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The Corporate Risks Associated with Obsolete Computer Equipment

2007-11-09 00:00:00 by Editor in Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers
 
In this paper, Daniel James discusses the risks posed by obsolete computer equipment in a corporate environment
 
 
 
 
 
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Caller ID spoofing burns fire equipment company

2008-01-24 00:00:00 by Paul McNamara in Network World on Security
 
Todd Smith, owner of Maine Fire Equipment Company, spent an entire day recently hosing off angry callers convinced that his small business was responsible for threatening them during the course of pushy credit-card solicitations
 
 
 
 
 
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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
...equipment they would like to unload. The middlemen, in these cases, serve a key role by allowing the U.S. government to do business with an American company, which in turn buys equipment from Eastern Bloc countries in deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it financed with U.S. taxpayer dollars One of Defense Solutions' sales --...
 
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...equipment capable of wirelessly communicating with this ICD Using our own equipment (an antenna, radio hardware, and a PC), we found that someone could violate the privacy of patient information and medical telemetry. The ICD wirelessly transmits patient information and telemetry without observable encryption. The adversary's computer could...
 
 
 
 
 
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Genworth Financial customer data on stolen computer

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2008-04-06 20:35:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...equipment. This equipment contained information needed to process your insurance application, including, among other data, your name, address and Social Security Number Reference URL New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above ...
 
 
 
 
 
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Staten Island University Hospital notifies patients of December theft

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2008-05-01 15:09:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...equipment stolen from an administrative office in Rosebank in December contained personal information about 88,000 patients who have been treated at Staten Island University Hospital Reference URL Staten Island Advance Staten Island Advance (Video Report Credit Glenn Nyback, Staten Island Advance Response From the online sources cited...
 
 
 
 
 
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"many of Colt's clients" affected by breach, CNET included

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2008-06-25 11:25:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...equipment was taken which contains the human resources data of several of their clients, including CNET. The theft of this equipment may have compromised the personal information of our client's current and former employees and their dependants, and our client is working to understand the extent of any exposure for its employees Reference...
 
 
 
 
 
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Latest 802.11 Standard Boosts Wi-Fi Power in New Band

2008-06-25 14:01:44 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...equipment for this band now, so close to the 3.5 GHz band more commonly exclusively licensed in Europe and elsewhere. WiMax equipment is available because the 3.65 GHz band can be used with WiMax without any modifications to that protocol, although limited to just 25 MHz of the 50 MHz that the FCC set aside Equipment that conforms to a more...
 
 
 
 
 
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CBAC & Medical Identity Theft

2008-07-10 10:09:41 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...equipment for which Unimed had billed Medicare nearly $2 million in the previous couple of months I observed wheelchairs and canes through the window but did not see any orthotics in the store, Price later wrote in a search-warrant affidavit. It is a sign of fraud that the store is not stocking the items [for which] it is billing By the time...
 
 
 
 
 
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Fiber: Review of Optics, Cables & Connectors

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2008-04-05 03:22:59 by JJ in Security Uncorked
...equipment or site surveys Heres a brief review of the various types of fiber, optics, connectors and when to use what. Lets start with the basic stuff, and move down the line Multi-mode vs Single-mode First of all, we have multi-mode and single-mode fiber. Multimode has a larger diameter core or the area in the middle the light travels...
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