David A. Sobel Richmond, Vt., March 2, 2005 The writer is a health care information security consultant.
"It is very unusual for Sony to completely rebuild a system after a security breach, rather than just stopping the bleeding and going back to some kind of restricted network," said Mark Seiden, a longtime information security consultant.
With the information stolen from Epsilon, thieves could send customers of JPMorgan Chase an e-mail that appeared to be from the bank, complete with their names, said Mark Seiden, an information security consultant in Silicon Valley.
Mark Seiden, an information security consultant in Silicon Valley, said that Apple's letter to the congressmen suggests that it uses the location data from the previously hidden file "so a phone knows where it is quickly".
The panel's subsequent inquiries identified Action Research, the Florida firm, as "the biggest of the big" among companies using pretexts to obtain phone numbers, said Rob Douglas, an information security consultant who worked for the subcommittee.
"I'd be dumfounded if you could find a corporation the size of H.P. that turned directly to the pretexter," said Rob Douglas, an information security consultant who has testified to Congress about illicit tactics used to obtain telephone records.
Paul Moore, an information security consultant, wrote in a blogpost published last September that he had contacted Harding's office about vulnerabilities on TalkTalk's website but said the company's response was "aggressive, defensive and dismissive".
"This box, in addition to being able to monitor any queries about Tiananmen Square or Tibet or the Dalai Lama, also would be able to intercept all network communications from the China operations back to headquarters," said Thomas Parenty, an information security consultant for foreign companies in China.
Jesper Kråkhede, senior information security consultant at IT security company Sentor "My first observation on keeping your kids safe online is not just to tell them the rules but also to spend the time to show them that you're the most trustworthy when it comes to the internet.
