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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
...Journal News Story WKYC TV Online Story Report Credit Akron Beacon Journal Response From the online sources cited above The University of Akron has informed 800 students and graduates of the College of Education that a portable hard drive containing personal information is missing and may have been discarded or destroyed in December Evan]...
 
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Unattended Middle Tennessee State University laptop

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2008-02-14 11:59:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Journal online story WTVF Channel 5 News online story Report Credit The Daily News Journal by way of Attrition.org www.attrition.org style="font-weight: bold;">Response From the online sources cited above an unknown person accessed a computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of about 1,500 past and current students A...
 
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Waukesha County job applicant data exposed in mailing

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2008-07-15 08:07:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Journal Sentinel New Richmond News Report Credit Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Response From the online sources cited above Taunya Thomas was horrified when she got a call from a stranger who knew almost everything about her The woman on the phone told Thomas she knew her Social Security number, where she lived and worked,...
 
Tags: job, information, personal information, county, waukesha county, senstive information, confidential information, sensitive information, salary information
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...Journal about Goldman Sachs performance during the credit meltdown. The company has expectations of record income this year, while competitors are faltering left and right There are three important issues in this story and in the sub-prime crisis in general that all good risk management professionals know, and should keep in mind as often...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Index on Censorship: Shifting Borders

2007-12-18 11:23:50 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...journal Index on Censorship is dedicated to the topic of Internet censorship and features an article, Shifting Borders , by Ross Anderson and me. In it, we argue that it is wrong to claim that the Internet is free from barriers. They exist, and while often aligning with national boundaries they are hopefully lower However, the changing nature...
 
Tags: censorship, internet censorship, internet, article, nart villeneuves article, journal index, journal, ross anderson, national boundaries
 
 
 
 
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What Constitutes A $7B Control Failure?

2008-01-25 16:01:33 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...Journal , Associated Press , Economist , etc.) were all over 31-year-old Jérôme Kerviel, the trader at Frances Société Générale who has apparently confessed to fraudulent trades resulting in an estimated loss of roughly $7.2 billion In further coverage , we hear that the bank has apologized to share holders, filed legal claims against...
 
Tags: wall street journal, control failure, risk, 31-year-old jrme kerviel, companys risk management, story, kerviel, story reminds, coverage
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Journal Sentinel story United Press International story Report Credit Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Response From the online sources cited above Citizens for Responsible Government Network agreed to dump descriptions from some 6,900 bills that county officials feared included names of people who had court-ordered psychiatric exams, other...
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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OMG, Security ROI Comes Back - And It is Mad As Hell :-)

2008-03-11 00:58:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Journal", February 2008) where Jon argues against the ROI for security (since there is no money earned by security, just saving which are NOT the same thing); Jon proposes "security as insurance" model which, in all honesty, I am not too comfortable with (since security doesn't "pay you back" after the breach ROI proponents "hit hard" in...
 
Tags: security, roi, security roi war, pro-roi counter-point, roi proponents, information security roi, roi war, issa journal, return
 
 
 
 
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Human error is blamed in WellCare Health Plans breach

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2008-04-09 12:39:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Journal The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Tampa Tribune Report Credit WellCare Health Plans Response From the online sources cited above Private records of up to 71,000 Georgia families who are members of health insurance programs for the poor or working poor were accidentally made available on the Internet for several days, and some of...
 
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January's toolsmith - Gpg4win

2008-01-03 19:47:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...Journal features Gpg4win , a suite that integrates GPG into your Windows envronment. Next month will be discussing more powerful NSM opportunities with HeX , a FreeBSD-based Live CD loaded with network security monitoring tools. toolsmith offers insights on tools useful to the infosec practitioner, typically open source or inexpensive. The...