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Information Security and Liabilities

2008-07-23 15:09:21 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...information security and liabilities : Last summer, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee issued a report on "Personal Internet Security." I was invited to give testimony for that report, and one of my recommendations was that software vendors be held liable when they are at fault. Their final report included that...
 
Tags: security, information security, liabilities, liability, software liability, computer vendor, vendor, report, automobile liability suit
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...information systems auditor Dan Swanson answers the question of who is responsible for information security By Dan Swanson A Reader Asks: Who is responsible for information security The Auditor Responds: In short, the board of directors, management (of both staff and business lines), and internal audit functions all have significant roles in...
 
Tags: information, information security, information policy, information security risks, information assurance, information security governance, information security managers, information security management, assign information security
 
 
 
 
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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
...information Breach Description NORTH BEND - The theft of a laptop computer owned by a local accounting firm has made nearly 500 employees of Coos County and private organizations concerned about identity theft Reference URL The World Report Credit Jessica Musicar and Jolene Guzman, Staff Writers at The World Response From the online...
 
Tags: information, clients personal information, clients, personal information, specific information, store confidential information, client information, confidential information, personal information inside
 
 
 
 
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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
...information, and may also 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...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, application information, handle sensitive information, information security, interbank, file, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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University of Florida student information online for years

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2008-06-12 10:41:30 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information was accessible to the public and was not even protected by a password The student information was actively used from 2003 through 2005 and remained posted until it was recently discovered during a routine audit of UF systems Evan] If I am reading this right, this means that some of the personal information was available publicly...
 
Tags: information, information online, personal information, information security, confidential information, information security personnel, student information, security measures, install security measures
 
 
 
 
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Personal member information on The Dental Network website

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2008-03-20 12:05:14 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information that included name, Social Security number, address(es) and date of birth Reference URL The New Hampshire Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above This letter is to inform you of a privacy incident affecting residents of your state....
 
Tags: information, breach description, breach, breach notification completely, dental network, data breach, personal information, website, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from NHLBI contained personal health information

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2008-03-24 22:13:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information of about 2,500 participants in a cardiac study conducted by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) may have been compromised by the theft of a laptop PC last month Reference URL NHLBI Press Release The Associated Press ComputerWorld The Washington Post Report Credit NHLBI Response From the online sources cited...
 
Tags: information, nhlbi, financial information, medical information, laptop computers, nhlbi laptop computers, confidential information, government laptop computer, government
 
 
 
 
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Confidential information sent to PinPay.net and SoftCard.biz is exposed

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2008-05-08 13:26:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information Reference URL Merchant 911 Blog Report Credit Tom Mahoney, the Founder and Director of Merchant 911 Response From the online source cited above and my own cursory investigation Back in January, I had short email dialog with a Kip Long, who claimed to be one of the principles of a company called Softcard out of Huntington...
 
Tags: information, drivers license card, license card, card, free card, social security card, sensitive information, sensitive personal information, encrypt sensitive information
 
 
 
 
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Former employee exposes Purdue Pharma personal information

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2008-05-12 18:44:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information Breach Description a former employee accessed a disk containing personal information about individuals employed by Purdue Pharma and its associated U.S. companies prior to December 31, 2003 and attempted to email some of the information on the disk to another person Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security professionals, purdue pharma, purdue, information confidentiality, employee information misuse, employee, original disk
 
 
 
 
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AT&T management information on stolen laptop

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2008-06-08 18:28:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...information, including employee names, Social Security numbers, and salary and bonus information Breach Description An undisclosed number of management-level workers at AT&T have been notified that their personal information was stored unencrypted on a stolen laptop Reference URL PogoWasRight SC Magazine NetworkWorld Report Credit...
 
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