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"Metro" employee information mistakenly posted to Web

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2008-07-15 10:39:14 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ("Metro Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims past and present employees Number Affected 4,675 Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description Metro has advised nearly 4,700 past and present employees that their social security numbers were published accidentally on the transit...
 
Tags: metro officials continue, metro officials, metro, officials, employees, letter urges employees, information, metro employees, employees responsible
 
 
 
 
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Metro Louisville InfoSec 2007 Conference

2007-09-25 20:06:06 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Metro Louisville Information Security Conference Oct 18th at Churchill Downs. Considering the location, maybe they should have called it "Hackers and Horses". From the event site The ISSA-Kentuckiana board of directors is proud to announce the 5th Annual Metro Louisville Information Security Conference. It is a full day event on October 18th,...
 
Tags: keynote speaker, information security conference, security system design, keynote, held, day event, event site, breakout sessions, multiple technical
 
 
 
 
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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
MetroFi will sell its networks, but plans to shutter if there are no buyers: Ah, folks, the trifecta has arrived, and I'm nothing but sad about it. MetroFi's chief Chuck Haas emailed me this evening with the news that his firm has decided that they will sell their networks in nine cities, including their first cities in the Bay Area (Cupertino,...
 
Tags: metro-scale wi-fi, wi-fi, large-city wi-fi network, wi-fi providers, wi-fi network, york wi-fi plan, city, city dollars, super-fast wi-fi network
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: General Commuter-Fi, Microsoft Bus-Fi, Nikon S52c

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2008-04-10 14:15:19 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Metro System (called Metro by those of us here in King County) has Wi-Fi on a variety of buses, and seems to be gradually expanding service Microsoft expands its commuter bus system: The Wi-Fi equipped buses will grow to handle 4,600 riders a day from the current 1,800. A good friend will now have a 5-block walk from his Seattle home instead...
 
Tags: wi-fi planet runs, wi-fi, internal wi-fi, system, commuter bus system, service, online service, commuter vehicle wi-fi, free bus service
 
 
 
 
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Dead, Dead, Dead: Cities Accept Muni-Fi's Absence

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2008-04-20 12:54:28 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...metro-scale Wi-Fi. In many parts of the U.S., stucco isn't in a homeowner's vocabulary. But in large swaths of sunny states, especially the southwest and southern California, homes are finished by slapping plaster on chicken wire and calling it good--it's got good insulation. Where wallboard over balloon wood frames doesn't really obstruct...
 
Tags: wi-fi network, city-wide wi-fi network, city, oklahoma city, dollars, city manager, taxpayer dollars, reporter notes, balloon wood frames
 
 
 
 
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iPhone Gains 15 Minutes Free Wi-Fi in 28 Airports

2008-05-02 12:04:16 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...MetroFi has famously declared free access to metro-scale services paid for by advertising to be unworkable; that may be so, given that they were the biggest proponent of it for a few years, and no other company followed them into that approach. However, metro-scale ad-supported Wi-Fi, in which residential and roaming users alike looked at...
 
Tags: hotspot, hotspot ads involve, ads, boingo offers ads-for-access, boingo, free wi-fi, wi-fi, access, gain access
 
 
 
 
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Latest 802.11 Standard Boosts Wi-Fi Power in New Band

2008-06-25 14:01:44 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...metro-scale Wi-Fi firm, but now a big proponent of WiMax in 3.65 GHz. I also went over the rules for the band on 11-June-2007 when the FCC announced the arrangement Several firms offer base station and customer premises equipment for this band now, so close to the 3.5 GHz band more commonly exclusively licensed in Europe and elsewhere. WiMax...
 
Tags: band, power, wi-fi, ghz band, ghz, equipment, wimax equipment, metro-scale wi-fi firm, power output
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptops affect 337,000 Davidson County voters

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2007-12-29 11:30:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Metro's information technology department to make immediate changes to safeguard against any future security problems Evan] I wonder what these people will come up with. Not only "immediate changes", but also effective changes. There are likely numerous changes that could be suggested. It all starts with policy The Election Commission says it...
 
Tags: voters, davidson county voters, davidson county, tennessee voters, information technology department, information, voters monitor, sensitive personal information, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Itinerary For Louisville InfoSec 2007 Conference Posted

2007-10-04 20:41:42 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
The schedule is up for the Metro Louisville InfoSec Conference happening Oct. 18th. If you are a reader of Irongeek.com please come by and say hello, you will most likely find me sitting in on the technical track presentations
 
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Metro Round-Up: St. Louis, Minneapolis, Tempe

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2008-04-12 21:15:38 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
St. Louis's downtown Wi-Fi network goes live: AT&T overcame the problem that led them to cancel a city-wide Wi-Fi network--a lack of 24-hour-a-day power on utility poles--by building just a square mile out with nodes placd on traffic lights. The lack of power is rather difficult to overcome, and traffic lights are spaced too sparsely to...
 
Tags: city, city-wide wi-fi network, network, deployment city-wide, city official, downtown wi-fi network, cancel, cancel gobility, gobility