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What would you do with Ballmer's letter if you were a Yahoo shareholder

2008-05-03 23:24:54 by HASH0x8b6f148 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...letter Steve Ballmer sent to Jerry Yang officially withdrawing the offer and offering his reasons why. Must say that it is rare that a document like this is made public. I must also say that if I were a Yahoo shareholder, it would be a key piece of evidence when I sued Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo board and management for not...
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo shareholder, yang, sued jerry yang, microsoft, ballmer, force microsoft, jerry yang, microsoft evidently
 
 
 
 
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FBI agrees to withdraw National Security Letter served on Internet Archive

2008-05-07 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The ACLU and the EFF are jointly claiming victory in a battle to get the FBI to withdraw a National Security Letter and the associated gag order served on the Internet Archive
 
Tags: national security letter, internet archive, withdraw, fbi, aclu, battle, victory, gag, jointly
 
 
 
 
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Laptop is stolen from the car of a First Calgary Savings employee

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2008-05-20 10:47:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letter sent yesterday to its customers, First Calgary Savings said a vehicle parked in a secured underground parkade was vandalized and the bank employee's laptop and cellphone stolen last month Reference URL Calgary Sun First Calgary Savings Report Credit Bill Kaufmann, Sun Media (Calgary Sun Response From the online sources cited above ...
 
Tags: employee, information, personal information, breach description, breach, information security breach, financial information, confidential information, calgary savings
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud hits Baptist Health in Arkansas

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2008-07-11 00:00:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters warning about 1,800 patients that the hospital systems records may have been breached Evan] Uh, "may have been breached The notification came after the arrest of a Baptist Health employee at a Wal-Mart store on 25 counts of financial identity fraud Evan] Wouldn't life be grand if we could trust our employees? Maybe, I suppose The...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, baptist health system, health system, fraud, victims personal information, employee fraud, baptist health, employee
 
 
 
 
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S&K Menswear two-phased attack

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2008-01-03 10:40:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letter sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General, on or about October 24th, 2007 personal information belonging to S&K online customers was accessed without proper authorization. S&K became aware of the unauthorized access after reports of fictitious spear phishing emails began circulating in which the attacker requested the CVV2 codes to...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security practices, notification, information security, breach notification letter, sample customer letter, credit card, credit card data
 
 
 
 
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Bubblicious

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2008-07-15 21:26:02 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...letter Granting the presence of perverse incentives, what are the operating mechanics that cause widespread bad loans (where the higher interest rates do not adequately cover increased risk of loss) under our present system? After all, the bad lending, while it has a surface plausibility to bankers under cost pressure, is, by definition, not...
 
Tags: bad, widespread bad loans, letter, charlie munger, charlie, system, social proof, munger, volatile combination
 
 
 
 
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Lloyds TSB warning may panic some customers

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2008-01-05 00:47:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letters to an unknown number of bank customers warning them that their computers may have been infected with a virus that is specifically meant to steal personal information, credit card data, and authentication information Reference URL ComputerWeekly.com Story BobsGuideStory Report Credit Karl Flinders, ComputerWeekly.com Response From...
 
Tags: lloyds, lloyds tsb customers, customers, lloyds tsb, lloyds tsb passwords, internet login details, internet, information, information security professionals
 
 
 
 
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Orthogonal Blogging at the SOA Horse Races

2008-01-20 06:30:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...letter acronyms have been created by analysts to describe momentum in the software market. Sorry, it is true really For example, I remember when I was in Tokyo where the very capable and conservatively risk adverse Japanese executives told me time and time again, We dont care about SOA we simply want to integrate our systems. They were quick...
 
Tags: real, real-world, real business solutions, soa, soa horse, real business, software, software companies, customers
 
 
 
 
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"many of Colt's clients" affected by breach, CNET included

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2008-06-25 11:25:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letter that on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2008, Colt's offices in Walnut Creek, California were burglarized. Certain computer equipment was taken which contains the human resources data of several of their clients, including CNET. The theft of this equipment may have compromised the personal information of our client's current and former...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security, confidential information, protect information, breach, sensitive information, information security requirements, colt
 
 
 
 
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A backup tape is stolen from Greensboro Gynecology Associates

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2008-07-16 16:16:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...letter mailed to patients, Greensboro Gynecology Associates said a backup tape of their computer database was stolen Evan] Does "their computer database" include billing information and other confidential information other than personally identifiable information The letter was dated June 16, but some letters weren't postmarked until July 9 ...