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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Director Thom Mason on December 3rd When the employees opened the attachment or accessed an embedded link, the hacker planted a program on the employees' computers that enabled the hacker to copy and retrieve information. The original e-mail and first potential corruption occurred on October 29, 2007. We have reason to believe that data was...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Pocono Mountain School District "irregularities"

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2008-06-02 12:36:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...director of public information Reference URL Pocono Mountain School District "Letter to Parents Pocono Record The Morning Call Report Credit Pocono Mountain School District Response From the online sources cited above A hacker apparently broke into the computers at Pocono Mountain School District and may have tapped into confidential...
 
Tags: district, school, contact, promptly contact, school district enrollment, information, personal information, emergency contact names, breach description
 
 
 
 
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US-CERT Gets New Boss

2008-06-06 02:51:45 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...director of US-CERT on June 24, a DHS spokeswoman said Thursday. She is presently acting deputy director of IT security and the chief IT security technologist at the U.S. Department of Justice. She is also an adjunct professor at The George Washington University, where she runs the schools Cyber Defense Lab She replaces Cheri McGuire, who...
 
Tags: us-cert, security technologist, security, deputy director, director, homeland security, george washington university, replaces cheri mcguire, department
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...director of Rosoboronexport approached him to work with "an American company that would act as a front for weapons these nations want to buy Weldon called the proposal an "unbelievable offer The administration, he acknowledged at the time, did not welcome the idea of an American company selling Russian weapons to potentially unfriendly...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #63

2007-05-22 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...director of the EMC Innovation Network . Burt talks about the creation of the Network and about his transition from Director and Chief Scientist of RSA Laboratories . We also announce that June is Speaking of Security podcast listener appreciation month. Be sure to listen to the podcast during June for opportunities to win special prizes....
 
Tags: network, emc innovation network, memorial day holiday, june, burt kaliski, director, security blogger, burt talks, rsa laboratories
 
 
 
 
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Maryland Department of Assessments & Taxation web exposure

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2008-01-05 14:02:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...director of assessments and taxation, said the gap briefly left the numbers exposed, but the information was transferred to a secure server after an application was submitted Evan] Let's hope that the "secure server" is actually secure. This breach would not have occurred if proper security testing were carried out prior to production. If the...
 
Tags: maryland, sensitive personal information, personal information, secure server hadhas, server, web application server, application, information, information security
 
 
 
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell discusses a proposed plan to monitor all -- that's right, all -- internet communications for security purposes, an idea so extreme that the word " Orwellian " feels too mild The article (now online here ) contains this passage : In order for cyberspace to be policed, internet activity will...
 
Tags: privacy, security, security affects privacy, people, people choose security, choose security, anti-privacy, afford privacy, security theater
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...director of the county's Department of Administrative Services On Monday, Archer said she "questioned the wisdom" of Barrett's office forwarding confidential information included in its vendor database in response to a public record request by the group Evan] What wisdom County Executive Scott Walker said he had not heard of any complaints...
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk

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2008-02-28 16:10:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...director Lee Bevan said: "I thought it was a spoof at first - I just figured someone was having a joke Mr Bevan put the disk into the drive to check it and found it was encrypted Evan] I understand how curiosity can drive someone to put the disk in the drive to find out what is/was on it, but I wouldn't suggest doing this if it's marked...
 
Tags: home office, disk, laptop, source home office, home office spokesman, director lee bevan, lee bevan, highly confidential, leapfrog computers
 
 
 
 
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Personal information of 103,000 doctors from 11 states posted to web site

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2008-03-03 09:19:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Director of Communications, Molly Tuttle, says the information was accidently posted to the website for about two months, and involved doctors who had filed a claim with the company between September of 2005, and September of 2006 Evan] I wonder how it was detected. Two months is plenty of time for search bots to index the site if it was...
 
Tags: personal information, sensitive personal information, information, providers personal information, doctors, health net, health net employees, 103-thousand doctors, social security