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If politicians can imagine sniper fire, don't be surprised what people can imagine on their resumes.

2008-03-26 02:09:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...fire in Bosnia, she now tells us she "mis-spoke I first read about this story in last Saturday's Washington Post, in an article written by Michael Dobbs. Mr. Dobbs, who visited the Tuzla air base in Bosnia, much earlier than Senator Clinton, spoke of the risk being minimal, particularly at a heavily fortified U.S. air base like Tuzla The...
 
Tags: sniper, sniper fire, clinton, senator clinton, tuzla air base, air base, dobbs, michael dobbs, real whopper
 
 
 
 
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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
 
Tags: entire day recently, pushy credit-card solicitations, angry callers, todd smith, owner, responsible, business
 
 
 
 
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Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters

2008-01-18 07:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Fire Engineering magazine, one reason for the slow response to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was that fire alarms were kept locked to prevent false alarms: Q: Prior to 1870, street corner fire alarm pull boxes were kept locked. Why were they kept locked and how did a person gain access to 'pull the box A: They were kept locked due to false...
 
Tags: boxes, false fire alarms, fire, fire alarms, false alarms, prevent false alarms, alarm boxes, alarm, chicago fire
 
 
 
 
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A Culture of Compliance

2008-07-18 14:12:01 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...fire three of his employees over the age of 60 despite ongoing pressure from his superiors, he was wrongfully terminated, according to the jury. Partly responsible for the large settlement were actions taken by his employers after he was terminated, including tampering with memos related to his performance review. The...
 
Tags: compliance, news stories, news, stories, compliance professionals, waste collection company, recent article, message home, examples
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...FIRE!! FIRE!! FIRE!! Then,after he clears the theater, he then yells, RATS!! COCKROACHES!! POISON POPCORN!! to insure no one comes back to the movie house To me, this is an amazingly obviouscyberattack with an obviousdirectpurpose to manipulate the market and damage a competitor How canthisattack be allowed to happen I think anyone can easily...
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...fireworks, gas cans, hair spray, propane tanks, etc. What I learned was that its a lot harder to get things to explode than you think. If any of these terrorist had a background in chemistry or even played with anything dangerous as a kid, they would have realized how silly they were as well I plan on posting about explosives and how they...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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An interesting Whitepaper on Web 2.0 Security & Fortify Event

2008-01-18 07:40:36 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...Firefighting. In the past, Firefighting was a reactive approach but these days people factor in the the threat of fire pro-actively into the building design - sprinklers, fire retardant materials and so on. Another panelist Ted Schlein , Managing Partner KPCB, mentioned the security spending is around $12 billion/year vs. the loss due to...
 
Tags: information security breach, information security, security, information security documentary, documentary, security awareness, ex-microsoft security person, user awareness determines, user awareness
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #21 - The Heat is On

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2008-03-02 18:30:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...firefighting operations. You are at a large fire camp. Drought conditions and high winds have caused several fires to increase in size and become unpredictable. Click the play button to see what happens next What are the primary threats? How much risk is there? What actions would you take? As the smoke gets thicker, it becomes difficult...
 
Tags: wildland fire community, wildland, wet bandanna, south america, pdf format, program manager, play button, humanitarian community, primary threats
 
 
 
 
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From warzones to strip clubs, the truth comes out for a former First Lady and a Pastor.

2008-03-30 20:57:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...fire during a photo op. in Bosnia. On Thursday, Michael Dobbs once again awarded Senator Clinton another "poker" of Pinocchios This time she took heat for claiming that her trip to Bosnia was the first visit to a "war zone" by a first lady since World War II. Her claim is considered completly inaccurate, since Pat Nixon made a trip to...
 
Tags: senator clinton, sniper fire, avoid sniper fire, role models, war zone, lady, pastor, air force col, persian gulf war