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Personal information stolen from Georgia DHR

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2008-03-27 15:51:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Georgia Contractor/Consultant/Branch Department of Human Resources Victims Current and former employees Number Affected Unknown Types of Data names, social security numbers, birth dates, home contact and federal tax information Breach Description The Georgia Department of Human Resources is taking extensive measures to alert current and...
 
Tags: georgia dhr, dhr, georgia, information, agency, agency urges employees, georgia law, georgia department, employees
 
 
 
 
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Unauthorized access to University of Georgia server affects 4,250

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2008-01-09 15:32:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Georgia Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Current graduate students living in family housing AND former students and applicants Number Affected 4,250 Types of Data Names, addresses and Social Security numbers Breach Description Sometime between December 29th and December 31st, 2007 a "hacker" using a computer "with an overseas IP...
 
Tags: university, server, georgia server, university students, georgia, overseas hacker, hacker, access, server off-line
 
 
 
 
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Website For The President Of Georgia Under Distributed Denial Of Service Attack

2008-07-20 22:08:02 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili (www.president.gov.ge). For over 24 hours the website has been rendered unavailable. The attack began very early Saturday morning (Georgian time). Shadowserver has observed at least one web-based command and control (C&C) server taking
 
Tags: website, attack, president, shadowserver reports, shadowserver, georgian time, georgia, mikhail saakashvili, denial
 
 
 
 
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Georgia president's Web site falls under DDOS attack

2008-07-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4704c in Network World on Security
 
The Web site for the president of Georgia was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack over the weekend, yet another in a series of cyberattacks attacks against countries experiencing political friction with Russia
 
Tags: web site, cyberattacks attacks, attack, political friction, ddos, georgia, president, russia, weekend
 
 
 
 
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Human error is blamed in WellCare Health Plans breach

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2008-04-09 12:39:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Georgia, Inc WellCare Health Plans, Inc. provides managed care services exclusively for government-sponsored healthcare programs, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, WellCare offers a variety of health plans for families, children, the aged, blind and disabled and prescription drug plans, currently serving...
 
Tags: breach, wellcare, information, personal information, wellcare health plans, health plans, information technology issue, georgia families, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Customers of 14 Advance Auto Parts stores are victims of intrusion

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2008-03-31 21:45:18 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Georgia 6100 Old National Highway College Park Georgia 1354 Harrisburg Pike Columbus Ohio 950 E Boston Street Covington Louisiana 2055 South Locust St. Canal Fulton Ohio 422 US Highway 80 W Garden City Georgia 2414 Belle Chase Highway Gretna Louisiana 1370 Ashland Road Mansfield Ohio 6645 E. Shelby Dr. Memphis Tennessee 179 Sgt...
 
Tags: advance auto, advance, confidential financial information, information, financial information, stores, information security, customers, account information
 
 
 
 
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More on Georgias FISMA Reporting

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2008-05-19 22:02:29 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...Georgia voluntarily adopted FISMA-esque metrics. I just found the policy statement for what theyre collecting in 2008 . On a side note, all of Georgias security policies feature concepts borrowed from NIST , something I like Lets talk about the scope creep of Government security, shall we? Fact of the matter is, its going to happen, and youll...
 
Tags: government, government security, federal government, government contractor, government service provider, data, exchange data, fisma, transfer data
 
 
 
 
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Nuke Plant Shutdown Due To Upgrade

2008-06-08 02:53:15 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...Georgia was recently forced into an emergency shutdown for 48 hours after a software update was installed on a single computer The incident occurred on March 7 at Unit 2 of the Hatch nuclear power plant near Baxley, Georgia. The trouble started after an engineer from Southern Company, which manages the technology operations for the plant,...
 
Tags: plant, shutdown, single computer, safety systems, systems, data, computer, nuclear power plant, diagnostic data
 
 
 
 
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DNS poisoning used to redirect unwitting surfers

2007-12-13 07:40:12 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A new type of DNS exploit could launch a fresh wave of phishing attacks. According to new research results from Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology, a number of DNS servers on the 'net are now deliberately feeding users false information in an attempt to redirect them elsewhere
 
Tags: users false information, dns servers, fresh wave, redirect, research results, dns exploit, georgia institute, google, attacks
 
 
 
 
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Social-Engineering Bank Robbery

2008-01-16 06:36:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Georgia Ave., the next day that bank officials realized they'd been had And on Thursday, about 9:30 a.m., a man dressed as an employee of the security company Brink's walked into a Wachovia branch in downtown Washington and walked out with more than $350,000 The man had a badge and a gun holster on his belt, said Debbie Weierman, a...