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Breach Notification refers to the notification that businesses, government agencies and other entities are required by law in most states to do when certain personally identifiable information is obtained or believed to have been obtained by an unauthorized party. The breach can occur when a system is hacked or when a device containing sensitive information is lost, stolen or inadvertently sold. Personally identifiable information, also known as PII, is information that on its own or in conjunction with other information can be used to identify a person—the latter can include, for example, a name combined with a Social Security number, driver’s license number, bank account or credit card number. The first state breach notification law was passed in California in 2002 and went into effect the following year. Among the first breaches reported under the new law occurred in 2004 when a bank card processing company CardSystems Solutions was hacked. CardSystems Solutions processed purchasing transactions for its retailer customers by sending the card account data to the correct bank or issuer for authorization. Some 263,000 card numbers were verified stolen in the hack, but nearly 40 million card numbers were exposed to the hackers. The data involved card transactions that CardSystems had retained on its system long after the transactions were completed and that had been stored in an unencrypted format. The breach began in September 2004 but wasn’t discovered until May 2005. It was the first major breach disclosed under the new California law. Also among the first companies disclosing a breach under the new law was Choicepoint. The data broker sent letters to 145,000 people in February 2005 notifying them that it had mistakenly sold personal data about them to identity thieves. ChoicePoint was in the business of collection financial, medical and other information on billions of people in order to sell it to other marketers, other businesses and government agencies. The thieves had posed as legitimate businesses to open customer accounts with the massive data broker, then subsequently succeeded to purchase Social Security numbers, credit histories and other information that ChoicePoint had collected on them. Since the California law was passed, another forty-six states and the District of Columbia have passed similar legislation. Alabama, New Mexico and South Dakota do not have breach laws. This patchwork of laws has resulted in uneven and confusing requirements for businesses with customers in multiple states. The laws vary on a number of things, including when notification needs to occur, how notification should occur and exemptions from notification. Federal lawmakers have been trying for years to remedy this confusing patchwork of laws by passing a federal law that would take precedent over all of them. But the proposed bills have failed to take hold on Capitol Hill. President Obama and the White House began pushing another bill in January 2015 that would require breached entities to notify affected victims within 30 days of discovering the breach, though critics say this renewed push for a mandatory notification period will likely suffer the same problems previous bills had. Source

Top 10 DLL files with largest number of icons [table=width: 500, class: grid, align: center] [tr] [td]Filenametd[/td] [td]Description[/td] [td]Number of Icons[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]shell32.dll[/td] [td]Windows Shell Common Dll[/td] [td]306[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]imageres.dll[/td] [td]Windows Image Resource[/td] [td]218[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]wmploc.DLL[/td] [td]Windows Media Player Resources[/td] [td]208[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]netshell.dll[/td] [td]Network Connections Shell[/td] [td]164[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]mmcndmgr.dll [/td] [td]MMC Node Manager DLL[/td] [td]129[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]moricons.dll[/td] [td]Windows NT Setup Icon Resources Library[/td] [td]113[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ieframe.dll[/td] [td]Internet Browser[/td] [td]105[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]compstui.dll[/td] [td]Common Property Sheet User Interface DLL[/td] [td]101[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]DDORes.dll[/td] [td]Device Category information and resources[/td] [td]81[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]pnidui.dll[/td] [td]Network System Icon[/td] [td]59[/td] [/tr] [/table] Top 10 DLL files with largest number of Bitmap Images [table=width: 500, class: grid, align: center] [tr] [td]Filename[/td] [td]Description[/td] [td]Number of bitmaps[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]wmploc.DLL[/td] [td]Windows Media Player Resources[/td] [td]400[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]UIRibbonRes.dll[/td] [td]Windows Ribbon Framework Resources[/td] [td]234[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ieframe.dll[/td] [td]Internet Browser[/td] [td]215[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]authui.dll[/td] [td]Windows Authentication UI[/td] [td]113[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]wdc.dll[/td] [td]Performance Monitor[/td] [td]55[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ExplorerFrame.dll [/td] [td]ExplorerFrame[/td] [td]52[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]UIRibbon.dll[/td] [td]Windows Ribbon Framework[/td] [td]45[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]shell32.dll[/td] [td]Windows Shell Common Dll[/td] [td]39[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]spwizimg.dll[/td] [td]Setup Wizard Framework Resources[/td] [td]36[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Display.dll[/td] [td]Display Control Panel[/td] [td]30[/td] [/tr] [/table] Top 10 DLL files with largest number of dialogue boxes [table=width: 500, class: grid, align: center] [tr] [td]Filename[/td] [td]Description[/td] [td]Number of Dialogue Boxes[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]wmploc.DLL[/td] [td]Windows Media Player Resources[/td] [td]128[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ieframe.dll[/td] [td]Internet Browser[/td] [td]113[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]shell32.dll[/td] [td]Windows Shell Common D[/td] [td]110[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]comres.dll[/td] [td]COM+ Resources[/td] [td]109[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]rasdlg.dll[/td] [td]Remote Access Common Dialog API[/td] [td]96[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]cryptui.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft Trust UI Provider[/td] [td]67[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]wsecedit.dll[/td] [td]Security Configuration UI Module[/td] [td]65[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]FXSRESM.dll [/td] [td]Microsoft Fax Resource DLL[/td] [td]60[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ieakui.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft IEAK Shared UI DLL[/td] [td]60[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]cmdial32.dll [/td] [td]Microsoft Connection Manager[/td] [td]56[/td] [/tr] [/table] Top 10 DLL files with largest number of cursors [table=width: 500, class: grid, align: center] [tr] [td]Filename[/td] [td]Description[/td] [td]Number of icons[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]user32.dll[/td] [td]Multi-User Windows USER API Client DLL [/td] [td]28[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]mfc70.dll[/td] [td]MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version [/td] [td]26[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]msftedit.dll[/td] [td]Rich Text Edit Control, v4.1 [/td] [td]19[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]comctl32.dll[/td] [td]Common Controls Library [/td] [td]18[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]mshtml.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft ® HTML Viewer [/td] [td]18[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]riched20.dll[/td] [td]Rich Text Edit Control, v3.1 [/td] [td]17[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]UIHub.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft Tablet PC Flicks and Pen Feedback Component [/td] [td]15[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]WFSR.dll[/td] [td]Windows Fax and Scan Resources [/td] [td]15[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]FXSRESM.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft Fax Resource DLL [/td] [td]14[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]mfc40u.dll[/td] [td]MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version [/td] [td]12[/td] [/tr] [/table] Top 10 DLL files with largest type library [table=width: 500, class: grid, align: center] [tr] [td]Filename[/td] [td]Description[/td] [td]Type library size[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]MSVidCtl.dll[/td] [td]ActiveX control for streaming video [/td] [td]256 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]wmp.dll[/td] [td]wmp.dll[/td] [td]208 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]msvbvm60.dll[/td] [td]Visual Basic Virtual Machine [/td] [td]145 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]CertEnroll.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services Enrollment Client [/td] [td]138 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]tapi3.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft TAPI3 [/td] [td]113 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]comsvcs.dll[/td] [td]COM+ Services [/td] [td]106 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]InkEd.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft Tablet PC InkEdit Control [/td] [td]99 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]msxml3.dll[/td] [td]MSXML 3.0 SP11[/td] [td]98 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]FXSCOMEX.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft Fax Server Extended COM Client Interface [/td] [td]92 KB[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]msxml6.dll[/td] [td]MSXML 6.0 SP3 [/td] [td]90 KB[/td] [/tr] [/table] Top 25 popular DLL files in System32 directory In the following table, you can find the DLL files that are commonly used by other DLL files. The 'Number of DLLs' column represents the number of DLL files that use the specified DLL. For example: The first DLL file in this table - kernel32.dll, is loaded by other 1,475 DLL files in the system32 directory. This statistics is based on static link (import tables) between the DLL files. [table=width: 500, class: grid, align: center] [tr] [td]Filename[/td] [td]Description[/td] [td]Number of DLLs[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]kernel32.dll[/td] [td]Windows NT BASE API Client DLL [/td] [td]1,475[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]msvcrt.dll[/td] [td]Windows NT CRT DLL [/td] [td]1,431[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ntdll.dll[/td] [td]NT Layer DLL [/td] [td]865[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]advapi32.dll[/td] [td]Advanced Windows 32 Base API [/td] [td]848[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]user32.dll[/td] [td]Multi-User Windows USER API Client DLL[/td] [td]834[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ole32.dll[/td] [td]Microsoft OLE for Windows [/td] [td]700[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]oleaut32.dll[/td] [td][/td] [td]547[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]rpcrt4.dll[/td] [td]Remote Procedure Call Runtime [/td] [td]421[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]gdi32.dll[/td] [td]GDI Client DLL[/td] [td]300[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]shlwapi.dll[/td] [td]Shell Light-weight Utility Library [/td] [td]294[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]shell32.dll[/td] [td]Windows Shell Common Dll [/td] [td]265[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]187[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-localregistry-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]178[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]146[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-security-base-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]146[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]ws2_32.dll[/td] [td]Windows Socket 2.0 32-Bit DLL [/td] [td]138[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]134[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]133[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-misc-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]129[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]128[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]128[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]setupapi.dll[/td] [td]Windows Setup API [/td] [td]127[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]crypt32.dll[/td] [td]Crypto API32 [/td] [td]114[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]102[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll[/td] [td]ApiSet Stub DLL[/td] [td]98[/td] [/tr] [/table] more info...