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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Citizens Advice Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Clients from the Belfast area Number Affected 60,000 Types of Data Name, address, date of birth, and national insurance number*. In a number of cases, financial data A National Insurance number is roughly equivalent to a U.K. version of an American Social Security number Breach...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Citizens for Responsible Government Network Victims Persons involved with the county Number Affected Unknown Types of Data patient and legal records Breach Description Milwaukee County officials released a copy of their "county spending database" to the activist group Citizens for Responsible Government Network that contained sensitive...
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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Pennsylvania Department of Aging seniors affected by stolen laptop

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2008-01-03 17:18:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...citizens Number Affected 21,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical information and list of services received from the state Breach Description A laptop computer containing sensitive personal information belonging to Pennsylvania senior citizens was stolen from a Department of Aging employee's home on December...
 
Tags: pennsylvania, pennsylvania department, department, sensitive personal information, personal information, information, computer, laptop computer, medical information
 
 
 
 
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D.C. Gun Ban Lifted - Thank You Supreme Court!

2008-06-27 02:23:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...citizens in the District of Columbia would be allowed to protect their homes and families The vote was not unanimous by any means - the historical decision was arrived at by a 5 to 4 vote to remove the ban prohibiting District residents from obtaining handguns. In a WTOP radio interview today, the NRA lobby spokesman, Chris Cox, spoke about...
 
Tags: mayor, mayor fenty, supreme court, virginia home, virginia, mayor acted, home, law, guns
 
 
 
 
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Who's Behind the Georgia Cyber Attacks?

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2008-08-14 10:16:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency; without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service; an army of trained civilians, which may be an official reserve army, called upon in time of need; the national police force of a country; the entire able-bodied...
 
Tags: attacks, georgia cyber attacks, warfare, departamental cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, information warfare concept, information warfare, russian, russian oligarchs
 
 
 
 
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Some Massachusetts seniors are at risk

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2007-12-04 16:17:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...citizens are being warned about a computer security breach involving the states Prescription Advantage program Comfyllama] It seems like senior citizens are among the easiest prey for identity theives Executive Office of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Alison Goodwin wouldnt say what kind of personal information may have been...
 
Tags: breach, computer security breach, breach description, prescription advantage, security breach, prescription advantage program, data-breach laws, lone identity thief, thief
 
 
 
 
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What's in your wallet?

2008-01-30 10:07:53 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
...citizens were dismayed (the one who got the card and the one who bothered to write the article). UK (as well as EU and Canadian) citizens seem to be more privacy sensitive as a whole. I did not see any similar articles in the US press, beyond Mastercard assuring consumers that their technology is secure As a consumer, the subject of the...
 
Tags: credit cards, cards, credit, credit card, card, card issuer, credit card companies, card account, technology
 
 
 
 
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The Cyber Storm II Cyber Exercise

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2008-04-03 12:29:03 by HASH0x8b6d0a8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...citizens with cyber warfare or CYBERINT capabilities, will win over the country that's dedicating special units for both defensive and offensive activities, something China's that's been copying attitude from the U.S military thinkers, is already envisioning Morever, Taiwan, too, copycating the U.S, performed a cyber warfare exercise...
 
Tags: cyber warfare, passive cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, offensive cyber warfare, cyber warfare exercise, warfare, econonomic warfare, cyber warfare attacks, broader information warfare
 
 
 
 
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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...citizens were doomed Today, things are very different. Internet censorship is flourishing. Organizations selectively block employees' access to the Internet. At least 26 countries -- mainly in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the former Soviet Union -- selectively block their citizens' Internet access. Even more countries...
 
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Daniel Solove on the New FISA Law

2008-07-14 12:08:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...citizens know little about what is going on, and it will be difficult for them to find out, since everything is kept so secret. Secrecy and accountability rarely go well together. The telecomm lawsuits were at least one way that citizens could demand some information and accountability, but now that avenue appears to be shut down...