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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Ministry of Defence (MoD Victims people who have either expressed an interest in, or have joined, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the Royal Air Force Number Affected 600,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, telephone numbers, passport details, National Insurance numbers, drivers license details, family details, doctors addresses, National...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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UK Ministry of Defense Loses Memory Stick with Military Secrets

2008-09-16 06:21:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Ministry of Defence since 2004, it was reported earlier this year Some 26 of those disappeared this year == including three which contained information classified as "secret", and 19 which were "restricted I've written about this general problem before: we're storing ever more data in ever smaller devices. The point is that it's now amazingly...
 
Tags: secret information, secret, information, portable backup drive, usb memory sticks, professional life, 3rd battalion, enormous amount, copy
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Identity Theft

2008-08-16 09:58:30 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Ministry. There was enough information to prevent the fraud and indict a number of people behind it if the government had acted Instead of doing anything to save the Russian state from this highly sophisticated and organized looting, two of our complaints were thrown out immediately; two were returned to the same Interior Ministry official we...
 
Tags: russian police, police, russian, russian government, government, identity theft, russian-style, hermitage, fund
 
 
 
 
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Burglars make off with Crosslines Ministries files

2008-02-18 16:46:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...ministry," Kaiser said. "We can't say what else they took and we have no indication of why they took the box of papers in the first place or whether they knew what they were taking Evan] There isn't any real value in paper (of this quantity), so it's a pretty good guess that the theives are interested in the information Kaiser recommended...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, store personal information, crosslines, crosslines ministries, information, security, store social security, backup information
 
 
 
 
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Digital Cash in Iraq

2008-08-11 12:53:52 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Ministry and Martyrdom Ministry, demonstrated smart card registration, biometric enrolment and issuing of UEPS cards, offline loading of wage payments and government grants to the UEPS cards and dispensing of cash The pilot project involving 100,000 beneficiaries is now ready for implementation across selected bank branches and will enable...
 
Tags: ueps cards, ueps, digital cash, cash, net1 ueps, bank, net1, rafidain bank, ueps transaction
 
 
 
 
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$13 Billion of U.S. Taxpayers Money was Stolen or Wasted in Iraq.

2008-09-25 04:03:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Ministry setting up a front company that received $1.7 Billion in U.S. funds to buy guns, armoured vehicles and other equipment. Only a small percentage was ever purchased and in one case, they had bullet-proof vests delivered that were defective and useless In another case involving Iraqis and U.S. contractors, $24.4 million was spent on an...
 
Tags: billion, iraqi defense ministry, defense ministry, iraqi government officials, officials, billion bail, fellow investigative co-workers, funds, front company
 
 
 
 
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DDoS Attack Graphs from Russia vs Georgia's Cyberattacks

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2008-10-15 15:01:58 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I've just received a report part of Georgia's " Russian Invasion of Georgia " series entitled " Russian Cyberwar on Georgia ", which is quoting me on page 4 in regard to the "too good to be courtesy of Russia's cyber militia " creative that appeared on the defaced Georgian President's web site. The report also...
 
Tags: georgia, attacks, georgia cyber attacks, attack, georgia cyber attack, ddos attack, russian cyber attacks, graphs, russia
 
 
 
 
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Military allies' collaboration yields secure e-mail spec

2008-02-13 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Secure e-mail communications between the Department of Defense, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and their contractors is getting help from the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program, whose director Wayne Grundy discusses what TSCP has done so far and where it's going
 
Tags: secure e-mail communications, kingdom ministry, contractors, department, defence, defense, tscp
 
 
 
 
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More U.K. government laptops go missing

2008-02-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473760 in Network World on Security
 
The Ministry of Defence is launching a new inquiry after admitting to the loss of two more laptops containing unencrypted personal details
 
Tags: laptops, personal details, defence, loss, ministry, inquiry
 
 
 
 
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Global Dispatches

2008-02-25 06:21:54 by Editor in