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Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles cited in audit report

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2008-07-11 09:18:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...interim transportation committee hearing Reference URL The Denver Post Report of The State Auditor, Driver's License and Identification (ID) Card Security Report Credit Jessica Fender, The Denver Post - Brought to the attention of The Breach Blog by an informed reader Response From the online source cited above The Division of Motor...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security, information security breaches, sensitive information, information security strategy, information security program, security, cyber security
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...interim specification released before WPA2 was ratified). Both WPA and WPA2 are built on sound cryptographic principles, they're proven in the field, and they'll keep the bad guys out -- even when you're broadcasting your SSID to the world
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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Missing University of Akron portable hard drive

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2008-01-14 11:33:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...interim dean of the College of Education, said UA felt it was essential to notify students and graduates even though ''we believe this incident puts them at low risk of identity theft Students and graduates received Federal Trade Commission guidelines to help guard against identity theft and a UA phone numbers and Web address to ask...
 
Tags: akron, portable, portable hard drive, hard drive, secure data destruction, data, akron beacon journal, university, akron permits
 
 
 
 
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An internal breach at the University of Toledo exposes 6,500

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2008-04-13 21:14:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...interim information technology chief operating officer Evan] Excellent work by the information technology employee. I wonder how he/she became aware It is common for large data files, such as these spreadsheets, to be stored on the internal server, but they are typically kept in folders where only employees of that department have access,...
 
Tags: university, university officials doubt, information, information security professionals, university employees, personal information, toledo, employees, expose information
 
 
 
 
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WAF Better Than Code Review? Not Really.

2008-04-16 02:00:33 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...interim Sure, the WAF can protect against some known attacks, and if you set it up the right way, it can attempt to detect and block other, unknown attacks that is, if its configured aggressively enough. Except very few companies will actually do that. Nobody wants to risk the WAF confusing a legitimate request with an attempted attack and...
 
Tags: waf, application firewall, web application firewall, manager bob russo, russo, manual code reviews, security vulnerabilities, clarification, attacks
 
 
 
 
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Sandown Health Centre backup tape is missing

2008-05-27 13:14:16 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...Interim Chief Executive of the PCT, Margaret Pratt, said: "Although there is very little chance of anyone being able to do anything untoward with this tape, should they find it, it is potentially a very serious loss of confidential information It is important that everyone concerned continues to do everything possible to try and locate the...
 
Tags: tape, health centre, sandown health centre, data verification, data verification company, back-up tape, computer tape, information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Did the Chinese PLA Attack the U.S. Power Grid?

2008-06-02 06:37:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada," published in November and based on detailed research by a panel of government and industry officials, blames the blackout on an unlucky series of failures that allowed a small problem to cascade into an enormous failure The Blaster worm affected more than a...
 
Tags: government, government officials, august 14th blackout, august, computer, officials, blackout, status computer, computer hackers
 
 
 
 
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Protect everything? Is that a better DLP?

2008-07-02 13:19:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...interim step might also be needed before we can get to nirvana of understanding content, proactive policies etc. What if we are able to protect all data (or even data that are on these file shares, laptops etc ) regardless of what is in them - and keep them persistently protected at rest and in motion? Think of it as the blunt approach -...
 
Tags: dlp, protect, data-centric, data, data encryption products, traditional dlp solutions, content, couldshould dlp, blunt approach
 
 
 
 
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Indiana State University professor's laptop is stolen

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2008-07-17 09:29:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Interim President C. Jack Maynard, the universitys provost and vice president for academic affairs From the FAQs Q: What can someone do with a stolen SSN A: "With just a SSN there is little anyone can do in the way of setting up a false identity or securing credit. Generally an identity thief would need more information and documentation to...
 
Tags: university, information, personal information, information includes names, university students, confidential information, laptop, evan contact information, university policy prohibits
 
 
 
 
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RIM Patches Acrobat Distiller Bug In BlackBerry Server

2008-07-22 17:27:20 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...interim fixes for users of earlier versions. Follow the links in the advisory to the download pages
 
Tags: blackberry attachment service, service pack, download pages, pdf distiller, interim fixes, rim, follow, users, versions