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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
...East Both trips were part of the company's effort to tap into the growing -- and often legally murky -- market for selling weapons from former Eastern Bloc countries to the Middle East and Afghanistan Ex-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., is helping broker deals between Russian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments through his...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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IDC East Africa holds meeting on IT security

2008-07-30 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473480 in Network World on Security
 
IDC East Africa held its regional meeting in Nairobi, bringing together local experts in IT security from Oracle, Nokia, EMC and Kaspersky
 
Tags: local experts, security, nokia, kaspersky, emc, oracle, regional, nairobi
 
 
 
 
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Stolen General Internal Medicine laptop exposes nearly 12,000

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2008-05-05 12:17:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...EAST HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A laptop stolen from a doctors office containing the social security numbers of patients and office staff was stolen recently in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County Reference URL WGAL Channel 8 News Lancaster Intelligencer Journal General Internal Medicine of Lancaster Report Credit General Internal...
 
Tags: internal medicine, office, doctors office, information, personal information, office staff, basic patient information, east hempfield township, physicians alliance office
 
 
 
 
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6,200 people notified of ETSU stolen computer

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2008-06-09 14:45:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...East Tennessee State University Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims students, alumni and staff Number Affected 6,200 Types of Data personal information Breach Description JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - East Tennessee State University has sent a letter to 6,200 people whose identities could be compromised by the theft of a desktop computer ...
 
Tags: computer, etsu, information, personal information, client computer poses, client computer, confidential information, desktop computer, theft
 
 
 
 
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U of Texas Health Science Center takes responsibility for mailing error

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2008-04-29 15:55:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...East Texas last week with patients' Social Security numbers visible on the envelope after a technical glitch skewed billing at the collection agency used by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler Reference URL Tyler Morning Telegraph Report Credit Lauren Grover, Tyler Morning Telegraph with a special thanks to Attrition.org...
 
Tags: social security, uthsct, uthsct web site, collection agency, collection agency cbe, cbe, cbe officials, uthsct business office, patients
 
 
 
 
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Female Bodyguards Get the Job Done.

2008-09-28 21:45:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Eastern clients who wish to have their women and children protected by female agents That is exactly why SEXTON EXECUTIVE SECURITY( www.sextonsecurity.com )designed a Middle East E.P./C.P. course that will be held in the U.A.E. from the 11th of October through the 18th. The President, John Sexton summed it up as follows; "We saw the need...
 
Tags: john sexton, sexton, lisa baldwin, baldwin, sexton executive security, middle eastern clients, clients, protection, executive protection
 
 
 
 
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What If It Happened in 1979?

2008-01-16 22:23:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...east war escalated and the tensions between the superpowers grew. March 17, 1979 nuclear war broke out: Egyptian missiles with Soviet warheads struck against Israel ..." ( read it ) This is indeed one of the most detailed and enlightening "alternative future" scenarios that I've seen About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: soviet warheads struck, mid-east war, fun, egyptian missiles, alternative future, nuclear war, superpowers, hey, tensions
 
 
 
 
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Unshredding

2008-01-23 16:19:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...East German Stazi documents, but the technology is more general of course: The machine-shredded stuff is confetti, largely unrecoverable. But in May 2007, a team of German computer scientists in Berlin announced that after four years of work, they had completed a system to digitally tape together the torn fragments. Engineers hope their...
 
Tags: torn fragments, german computer scientists, fragments, razor sharp, dot matrix, jigsaw puzzle, pieces, engineers hope, software
 
 
 
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...east its first decade In a Jan. 21 New Yorker article, 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...
 
Tags: privacy, security, security affects privacy, people, people choose security, choose security, anti-privacy, afford privacy, security theater
 
 
 
 
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Web traffic disruption raises Internet infrastructure vulnerability concerns

2008-01-31 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
While the damaged cables have caused major service problems in the Middle East and parts of Asia, both ISPs and experts say the disruptions are unlikely to greatly affect American businesses
 
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