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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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Pocono Mountain School District "irregularities"

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2008-06-02 12:36:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...emergency contact names, and emergency contact phone numbers Breach Description An apparent cyber break-in of Pocono Mountain School District's computer system has put at potential risk personal information about students and parents, the district announced Friday District Superintendent Dwight Pfennig sent home letters on Friday afternoon...
 
Tags: district, school, contact, promptly contact, school district enrollment, information, personal information, emergency contact names, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...emergency services would have been summoned automatically if someone stepped inside Evan] This did not appear to have happened. According to the news story, emergency services were not even aware of this physical breach until notified by the Pettigrews However North Yorkshire Police have confirmed that the only call received was from Daniel...
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Getting students, faculty to sign up for campus alerts

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b1f454 in Network World on Security
 
Although many colleges and universities have been installing or updating their emergency notification systems for students, faculty and staff since last April's shootings at Virginia Tech, technology can't fix one problem: not everyone who's eligible for the emergency alerts wants them
 
Tags: emergency notification systems, faculty, emergency alerts, students, virginia tech, fix, shootings, staff, eligible
 
 
 
 
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Bulk Text Messaging

2008-04-11 06:22:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...emergency alert system using text messages delivered to cellphones The real question is whether the benefits outweigh the risks. I could certainly imagine scenarios where getting short text messages out to everyone in a particular geographic area is a good thing, but I can also imagine the hacking possibilities And once this system is...
 
Tags: short text messages, text messages, imagine scenarios, bulk sms business, imagine, federal regulators, real question, benefits outweigh, system
 
 
 
 
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Intel: Disasters can be 'business as usual' with enough planning

2008-06-18 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Intel's ecosystem of disaster-planning professionals includes emergency response teams, emergency operations centers, issue-prevention management teams and crisis-management teams
 
Tags: emergency operations centers, teams, management teams, intel, ecosystem
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...emergency contacts Comfyllama] But no! The issue was not fixed after bringing the site back online Canadian law does not require organizations to disclose when they've suffered security breaches Comfyllama] Canadian law SHOULD require it (and more Other Responses I was expecting the site to tell me that I couldn't do that," said Jamie...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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Is the Bush Administration Getting Serious About Information Security?

2007-11-16 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Emergency Readiness Team . See this Federal Computer Week story by Jason Miller titled White House officials ask for $154 million in new cybersecurity spending for more background