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Over 50% of companies have fired workers for e-mail, Net abuse

2008-02-28 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Apparently just telling employees that their online activities are being monitored doesn't stop them from being stupid about what they do. A new survey finds that most companies have fired at least one worker for bad Net behavior
 
Tags: bad net behavior, fired, companies, online activities, apparently, stop, employees, stupid, survey
 
 
 
 
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Woman fired over death threat sent from work e-mail

2008-07-16 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
An employee of 1-800-Flowers.com has been fired after an e-mailed death threat was linked to her account
 
Tags: death threat, fired, account, employee, 1-800-flowers
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...fired by NDS last year, is eager to tell his side of the story Dressed in loose jeans, flip-flops and a T-shirt, Tarnovsky, 37, spoke with Wired.com by phone and in an air-conditioned lab in Southern California where he's been running a consultancy since losing his job. Surrounded by boxes of smart cards and thousands of dollars worth of...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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Blogtard or Hero ?

2008-05-27 15:30:53 by Myrcurial in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...fired an employee after he left posts in an online forum that made disturbing claims about security practices at the store where he worked Security was so lax at the TJ Maxx outlet located in Lawrence, Kansas, that employees were able to log onto company servers using blank passwords, the fired employee, Nick Benson, told The Register. This...
 
Tags: security, security practices, fired employee, employee, substandard security led, store managers, managers, security issues, employee policy
 
 
 
 
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Executives are Risk Adverse and Favor Large, Stable Companies

2008-01-02 13:20:23 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...fired by hiring IBM! This tongue-in-cheekperspective mirrors the risk adverse position of most company executives If you are an executive in a large company you tend to want less contracts to manage, less software licenses to negotiate, and less companies to try to integrate. You want large stable companies who will still be in business in 5...
 
Tags: companies, stable companies, software companies, companies inrulecores position, business, complimentary integration platform, larger business ecosystem, integration, ibm test
 
 
 
 
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Ssshhh......Wackenhut might be sleeping.

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2008-01-06 03:23:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...fired Wackenhut There are so many things wrong with this story that it is impossible to single any one out. Obviously, a guard on duty who sleeps is the first problem. However, as the story unfolds, even scarier facts begin to surface. Wackenhut supervisors told the new guy to be a "team player"? Then the owners, Exelon, failed to take...
 
Tags: wackenhut, fired wackenhut, exeleon fired wackenhut, wackenhut supervisors, supervisors, security guards, guards, wackenhut guards, wackenhut corp
 
 
 
 
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Church killer stopped by private security officer

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2007-12-10 23:00:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...fired one shot and hit the gunman first time after realizing that he had shot and possibly killed innocent church attendees. Although wounded, he was still intent on continuing his deadly spree as evidenced by the fact that he reached for a grenade. The officer then warned him to stop and keep his hands where she could see them. Obviously...
 
Tags: officer, security officer, armed officer, law enforcement officer, security, church, brave security officer, security team, security officers
 
 
 
 
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A law suit waiting to happen.

2007-12-06 04:25:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...fired mind you, but transferred without any reduction in rank or responsibility. The worse part of this story is that one of the victims, a sub-bordinate who eventually rasied the alarm, was also transferred and advised that if they made a formal complaint that they would be immediately fired. Apparently upper management has no problem with...
 
Tags: law, risk, risk management, fitness center, risk managment, management, center, apparently upper management, federal law
 
 
 
 
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OMG, Security ROI Comes Back - And It is Mad As Hell :-)

2008-03-11 00:58:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...fired in a "great security ROI war." Counter-salvos have been fired as well The salvo is the paper called The Fallacy of Information Security ROI by Jon Pols ("ISSA Journal", February 2008) where Jon argues against the ROI for security (since there is no money earned by security, just saving which are NOT the same thing); Jon proposes...
 
Tags: security, roi, security roi war, pro-roi counter-point, roi proponents, information security roi, roi war, issa journal, return