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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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 7/14/08 Organization Washington 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...
 
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
 
It looks like there's going to be an information security conference in my neck of the woods next month. The ISSA-Kentuckiana is holding the Fifth Annual 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...
 
Tags: keynote speaker, information security conference, security system design, keynote, held, day event, event site, breakout sessions, multiple technical
 
 
 
 
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Sniffers presentation at 2008 Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference Thursday, October 9th, 2008

2008-10-07 08:33:10 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
Update: Sniffers presentation at 2008 Louisville Metro InfoSec Conference Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Looks like I will be presenting at the upcoming Louisville InfoSec Conference put on by the ISSA, Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at Churchhill Downs. The person they had set do do the live hacking demo had to drop out, so they asked me to fill in...
 
Tags: october 9th, sniffers presentation, louisville infosec conference, short notice, thursday, issa, demo, churchhill, drop
 
 
 
 
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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
Wi-Fi Planet runs down transit-based Internet access around the world: There's a lot to choose to write about these days, as Internet access using Wi-Fi for end users and cellular data networks for backhaul abound. The article notes that commuter vehicle Wi-Fi can serve three purposes: access for passengers, intra-vehicle communication among...
 
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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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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/28/07 Organization Davidson County Election Commission Davidson County, Tennessee has an estimated population of 607,413. The county seat is Nashville Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Registered Davidson County voters Number Affected 337,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security...
 
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
 
Tags: technical track presentations, reader, 18th, irongeek, oct, schedule
 
 
 
 
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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
 
 
 
 
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The problem with Government contracting

2008-04-21 12:57:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
I am often asked if we "do government contracting'. When people in the Washington D.C. metro area find out that I am the president of a private security firm, they immediately think "government". While there are small (and not so small) fortunes to be made in that arena, it is also rife with problems The Washington Post on Friday ran a story...
 
Tags: government, officers, contract, million dollar contract, air force officers, brassed-up bullies, barely, washington post, selection team
 
 
 
 
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Buh-Bye, Philly

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2008-05-07 10:33:13 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Metro Philadelphia is reporting that the city's Wi-Fi network may halt operations as soon as tomorrow, 08-May-2008: The site reports that EarthLink stopped accepting new customers last week, and told Philadelphia that without a plan by the city to assume control of the network by tomorrow, it would start dismantling the network, after a previous...
 
Tags: network, wi-fi network, site reports, earthlink, city, metro philadelphia, previous deadline set, philadelphia, earthlink owes
 
 
 
 
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Whats Up With the Washington Posts Biz Section Coverage of Local Business?

2008-05-23 21:26:02 by David Link in ScienceLogic
 
I have been planning to write this blog post for quite some time and my thoughts were crystallized after attending the Washington Post 200 Business Forum . Katharine Weymouth the striking granddaughter of the late Washington Post Co. chairman Katharine Graham , kicked off this event to approximately 300 local business executives. During her...
 
Tags: business, post business section, business section, post, post daily delivery, business leaders, post journalist, local business community, blog post