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Breach affects "ever student enrolled at Joliet West High School"

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2008-04-10 11:06:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 4/10/08 Organization Joliet Township High Schools District 204 Contractor/Consultant/Branch Joliet West High School Victims Students Number Affected every student enrolled at Joliet West High School According to the Joliet West High School Report Card there were 2,584 students enrolled in 2007...
 
Tags: school, access personal information, personal information, joliet, joliet west, police, joliet police, information, school report card
 
 
 
 
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High Availability Security In Your Virtual Environment

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2008-03-12 21:41:15 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
How many times have security products been the blame for network outages? Many right If something goes down and the network team gets a call, they immediately point their finger at the Firewall. If a user can't access something on the network, its the Firewall. If something is running slow on the network, guess what Its the firewall And with...
 
Tags: virtual, physical, physical relay, physical network, virtual security products, security products, network, virtual network, virtual environment
 
 
 
 
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Comparing Cybersecurity to Early 1800s Security on the High Seas

2008-04-16 14:27:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This article in CSO compares modern cybersecurity to open seas piracy in the early 1800s. After a bit of history, the article talks about current events: In modern times, the nearly ubiquitous availability of powerful computing systems, along with the proliferation of high-speed networks, have converged to create a new version of the high...
 
Tags: seas, policy, cybersecurity policy, cyber seas, consistent policy, seas piracy, sporadic policy statements, actions, piracy
 
 
 
 
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Software and network design upgrades for high-availability apps

2008-06-09 11:47:19 by Nicole E. Harding in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
While hardware forklifts or upgrades can deliver high availability for your customers' applications, application performance and availability can often be improved through less ambitious network infrastructure upgrades. In this installment of our Hot Spot Tutorial on network upgrades, learn how server virtualization and re-architecting networks...
 
Tags: upgrades, high-cost hardware upgrades, availability, network upgrades, hot spot tutorial, server virtualization, applications, hardware forklifts, application performance
 
 
 
 
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High Availability Security In Your Virtual Environment

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2008-03-12 21:41:15 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
How many times have security products been the blame for network outages? Many right If something goes down and the network team gets a call, they immediately point their finger at the Firewall. If a user can't access something on the network, its the Firewall. If something is running slow on the network, guess what Its the firewall And with...
 
Tags: virtual, physical, physical relay, physical network, virtual security products, security products, network, virtual network, virtual environment
 
 
 
 
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Storm worm, other botnets, kept spam levels high in 2007

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Botnets helped keep spam output at consistently high levels last year, and the global spam output reached rates as high as 96% of all e-mail traffic 2007, according to a report from security firm Commtouch
 
Tags: global spam output, spam output, security firm commtouch, levels, botnets, e-mail traffic, report, consistently
 
 
 
 
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Ironkey High Security Flash Drive: Use and Review

2008-07-07 00:48:42 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
New Video: Ironkey High Security Flash Drive: Use and Review The Ironkey is a high security thumb drive designed to provide strong AES encryption, tamper resistance and other security services. Id seen the Ironkey advertised quite a bit, and even read about its crypto systems and ruggedness, but was left wondering about how it works in...
 
Tags: ironkey, drive, security flash drive, security thumb drive, 1gb ironkey personal, video, crypto, crypto systems, secure sessions
 
 
 
 
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What do High School Killers and Terrorists Have in Common?

2008-07-20 20:37:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
Department of Homeland Security studies show that the Columbine High School killers and the Virginia Tech gunman planned those attacks using the same techniques used by terrorists The study talks about the "7 steps" that terrorists take prior to executing an attack. The steps begin with; Surveillance, Acquiring information, Testing security,...
 
Tags: school, school killers, attacks, school attacks, report, terrorists, report suspicious persons, homeland security studies, security
 
 
 
 
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The High Price of Things that are Free

2007-08-01 19:26:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
The High Price of Things that are Free We cannot help but be enticed by things that are free. Despite knowing at the back of our heads that nothing comes free, we can't seem to shake off the natural hopeful tendency that tempts us to believe that free items have no strings attached This is particularly true with the case of unwanted adware and...
 
Tags: free, adware protection, adware, free items, secure free spyware, adware protection programs, free programs, spyware, spyware programs