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Social Security Administration lists live people in the Death Master File

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2008-07-07 08:44:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Death Master File (DMF) while they were still alive Reference URL FederalComputerWeek Report Credit Michael Hardy, FederalComputerWeek Response From the online source cited above The Social Security Administration inadvertently compromised the personal information of more than 20,000 people by listing them in the Death Master File (DMF)...
 
Tags: information, secure information, social security, social security administration, personal information, information online, dmf information, death master file, ssa
 
 
 
 
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Malware Install Hides Behind Fake Blue Screen Of Death

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2008-07-09 18:42:24 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...Death (or BSOD to its friends However, all is not what it seems. While the end-user is faced with the horrors of the BSOD, behind the scenes Malware is installing by the bucketload.How is this possible, I hear you cry? Surely if the PC has crashed, nothing can be installing Not in this case, because the blue screen of death is fake - to be...
 
Tags: fake, death, blue, file, scr file, infection file installs, hijack files, hijack, death screensaver
 
 
 
 
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Woman fired over death threat sent from work e-mail

2008-07-16 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
An employee of 1-800-Flowers.com has been fired after an e-mailed death threat was linked to her account
 
Tags: death threat, fired, account, employee, 1-800-flowers
 
 
 
 
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Your 419 Mail Roundup

2008-06-25 13:29:29 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
 
...death However with the benefit of hindsight, owing to the looming but deteriorating crisis in my country, Zimbabwe, my father, before his unfortunate death deposited with International Commercial Bank (ICB) here in Accra Ghana the sum of US$ 35MUsd (Thirty Five Million United States Dollars), with the sole aim of acquiring and buying some...
 
Tags: central bank, bank, magical bank card, bank draft, email address, office email address, bank immediately, lycos lottery, office
 
 
 
 
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The RSA Conference

2008-04-22 06:35:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...death of the security industry . Not the death of information security as a vital requirement, of course, but the death of the end-user security industry that gathers at the RSA Conference. When something becomes infrastructure -- power, water, cleaning service, tax preparation -- customers care less about details and more about results....
 
Tags: non-security companies, companies, end-user security industry, security industry, information security conference, information security, automobile companies, security companies, security
 
 
 
 
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The RSA Conference

2008-04-22 06:35:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...death of the security industry . Not the death of information security as a vital requirement, of course, but the death of the end-user security industry that gathers at the RSA Conference. When something becomes infrastructure -- power, water, cleaning service, tax preparation -- customers care less about details and more about results....
 
Tags: non-security companies, companies, end-user security industry, security industry, information security conference, information security, automobile companies, security companies, security
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...death toll Of course, statistics of any sort, even when the numbers are rock solid, dont mean much to people when theyre assessing threats. Risk researchers have found that even when people know the numbers, theyre less worried about death tolls than about how the deaths occur. They have good reasons -- called rival rationalities -- for...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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Third Parties Controlling Information

2008-02-27 05:46:46 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...death," where entire websites disappear: Olympic and World Cup events after the games are over, political candidates' websites after the elections are over, corporate websites after the funding runs out and so on Mostly, we ignore the issue. Sometimes I save a copy of a good recipe I find, or an article relevant to my research, but mostly I...
 
Tags: regularly disappear, regularly, disappear, position papers disappear, web bulletin board, web, information, entire websites disappear, internet
 
 
 
 
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The Checklist

2008-02-07 20:14:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...deaths. One thing he never mentions is the cost of following the checklist. I thought it interesting, but I can only assume based on the number of lives saved, and the cost of even a single infection, that the costs of following the checklist are far outweighed by the cost savings. Still, it would have been nice to see a cost comparison...
 
Tags: secure, develop secure software, software, software development organizations, health, health care delivery, security, checklist, software development world
 
 
 
 
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SP 800-53A Now Finally Final

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2008-07-01 12:08:12 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...death by compliance If you think the auditors could grill you to death with 800-53, 800-53A gives them tons more material Now time for a war story: I worked on a project where the contractor was having a hard time building a security program, mostly because they didnt have the right staff to get the job done. The government told the...
 
Tags: 800-53a, government docs photo, government, reference implementations, test procedures, compliance, hard time, time, perpetual draft document