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Security Perception: Fear vs Anger

2008-03-23 12:42:05 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...nationwide field experiment, the first of its kind. As opposed to the participants in our lab studies, the participants in our nationwide field study did have strong feelings about the issues at stake -- September 11th and possible future attacks -- and they also had a lot of information about these issues as well. We wondered whether the...
 
Tags: potential future attacks, future attacks, future, future terrorist attacks, perceive future risks, attacks, worlds future, clip subsequently, subsequently
 
 
 
 
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Data security and breach legislation -- will a new year and a new Congress = a national law?

2007-03-07 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...nationwide hasn't slowed down in 2007; more states have passed breach notification laws, with over three dozen now in place; and key Committee Chairmen in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress have either introduced legislation or announced this issue as a top priority of their respective Committees. So, if there's all this momentum behind...
 
Tags: congress, national law, federal data security, simple answer, breach notification laws, answer, breach notification law, top priority, federal law
 
 
 
 
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Security World: Eight security New Years resolutions for network managers

2007-12-18 12:36:48 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
2008 is expected to continue the 2007 trend of increasing size, scope, and concentration of attacks on computer networks nationwide. Attacks are increasingly more targeted as malware, worms, and other
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...nationwide basis, as defined in 15 U.S.C. s. 1681a(p), of the timing, distribution, and content of the notices Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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DHS notified the Greenville County School District of compromise

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2008-01-07 09:08:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...nationwide that are infected When the Benefits Department computer was used to access state insurance information, the malicious software program captured your name, social security number, and telephone number Evan] Captured and transmitted, or just captured We continue to work with state and federal law enforcement regarding this matter....
 
Tags: computer, benefits department computer, benefits department, benefits department accesses, department, school district, school district employees, employees, homeland security
 
 
 
 
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Detecting Nuclear Weapons Using the Cell Phone Network

2008-02-01 12:54:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...nationwide sensor network on top of our already existing cell phone infrastructure
 
Tags: network, detection system, phones, system, cell phones, radiation sensors, nationwide sensor network, portable electronic products, require additional circuitry
 
 
 
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...nationwide number is larger Types of Data Target Visa account information, including name, address, account number, social security number and telephone number Breach Description The Target Fraud Prevention team discovered that three employees of a company that provides call center assistance for Target National Bank used the privileges...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank
 
 
 
 
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Record fine of over $2.5M for UK insurer

2007-12-17 22:28:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Nationwide Building Society for GBP 980K , earlier this year. Seems like the regulators are getting tough on companies who are incompetent. And this seems to showcase a trend in increasing levels of fines
 
Tags: fined norwich union, policies worth gbp, financial services authority, 26m gbp, record, fine, gbp 980k, fsa, previous
 
 
 
 
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Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded

2008-02-26 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...nationwide surveys conducted by the center In an article titled "Online 'Predators' and Their Victims," which appears Tuesday in American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association, Wolak and co-researchers examined several fears that they concluded are myths Internet predators are driving up child sex crime rates...
 
Tags: internet, internet predators, internet predators represent, predators, sex crimes, sex, child, child predators, internet predators trick
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from a Kraft Foods traveling employee

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2008-03-04 13:26:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...nationwide have received letters telling them that their personal information was stored on the missing laptop and they could be vulnerable to some type of identity theft Kraft Foods spokeswoman Cathy Pernu said the theft took place in mid-January and involved an employee who was working on a systems project. It had migrating information...