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Employment records in a New Mexico dumpster

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2008-06-05 23:32:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Mexico Contractor/Consultant/Branch Department of Workplace Solutions Victims Employees and job applicants Number Affected Unknown Types of Data employment records with names and Social Security numbers Breach Description ROSWELL, N.M.State documents with names and Social Security numbers were thrown into a trash bin behind the state...
 
Tags: bin, trash bin monday, mexico, trash bin, roswell, employment records, mexico department, records, roswell daily record
 
 
 
 
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Hard drive stolen from New Mexico State University was encrypted

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2008-01-07 09:50:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Mexico State University Contractor/Consultant/Branch Special Events Department Victims every employee hired by the department since 1999 Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description An encrypted external hard drive was stolen from the New Mexico State University Special Events Department...
 
Tags: hard drive, external hard drive, information, personal information, employee information, computer hard drive, employee, employee hired, special events
 
 
 
 
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Passport card with chatty RFID chip draws privacy ire

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x84705f8 in Network World on Security
 
A proposed new RFID-enabled passport card intended for use by Americans frequently travelling to Canada, Mexico. Bermuda and the Caribbean poses serious security and privacy risks for users, the Centers for Democracy and Technology (CDT) warned this week
 
Tags: passport card, privacy risks, americans frequently, caribbean poses, bermuda, week, users, mexico, democracy
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Giant Squid

2008-02-01 16:22:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This link is from 2004, but still.... Peruvian police say they have seized nearly 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the United States
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-19 00:24:05 by HASH0x8baa6ec in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Mexico in the US-Mexican war. They even invested in Apple to prop them up as a potential rival like the US did in setting up banana republics. By the late 90's did anyone in the mainstream dare to speak out in public about Microsoft being potentially vulnerable and competing with them? Quite the contrary, companies who found out that...
 
Tags: world, microsoft, crazy world, multi-polar world, ago microsoft, century, 21st century, drive fast cars, unipolar american hegemony
 
 
 
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-18 14:27:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Mexico in the US-Mexican war. They even invested in Apple to prop them up as a potential rival like the US did in setting up banana republics. By the late 90's did anyone in the mainstream dare to speak out in public about Microsoft being potentially vulnerable and competing with them? Quite the contrary, companies who found out that...
 
Tags: world, microsoft, crazy world, multi-polar world, ago microsoft, century, 21st century, drive fast cars, unipolar american hegemony
 
 
 
 
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Management, technology short-circuit DHS's 'virtual fence'

2008-02-29 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473130 in Network World on Security
 
A U.S. government plan to build a "virtual fence" along the border of Mexico and Canada, using radar, satellites, sensors and communication links to rapidly dispatch border patrol, has all the earmarks of a technology boondoggle
 
Tags: virtual fence, communication links, technology boondoggle, government plan, radar, satellites, earmarks, border, mexico
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Kidnapping

2008-04-29 05:29:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Mexico: "We've got your child," he says in rapid-fire Spanish, usually adding an expletive for effect and then rattling off a list of demands that might include cash or jewels dropped off at a certain street corner or a sizable deposit made to a local bank The twist is that little Pablo or Teresa is safe and sound at school, not duct-taped to...
 
Tags: cellphones owner, cellphones, extortion calls, ransom demands, telephone scams, scams, calls, government web site, demands
 
 
 
 
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Personal Las Cruces Public Schools Special Ed information posted online

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2008-05-09 10:02:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Mexico State University. Cooper is also the former Director of Security and Research Computing at NMSU Commentary Human errors will happen as long as we are humans, I suppose. Not that we should just accept defeat and use it as an excuse. There are numerous controls with varying degrees of effectiveness that information security personnel...
 
Tags: information, lcps, lcps employees, special education students, lcps press conference, special education, specific information, data security, data
 
 
 
 
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P2P-related breach affects high-profile clients from Wagner Resource Group