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Security Consultant Hacks: Size Matters

2007-12-20 05:16:07 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...employ them Security consulting operations come in the standard small, medium and large sizes. Small shops are less than 30 consultants, medium 31-200, large 201 Small shops: Sometimes known as boutique firms or lifestyle firms (since the people that run them take jobs when they want and only when they want) can be excellent resources within...
 
Tags: security consultant, security consultant hacks, security, web application security, security consultants, consultants, grumpy security guy, medium shops, employ
 
 
 
 
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KimsCrafts e-commerce breach affects 4,500

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2007-12-14 16:08:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employ the security required of such endeavors. Do these companies not get the necessary consultations? Do they rely on unqualified people to secure their operations, i.e. outsourced IT staff? Do they just not think of security until something happens? Do they not have the necessary resources (money and/or personnel)? Maybe its a combination...
 
Tags: kimscrafts, breach, e-commerce, credit file, credit, credit card data, kimscrafts e-commerce site, data, data security firm
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Davita laptop with dialysis patient data at risk

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2008-03-06 15:50:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employ encryption Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above March 3, 2008 New Hampshire Department of Consumer Affairs Attn: Consumer Protection 33 Capitol Street Concord, NH 03301 Dear Sir The purpose of...
 
Tags: collect personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, personal, laptop, davita, hampshire, hampshire department
 
 
 
 
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Companies Admit To Reading Email

2008-05-23 14:40:05 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...employee email. And let me tell you, most non-spam email (try 90%) is trivial crap From Tech Herald So who reads your email at the office? Apparently more people than you think. Forty-four percent of the companies responding to the study said that they investigated an email leak of confidential information in the past year. Forty-one percent...
 
Tags: email, outbound email, email leak, employee email, people glance, people, non-spam email, access personal accounts, personal
 
 
 
 
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Hedge Funds Semantics

2006-08-25 01:48:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...employ unconventional trading strategies, and are usually greatly leveraged... All for the pursuit of extraordinary profits. A lot of hedge funds have come and gone and the survival rate is not encouraging. So why are they called "hedge" funds in the first place When we hear the word "hedge" we usually think of protection and safety. In...
 
Tags: hedge, hedge funds, hedge funds act, funds, conventional funds, assets result, assets, risky investments, conventional assets
 
 
 
 
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Are fund managers really overcompensated?

2006-08-11 07:55:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...employ sub-standard managers (whether intentional or not) which results into Mr. Biggs observation of so little value added Some articles about Barton Biggs Morgan Stanley Turtle Trader Weeden & Co Tags: finance investing hedge funds CFA
 
Tags: hedge funds cfa, hedge funds, managers, funds, hedge fund fees, forces, hedge fund, competition forces fees, fees
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen in Royal Bolton Hospital break-in

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2007-12-19 15:24:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employ controls to limit any kind of confidential data storage on client computers Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust boasts about numerous awards on their site , I wonder if one exists for information security. The fact that this is not the first time a computer containing sensitive information was stolen from the Royal Bolton Hospital makes this...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, royal bolton hospital, hospital, sensitive personal information, bolton, information, information security, share patient information
 
 
 
 
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Duke School of Law breach affects 3,200

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2007-12-06 11:37:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employ extensive logging On Thursday, Nov. 29, at about 3:30 p.m., we detected unauthorized links and coding in our web site. As soon as a breach was confirmed, we took the site offline and launched our investigation By Friday, it appeared that we had removed the unauthorized content, and we reposted the web site Comfyllama] Ugh. Thursday...
 
Tags: school, duke school, breach, security, comfyllama social security, complete, breach description, complete security scan, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Increased Interest in Device-Specific Strong Authentication

2007-09-14 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...employ their mobile phones for two-factor authentication. Such organizations may also play the role of outsourcer and are concerned with the provisioning of credentials and new support models. Some of the drivers for this are longstanding, such as increased proliferation of mobile devices to remote employees, partners and consumers Ericsson 1...
 
Tags: mobile devices, credentials, strong authentication credentials, mobile phones, secure remote access, global mobile subscriptions, strong authentication mechanisms, phones, two-factor authentication
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Minnesota Department of Commerce vendor

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2007-12-29 00:01:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employee of Promissor Corporation, a contractor employed by the Minnesota Department of Commerce Reference URL Minnesota Department of Commerce News Release St. Paul Pioneer Press News Story Report Credit Minnesota Department of Commerce Response From the official news release and online source cited above On December 6, 2007 a laptop...
 
Tags: minnesota, minnesota real estate, sensitive personal information, personal information, minnesota department, department, minnesota licensees, real, information