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Solutions to the Toughest IT Challenges in Remote Offices

2008-05-22 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
...offices face many of the same IT challenges as larger central offices. Moderated by Bill Laberis, Vice President of Computerworld, this Webcast zeroes in on the top line challenges such as security, storage & backup, business continuity and server management to deliver information that can provide immediate benefits to your business. This...
 
Tags: challenges, remote offices, top line challenges, business, business continuity, larger central offices, webcast, webcast zeroes, vice president
 
 
 
 
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NY STAR: An accident waiting to happen

2006-03-02 22:37:31 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...offices all over the state.) Extra tax exemptions for senior citizens are means-tested, and require homeowners to submit their SSN or a copy of their income tax returns to the local assessor In New York City, they want SSNs from everybody. Just because its authorized by law (in the NYC Administrative Code ) doesnt mean its a good idea....
 
Tags: information, store information, income information, personal information, personal financial information, public, public record agency, public information, assessors
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptops affect 337,000 Davidson County voters

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2007-12-29 11:30:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...offices not physically secure? If a rock is all that is needed to break-in and go undetected for x number of days, then the offices were not physically secure Why is confidential information stored on mobile devices (laptop in this instance)? Confidential information should be stored, whenever possible in a secure (physically and logically),...
 
Tags: voters, davidson county voters, davidson county, tennessee voters, information technology department, information, voters monitor, sensitive personal information, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Four stolen laptops at the Eastern School District

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2008-02-21 16:37:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...offices during a break-in that was discovered on February 17th, 2008. One of the stolen laptops contained personal information belonging to students bussing to and from schools in the district Reference URL Eastern School District Media Release CBC News online story Report Credit Mary Tucker, Eastern School District Response From the...
 
Tags: district, eastern school district, school, information, personal information, confidential information, encrypt confidential information, computers, laptop computers
 
 
 
 
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UTUIA laptops are missing after shipment

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2008-06-16 09:37:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...offices are missing. One of the laptops may contain sensitive personal information belonging to UTUIA policyholders Reference URL New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above We are writing to inform you of a recent security...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, utuia, protect personal information, laptop computers, utuia laptop computers, information, laptops, utuia offices
 
 
 
 
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"many of Colt's clients" affected by breach, CNET included

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2008-06-25 11:25:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...offices in Walnut Creek, California were burglarized. Certain computer equipment was taken which contains the human resources data of several of their clients, including CNET. The theft of this equipment may have compromised the personal information of our client's current and former employees and their dependants, and our client is working...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security, confidential information, protect information, breach, sensitive information, information security requirements, colt
 
 
 
 
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Oracle misplaces computer containing personal information

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2007-12-13 12:07:05 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...offices all the time. The blame (for those that like blame) probably lies with Lodestar for allowing personal information on a desktop computer and/or not encrypting it Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: personal information, oracle, information, sensitive personal information, assume oracle, oracle corporation recently, breach, hampshire breach notification, oracle public relations
 
 
 
 
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Off the wire: Secure your WLAN with Aircrack-ng

2007-12-28 10:28:47 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
This open source suite of applications can help you locate all the access points in your offices, check that the networks are protected by encryption, and test the strength of the keys or passphrases
 
Tags: source suite, test, offices, access, applications, encryption, networks, strength, keys
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...offices and for enterprise networks with certificate services or without . If you have hardware that's more than two years old and you can't upgrade it, check to see whether it supports WPA (an interim specification released before WPA2 was ratified). Both WPA and WPA2 are built on sound cryptographic principles, they're proven in the field,...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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Encryption Presentation - .NET Developers Group - NYC Microsoft Offices - June 21st

2007-04-02 06:46:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
For those of you in NYC or the surrounding area, I will be doing a presentation on encryption at the .NET Developers Group on Thursday, June 21, 2007 . Its a similar presentation to the one Ive done for a number of user groups in the Southeast. I made this presentation as a response to the flood of online code snippets for encrypting data. While...
 
Tags: encryption, presentation, level encryption basics, similar presentation, ne