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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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Stampede Death at Wal-Mart

2008-12-01 04:12:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...death of a Wal-Mart employee on Black Friday in New York should never have been allowed to happen The Police are said to be reviewing tapes to see if they can identify who was responsible for trampling the poor man to death. What will that achieve? Obviously it was not done on purpose. The findings are bound to result in an "accidental...
 
Tags: provide, provide security, security, security company, wal-mart, company, security officers, wal-mart employee, death
 
 
 
 
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CEO is Bludgeoned to Death in India.

2008-09-25 15:44:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...death The CEO of an Italian auto parts subsidarary based in Greater Noida, was beaten to death by an angry mob of 200 workers who had been locked out of the factory. They stormed the offices and killed the CEO with a hammer and injured 50 other Executives and workers Eye witness reports claim that Police took over an hour to respond and...
 
Tags: death, ceo, india, workers, police, american ceos, italian auto, angry mob, subsidarary based
 
 
 
 
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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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A Life or Death InfoSec Subversion

2008-10-08 04:42:07 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...death matter. The authors examine the hostages' liberation from an information security perspective, compiling data from several Colombian newspapers and magazines and using the most accepted version of the events
 
Tags: authors examine, information security perspective, attack, communications structure, death matter, colombian guerrilla, life, colombian newspapers, extremely difficult
 
 
 
 
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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