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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
...human error made some Georgia Families member data available on the Internet. On March 28th, WellCare secured the data on its own computer systems and by April 2nd, all WellCare member information had been removed from the Internet Reference URL WellCare announcement Triangel Business Journal The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Tampa...
 
Tags: breach, wellcare, information, personal information, wellcare health plans, health plans, information technology issue, georgia families, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Google board to oppose 'Net censorship ban, human rights review

2008-03-26 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Google's board of directors recommends that shareholders vote against a proposals that would require the company to take steps to ensure freedom of access to the Internet and one that would require the company to form a committee to review its policies on human rights
 
Tags: human rights, google, require, review, shareholders vote, directors recommends, company, board, ensure freedom
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'

2008-05-06 00:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon's way-out researchers don't just want to build an Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the range's operators to "realistically replicate human behavior and frailties," too
 
Tags: human behavior, pentagon, frailties, range, cyberwar tactics, way-out researchers, internet simulator, test, operators
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'

2008-05-06 00:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Congress orders Darpa, to put together a National Cyber Range, part of a massive, secret $30 billion government-wide effort prep for battle online. Contractors running the Range are supposed to be able to "replicate realistic human behavior on nodes
 
Tags: range, national cyber range, realistic human behavior, battle online, contractors, massive, congress, secret, nodes
 
 
 
 
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How the Human Brain Buys Security

2008-07-31 13:30:24 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...human brain. But if you understand it, you have a better chance of overcoming it
 
Tags: security, computer security, security directly, human brain, cognitive bias, include, ignore, inherently, solution
 
 
 
 
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NAC adoption slowed by human learning curve

2008-09-02 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Perhaps the human learning curve is slowing down adoption of NAC, according to a college IT engineer
 
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Logs: Parsing, Tokenizing or Extracting?

2008-03-11 01:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...human involvement But is that an endgame, that "holy grail" of log analysis or yet another step towards it? First, bad logs break it (e.g. with space in names or values with spaces and without quotes) and thus call for a return of a human logging expert to write an even fancier regex that can deal with it (then again, bad logs often break...
 
Tags: logs, log analyst, log, convert logs, log management, diverse log sources, text logs, log analysis, bad logs
 
 
 
 
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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
...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 former employees of a breach of confidential records...
 
Tags: georgia dhr, dhr, georgia, information, agency, agency urges employees, georgia law, georgia department, employees
 
 
 
 
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Exposing Indias CAPTCHA Solving Economy

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2008-08-29 17:03:37 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Human?" - once asked the CAPTCHA, and the question got answered by, well, a human, thousands of them to be precise. Speculations around one of the main weaknesses of CAPTCHA based authentication in the face of human CAPTCHA solvers, seems to have evolved into a booming economy in India during the past 12 months, with thousands of people...
 
Tags: captcha, microsofts captcha, indias major captcha, hotmails captcha, unbreakable captcha, human captcha solvers, human, inside indias captcha, captcha based authentication