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City of Minneola firefighters exposed on web

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2008-03-17 10:27:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/16/08 Organization City of Minneola (FL Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims City firefighters Number Affected 10 Types of Data names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers Breach Description The city of Minneola is being accused of violating federal, state and local...
 
Tags: city, city clerk error, city clerk, city firefighters, information, personal information, firefighters, city council, information act
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Phila., Minneapolis, St. Louis Park (Minn.), Texas, Foster City (Calif.), Naperville (Ill.), Chehalis and Centralia (Wash.), Cambria C

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2008-06-11 14:33:41 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Philadelphia may find operator for Wi-Fi network: The AP reports that the City of Brotherly Love's Wi-Fi network isn't yet down, or down for the count. While it's scheduled to be flipped off tomorrow (you can read whatever you like into the phrase "flipped off"), the city is talking to a party it won't disclose about the networks future....
 
Tags: city, big-city network, residents oppose wi-fi, wi-fi, mount wi-fi radios, wi-fi hotzones, wi-fi network, network, network hardware
 
 
 
 
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Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees

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2008-02-12 15:03:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/11/08 Organization Modesto City Schools Contractor/Consultant/Branch Systematic Automation Inc Victims School district employees Number Affected 3,500 Types of Data Names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers Breach Description A computer hard drive containing sensitive...
 
Tags: district officials, district, district employees, school district, school district employees, employees, sensitive personal information, information, provide information
 
 
 
 
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Heavily Armed Officers on New York City Subways

2008-02-07 06:06:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Why does anyone think this is a good idea? In the first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in the nation, roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city's subway system daily, beginning next month, officials said on Friday Under a tactical plan called...
 
Tags: patrol platforms, subway system daily, patrol, tactical plan, officers, rockefeller center, city, times square, herald square
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Fon Founder Profiled; Creative No-Fi; Inspiair Physics-Fi; Foster City-Fi

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2008-05-27 13:17:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Profile of Fon founder and his plans for future in the New York Times: The head Fonero, Martin Varsavsky, gets a write-up from a confab he put together and hosted at his vacation home on Menorca. Varsavsky is nothing but interesting, something I've heard from everyone who has met or had business dealings with him, and this article partly details...
 
Tags: fon, fon founder, foster city, fon locations, city, martin varsavsky, varsavsky, article, article partly details
 
 
 
 
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Cameras in the New York City Subways

2008-01-25 13:41:52 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
An update : New York City's plan to secure its subways with a next-generation surveillance network is getting more expensive by the second, and slipping further and further behind schedule. A new report by the New York State Comptroller's office reveals that "the cost of the electronic security program has grown from $265 million to $450...
 
Tags: york, york city, million, electronic security program, subway surveillance program, modern security network, stations, next-generation surveillance network, subway stations
 
 
 
 
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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
MetroFi will sell its networks, but plans to shutter if there are no buyers: Ah, folks, the trifecta has arrived, and I'm nothing but sad about it. MetroFi's chief Chuck Haas emailed me this evening with the news that his firm has decided that they will sell their networks in nine cities, including their first cities in the Bay Area (Cupertino,...
 
Tags: metro-scale wi-fi, wi-fi, large-city wi-fi network, wi-fi providers, wi-fi network, york wi-fi plan, city, city dollars, super-fast wi-fi network
 
 
 
 
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Three Essays on Muni-Fi You Should Read

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2008-05-20 12:50:08 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
In the aftermath of the last man standing, MetroFi, announcing its metro-scale Wi-Fi endgame, three useful essays have appeared: If you're trying to understand the past, present, and future of the space, I recommend you read these short opinion pieces First, Karl Edwards of Excelsio, a firm that consults on municipal broadband, lays out a pretty...
 
Tags: ocean city, wi-fi, wi-fi service, city, york city, offer free wi-fi, percent, city set, 90-plus percent coverage
 
 
 
 
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Passenger Says He Hacked Windows In New York Taxi Display Screen

2007-12-28 14:02:19 by Editor in Security Links
 
A software engineer says he accessed a New York City cabs video display system files after seeing an error message on the screen By K.C. Jones InformationWeek December 27, 2007 03:10 PM A New York City software engineer managed to gain access to the operating system for a touch-screen display available in the back seat of many Manhattan...
 
Tags: display, display systems vendor, display systems, credit card, card, sensitive information, information, display system, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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L.A. Dept. of Water of Power employees exposed

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2008-02-19 17:11:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/15/08 Organization Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ("DWP Contractor/Consultant/Branch Systematic Automation Inc This breach appears to be related to " Theft