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[The Lazy Genius :: Main Page] Citigroup division tells 3.9M customers personal info lost: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Citigroup said Monday that personal information on 3.9 million consumer lending customers of its CitiFinancial subsidiary was lost by UPS while in transit to a credit bureau -- the biggest breach of customer or employee data reported so far.

[Americablog.blogspot.com] AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: But how about shutting down the prison because even the military admits a majority of the prisoners are either innocent or low-level members with no remotely valuable intelligence? How about shutting down the prison because it is incapable of being run as Bush claims he wants it to be? How about shutting down the prison because it offends the sensibilities of decent people everywhere? How about shutting it down because its draconian, Kafka-esque environment (even prisoners we know are innocent can't be released because we've treated them so poorly that if they weren't terrorists before, we're certain they will be now) goes against everything the United States stands for?

[Trancewave.com] nova lounge: SC Magazine: "Byun Jae-Jung, a researcher for South Korea's Agency for Defence Development said at least a hundred state funded soldiers had gained a sufficient degree of expertise to launch attacks on U.S. infrastructure. 'Our electronic warfare simulation indicates that North Korea's capability has reached a substantial level, unlike what is generally known to the outside world,' Byun told the Defense Information Security Conference 2005 held yesterday at Korea University in Seoul.

[Hashemian.com] Hashemian.com - Financial Markets, News, Web Tools, Blog: Reuters - IAC/InterActiveCorp and Vivendi Universal said on Wednesday they have agreed to end all pending litigation between them, and that IAC has sold its stake in Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE) to NBC Universal for about $3.4 billion in stock and cash.

[Blogs.knoxnews.com] KnoxNews | No Silence Here: TOLEDO, Ohio - A purse snatcher picked on the wrong 91-year-old, police said. Katherine Woodworth started swinging her purse at the man and hit him until he ran away, police said. He had walked up to her in a department store parking lot and told her that he was going to take her purse.

[Emergentchaos.com] Emergent Chaos: breaches Archives: "We take the security of our employees' personal information extremely seriously and we deeply regret that this incident occurred," said Larry Cockell, Time Warner's Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer. "While we have no evidence to suggest the information on the tapes has been accessed or misused, we are providing current and former employees with resources to monitor their credit reports while our investigation continues. We are working closely and aggressively with law enforcement and the outside data storage firm to get to the bottom of this matter."

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