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Nevada Department of Public Safety applicants exposed

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2008-03-07 10:20:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...background checks Breach Description A private firm working for the Nevada Department of Public Safety has lost personal information provided by 109 individuals seeking jobs with the agency Reference URL KTVN Channel 2 News Las Vegas Review-Journal The Houston Chronicle Report Credit KTVN Channel 2 News Response From the online sources...
 
Tags: personal information, lost personal information, sensitive personal information, nevada, confidential personal information, information, nevada payroll information, nevada department, nevada dps
 
 
 
 
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Fly through airport security with Clear, but you don't have less security?

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2008-06-04 12:26:56 by HASH0x8b3dfdc in StillSecure, After All These Years
...background check and all, they knew that I was a low risk for terrorist or other type of activity and therefore would not be subject to the same scrutiny and testing that we all endure when we have to fly. Turns out that I don't think that is exactly the case. However what it does do is allow you to go right to the front of the line in...
 
Tags: security, security line, airport security program, line, security procedures, background check, check, security obligations, background
 
 
 
 
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Fly through airport security with Clear, but you don't have less security

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2008-06-04 13:26:24 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...background check and all, they knew that I was a low risk for terrorist or other type of activity and therefore would not be subject to the same scrutiny and testing that we all endure when we have to fly. Turns out that I don't think that is exactly the case. However what it does do is allow you to go right to the front of the line in...
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...background checks Evan] I'm glad to read that DCF conducts background checks on day care workers. I am all for that. Storing the applications on a laptop computer that is not physically or logically secure is terrible security practice Officials said they don't know how many day-care employees' records were on the stolen computers DCF...
 
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A breach that hits home with 2008 presidential candidates

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2008-03-22 13:16:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...background checks, including security and credit checks. Candidates are also subjected to a Government-sponsored background check. In addition, candidates receive training on the Privacy Act and are required to sign a Privacy Act acknowledgement prior to starting employment. This acknowledgement, among other items, indicates that any employee...
 
Tags: stanley subcontractor employees, subcontractor employees, subcontractor, confidential information, information, information security, stanley, personal information, employees
 
 
 
 
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Contributing To Open Source Software Security

2008-05-05 11:38:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...background I'm proud to announce that Google has sponsored participation in oCERT, the open source computer emergency response team . oCERT is a volunteer workforce of security professionals from the open source community with the goal of providing security vulnerability mediation and incident response services to open source projects. It...
 
Tags: security, source software, software, additional security contributions, background, operational security background, security professionals, security vulnerability mediation, manual security analysis
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 2

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2008-05-20 16:22:24 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...background on the charts I will use those illustrative tools if requested by management, but I tendnotto use them otherwise. Besides the challenges I noted above regarding lines, my rationale is that lines and colors tend to bias interpretation of the results. In other words, if someone sees a risk point plotted in a red background or in the...
 
Tags: risk, managements risk tolerance, enterprise risk tolerance, risk tolerance, likelihood, risk analysis, likelihood connotes, lines, likelihood statement refer
 
 
 
 
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Brushing up on my math skills...

2006-07-21 04:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...background on the financial markets in general; as well as valuation methods for plain vanilla derivatives I searched the net for papers. Marketing and research papers published by the big banks are of great help. Sites like DefaultRisk has loads of papers on Risk Management and Derivatives. But reading them is no simple feat as most of them...
 
Tags: derivatives, topics, plain vanilla derivatives, discuss topics, quantitative finance topics, financial derivatives, quantitative finance, papers, research papers
 
 
 
 
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Is the Bush Administration Getting Serious About Information Security?

2007-11-16 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Earlier this month, President Bush requested $154 million in FY2008 funding for expanding cyber security initiatives at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal agencies. The majority of the initial budget request (which would shift current government fiscal year money from other projects) will reportedly be focused on...
 
Tags: cyber security initiatives, white house officials, homeland security, million, jason miller, federal agencies, dhs, president bush, initial budget