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Confidential Texas A & M personnel file exposed on the Internet

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2008-02-18 23:51:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/16/08 Organization Texas A&M University Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Current and former employees of the Texas AgriLife Extension and Texas AgriLife Research -- formerly Texas Cooperative Extension and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, respectively -- and the College of...
 
Tags: texas, sensitive personal information, personal information, texas agrilife extension, file, texas agrilife research, information, texas cooperative extension, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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I'm the security guy. I used to have a security guy, but he died. Now I'm the security guy

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2008-04-22 23:52:53 by HASH0x8adc41c in StillSecure, After All These Years
While attending the SANS event in Orlando this week I had a chance to meet a fellow who works at a company that is a StillSecure customer. I had never met this particular guy before, so I asked him how long he had been working in security at the company. The answer I got reminded me of an old quote from the move "The Producers Who d'ya want? -I...
 
Tags: security, security guy, security products, guy, security professionals, security role thrust, company, move, concierge
 
 
 
 
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I'm the security guy. I used to have a security guy, but he died. Now I'm the security guy

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2008-04-23 00:47:27 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
While attending the SANS event in Orlando this week I had a chance to meet a fellow who works at a company that is a StillSecure customer. I had never met this particular guy before, so I asked him how long he had been working in security at the company. The answer I got reminded me of an old quote from the move "The Producers Who d'ya want? -I...
 
Tags: security, security guy, security products, guy, security professionals, security role thrust, company, move, concierge
 
 
 
 
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Personal Plug: I'm hiring

2008-06-13 12:55:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
PayPal's information security team is hiring Specifically - I'm hiring an Application Security Researcher Primary responsibilities will be Lead Research on browser security models Research new application security attacks and countermeasures Develop prototypes of security protection mechanisms for browsers and PayPal software to implement and...
 
Tags: browser security models, security, application security standards, security protection mechanisms, application security attacks, information security team, application security researcher, applications, paypal applications
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary on "Metrics Framework" Paper

2007-09-17 20:41:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
I was reading the paper " A Metrics Framework to Drive Application Security Improvement " recently and some thoughts started to gel about what types of web application security metrics are meaningful This is going to be part-1 of 2 about the paper and software security metrics. In this first installment I comment on the metrics from the paper...
 
Tags: metrics, software security metrics, metrics framework, metrics miss, design-time metric, design, upstream sdl metrics, application, web application security
 
 
 
 
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Franklin University student information posted on Web

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2008-01-30 18:33:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/29/08 Organization Franklin University Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Students and/or alumni Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Name, Social Security number, trimester and course number, email address, and Franklin University ID number Breach Description A file containing...
 
Tags: franklin university, franklin, students, students andor alumni, information, franklin university identification, franklin university students, class information, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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To Catch a Phish: Practice, Practice, Practice

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2008-02-14 18:31:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
Our adversaries are very good. Very very good. They are experts at deception and intrigue. They make a living (and a very good living at that) from separating you from your personal information. They prey on your gullability and trusting nature I don't advocate that you become a full on paranoid like me. Everytime I get a strange email that...
 
Tags: security mike content, security mike, bad guys, email, guys, security research friends, strange email, techniques, fraud techniques
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Environments will be more secure than their physical counter parts by 2010

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2008-03-22 18:29:17 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
Montego Networks Prediction Virtual Environments will be more secure than their physical counter parts by 2010 Neil McDonald of Gartner reported in 2007 that throughout 2009, 60% of virtual environment deployments would be less secure than their physical counter parts Although I tend to believe Neil???s prediction I???m a bit optimistic about...
 
Tags: security concerns, application security concerns, virtual, concerns, server, virtual server, virtual appliances, security infrastructure due, lift
 
 
 
 
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Flattery will get you nowhere

2008-04-04 18:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
What's in it for me? Now, if you ask me that's a perfectly reasonable response any time somebody asks you to give up your valuable time on a professional basis and participate in an event that is being sold to you on the benefits it will have for some large profit making organisation. I don't think it's an unreasonable question. I'm very...
 
Tags: valuable time, time, time job, industry colleagues, industry, organisation, international organisation, industry peers, elses business plan