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Stolen Griffin Electric laptop exposes employee information

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2008-04-11 11:40:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Electric Inc Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Employees Number Affected Unknown The New Hampshire State Attorney General was notified of "approximately 55 New Hampshire residents Types of Data employee names, social security numbers and dates of birth Breach Description Please be advised that our company experienced a potential...
 
Tags: information, personal medical information, personal information, confidential information, data, information security professionals, data owner, data encryption products, data custodian
 
 
 
 
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A Critical Time for Critical Infrastructure: Some Utilities Step Up

2008-03-17 18:07:36 by Posted By: Earl Perkins, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...electricity, gas and water to citizens worldwide, have specific requirements that have been highlighted as infrastructure ages, while threats external and internal underscore the "critical" in "critical infrastructure." In North America, bulk electric systems now have compliance goals in the form of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)...
 
Tags: critical infrastructure, critical, critical infrastructure protection, ami security requirements, ami security, critical infrastructure services, ami, infrastructure, ami-sec
 
 
 
 
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Did the Chinese PLA Attack the U.S. Power Grid?

2008-06-02 06:37:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to U.S. government officials and computer-security experts One prominent expert told National Journal he believes that China's People's Liberation Army played a role in the power outages. Tim Bennett, the...
 
Tags: government, government officials, august 14th blackout, august, computer, officials, blackout, status computer, computer hackers
 
 
 
 
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UPC Switching Scam

2008-10-31 06:43:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...electric welders, power winches, personal computers, and electric generators Tidwell created fraudulent UPC labels on his home personal computer. Conspirators entered various stores in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Texas and placed the fraudulent labels on merchandise they targeted, and then bought the items from the store. The...
 
Tags: merchandise, fraudulent upc labels, scam, high-end vacuum cleaners, switch bar codes, home personal computer, clueless checkout clerks, fraudulent labels, actual retail
 
 
 
 
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Group defines cyberattack prevention rules for nation's power grid

2008-01-17 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C., today approved eight Critical Infrastructure Protection standards for the physical- and cybersecurity of the electric-power grid, in spite of concerns from industry about the expense of replacing older equipment that can't be patched
 
Tags: electric-power grid, expense, industry, washington, physical-, cybersecurity, concerns, equipment, spite
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Power Networks

2008-01-22 14:24:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...electric, water, oil & gas and other critical industry asset owners from all across North America, that "We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands. We suspect, but cannot confirm, that some of these attackers had the benefit of inside knowledge. We...
 
Tags: power, power companies, companies, cia actively, power outages, cia, cia rumor, disrupt power equipment, attacks
 
 
 
 
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The Liquid Bomb

2008-04-03 17:11:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...electric element such as a lightbulb or wiring would have been inserted A disposable camera would have provided a power source Any chemists want to take a crack at this one
 
Tags: liquid bomb, food dye, disposable camera, power source, electric element, batteries, distinctive colour, actual information, 500ml bottles
 
 
 
 
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$160 Billion Robotic Army Network Passes First Big Test. Kinda.

2008-04-30 04:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...electric armored vehicles. The Future Combat Systems program, co-managed by Boeing and consultants SAIC, aims to equip roughly a third of the Army with 14 new vehicle types that are connected constantly to a vast communications net The theory behind the FCS is that dispersed, intelligent robotic systems plugged into a universal communications...
 
Tags: fcs network devices, fcs, network, fcs network hardware, test, radios, network radios, army, fcs coffers
 
 
 
 
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BPL Powers Down

2008-05-05 09:59:43 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Electric Delivery deal, which was expected to pass 2m homes by the end of 2008, is over, with Oncor purchasing the telecommunications network for $90m a few days ago. Oncor will use just the smart grid features that allow dramatically improved network monitoring--which is a well-understood aspect of data over powerlines, dating to much slower...
 
Tags: bpl, bpl equipment, bpl service, catalyze bpl, fcc, favorable fcc, oncor, network deployment, network
 
 
 
 
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Copper Thieves are the New Gold Diggers

2008-05-12 02:15:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...electric sub-station on April 27. Last year, we took over security at a site for a client where theives were stripping copper from electrical lines. Similar incidents are taking place all over the country. Thieves are getting so desperate that they are willing to risk getting electrocuted in order to steal the valuable metal Burglaries have...
 
Tags: copper, thieves, visible copper, copper caps, thieves hit, scrap metal dealer, dealer, police, hit construction sites