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The Naval Surface Warfare Center warns employees

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2008-01-16 09:51:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Jan. 8 that four individuals had been arrested in Bensalem Township, Pa., on Jan. 5, 2008, for attempted identity fraud police in Bensalem Township, Pa., outside Philadelphia, informed a Dahlgren employee that someone was about to use his credit card to buy a big-screen TV at Sears Evan] It adds a level of concern when it is known that the...
 
Tags: company data destruction, company data, employees personal information, personal information, destruction, information, information security, employees, employment information
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptop contained unencrypted Fallon Community Health Plan information

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2008-01-25 11:54:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Jan. 1 The vendor discovered the theft Jan. 2 and originally said the material had been encrypted. But the health plan, with the assistance of a forensic technologist, came to the conclusion Jan. 14 that the information was not protected Evan] I wonder why the vendor thought that the information had been encrypted. Do they encrypt some...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, fallon, protect confidential information, accesses confidential information, fallon senior plan, senior plan, confidential information, unknown vendor
 
 
 
 
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Stolen car with South Carolina DHEC laptop inside

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2008-02-04 09:55:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Jan. 22, a DHEC employee's personal vehicle was stolen from a convenience store near the DHEC Region 2 office in Spartanburg. Inside the vehicle was a DHEC-issued laptop computer which contained sensitive personal information belonging to certain DHEC employees Reference URL South Carolina DHEC Media Advisory WYFF Channel 4 News story WCBD...
 
Tags: dhec, dhec employees, sensitive personal information, personal information, dhec region, information, computer, laptop computer, dhec employee
 
 
 
 
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Stolen personal laptop may have Memorial University student info

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2008-02-05 14:57:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Jan. 18, discovered that his home had been burglarized and a laptop stolen The laptop was stolen sometime between Jan. 15-18, 2008 the laptop computer may have contained students' personal information Mr. Burns used the personally-owned laptop occasionally for university-related purposes and reports that it may have contained class lists...
 
Tags: secure personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, university, information, information access, memorial, professor, memorial professor
 
 
 
 
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The Ineffectiveness of Security Cameras

2008-04-07 13:33:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Jan. 1, 2005, and Jan. 28, 2008 These were the total number of crimes for which police had reports -- regardless of whether the crimes were caught on video. The idea was to look at whether criminals stopped committing crimes at those locations because they knew cameras were there Using a complicated method, researchers were able to come up...
 
Tags: cameras, crime, average daily crime, security, crimes, feet, motor vehicle theft, forcible sex offenses, positive deterrent effect
 
 
 
 
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Traffic stats and the top 10 blogs

2008-04-30 05:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Jan 2008 ) 3. The 10 deadly sins of Information Security management ( 31 October 2007 ) 4. Portable wireless hacking device ( 9 Feb 2007 ) 5. HSBC new two-factor authentication system ( 7 September 2007 ) 6. Data Protection Act - What's the Damage? ( 20 September 2007 ) 7. RFID Passports ( 6 Jan 2008 ) 8. Incident definition and response ( 11...
 
Tags: security, information security management, blog entries, blog, entries, information security strategy, data protection act, march, readers
 
 
 
 
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Airlines Profiting from TSA Rules

2008-05-20 06:51:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Jan" and "Janet" were one and the same. There were suggestions that a new ticket might need to be purchased. "We didn't let it get to that," he recalls. Instead, he asked to speak with a supervisor who could finally fix the codes so that the ticket and passport matched up. How did all of this happen in the first place? Turns out Jan Gordon...
 
Tags: ticket, award ticket, security, transportation security administration, ticket slide, security personnel, tsa rule, airlines, frequent flier account
 
 
 
 
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Quantitative Analysis = "Highly" Technical Analysis (?)

2007-02-07 09:34:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Jan/Feb 2007 Issue of CFA Magazine, there is an article ("Perpetual Motion by Susan Trammell , CFA ") about a recent study on trends in quantitative investing. Below are some findings Phenomena Being Modeled Fund Capacity: 20 Impact of Trades: 24 Textual Data: 2 Higher Moments: 2 Regime Shifts: 10 Volatility: 20 Extreme Events: 10 Momentum...
 
Tags: technical, technical analysis, quantitative analysis, quantitative, technical indicators, indicators, survey results, results, reversal models
 
 
 
 
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Malware honeypots wait for '08

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by HASH0x8471534 in Network World on Security
 
An innovative malware honeypot project backed by a leading consortium of IT security experts is preparing to re-launch its global sensor network after Jan. 1 in an effort to dupe more cybercriminals into handing over information about their latest attack methods
 
Tags: global sensor network, security experts, attack methods, re-launch, effort, information, cybercriminals, dupe, jan
 
 
 
 
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Pennsylvania Department of Aging seniors affected by stolen laptop

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2008-01-03 17:18:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Jan Murphy, Patriot News Response From the online sources cited above A state Department of Aging-owned laptop computer containing personal information on nearly 21,000 senior citizens was stolen from a Johnstown home during a Dec. 5 break-in The computer was issued to a department employee who works with the agencies on aging in Indiana,...