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Pocono Mountain School District "irregularities"

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2008-06-02 12:36:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...apparent cyber break-in of Pocono Mountain School District's computer system has put at potential risk personal information about students and parents, the district announced Friday District Superintendent Dwight Pfennig sent home letters on Friday afternoon telling parents about the apparent breach, which the district found out about the...
 
Tags: district, school, contact, promptly contact, school district enrollment, information, personal information, emergency contact names, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Polish Trams

2008-01-17 15:43:06 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...apparent ease with which Lodz's tram network was hacked, even by these low standards, is still a bit of an eye opener Problems with the signalling system on Lodz's tram network became apparent on Tuesday when a driver attempting to steer his vehicle to the right was involuntarily taken to the left. As a result the rear wagon of the train...
 
Tags: city tram driver, driver, tram, tram drivers control, tv remote control, trains, real trains, tram network, physical security
 
 
 
 
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Mailing error at the University of Maryland exposes student information

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2008-07-18 09:18:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...apparent to departmental staff that these numbers not only still existed within the file, but were Social Security numbers, and not University ID numbers Evan] Not apparent? They were on the labels The numbers were not identified as Social Security numbers and did not show the normal spacing between digits Evan] So it would be xxxxxxxxx...
 
Tags: information, university, maryland, personal information, university identification, university community, social security, addressees social security, recipient social security
 
 
 
 
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Geeks.com customer credit card data compromised

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2008-01-07 21:34:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...apparent breach of the company's online security. Geeks.com reportedly noticed the breach on December 5th, 2007 and began sending letters to customers on January 4th, 2008 Reference URL The Consumerist Story Computerworld Story Report Credit The Consumerist Response From the online sources cited above The purpose of this letter is to...
 
Tags: credit, credit card, card, geeks, credit reports, report credit, breach description, breach, apparent breach
 
 
 
 
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Wisconsin Dept. of Health and Family Services mails Social Security numbers

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2008-01-08 16:08:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...apparent as the word gets out How does this happen? I can understand the initial mistake, but it is hard to believe that nobody at the Department of Health & Family Services noticed the problem before the mailings went out Past Breaches December 2006 - Wisconsin mails tax forms with Social Security numbers printed on them
 
Tags: wisconsin, social security, wisconsin medicaid, wisconsin department, family services, department, revenue department situation, revenue, health
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Reports on Aviation Security and the TSA

2008-01-10 13:58:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...apparent to the public, so there would not be any corrective action I've regularly pointed to reinforcing the cockpit doors as something that was a good idea, and should have been done years earlier. Critics, however, say a stronger door is only half of the solution. "People have this illusion that hardened cockpit doors work, and they...
 
Tags: security, aviation security, security consultancy, doors, double doors, door, consumer reports, secure door, cockpit doors
 
 
 
 
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House committee issues report and finds fault with TSA web site

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2008-01-15 09:35:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...apparent conflict of interest. He was a former employee of Desyne Web Services and regularly socialized with Desynes owner TSA did not detect the websites security weaknesses for months The redress website was launched on October 6, 2006, and was not taken down until after February 13, 2007, when an internet blogger exposed the security...
 
Tags: tsa, website, website contract, traveler redress website, tsa moved quickly, security breach, information security breach, security vulnerabilities, multiple security vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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The Austin Project

2008-01-21 22:45:39 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...apparent today when I started chatting with someone about a specific web application flow. It took me ten minutes to explain some of the esoteric nuances to watch out for and I suddenly realized I had never talked about it before on the site, and I probably never would have because I ultimately consider a lot of that stuff to be the basics...
 
Tags: people, competent people, project, helps people focus, austin project, austin project web-page, security, web application security, site
 
 
 
 
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Covert Online Spies

2007-08-01 19:20:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...apparent reason. Your system slows down because these adware and spyware parasitically use up your system's resources to be able to perform their functions The only way you can be sure if your computer system is infected with adware and spyware downloads is by installing an anti spyware program that will detect and flush out the unwanted...
 
Tags: anti spyware program, anti spyware, free anti spyware, proper anti spyware, anti spyware system, spyware, spyware downloads, spyware programs, anti-spyware system
 
 
 
 
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Make Sure You Know When Someone Hacks Your Email

2008-02-18 23:10:05 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
If someone has cracked your email password, it may not be apparent to you. A snooper can easily read an email then mark it as unread again. So the best thing to do would be to set up an electronic tripwire so if someone breaks into your account, youll know about it
 
Tags: email, email password, electronic tripwire, account, easily, apparent, mark, breaks, unread