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Finland privacy judgment

2008-07-23 15:26:48 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...judgment against Finland in a medical privacy case The complainant was a nurse at a Finnish hospital, and also HIV-positive. Word of her condition spread among colleagues, and her contract was not renewed. The hospitals access controls were not sufficient to prevent colleages accessing her record, and its audit trail was not sufficient to...
 
Tags: privacy, hospitals access controls, effective protection test, effective protection, medical privacy, access, health care staff, care, law
 
 
 
 
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Spamhaus litigation: Will spammers get a second wind?

2006-10-16 01:38:55 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...judgment against Spamhaus in the amount of $11.7 million October 5 : e360 submits an order to suspend www.spamhaus.org since Spamhaus failed to comply with the courts previous order. If signed, the order will call for ICANN and/or Tucows (Spamhaus Registrar) to take the Spamhaus website down October 9 : ICANN makes a statement warning that...
 
Tags: spamhaus, spamhaus litigation events, spamhaus claims, spamhaus website, spamhaus registrar, spam, billion spam messages, e360insight, e360insight claims
 
 
 
 
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Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks

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2008-01-11 17:15:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...judgment, in my opinion Anyone with concerns should contact the PCTs information line on freephone 0800 144 4304. The line is open from 8.30am8pm MonFri and 10am4pm SatSun Commentary Overall, this has to be one of the best responses I have seen in some time from an organization that experienced a breach of personal information. The response...
 
Tags: information, information lost, personal information, financial information, medical information, information security, data, freephone information line, data sticks
 
 
 
 
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First Magnus Financial customer data found in dumpster

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2008-02-21 13:56:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...judgment. Thankfully, someone reported the poorly discarded documents in the dumpster and reported it before (it appears) they fell into the hands of the nefarious. I wonder where the documents are now and who has access to them, supposing they still exist Not only did First Magnus have a business responsibility for the protection of...
 
Tags: magnus, magnus financial, magnus financial corporation, police, police officers, documents, sensitive documents, police departments, financial documents
 
 
 
 
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Judge rules against accused spyware distributor

2008-03-10 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
A U.S. judge has granted a request by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for a judgment against a company accused of distributing spyware and adware onto people's computers Sign up for a FREE MALWARE NETWORK AUDIT Advertisement MORE THAN 70% of networks are infected with hidden Malware. Find out if your network is infected now
 
Tags: federal trade commission, judge, spyware, advertisement, network, malware, judgment, networks, computers
 
 
 
 
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The Thin Blue Line

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2007-09-05 12:47:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
...judgment in a rash or callous way but let me hold my patience let each man have his say Lord if some dark and dreary night I must give my life Lord, with your everlasting love protect my children and my wife I am the Officer Anonymous I have been where you fear to be I have seen what you fear to see I have done what you fear to do All...
 
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Armchair Legal Analysis of Sierra v. Ritz

2008-01-17 20:25:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...judgment here In this case David Ritz is being punished for performing unauthorized DNS zone transfers of Sierra Corporate Design's network The problem at the federal level is that the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). North Dakota's statute appears to have roughly the same language The CFAA has relatively consistently been interpreted...
 
Tags: dns zone transfers, zone transfers, trespass, prevent trespass, prevent zone transfers, computer, computer fraud, physical world trespass, lot murkier
 
 
 
 
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More thoughts on vulnerability

2008-04-07 13:34:01 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
 
...judgment about the degree of vulnerability. Or, I suppose, they may just be blindly following someone elses proclamation that this is vulnerable and that isnt So, if were performing subconscious quantification and comparison when we rate the vulnerability of something, is there any reason we cant/shouldnt be more conscious about it ? Whats...
 
Tags: capable threat agent, threat agent, capable, password, vulnerability, six-character password, vulnerable, -character password, numeric
 
 
 
 
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New parents exposed in Fresno County lost mail

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2008-04-07 16:07:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...judgment call that terms this "low risk". Must be somebody that is well versed in risk management, right The Postal Service is searching for the items and trying to figure out where the certified letter was damaged Fresno Bee Opinion Column The latest screw-up by Fresno County is more evidence of how cavalierly county officials treat the...
 
Tags: county, sensitive personal information, personal information, fresno, fresno county, list personal information, security, security breach, officials
 
 
 
 
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University of California Irvine students are hit with mysterious breach

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2008-04-10 12:14:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...judgment on the part of the school Ensuring data security is one of the most important responsibilities we have to the campus community and a top priority. We continually work to strengthen our information security practices Evan] I really like this statement. The key concepts in this statement that grab my attention are "top priority" and...
 
Tags: irvine, irvine police department, police, students, contact campus police, credit agencies, credit, irvine police, medical students