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Desktop computer stolen from Administrative Systems, Inc.

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2008-02-11 14:53:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...include insurance companies and other financial services companies. These services often include processing employee applications for insurance coverage, issuing of insurance plans and employee certificates, managing premium billing and collection for insurance plans, responding to customer service requests and other record-keeping functions...
 
Tags: protect personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, companies, include insurance companies, financial services companies, information, information security, asi partner companies
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...include tell-tale signs that can be used to filter them out. In the next few days I will be discussing the Red Earth Software list of current top 10 spam characteristics and how they can be used to detect spam. Remember that these spam characteristics must not be used in isolation, since some characteristics can also be present in legitimate...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, spam characteristic, todays spam mails, mails, email address, complete email address, detect spam, spam messages include
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...include in your Email policy, got to the blog article Ten points to include in your email-policy 2: Train users ; Regularly train users in applying the email policy. Help users send effective emails by informing them of best practices, explain that offensive jokes and remarks can be much more harmful than they seem and stress that employees...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...include records of phone calls, email headers and destinations, data on financial transactions and records of Internet browsing. The system also would collect information about other people, including those in the U.S., who communicated with people in Detroit The information doesn't generally include the contents of conversations or emails....
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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iPass Launches Individual US, Global Plan for Hotspots, US Plan for 3G

2008-03-31 05:00:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...include dial-up service, and two of four plans include unlimited 3G (US only, over EVDO No one offers a combination of service that's comparable in scope or price to iPass's new offering. While Boingo Wireless is cheaper ($22 per month for North America, $39 for global) with a similar Wi-Fi footprint, travelers that need 3G for its ubiquity...
 
Tags: global wi-fi, wi-fi, wi-fi operator, plain wi-fi, global wi-fi plan, ipass, cell service, service, wi-fi locations
 
 
 
 
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Tax information exposed in trash

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2008-04-07 13:20:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...include names, addresses, prices paid for the property, and balance owing to solicitors in the deal Consent forms, which include names, addresses and phone numbers Statements of investment income, which include financial details Draft statement of account, including names, addresses, and a detailed breakdown of expenses Many of the documents...
 
Tags: information, tax information, employees information, information security, information security guidance, guidance, information security professional, security, include names
 
 
 
 
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File containing Interbank FX customer information exposed for almost a year

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2008-04-15 23:57:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...include your Interbank FX account information Breach Description In April, 2007 an employee posted a file to an insecure server that was accessible via the Internet. The file contained personal information belonging to certain persons who applied for an Interbank FX account prior to April, 2007. Interbank FX became aware of the exposure on...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, application information, handle sensitive information, information security, interbank, file, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...include name, address, date of birth, and national insurance number some financial information is also recorded, including the client's bank account number Evan] Ugh! Seems like a lot of personal data on one laptop the data was protected by three levels of security, including a high level of encryption Evan] Sweet Child! Encryption at last...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...include an image in their message that cannot be filtered for words. In addition, upon opening the email message the image is downloaded from the spammers website. Since each message contains a unique ID, the spammer will know exactly which recipient has viewed the mail. This indicates which email addresses are live and can be sent even more...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, top spam characteristics, spam characteristic, spam mails, avoid spam messages, html comment tags, comment tags, flag spam correctly
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...include a mixture of technical, procedural, and oversight controls, all of which should be reviewed or tested to ensure they are (a) adequate, as defined to mitigate information security risks, and (b) reasonably effective in practice Finally, executive management must provide leadership to ensure that information security efforts are...
 
Tags: information, information security, information policy, information security risks, information assurance, information security governance, information security managers, information security management, assign information security