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Four stolen laptops at the Eastern School District

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2008-02-21 16:37:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Atlantic Place offices during a break-in that was discovered on February 17th, 2008. One of the stolen laptops contained personal information belonging to students bussing to and from schools in the district Reference URL Eastern School District Media Release CBC News online story Report Credit Mary Tucker, Eastern School District ...
 
Tags: district, eastern school district, school, information, personal information, confidential information, encrypt confidential information, computers, laptop computers
 
 
 
 
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Will the recent cyber attacks on Estonia be a wake up call for European and U.S. leaders?

2007-07-02 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Will the recent cyber attacks on Estonia be a wake up call for European and U.S. leaders? According to a Reuters story on Friday, June 30th, the answer is apparently yes at least on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. What about the U.S
 
Tags: recent cyber attacks, leaders, reuters story, atlantic ocean, estonia, june 30th, call, european, apparently
 
 
 
 
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Heavily Armed Officers on New York City Subways

2008-02-07 06:06:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn What does it accomplish besides intimidating innocent commuters
 
Tags: patrol platforms, subway system daily, patrol, tactical plan, officers, rockefeller center, city, times square, herald square
 
 
 
 
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Student hacks Broward Schools and accesses personal information

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2008-03-24 13:22:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Atlantic Technical Center in Coconut Creek when police say he first accessed the district's database a month ago A teacher at the technical school became suspicious of illegal activity after she was unable to access a classroom computer Wasa used on Feb. 26 The school's information technology team found decrypting software had been...
 
Tags: information, personal information, students, information technology team, school students, school, information security, pinnacle gradebook, pinnacle
 
 
 
 
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1967 Article on Data Privacy and Security

2008-04-03 06:35:49 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
An eerily prescient article from The Atlantic in 1967 about the future of data privacy. It presents all of the basic arguments for strict controls on data collection of personal information, and it's remarkably accurate in it's predictions of the future development and importance of computers as well all of all of the ways the government would...
 
Tags: data privacy, future development, eerily prescient article, future, data collection, strict controls, personal information, basic arguments, government
 
 
 
 
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Report: Google begins taking Street View pics in Milan, Rome

2008-04-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473220 in Network World on Security
 
Google has begun photographing streets in European cities in preparation for the launch of its Street View feature on Google Earth this side of the Atlantic
 
Tags: google, google earth, street view feature, european cities, streets, launch, atlantic, preparation
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

2008-05-01 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...Atlantic the UKs GCHQ is finding bugs in PGPDisk and reporting them back to the company. (NSA is rumored to be doing the same thing with BitLocker I'm in favor of this trend, because my security improves for free. Whenever the NSA finds a security problem and gets the vendor to fix it, our security gets better. It's a side-benefit of dual-use...
 
Tags: security, bad guys insecure, guys, non-security, security improves, technologies, dual-use technologies, security improvements, agency
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Atlantic the UKs GCHQ is finding bugs in PGPDisk and reporting them back to the company. (NSA is rumored to be doing the same thing with BitLocker I'm in favor of this trend, because my security improves for free. Whenever the NSA finds a security problem and gets the vendor to fix it, our security gets better. It's a side-benefit of dual-use...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Atlantic the UKs GCHQ is finding bugs in PGPDisk and reporting them back to the company. (NSA is rumored to be doing the same thing with BitLocker I'm in favor of this trend, because my security improves for free. Whenever the NSA finds a security problem and gets the vendor to fix it, our security gets better. It's a side-benefit of dual-use...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look

2008-05-12 00:00:00 by Carolyn Duffy Marsan in Network World on Security