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Spending Money on the Wrong Security Threats

2008-02-19 07:18:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...destruction," Hyten said That's right -- weapons of mass destruction. This year, Putnam County spent most of its $58,000 homeland security grant to buy dozens of gas masks, boxes full of chemical suits, a plutonium-detecting gamma and neutron rae radiological monitor and, for good measure, this rural county about fifty miles west of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Hard drives purchased at Oklahoma auction contained personal information

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2008-05-26 14:48:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction Commission representatives say now they will not allow computers to leave their building with hard drives still in them Evan] Then what becomes of the hard drives? Are they destroyed, stored securely, or just discarded? I don't see any problem with leaving hard drives in the computers as long as they are securely wiped. Using a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Missing University of Akron portable hard drive

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2008-01-14 11:33:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction. Confidential information should not be allowed to be stored on removable media unless absolutely necessary, and even then requires additional levels of protection such as encryption. Once confidential information no longer has any business use and is authorized for destruction, it must be destroyed in a manner that is controlled...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center warns employees

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2008-01-16 09:51:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction. I am currently writing a Data Destruction and Re-Use Standard for a company I work for From the Introduction section of the standard The purpose of the %Company% Data Destruction and Re-Use Standard document is to describe the requirements surrounding the authorized destruction of %Company% data. This document details the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Select Medical Corporation charged by the Texas Attorney General

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2008-01-11 16:20:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction and re-use standards that dictate exactly what secure destruction is and how to carry it out properly Kudos to Greg Abbott and the Levelland Police Department. I am looking forward to the outcome Other companies that the Texas State Attorney General has taken action against include; Minnesota-based Life Time Fitness, CVS...
 
 
 
 
 
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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction). This seems to be a case where you have an IT contractor in charge of design, implementation and maintenance of an application (typically with functionality as a driving factor) but also in charge of maintaining it's security. Information security really is a "stand-alone" function that should not be lumped into the same IT...
 
 
 
 
 
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Visa Services Northwest caught throwing info in dumpster

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2008-01-28 16:23:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction standards that clearly define all of the acceptable methods for destroying data on all media types (paper, CD, DVD. Flash, hard drives, etc Past Breaches Unknown
 
 
 
 
 
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Lost Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey laptop

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2008-02-11 13:52:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction in which "a security feature was initiated" requires network connectivity. Simply disabling the network card(s) or slaving the drive(s) to another computer easily circumvents this security "feature" and does not provide certainty that the data is safe Horizon BCBSNJ takes seriously its obligation to protect personal information....
 
 
 
 
 
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Wellesley seniors' personal information lost in mail

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2008-02-29 11:48:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction procedures once the information has been entered into the systems. In my opinion, this is a poor attempt at minimizing the situation The Postal Service is trying to determine whether theft or mechanical failure was to blame There would be no reason why we would have questioned or hesitated using the US Postal Service to do...
 
 
 
 
 
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Union Mortgage loan applicant information found in dumpster

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2008-02-29 14:14:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...destruction, etc I assume that we will only continue to see more of these types of breaches as more loan companies continue to suffer from today's credit crunch. When I researched Union Mortgage Services for this posting, I had a general sense of uneasiness. The lack of discovered background information and other legitimate references about...