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Huh? Elected officials held accountable?

2008-09-27 15:03:46 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...officials are held accountable for their mistakes that harm you. I suspect though that collecting on the courts award will be another nightmare altogether clipped from news.cincinnati.com Elected officials can be sued in ID theft, court rules Elected officials can be sued if they place your private information online and someone uses it...
 
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African officials urge use of IT for disaster management

2008-07-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2c680 in Network World on Security
 
African countries need to make better use of ICT in order to do a better job of managing both natural and man-made disasters, according to a cross section of political and technology officials speaking at an International Telecommunications Union forum in Lusaka last week
 
Tags: man-made disasters, technology officials, union forum, cross section, african countries, week, lusaka, natural, job
 
 
 
 
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New parents exposed in Fresno County lost mail

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2008-04-07 16:07:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...officials say 279 birth certificate applications that list personal information of Valley babies and their parents are missing after they were mailed to the state. An envelope containing the birth certificate applications arrived at the the state Department of Public Health in Sacramento damaged, but with most of the forms missing Reference...
 
Tags: county, sensitive personal information, personal information, fresno, fresno county, list personal information, security, security breach, officials
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...officials say there's no indication of identity theft to date UCSF had shared information on its patients with a vendor, Target America Inc., which mines electronic databases amassing information about a nonprofit's potential or existing donors Target America, whose Web site says it maintains "the highest standards of security," tunnels...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...officials are still not certain what, if anything, was on the computer Evan] Not sure where confidential information is? Sad, common and true Based on the companys investigation, the potential information includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, employer group names, and health insurance identifier numbers there...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records. The NSA receives this so-called "transactional" data from other agencies or private companies, and its sophisticated software programs analyze the various...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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Intrusion into UMass Amherst University Health Services network

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2008-04-30 15:54:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...officials say some personal information is available on the 150 computers used by the department The incident occurred April 11, and, after an initial investigation of the remote intrusion, the University decided to shut down the network To date, about 30 workstations have been returned to service and officials project that the entire...
 
Tags: university health services, university, information, personal information, health services, protect confidential information, contact information, amherst, umass amherst
 
 
 
 
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15-year-old "hacks" Downingtown Area School District

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2008-05-18 21:54:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...officials said that a 15-year-old student gained access to files on a computer at Downingtown West High School on May 9 Reference URL CBS Channel 3 News The Philadelphia Inquirer Report Credit CBS Channel 3 News Response From the online sources cited above DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. (CBS 3) ? Authorities are investigating the theft of personal...
 
Tags: district, school, school district officials, school district, information, personal information, school board, salary information, school information
 
 
 
 
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Did the Chinese PLA Attack the U.S. Power Grid?

2008-06-02 06:37:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...officials and computer-security experts One prominent expert told National Journal he believes that China's People's Liberation Army played a role in the power outages. Tim Bennett, the former president of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, a leading trade group, said that U.S. intelligence officials have told him that the PLA in 2003...
 
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Fort Lewis soldiers exposed by laptop theft

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2008-07-11 13:44:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...officials Reference URL KING Channel 5 News Tacoma News Report Credit Elisa Hahn, KING Channel 5 News Response From the online sources cited above A laptop computer that was reported stolen from an Army employees truck last week contained personal information on about 800 to 900 Fort Lewis soldiers, said military and Lacey police...
 
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