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Security Incident Strikes and You are on the Hot Seat..

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2007-07-27 07:00:39 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...incident? Luckily I had an AAA map in my glove compartment and I found our way right on time to the cake cutting time. In future I decided wherever I go I have to carry maps or buy a GPS or as a last option ask around Security incidents are sometimes a blessing in disguise. It compels you to act. There is a tendency among upper management...
 
Tags: incident, security incident, incident playbook, incident management plan, earthquake incident, sound incident, security incidents, nasty security incidents, plan
 
 
 
 
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Kenya Incident Mapping

2008-01-14 17:28:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
Ushahidi is an innovative Web site for tracking security incidents currently taking place in Kenya. What makes Ushahidi unique is anyone can report an incident (either on the site or with SMS) and anyone can view the incident map. This is a great idea and implementation, that hopefully will be replicated in other parts of the world. Kudos to the...
 
Tags: incident, innovative web site, site, ushahidi, ushahidi unique, incident map, security incidents, kenya, sms
 
 
 
 
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Hostage Incident Management Seminar

2007-12-11 02:30:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
InterAction is hosting a Hostage Incident Management seminar on January 15, 2008 in Washington D.C. This topic usually doesn't get a lot of coverage in typical humanitarian security training offerings, and it's nice to see InterAction stepping up to the plate to share information. Seating is limited. For more information, contact John Schafer...
 
Tags: typical humanitarian security, share information, information, contact john schafer, interaction, coverage, topic, lot, org
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics would not have prevented SocGen incident

2008-03-07 19:25:37 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...incident. What we had was a breakdown in process, supervision, management and audit controls that should have worked together and flagged an issue long before it became newsworthy. Call me what you like but I just don't see that biometrics would have mitigated any of the risk. Am I missing something? For example, page 8 of the report (and...
 
Tags: controls, procedural controls, report, report identifies, audit controls, biometrics, security tosh, strong identification solutions, computer weekly think-tank
 
 
 
 
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University of Miami reports stolen tapes affecting patients

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2008-04-25 15:34:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...incident on April 17, a full month after the backup tapes were stolen In a statement, Doctor Pascal J. Goldschmidt, senior vice president for medical affairs and dean of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said, "Even though I am confident that our patients' data is safe, we felt that in the best interest of the...
 
Tags: personal information belongs, personal information, tapes, university, information, financial information, secure information services, data, usable data
 
 
 
 
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Stolen account firm laptop contained personal information

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2008-04-28 09:50:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...incident" may have involved clients personal information Evan] Quick response During the night of Tuesday, March 4, 2008, a notebook computer was stolen from a locked vehicle. The notebooks hard drive may have contained your name, Social Security number, and other personal information We have notified law enforcement about this incident....
 
Tags: information, clients personal information, clients, personal information, specific information, store confidential information, client information, confidential information, personal information inside
 
 
 
 
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt server breach leads to notification

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2008-07-08 12:22:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...incident Evan] I question how "actively" the U.S. Secret Service is investigating this incident. The incident doesn't seem to be significant enough. Sad but usually true. The Secret Service has to prioritize just like everyone else As part of its internal investigation, which is still ongoing, HMH retained digital forensics experts to...
 
Tags: houghton mifflin harcourt, information, information security professionals, sensitive personal information, information security, server, notification, hmh, company based
 
 
 
 
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UltimateBet cheating goes undetected for almost 21 months

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2008-06-04 10:55:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...incident to hit the company since it purchased Absolute Poker and UltimateBet The first occurred when it was discovered that several players at Absolute Poker also had access to software that allowed them to see opponents holecards Evan] A link is included below ULTIMATEBET ISSUES STATEMENT REGARDING UNFAIR PLAY MONTREAL, CANADA (MAY 29,...
 
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Duke School of Law breach affects 3,200

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2007-12-06 11:37:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Incident Web Page The News and Observer Story United Press International Story Report Credit Melinda Vaughn, Executive Director of Communications at Duke University Response From the official incident web page and sources cited above On the Duke University home page Thank you very much for your patience as we continue to work to restore...
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...incident that may have involved tne compromise of some of your Target Visa account information, including name, address, account number, social security number and telephone number Recently, the Target Fraud Prevention team became aware of suspicious activity on some Target Visa accounts The suspicious activity was tied back to employees of...