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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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 6/26/08 Organization U.S. Government Contractor/Consultant/Branch Social Security Administration Victims United States citizens Number Affected more than 20,000 Types of Data Name, date of birth and Social Security number Breach Description The Social Security Administration inadvertently...
 
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
This hijack typically begins with the following file opened up from the web If the file is allowed to execute on the PC, depending on what files the bundle is rotating for download at the time of install you may well see the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death (or BSOD to its friends However, all is not what it seems. While the end-user is faced...
 
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
 
The 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
 
American CEOs shouldn't be too troubled by the heat they are taking for their "Golden Parachute" bonuses which are worth tens of millions of dollars. If they were in India, they might just get beaten to 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...
 
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
 
Details about failures of complex and well-implemented information-based attacks on systems are extremely difficult to obtain. However, here the authors examine a real-life analoguean information attack on a highly complex security system, that of the Colombian guerrilla group FARC. This operation included a man-in-the-middle attack, targeted...
 
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
 
Are you ready for more 419 missives Of course you are. Plenty of winning lottery tickets, fictitious banks, a wonderfully sick "Robert Mugabe" themed mail and, er, someone called "Captain Frank Bojo" after the jump Subject HELLO DEAR From abavanagift13 Gazeta.pl Date Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:26:24 +0000 BCC Hello Dear My name is Blessing Abavana,...
 
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
 
Last week was the RSA Conference, easily the largest information security conference in the world. Over 17,000 people descended on San Francisco's Moscone Center to hear some of the over 250 talks, attend I-didn't-try-to-count parties, and try to evade over 350 exhibitors vying to sell them stuff Talk to the exhibitors, though, and the most...
 
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
 
Last week was the RSA Conference, easily the largest information security conference in the world. Over 17,000 people descended on San Francisco's Moscone Center to hear some of the over 250 talks, attend I-didn't-try-to-count parties, and try to evade over 350 exhibitors vying to sell them stuff Talk to the exhibitors, though, and the most...
 
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
 
The New York Times writes about a plausible connection between fear and heart disease: Which is more of a threat to your health: Al Qaeda or the Department of Homeland Security An intriguing new study suggests the answer is not so clear-cut. Although its impossible to calculate the pain that terrorist attacks inflict on victims and society, when...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people