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Houston law firm threw confidential client information in the trash

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2008-07-17 14:59:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...HOUSTON -- Harris County Sheriff's deputies uncovered hundreds of people's personal financial files that had been discarded in a dumpster in northwest Houston on Monday Reference URL KHOU-TV News (original KHOU-TV News (follow-up Report Credit Jeremy Desel, KHOU-TV Response From the online sources cited above Harris County Sheriff's...
 
Tags: houston, weber, weber wishes, houston attorney, bankruptcy, khou-tv news, news, bankruptcy files, william weber
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Houston-Fi, ASCII WPA Passphrases, Green Wi-Fi

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2008-08-19 10:26:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Houston flips switch on free downtown Wi-Fi: Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle accidentally discovers the soft launch of the network funded by EarthLink's $5m default fee. (The fee was paid when they missed a milestone, and the firm later walked away.) The downtown area now has a limited pilot project that's free; the real effort in...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi attacks, houston, wi-fi security, free downtown wi-fi, free, security, ascii, security theater
 
 
 
 
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A Continental nightmare

2008-06-13 03:35:05 by HASH0x8c0ef34 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Houston. An hour layover, an 8:55 flight from Houston to Ft Lauderdale and I would get me home around midnight. Long day for sure. So I finished up my meetings and stuff early in Boulder and saw that Continental had a 2:30 flight from Denver to Houston and a 7:10 connection to Ft Lauderdale that would get me in around 10:20pm. I left...
 
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A Continental nightmare

2008-06-13 04:34:55 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Houston. An hour layover, an 8:55 flight from Houston to Ft Lauderdale and I would get me home around midnight. Long day for sure. So I finished up my meetings and stuff early in Boulder and saw that Continental had a 2:30 flight from Denver to Houston and a 7:10 connection to Ft Lauderdale that would get me in around 10:20pm. I left...
 
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Petroleum Wholesale charged with exposing customers

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2008-06-22 21:58:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...HOUSTON -- Petroleum Wholesale, which operated Sunmart Travel Centers and Convenience Stores in 10 states, was charged by the Texas Attorney General of improperly disposing of customer records Reference URL The Pasadena Citizen KHOU-TV Channel 11 News Convenience Store News Report Credit The Pasadena Citizen Response From the online...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, petroleum wholesale, information, company, company improperly, improperly, debit card information, debit card
 
 
 
 
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Security Briefing: June 26th

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2008-06-26 13:11:27 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...Houston organ bank worker accused of hacking into system | Houston Chronicle PCI standard ignores insider threat | vnunet Student suspended after hacking emails | Stuff NZ Tags: News , Daily Links , Security Blog , Information Security , Security News
 
Tags: data, data security measures, security news, news, natural human traits, computer, computer malware, database cluster, security blog
 
 
 
 
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Nevada Department of Public Safety applicants exposed

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2008-03-07 10:20:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Houston Chronicle Report Credit KTVN Channel 2 News Response From the online sources cited above Crown, Stanley and Silverman (CSS), a company contracted by The Nevada Department of Public Safety (DPS), has lost personal background information on 109 people CSS was conducting background checks on applicants for DPS positions Evan] Crown,...
 
Tags: personal information, lost personal information, sensitive personal information, nevada, confidential personal information, information, nevada payroll information, nevada department, nevada dps
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford and Sweetbay supermarkets announce compromise of 4.2 million credit and debit cards

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2008-03-18 00:07:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Houston, Detroit, San Francisco, France and Brazil We sincerely regret this intrusion into our systems, which we believe, are among the strongest in the industry. The stolen data was limited to credit and debit card numbers and expiration dates, and was illegally accessed from our computer systems during transmission of card authorization...
 
Tags: credit, hannaford, breach description, breach, credit-card data breach, carry hannaford products, information, personal information, information security
 
 
 
 
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Boston Moves to Bubbles of Access

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2008-04-04 09:53:35 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Houston The article notes that the company is switching from the BelAir equipment to free software installed on off-the-shelf hardware. There's no such product that I'm aware of that could scale for these efforts. There's off-the-shelf and commercial, paying for the management part (RoamAD); off-the-shelf and sort of open, but not commercial...
 
Tags: off-the-shelf hardware, off-the-shelf, components, hardware, open-source components, open-source, proprietary hardware, city, free software
 
 
 
 
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Holier than marketing people - not!

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2008-04-25 21:09:21 by HASH0x8b10510 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Houston after all can't be too bad. And my friend Farnum who serves as the peanut gallery in this story is solid as well. OK now that we have the players, lets lay out the story It seems that Alert Logic had a webinar titled Simple & Affordable PCI Compliance w/ Alert Logic. Mike thought that this was very misleading marketing from the...
 
Tags: bud mike rothman, mike rothman, people, mike, bet mike, alert logic, likes alert logic, affordable pci compliance, pci compliance