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Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration reports a breach

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2008-07-09 11:15:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Agency for Health Care Administration Victims registered organ donors Number Affected about 55,000 Types of Data names, addresses, birth dates, driver license numbers and Social Security numbers Breach Description TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - State health officials say a security breach in the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry may have exposed...
 
Tags: breach, information, personal information, breach description, flaw, configuration flaw, health care administration, database includes donors, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Needed: Agency CSOs

2008-06-26 12:49:33 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...agency has to have a CISO whose primary responsibility is information security But typically these CISOs do not have any authority over physical security or personnel security: in reality, they work for the CIO and only have scope over what the CIO manages: data centers, networks, servers, desktops, applications, and databases Except for one...
 
Tags: agency, todays government ciso, cio, ciso, cio manages, cisos, agency cso position, personnel security, responsibility
 
 
 
 
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Massive data loss by key U.K. government agency could affect millions of British citizens

2007-11-26 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...agency as they were being transferred to the UK's National Audit Office
 
Tags: breach, veterans administration breach, national audit office, million families, million veterans, million people, sensitive data, news reports, customs agency
 
 
 
 
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Which Gov Agency Should Be Your Computer's Firewall?

2008-04-26 00:30:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Citing the dire nature of internet security, government agencies in the United States say they need to be inside the net to prevent cyber-crime, child porn and cyber-terrorism. So which government agency should you choose to protect your home computer? Help decide with our interactive poll
 
Tags: child porn, government agencies, interactive poll, dire nature, internet security, prevent cyber-crime, government agency, home computer, protect
 
 
 
 
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Parliament, Spy Agency Contracts Exempted From Ombudsmans Gaze

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2008-05-20 02:54:26 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...agency from oversight by a new ombudsmans post that was central to the 2006 Conservative election campaign The government slipped the exemptions through last week in regulations that empower the contract procurement ombudsman under the Accountability Act - flagship legislation the government introduced as its first bill soon after taking...
 
Tags: contracts, review contracts, ombudsman, parliament, contract procurement ombudsman, opposition mps, ombudsmans statutory duty, canadas spy agency, insert heavy sarcasm
 
 
 
 
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EU security agency wants social network scrutiny

2008-05-27 00:00:00 by HASH0x8aec38c in Network World on Security
 
Europe's top Internet security agency, ENISA, called Tuesday for new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace
 
Tags: police social, sites, tuesday, enisa, europe, facebook, myspace, legislation
 
 
 
 
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Darpa Brain Drain Costs Agency $32 Million

2008-06-18 19:32:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Due to Darpa's shortage of qualified staff, the Pentagon says that the premiere research agency "continues to underexecute" and reassigns $32 million of its funding to other defense projects
 
Tags: premiere research agency, defense projects, million, darpa, pentagon, due, underexecute, staff, reassigns
 
 
 
 
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WTF?Internet addressing agency (ICANN) loses its addressess

2008-07-06 04:46:40 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The nonprofit agency (ICANN) in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own
 
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NAC secures U.N. agency

2008-07-21 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is using network access control at 11 regional offices around the world to keep potentially dangerous non-compliant machines from compromising the agency's core network in New York City
 
Tags: network access control, dangerous non-compliant machines, nations population fund, regional offices, york city, core network, agency, unfpa, world
 
 
 
 
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Over 400 Calls Made Using Hacked Federal Emergency Management Agency PBX Network

2008-08-21 16:25:32 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com