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WakeMed Emergency Department laptop goes missing

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2008-01-31 01:32:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Emergency Department Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Ambulance patients Number Affected As many as 850 Types of Data Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers Breach Description A laptop is missing and presumed stolen from the WakeMed Emergency Department that contains sensitive personal information belonging to roughly 850...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, information, medical information, download diagnostic information, emergency department, county ambulances, ambulances, laptop, county
 
 
 
 
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Great Fear-Mongering Product: Subway Emergency Kit

2008-06-09 12:11:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...emergency can happen at anytime and in anyplace, leaving one vulnerable. Don't be a sitting duck. The Subivor Subway Emergency Kit can aid you in seeing and breathing while exiting. This all-in-one compact, portable and easy to use subway emergency kit contains some items never seen before in a kit This could have won my Third Movie-Plot...
 
Tags: subway emergency kit, kit, emergency, train fire, fire, paper towel, movie-plot threat, all-in-one compact, protection
 
 
 
 
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Mauritius gets computer emergency response team

2008-05-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473714 in Network World on Security
 
The Mauritian minister of IT and telecommunications, Etienne Sinatambou, launched the Computer Emergency Response Team of Mauritius (CERT-MU) last Friday. On its way to becoming a "cyber-island," the small island state off the east coast of Africa is becoming increasingly exposed to cyber-security threats
 
Tags: cyber-island, island, mauritian minister, etienne sinatambou, mauritius, east coast, cyber-security threats, friday, increasingly
 
 
 
 
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Emergency notification displays to bolster Virginia Tech alert systems

2008-08-20 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Virginia Tech, the scene of April 2007 campus killings, is adding 220 message displays to convey emergency alerts to students who are in classrooms where cell phones are not supposed to be used
 
Tags: virginia tech, convey emergency alerts, message displays, cell phones, campus killings, april, scene, students, classrooms
 
 
 
 
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Virginia Tech intros another emergency notification system

2008-08-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b6eb60 in Network World on Security
 
When Virginia Tech's 28,000 students return to classes for the fall on Monday, they will benefit from another emergency mass notification system added over the summer in response to the April 2007 campus killings of 32 people by a lone gunman
 
Tags: virginia tech, students return, campus killings, lone gunman, classes, response, summer, monday, people
 
 
 
 
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Over 400 Calls Made Using Hacked Federal Emergency Management Agency PBX Network

2008-08-21 16:25:32 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia. The hacker made more than 400 calls on a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) voicemail system in Emmitsburg, Md., on Saturday and Sunday, according to FEMA spokesman Tom Olshanski. The
 
Tags: calls, middle east, hacker, voicemail system, sunday, weekend, fema, saturday, asia
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft to rush out emergency Windows patch

2008-10-23 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Microsoft will rush out an emergency security patch for Windows users on Thursday The company offered
 
Tags: emergency security patch, windows users, rush, microsoft, thursday, company
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft to rush out emergency Windows patch

2008-10-23 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Microsoft will rush out an emergency security patch for Windows users on Thursday
 
Tags: emergency security patch, windows users, rush, microsoft, thursday
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft to Release Emergency, Out-of-Band Windows Update Today

2008-10-23 07:36:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...emergency security update for Windows. The details of the vulnerability were not revealed in the Advance Notification Bulletin that Microsoft released late last night , but we can assume it's a significant one for Microsoft to go "out of band" and release it before the next scheduled Patch Tuesday, two and a half weeks from now. Out-of-band...
 
Tags: windows, windows server, microsoft, affects windows vista, vulnerability affects windows, vulnerability, advance notification, advance notification bulletin, band