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Stolen Salesforce.com unencrypted external storage device

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2008-02-12 13:32:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...external storage device" was stolen from a vehicle that contained sensitive personal information belonging to current and former Salesforce.com employees 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 We recently...
 
Tags: external storage device, storage device, sensitive personal information, personal information, device, personal information includes, information, salesforce, data
 
 
 
 
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External hard drive stolen from Georgetown University

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2008-01-29 15:54:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...external computer hard drive was reported stolen from a locked office within the Office of Student Affairs in the Leavey Center on the Main Campus on January 3, 2008. The hard drive contained sensitive personal information belonging to current and former students, faculty and staff Reference URL Georgetown University Press Release NBC...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, georgetown, georgetown university, hard drive, information, georgetown alumni, personal data, data
 
 
 
 
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CollegeInvest external hard drive goes missing

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2008-04-30 14:10:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...external hard drive being used as a backup device. Not necessarily a recommended practice (without encryption and good key management Roughly 23 percent of its client base was affected CollegeInvest sent out letters this week to clients informing them that their names, addresses and Social Security numbers may be at risk We feel pretty...
 
Tags: external hard drive, drive, hard drive, college savings, college savings program, computer hard drive, data, lost data, loan
 
 
 
 
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Hard drive stolen from New Mexico State University was encrypted

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2008-01-07 09:50:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...external hard drive was stolen from the New Mexico State University Special Events Department sometime between December 30th, 2007 and January 2nd, 2008 while located in an office in the Pan American Center. The hard drive contained personal information belonging to every employee hired by the department since 1999 Reference URL KOB.com...
 
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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...external entities did in fact, access the system for purposes that do not appear malicious, at this time we have no indication that any of your personal information has been misused Evan] This statement is a little confusing to me. Are the "external entities" authorized or not? If they were not authorized to use the system, and they had in...
 
Tags: tricare, information, personal information, code review, by-line code review, information security, tricare beneficiaries, beneficiaries, breach
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...external mails this is to protect the reputation of your company and to avoid libel lawsuits. You must also check attachments and use word filtering to avoid confidential data leaving the company. For instance you can block external emails containing Social Security Numbers, credit card details or patient information 6: Add a disclaimer ; In...
 
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The STRIDE per Element Chart

2007-10-29 23:06:46 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...external entity, well, by definition, we cant fix it. Its external. So is there value in calling out that risk in threat modeling? Sometimes there might be Breach Disclosure Laws Sometimes organizations lose control of data thats been entrusted to them. You might find that risk as an instance of information disclosure by external entity. So...
 
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Grayware?

2007-03-07 07:11:45 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...external source, these applications are usually installed and run without the permission of the user Grayware categories Adware: Adware is usually embedded in freeware applications that users can download and install at no cost. Adware programs are used to load pop-up browser windows to deliver advertisements when the application is open or...
 
Tags: grayware, dangerous grayware applications, joke, joke grayware, p2p grayware, toolbar grayware applications, bho grayware applications, applications, toolbar
 
 
 
 
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Can you hear me now?

2008-06-27 10:56:10 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...external sources 18% were caused by insiders 39% implicated business partners 30% involved multiple parties The internal/external divide is pretty silly these days, as is companies' recanting "inside the firewall and outside the firewall", I spend most of time hooking things up together precisely so they intereoperate remotely. The firewall...
 
Tags: web services, web services world, web services security, data breach report, report, attack, massive attack surface, companies follow verizon, data
 
 
 
 
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Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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2007-12-16 18:18:26 by HASH0x8a09e44 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...external URL hosting the exploit either via iframes or external JavaScript. Another, less popular technique, is to completely redirect all requests to the legitimate site to another malicious site. It appears that hosting exploits on dedicated servers offers the attackers ease of management. Having pointers to a single site offers an...
 
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