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Donor personal information was on Lifeblood stolen laptop

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2008-02-14 10:17:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...discourage people from donating Blood is always going to be needed in the community, there's no substitute for that," said Dr. Scott Evan] This is by far the most intelligent remark of any I have read about this breach. PEOPLE NEED BLOOD AND BLOOD SAVES LIVES . At the end of the day, I would trade my Social Security number to save someone's...
 
Tags: mobile blood collection, blood, personal information, memorial blood centers, blood saves lives, blood type, lifebloods blood donors, lifeblood, information
 
 
 
 
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Reward: $68 million for ratting out your employer

2008-02-20 16:57:43 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...discourage unethical behavior, was ordered last week by a Federal District Court judge to be removed from its domain name. Of course, the sites IP address is still active, and its mirror sites continue to deliver the same content, encouraging individuals to post very sensitive, very damaging information From a risk management standpoint,...
 
Tags: million, online whistleblower site, site, million merck, mirror sites continue, employees, online, sites, international employees
 
 
 
 
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Top 10 computer virus threat and what can you do about it?

2006-12-05 06:09:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...discourage products from companies that use this slimy advertising channel 6. Identity theft and data loss will continue to be a public issue WCYD: Identity theft has been a nuisance for several years. The victims of identity fraud include lawyers, doctors and security professionals. It is a good idea to protect yourself so that you don't...
 
Tags: wcyd, anti-virus, anti-virus software vendor, identity theft, identity theft victim, traditional anti-virus software, removal, mobile phone, sites
 
 
 
 
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Do you listen to your users?

2008-04-04 21:18:17 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...discourage ISPs from monitoring outgoing traffic proactively, they should enjoy a time-limited immunity when they have themselves detected the problem. (3.69 Club: "Software produces must take more care when writing software to avoid bugs in the first place Committee 8.12. The IT industry has not historically made security a priority. This is...
 
Tags: internet, personal internet security, software, content control software, software vendors, users, software liability, club, ilkley computer club
 
 
 
 
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Surveillance and the use of social psychology

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2007-03-13 23:30:47 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
There is a lot of talk about both surveillance and psychology these days. The following photo and quote taken from Boing Boing The quote below is from a recent New York Times Magazine article describing a psychology experiment conducted by Newcastle University in which those conducting the experiments taped alternating photos above an on your...
 
Tags: coffee, honor coffee station, psychology, coffee station, psychology experiment, social psychology simultaneously, eyes poster, eyes, weeks
 
 
 
 
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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...discourage the publishing and reading of certain content -- it has even jailed people for their online activities The second half of Access Denied consists of detailed descriptions of Internet use, regulations and censorship in eight regions of the world, and in each of 40 different countries. The ONI found evidence of censorship in 26 of...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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CISA and CISSP Preparation

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2008-07-31 13:14:07 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
...discourage people from taking the exams before they are ready. If you truly meet the background requirements, then you should have had some contact with many of the core topic areas for the exam If you are looking at the core content of the examination, and do not believe that you really have the breadth of exposure to be able to describe...
 
Tags: exam, exam requirements, cissp exam preparation, half-length exam, exam cram series, certification exam, exam preparation materials, preparation materials, cissp
 
 
 
 
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Economist.com - Confessions of a Risk Manager

2008-08-11 08:42:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...discourage transactions. If a risk manager said no, he was immediately on a collision course with the business line. The risk thinking therefore leaned towards giving the benefit of the doubt to the risk-takers Collective common sense suffered as a result. Often in meetings, our gut reactions as risk managers were negative. But it was...
 
Tags: risk, risk manager, risk factors, risk-takers, business, business line, risk managers, risk department, business lines
 
 
 
 
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Clarity on Qantas' Plans: OnAir and Aeromobile

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2008-09-24 16:01:14 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...discourage much use. Calls and texting could be carried over the same system, of course Qantas plans to continue to work with Aeromobile for domestic service, with calls and texting available, on their Boeing 767-300s and Airbus A330-200s, Flightglobal reports. Aeromobile has plans to launch a full Internet service later this year using...
 
Tags: plans, qantas, service, channel service, internet service, qantas plans, onair, flightglobal, trade mag flightglobal
 
 
 
 
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The asymmetry of data loss - data thief has an upper hand

2008-10-01 06:33:22 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...discourage data thief is to increase his/her cost to steal the data. There are other inferences from the above equation. If there exists no competitive advantage with the stolen data, hardly any thief would even venture to steal the data in the first place. If the cost of producing data is very low, then probably thief can just produce the...