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268,000 donors exposed through stolen Memorial Blood Centers laptop

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2007-12-06 14:09:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The laptop contained names and Social Security numbers of 268,000 blood donors and appears to have not been encrypted Reference URL Press Release on BusinessWire Press Release on the Memorial Blood Centers Press Release Report Credit Memorial Blood Centers Response From the official press release cited...
 
Tags: donors, blood, security, security cameras, store social security, memorial blood centers, donors social security, breach description, blood components
 
 
 
 
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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
...downtown Seattle alley. It is reported that the company has been discarding sensitive materials in this manner for "the last ten years Reference URL KOMOTV.com News Story Report Credit KOMO TV Response From the online source cited above Steve Gillett of Seattle said Visa Services Northwest threw out the sensitive documents instead of...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, visa services, confidential information, sensitive information, gillett, steve gillett, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Tax information exposed in trash

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2008-04-07 13:20:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...downtown Vancouver and turned over to CTV News over the weekend Reference URL CTV News Report Credit David Kincaid and Jina You, CTV British Columbia Response From the online source cited above The private information of dozens of British Columbians was unearthed from a dumpster in downtown Vancouver and turned over to CTV News over the...
 
Tags: information, tax information, employees information, information security, information security guidance, guidance, information security professional, security, include names
 
 
 
 
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University of Miami reports stolen tapes affecting patients

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2008-04-25 15:34:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...downtown Coral Gables, the company reported Reference URL University of Miami announcement The Associated Press via The Florida Times-Union ComputerWorld Report Credit The University of Miami Response From the online sources cited above University of Miami officials last week acknowledged that six backup tapes from its medical school that...
 
Tags: personal information belongs, personal information, tapes, university, information, financial information, secure information services, data, usable data
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: iPhone 3G Plans, TAP-Fi, Free Boingo Day, St. Louis-Fi

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2008-07-02 11:52:38 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...downtown St. Louis network: The company found that it couldn't complete its city-wide proposal due to light pole issues. They've built out a square mile in the downtown, instead. The service is $8 per day and $16 per week, or free for up to 20 hours per month when ads are viewed. AT&T DSL, fiber, and remote business customers get free use of...
 
Tags: iphone, iphone customers, customers, tap, att, trial, six-month trial, att dsl, att launches downtown
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Houston-Fi, ASCII WPA Passphrases, Green Wi-Fi

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2008-08-19 10:26:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...downtown Wi-Fi: Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle accidentally discovers the soft launch of the network funded by EarthLink's $5m default fee. (The fee was paid when they missed a milestone, and the firm later walked away.) The downtown area now has a limited pilot project that's free; the real effort in Houston is supposed to be at...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi attacks, houston, wi-fi security, free downtown wi-fi, free, security, ascii, security theater
 
 
 
 
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Social-Engineering Bank Robbery

2008-01-16 06:36:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...downtown Washington and walked out with more than $350,000 The man had a badge and a gun holster on his belt, said Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office. He told officials at the bank, at 801 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, that he was filling in for the regular courier About 4 p.m., when the real guard showed up, a bank...
 
Tags: bank, officials, bank officials, bank official, bbt bank, security company brink, washington field office, company, office
 
 
 
 
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The Austin Project

2008-01-21 22:45:39 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...downtown Austin, visiting the local nightlife and probably talking about webappsec some more. My goal is not to make myself the grand leader of a group of five people who are webappsec gods, but rather, build a collaborative group of people who change their way of thinking and come out of it with the knowledge on how to fix their little slice...
 
Tags: people, competent people, project, helps people focus, austin project, austin project web-page, security, web application security, site
 
 
 
 
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Toronto Columnists: City Owned Exclusive Broadband a Good Deal

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2008-03-31 13:50:27 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...downtown This op-ed recommends that the city buy the division, and have it build service, which they estimate at about $100 per household, which could save $300 to $400 per household per year for those with broadband. But that means that they prefer any market for broadband to be destroyed in favor of a publicly owned and operated network....
 
Tags: city, broadband, city budgets, city departments, city-wide fibrewireless network, broadband options, implement universal broadband, network, broadband firm
 
 
 
 
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Adding webwise.net into the CNI

2008-04-05 14:13:01 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...downtown St Petersburg, then that site could redirect their web sessions at will and theres likely some criminals in that city with some innovative ideas of what could happen next So the webwise.net domain has suddenly been promoted to become part of the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI The domain is currently hosted at GoDaddy , an...
 
Tags: domain names, purchase domain names, net, dns, dns forgery issue, domain, dns forgery attacks, webwise, net domain