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Trouble in the Neigborhood

2008-04-01 02:01:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...instances of beating and kicking doors in the wee hours of the morning. Other neighbors have noted recent instances of someone coming onto their back deck and tapping on the back door, only to have disappeared before the home owners could make it downstairs. Each time the culprit takes off if - or before - the occupant can respond. There have...
 
Tags: neighborhood, online neighborhood, space past, past, neighborhood camera system, posts yesterday, yesterday, instances, noted recent instances
 
 
 
 
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GE Money and Iron Mountain unable to locate tape

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2008-01-07 14:01:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...instances where of active account number tied to a New Hampshire resident's name and ~20 cases where a SSN was included" This is New Hampshire information ONLY as stated in the breach notification Types of Data Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and credit card numbers Breach Description GE Money and it's backup storage vendor, Iron...
 
Tags: money, sensitive personal information, personal information, iron mountain, breach, hampshire breach notification, information, sensitive consumer information, tape
 
 
 
 
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Banning function calls, assurance, and retrofitting

2008-03-18 19:48:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...instances of rand() in my code as examples that others might follow, next time in a security sensitive context? Or, do I want to take a relatively dogmatic approach to this and all other banned/"unsafe" functions and eliminate them entirely from my codebase I'm leaning towards some sort of middle ground. If I can find the time for a...
 
Tags: code review experience, code, security sensitive context, context, security critical context, unsafe context, static analyzer, file defects, rand
 
 
 
 
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Laptop is stolen from Pfizer independent contractor

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2008-04-06 15:57:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...instances, credit card expiration dates, home and/or business addresses, home and/or business and/or cell phone numbers, personal and/or business e-mail addresses, hotel loyalty program numbers and other travel and logistics information Breach Description We are writing to let you know that a laptop stolen from a Pfizer contractor's locked...
 
Tags: pfizer, 2nd pfizer breach, pfizer breach, evan pfizer, pfizer contractor, contractor, pfizer employees, laptop, time pfizer
 
 
 
 
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Laptop containing personal information is stolen from U.S. Foodservice

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2008-07-07 23:35:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...instances, their dependents and applicants for jobs at USF Number Affected Unknown Types of Data names, social security numbers, home addresses, and/or dates of birth Breach Description We were informed recently of the theft of a U.S. Foodservice, Inc. ("USF") laptop computer, which contained sensitive personnel information Reference URL...
 
Tags: information, personal information, confidential information, protect information, information security policies, usf, usf policies, policies, security
 
 
 
 
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P2P-related breach affects high-profile clients from Wagner Resource Group

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2008-07-14 17:08:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...instances where a company will be working on a product that's not even released yet, and the diagrams for that product are already out on the Net," Boback said Evan] Very good point. It isn't just personally identifiable information that is leaked, there are plenty of instances where intellectual property (IP) is exposed. I have read...
 
Tags: wagner, p2p, investment firm, evan p2p file, mclean investment firm, p2p file, breach, wagner network, wagner resource
 
 
 
 
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Backup tape is stolen from Bristol-Myers Squibb

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2008-07-18 11:26:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...instances bank account information Breach Description On June 4, 2008, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company ("BMS") learned that a back-up data tape containing BMS-related data was stolen while it was being transported for storage. Through subsequent forensic work, it was determined that the data tape included personal information of current and...
 
Tags: tape, back-up data tape, data tape, owner, data owner, data, bristol-myers squibb, information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Assessing the Security Benefits of Cloud Computing

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2008-07-21 07:00:15 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...instances - and thus stop mixing sensitive credentials with other workloads. 4. Logging Unlimited, pay per drink storage : logging is often an afterthought, consequently insufficient disk space is allocated and logging is either non-existant or minimal. Cloud Storage changes all this - no more guessing how much storage you need for standard...
 
Tags: benefits, cloud, security, technical security benefits, based, virtualization based cloud, efficient security software, security software, cloud market
 
 
 
 
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The Attack of the Spiders from the Clouds

2008-07-31 15:09:19 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...instances of a server with the equivalence of 16 high performance CPU cores. However, as we all know, all things, including cool technologies have the potential for both good and evil, opportunity or threat; and cloud computing is no different It just so happens that I have been experimenting with Amazon Elastic Computing Services (EC2),...
 
Tags: attack, spiders, ec2-67-202-45-0, ec2, amazon ec2 cloud, cloud, clouds, attack runs, hungry spiders
 
 
 
 
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EPTS: Proposed Event Processing Definitions, September 20, 2006

2008-08-21 05:47:11 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
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