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follow-up: Reed Elsevier Seeks to Acquire ChoicePoint for $4.1B
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:03:02 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> Via The Washington Post. [snip] Reed Elsevier PLC, the owner of the LexisNexis Group, is seeking to acquire ChoicePoint Inc. in a $4.1 billion cash deal that would create a global data brokering service. By combining database giants LexisNexis and ChoicePoint, Reed Elsevier would handle information about hundreds of millions of people and sophisticated software to handle it. Both companies play key roles in law enforcement, homeland security and intelligence, as well as providing information to the private sector. Both also have been hit by identity theft and security problems. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022100809.html _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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