Tuesday, November 20, 2001

A tell-all that ZD would rather ignore Declan McCullagh, Wired News, 20 Nov 2001 If you subscribe to any of Ziff-Davis' computer magazines, you may want to double-check your credit-card bill next month. Ziff-Davis Media, which publishes such popular tech titles such as Yahoo Internet Life and PC Magazine, accidentally posted the personal information of about 12,500 magazine subscribers on its website. On 19 Nov 2001, ZD removed the data, which included hundreds of credit-card numbers, and said its engineers had taken steps to prevent additional security leaks. http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,48525,00.html [Monty Solomon via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 77] 0:00 # G!