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Computer Misuse in Scotland

2008-02-14 20:25:22 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Misuse Act 1990 would not be amended until April 2008 because the amendments introduced in the Police and Justice Act 2006 were themselves to be amended by the Serious Crime Act 2007 , and that was not expected to come into force until then. Also, right at the end of 2007 the CPS published their guidance on how these new offences might be...
 
Tags: act, computer misuse act, computer misuse, justice act, crime act, scotland, law, law stands, offences stops
 
 
 
 
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DEMIDS and Database Misuse Detection

2008-06-05 07:44:18 by Adrian Lane in Information Centric Security
 
...misuse is detected by the use of a distance function. It attributes a set of tables or database functions as the normal domain of a user, and everything that the user accesses outside of that specified domain has some distance factor associated with it. Tables in other schemas are viewed as being a certain distance outside of that domain, and...
 
Tags: database, distance, database functions, distance factor, misuse, domain, normal domain, tables, user accesses
 
 
 
 
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Backup tape is stolen from Bristol-Myers Squibb

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2008-07-18 11:26:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...misuse of your personal information has occurred Evan] I agree with most of this statement except for the "misuse" part. There may be no evidence of misuse post stolen tape, but there may be an argument for misuse by BMS themselves. BMS is the data custodian in this scenario, not the data owner. If a data custodian does not care for the...
 
Tags: tape, back-up data tape, data tape, owner, data owner, data, bristol-myers squibb, information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...misuse of this information. Based on our review of the circumstances and the limited nature of the disclosure, we do not believe there is a significant risk of misuse of this information resulting from this disclosure Fidelity Investments has taken steps to further strengthen our controls to help prevent this from recurring Fidelity...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Hacking tool guidance finally appears

2007-12-31 17:50:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Misuse Act, when amendments to it come into force probably April 2008 (for reasons that I discussed last July What is at issue is so-called hacking tools, and the problem arises because almost every hacking tool you can think of from perl to nmap is dual use the good guys use it for good purposes, and the bad guys use it for bad. The bad guys...
 
Tags: bad, bad people download, cma offence, offence, bad guys, guys, offence stage, tool, article widely
 
 
 
 
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The bad guys will use BitLocker, too

2007-07-13 18:03:36 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...misuse the technology Encryption is amoral. Good guys will use it, and bad guys will use it. We've got to accept that fact. It does no one any good to render beneficial technology useless just because there's the potential that someone might misuse it
 
Tags: bad guys, guys, law enforcement, beneficial, bitlocker, destroy beneficial utility, conduct forensic analysis, technology, bypass
 
 
 
 
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Highlighting the importance of data privacy... one person at a time

2008-01-11 09:29:07 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
...misuse. One person to do this recently, in response to the data loss by HM Revenue and Customs is Jeremy Clarkson , a TV broadcaster specializing in cars. Despite having no background in finance and fraud, he published his personal information in a newspaper column trying to diminish the idea that harm could come from the data breach. And...
 
Tags: data, data protection laws, data breach, easy data, lost, protection, account, lost valuable time, bank account
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Griffin Electric laptop exposes employee information

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2008-04-11 11:40:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...misuse of your information and mitigate any harm that could result Evan] It is a shared responsibility of the data owner (victim) and the data custodian (company) to "take steps to protect". The data custodian did not "take steps to protect" in this breach by adequately securing personal information Based on what we know to date, we are not...
 
Tags: information, personal medical information, personal information, confidential information, data, information security professionals, data owner, data encryption products, data custodian
 
 
 
 
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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics employees at risk from stolen laptop

2008-04-16 15:47:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...misuse of your information and mitigate any harm that could result Based on what we know to date, we are not aware of any specific cases of misuse of personal information obtained in connection with the incident We apologize for this situation and any inconvenience it may cause you We treat all sensitive employee information in a...
 
Tags: company, company laptop computer, current data privacy, data, siemens, breach description, breach, siemens healthcare diagnostics, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Cotton Traders confirms that their website was compromised

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2008-06-11 10:45:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...misuse the data is low because the credit card information was encrypted Evan] See my comments above. More information is required before a claim like the "potential to misuse the data is low" can be verified Earlier this year we identified a security issue. We immediately brought in industry security experts to resolve the problem Evan] Who...