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Foreign Hackers Stealing American Health Care Records

2008-02-20 12:30:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Foreign hackers, primarily from Russia and China, are increasingly seeking to steal Americans' health care records, according to a Department of Homeland Security analyst Mark Walker, who works in DHS' Critical Infrastructure Protection Division, told a workshop audience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that the hackers'...
 
Tags: health care records, health, foreign hackers, hackers, health care data, national security standpoint, homeland security analyst, walker, mark walker
 
 
 
 
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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
...foreign policy gadfly, boasting of his contacts with officials in nations labeled by the administration as "rogue states" such as Libya and North Korea. Weldon's wild claims about a 9/11 cover-up and his sensationalist book warning of an Iranian terror plot, sometimes earned him official scorn and public ridicule, but it was accusations that...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...foreign transactions of people associated with that item -- and then the people who associated with them, and so on, casting a gradually wider net. An intelligence official described more of a rapid-response effect: If a person suspected of terrorist connections is believed to be in a U.S. city -- for instance, Detroit, a community with a...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...foreign, economics, and research ministries were targeted. The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) conducted a comprehensive search of government IT installations, and prevented a further 160 giga-bytes of information from being transferred to China. The scale and nature of the stolen data suggested that the...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...foreign adversaries and other intruders. It will cost billions of dollars, which the White House is expected to request in its fiscal 2009 budget Under the initiative, the NSA, CIA and the FBI's Cyber Division will investigate intrusions by monitoring Internet activity and, in some cases, capturing data for analysis, sources said The...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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What to Worry About

2008-05-01 14:43:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...foreign born Its the strange man we fear -- the footsteps in the dark -- the unlocked back door. The correct part of the constant American crime fantasy is that it is usually a man hunting us. Approximately 90% of all murders are committed males. But stop worrying so much about strangers you don't know and think about the strangers you know....
 
Tags: black murder victims, people, black, family, murders, strangers, male family, york health department, commit two-thirds
 
 
 
 
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FBI Freaks Out and Mixes Up Issues, but There Is a Valid Point in There

2008-06-02 11:16:35 by Posted By: Greg Young, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...foreign power are linked Counterfeit gear has nothing really to do with having a backdoor installed. Having counterfeit gear can increase the likelihood of having some kind of rootkit or malware, but only in a general sense. If a foreign power wants to get you, it will do so on what looks like genuine gear in the original packaging - it...
 
Tags: fbi, network gear, counterfeit network gear, link government sales, link, government sales, fbi powerpoint deck, foreign power, deck
 
 
 
 
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China hits back at U.S. senator's spying claims

2008-08-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472b68 in Network World on Security
 
China's Foreign Ministry brushed off but did not specifically deny accusations that Chinese authorities are forcing foreign hotel chains operating here to install Internet eavesdropping devices ahead of the Olympics
 
Tags: foreign hotel chains, install internet, deny accusations, chinese authorities, foreign ministry, china, devices ahead, olympics
 
 
 
 
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Random Killing on a Canadian Greyhound Bus

2008-08-04 06:19:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...foreign country, that story is more likely to affect how safe you feel traveling to that country than abstract crime statistics We give storytellers we have a relationship with more credibility than strangers, and stories that are close to us more weight than stories from foreign lands. In other words, proximity of relationship affects our...
 
Tags: security, tighter security, airplane security, greyhound bus, security measures, security anymore, abstract crime statistics, travel, rare risks applies
 
 
 
 
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Basel II Implementation in the Philippines

2006-08-15 01:17:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...foreign currency bonds (ROP) from 0% to 100 In a previous circular, securities booked under Available for Sale (AFS) are taken out of market risk charge and are now considered as Banking Book exposures. I'm not sure why this is the case because these positions clearly have exposure to fluctuation in rates and are revalued accordingly. Profit...