators discovered that someone had filled Tylenol capsules with solid cyanide compound and replaced the original Tylenol bottles with poisoned ones in some supermarkets and drug stores.
What did the company do and what lessons do we learn from it?

The UK Prime Minister’s medical records have been breached in a series of high profile ‘data violations’ involving UK politicians and others, the Sunday mail reports. Last week UK cabinet minister Jack Straw’s hotmail account was pwned by criminals trying to hoodwink the minister’s ‘friends’ into sending them money.

UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s hotmail account was compromised and hundreds of mails sent to his contacts in a bold attempt to get unsuspecting recipients to send money to the fraudsters, BBC reports.

This is how the scheme works

TrendMicro reports having found what could be a rootkit in an enterprise infosecurity software. The rootkit-churning vendor is the same one that published Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader discovered last year. What other products has this vendor shipped?

After many reported vulnerabilities and poor security practices on Obama’s web sites such as change.gov and barackobama.com, CNN reports that Obama’s phone records have also been improperly accessed by Verizon employees NOT authorised to do so.
The report quotes the President of Verizon Wireless saying “the personal wireless account of President-elect Barack Obama had been accessed [...]