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Communicating Risk & Macs Can Do Anything

2008-03-17 13:29:33 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...Chicago Tribune beat writer who hates quantitative analysis, and Michael Schur, a writer and producer for the US version of The Office who goes by Ken Tremendous on the weblog. Turns out Michael is big on the Moneyball Quants and the new class of metrics they use Chicago Tribune: The cold, hard facts might back up Baseball Prospectus opinion...
 
Tags: information security agency, information security, security, security amrit covers, chicago tribune, junk charts weblog, weblog, long-time chicago tribune, risk
 
 
 
 
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Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters

2008-01-18 07:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Chicago Fire of 1871 was that fire alarms were kept locked to prevent false alarms: Q: Prior to 1870, street corner fire alarm pull boxes were kept locked. Why were they kept locked and how did a person gain access to 'pull the box A: They were kept locked due to false alarms. Nearby shopkeepers or beat cops carried the keys Here's Robert...
 
Tags: boxes, false fire alarms, fire, fire alarms, false alarms, prevent false alarms, alarm boxes, alarm, chicago fire
 
 
 
 
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Starbucks Leadership Shake Up Signals In-Store Direction

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2008-04-24 15:01:48 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area got service, but Chicago and Los Angeles are still listed as "coming soon," and other metropolitan areas are now "by the end of 2008," which would tie in neatly with Starbucks' other plans With caching servers, content is pushed to the edge. Retrieving a 2 GB movie from iTunes thus becomes a matter of a...
 
Tags: starbucks, entertainment, starbucks entertainment senior, att, att deal, tie, starbucks att markets, starbucks tie-in, starbucks idea
 
 
 
 
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A Wi-Fi virus outbreak? Researchers say it's possible

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
If criminals were to target unsecured wireless routers, they could create an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas like Chicago or New York City, according to researchers at Indiana University
 
Tags: indiana university, york city, researchers, wireless routers, wi-fi networks, thousands, attack, chicago, criminals
 
 
 
 
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Data center robbery leads to new thinking on security

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x847151c in Network World on Security
 
Last October, a data center in Chicago owned by Web hosting and collocation vendor C I Host was robbed by two masked men, who pistol-whipped a lone IT staffer working the graveyard shift and then held him hostage for two hours while stealing computer equipment
 
Tags: data center, computer equipment, graveyard shift, chicago owned, collocation vendor, hours, lone, hostage, held
 
 
 
 
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Sports stars to practice self-protection?

2007-12-17 18:59:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Chicago police officer who worked for three years as a bodyguard to NBA star Denis Rodman said; "if you feel like you need to carry a gun....you need to hire security". A gun is not the ultimate solution to every security threat and guns in the hands of non-experts pose a serious risk factor and open the door to huge liability problems. It is...
 
Tags: security, security threat, security professional, professional security firm, sports stars, hire security, nfl, nfl league spokesman, los angeles angels
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft to simplify directory management

2008-03-03 00:00:00 by John Fontana in Network World on Security
 
CHICAGO Microsoft is developing a number of tools and technologies designed to make it easier to manage users in Active Directory and for companies to confirm identities with partners
 
Tags: confirm identities, active directory, manage users, chicago microsoft, technologies, easier, tools, companies, partners
 
 
 
 
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700,000 records on stolen CCB server

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2008-04-22 14:57:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Chicago Sun-Times (Associated Press NBC Channel 13 Eyewitness News Report Credit Central Collection Bureau Response From the online sources cited above SECURITY BREACH NOTIFICATION ALERT CENTRAL COLLECTION BUREAU Dated April 18, 2008 Indiana residents are hereby alerted to a security breach at Central Collection Bureau (CCB, located at...
 
Tags: dds, gary taylor dds, gary hunt dds, lawrence falender dds, joseph meek dds, caryn guba dds, mark ellis dds, sarah akard dds, ccb
 
 
 
 
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AT&T demos disaster preparedness

2008-05-08 00:00:00 by Carolyn Duffy Marsan in Network World on Security
 
AT&T was in Chicago recently, demonstrating to hundreds of its corporate customers how it responds to natural disasters
 
Tags: chicago recently, natural disasters, responds, att, hundreds, customers
 
 
 
 
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Swingtown - This ain't your mother's CBS

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2008-05-10 22:52:08 by HASH0x8b4a544 in StillSecure, After All These Years