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Drug Runners Stepping Up Mini-Sub Use

2008-10-01 21:40:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Latin American drug smugglers are stepping up their use of small, hand-made mini-subs in order to dodge U.S. military patrols in the eastern Pacific. The Coast Guard detected just 23 mini-subs between 2001 and 2007. This number "ballooned" to some 60 subs so far this year
 
Tags: subs, hand-made mini-subs, mini-subs, eastern pacific, military patrols, coast guard, dodge
 
 
 
 
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Drug Runners Stepping Up Mini-Sub Use

2008-10-01 21:40:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Latin American drug smugglers are stepping up their use of small, hand-made mini-subs in order to dodge U.S. military patrols in the eastern Pacific. The Coast Guard detected just 23 mini-subs between 2001 and 2007. This number "ballooned" to some 60 subs so far this year
 
Tags: subs, hand-made mini-subs, mini-subs, eastern pacific, military patrols, coast guard, dodge
 
 
 
 
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What is Safe Enough?

2007-08-03 11:28:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...drug safety titled " FDA Drug Standards: What's Safe Enough? " I think a few of their points are pretty relevant to the discussion Does the FDA advisory panel's decision mean Avandia is safe It's safe enough, according to 22 of the 23 scientists on the FDA panel. That means the drug's benefits -- decreasing blood-sugar levels -- are more...
 
Tags: drug, fda drug standards, safe, fda, measure safe, drug safety, fda panel, fda advisory panel, market
 
 
 
 
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Biotech Platforms

2008-09-04 10:08:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...drug discovery platform is the first and most important criterion for defining a good platform company. The platform is typically comprised of a combination of technology, experienced personnel and intellectual property that can generate a stream of drug candidates. Most importantly, investing should be done only after a product of the...
 
Tags: drug, treatment, cancer treatment, commercial drug, platforms, drug discovery platform, platform, cells, cancer cells
 
 
 
 
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Measuring the Wrong Things?

2008-03-24 21:04:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...drugs, therapies, etc. to get to the diagnostic numbers they want, but now we're finding out that perhaps the numbers are not necessarily representing what we'd like them to The example from the article was Doctors call it "treating the numbers" trying to get a patient's test results to a certain target, which they assume will treat or...
 
Tags: security, security comparable, metrics, security metrics, drug, cholesterol drug, cholesterol, lowers cholesterol, workshop held
 
 
 
 
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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
...drug screenings Investigators also discovered sensitive medical information among the records, including initial evaluation and plan of care forms, insurance verification sheets, drug and alcohol testing verification forms, and social and vocational therapy questionnaires The defendants are charged with improperly and unlawfully disposing...
 
Tags: clients personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, sensitive medical information, customers sensitive information, texas attorney, texas, attorney
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...drug dealer who was cooperating with federal agents to get his sentence reduced. Backed by the JTTF, Defreitas suddenly obtained the means to travel to the Caribbean, conduct Google Earth searches of JFK's grounds and build a complex, multifaceted, international terror conspiracy -- albeit one that was impossible to actually pull off. After...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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Human error is blamed in WellCare Health Plans breach

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2008-04-09 12:39:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...drug plans, currently serving more than 2.3 million members nationwide Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Members of "Georgia Families Number Affected up to 71,000 Types of Data name, birth date, dates of eligibility, Medicaid or PeachCare for Kids member identification number, social security number or other health plan related...
 
Tags: breach, wellcare, information, personal information, wellcare health plans, health plans, information technology issue, georgia families, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Murder, His Hard Drive Wrote

2008-05-23 04:00:00 by Marty Graham in Wired Security
 
...drug lords later convicted of murder and drug crimes in 2007), they recovered 14 phones including one with a photo of a machine gun," Adimari says She has hundreds of power and data cables, since they're all peculiar to individual phones. And she has a special box that blocks signals on the phones in the lab, so no information is lost or...
 
Tags: lab, murder, regional forensic lab, hard, hard drive, san diego lab, data cables, data, murder investigations
 
 
 
 
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What would you do if you knew the Air Marshal on your plane was smuggling Drugs?

2008-11-15 23:34:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...drugs, molesting children, abducting a female escort during a layover in Washington D.C., hiring a hitman to kill a spouse and many other criminal acts The ex-Air Marshal who was convicted of smuggling drugs apparently used his position to work with a drug dealer to carry cocaine and drug money with him on flights around the country. He was...
 
Tags: air, air marshals, federal air marshals, marshal, air marshal service, service, drugs, ex-air marshal, plane