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Scenario Planning: A critical component of disaster recovery

2008-05-19 07:55:06 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...occurrence of any event on the action plan depends on the basic security yardstick of risk. The identification of events, determining probability of occurrence, and documenting recovery operations is called scenario planning; Scenario planning is the critical first step in mitigating business impact from interruptions with a reasonable...
 
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Lloyds TSB warning may panic some customers

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2008-01-05 00:47:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...occurrence I sincerely hope that Lloyds TSB will provide their customers with additional details and handle future incident responses with more thought. To give Lloyds TSB the benefit of doubt, maybe they are unable to disclose additional details because of law enforcement action. Still, customers are frustrated and some are scared Past...
 
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Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks

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2008-01-11 17:15:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...occurrence. This is sound information security judgment, in my opinion Anyone with concerns should contact the PCTs information line on freephone 0800 144 4304. The line is open from 8.30am8pm MonFri and 10am4pm SatSun Commentary Overall, this has to be one of the best responses I have seen in some time from an organization that experienced...
 
Tags: information, information lost, personal information, financial information, medical information, information security, data, freephone information line, data sticks
 
 
 
 
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center warns employees

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2008-01-16 09:51:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...occurrence in the future Commentary This is an interesting story. I can't recall a time when an identity fraudster was caught with pages of stolen information in their possession. I have many unanswered questions about this breach Overall, I like the NSWCDD's response to the breach. The response pointed out one very important facet of...
 
Tags: company data destruction, company data, employees personal information, personal information, destruction, information, information security, employees, employment information
 
 
 
 
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Process Doubling

2008-01-27 22:44:57 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...occurrence during an audit (given there are logistical reasons that make many common techniques off limits). It was mission accomplished for showing the vulnerabilities in the client. However, I started thinking about the firewall egress filtering, or lack thereof. Granted, creating a reverse shell is fairly straight forward, but what if the...
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...occurrence," although some banks are reluctant to admit that their security has been breached Evan] I agree with Mr. Carmichael. In my work with banks, they all expect to lose a certain amount of money. They say it comes with the territory. If a breach is disclosed to the public, it could negatively affect customer confidence which equates to...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...occurrence She said: "There would have been no danger to customers in terms of cash or information being stolen. Obviously we don't want security issues but sometimes these things happen Evan] Again, I disagree From Simon Davies, director of Privacy International extraordinary state of affairs" which could have exposed thousands of...
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...occurrence that we sometimes tend to ignore but God forbid we should never accept Spyware is computer software that spies on your internet usage. It collects highly personal and confidential information like credit card numbers, IPs and even addresses. The spyware program gets the credit card entries as the user logs them on a web form or an...
 
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The Need for Adware and Spyware Blocker

2007-08-01 19:11:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...occurrence of such a thing made her think that someone bugged her. We all hate bugging people us but people we can fend of. What this law student is confronted with is a computer bug that she cannot fend off. In the first place she is not a technology savvy person and in the second place she never uses her laptop for any other things than...
 
Tags: spyware, spyware blocker, spyware programs, block spyware, adware, computer, computer bug, personal computer, people
 
 
 
 
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BJs Wholesale Club's noble intentions

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2008-02-10 23:07:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/15/08 Organization BJs Wholesale Club Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Participants in the BJs tuition reimbursement program Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description A mobile device used by a BJs employee containing sensitive...