Another day, another data breach

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Best Buy warned this week that 4,000 customers of a store in West Palm Beach may have had their credit card information stolen when they made their purchases.

Also in Florida, the Attorney General Bill McCollum urged people to monitor their credit statements and said up to 21,000 state residents may have been affected by a data breach at Wyndham Hotels last year.

Wyndham said in a frequently asked questions statement that it noticed unusual activity on one of its servers during a routine administrative review in September and discovered that data had been stolen in July and August by an attacker who penetrated the computer systems of one of the Wyndham hotels.

The University of Florida this week said someone had penetrated the school's computer network, putting the data of 97,000 users at risk, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

The travel reservations and expense reimbursement Web site, Govtrip.com, used by numerous agencies and operated by defense contractor Northrop Grumman, was found to be redirecting visitors to a malicious Web site last week, according to NetworkWorld.

New Circumventor

New Circumventor:

http://www.tapefeather.com/

(Remember you can access it with either http:// or https:// at the beginning.)

China vows to dig deeper into online porn crackdown

China has pledged to intensify its online porn onslaught, which will now spread to cell phone websites, chat rooms and instant messenger groups.

According to information from the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, till February 5, 1,635 illegal websites and 217 blogs displaying `lewd' content faced a shutdown, while more than four million porn-related posts or messages were trashed, reports the China Daily.

Liu Yunshan, China''s top official in charge of media and publicity, said: "Internet pornography is not only preventing the healthy development of the country''s Internet services, but also eroding people''s mind, destroying the moral standard of the society and endangering young people''s healthy growth."
Liu revealed that the ban would further have its effect on content uploaded on cell phone websites, chat rooms, instant messenger groups, video download services and other VIP member sections.
He added the government was bent on crushing " the vitality of pornography websites to the utmost and chop off the profit chains that porn sites feed on."

Search engine giants facing the whip for the illegal public distribution of pornography in China include Google, Baidu and MSN China