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The asymmetry of data loss - data thief has an upper hand

2008-10-01 06:33:22 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...owner's (a business) sensitive data is breached it is difficult to quantify the monetary loss. According to respectable survey sources, the average cost of sensitive data breach for a large size company is about $50,000. I am attempting here to think about this in simple mathametical terms There is a data breach. From the data owner's...
 
Tags: data owner perspective, data owner, data, thief, owner, data freshness factor, data protection costs, discourage data thief, protect data
 
 
 
 
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What should done about employees stealing in the workplace?

2008-02-21 05:25:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...owner. He believed one of his senior managers to be stealing materials from the warehouse and selling it to other individuals. The owner had heard stories circulating about the managers dishonesty but chose to disregard it for many years. We advised him that we would use different investigators and vehicles to follow the manager around and...
 
Tags: business owner, local business owner, owner, truck, company truck, company, investigation company, investigator video taped, investigator
 
 
 
 
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Insurance claims and policy information in the dumpster

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2008-06-18 12:41:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...owner of a company called Texas Insurance Claims Services Reference URL WFAA Channel 8 News Report Credit Rebecca Lopez, WFAA-TV Response From the online source cited above on Friday, hundreds of files with people's names, social security numbers and policy numbers were found in a Richardson dumpster The files contain a lot of private...
 
Tags: information, dumpster, sensitive confidential information, personnel information, confidential customer information, dumpster dive, files, confidential information, people
 
 
 
 
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CollegeInvest external hard drive goes missing

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2008-04-30 14:10:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Owner, Beneficiary Stable Value Plus College Savings - Account Owner, Beneficiary & Account Successor Prepaid Tuition Fund - Account Owner, Beneficiary & Account Successor CollegeInvest Scholarship Programs Early Achievers Scholarship Program - All Participants College In Colorado Scholarship Program - All Participants College Opportunity...
 
Tags: external hard drive, drive, hard drive, college savings, college savings program, computer hard drive, data, lost data, loan
 
 
 
 
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Personal information from two Colorado mortgage companies found in dumpsters

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2008-05-07 22:20:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...owner had abandoned his Englewood office in January, and property managers had not been able to find him Evan] What kind of businessman just abandons an office full of confidential files and equipment On Saturday, the property manager had a crew clean out his office and throw all items from the office -- including complete mortgage files --...
 
Tags: mortgage files, numerous mortgage files, personal information, information, complete mortgage files, personal information poorly, files, cove creek mortgage, cove creek
 
 
 
 
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Tucson area Domino's Pizza customer information exposed

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2008-06-18 10:43:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...owner of 24 Tucson area locations Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names and credit card numbers Breach Description Hundreds of credit card receipts dating back as many as five years were found "blowing in the wind" after a former owner of 24 Domino's Pizza stores in the Tucson, Arizona area was found to have been...
 
Tags: credit card transactions, credit card, credit card receipts, credit card breaches, card, pizza, receipts, information, tucson
 
 
 
 
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Compromised Web Servers Serving Fake Flash Players

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2008-08-05 14:50:04 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...owner. As far as the owner's are concerned, it appears that some of them are already seeing the malware page popping-up on the top of their daily traffic stats, and have taken measures to remove it Moreover, Adobe's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) issued a warning notice about the attack yesterday , which could come handy if...
 
Tags: file, html file, html, comtopnews, detopnews, windows media player, player, web, real player exploit
 
 
 
 
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Rational Risk Management, Angry Italians, and Irrational Security Analysts

2008-11-17 16:43:15 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...owners risk tolerance. This risk tolerance changes sometimes, and thats OK To that extent, I appreciate (and Im sure Chris does, as well) that risk analysis does not create rationality in the data owner. Someone who sees you as a speedbump on the route to progress they may not be ready to appreciate your point of view even if it is stated in...
 
Tags: risk, risk tolerance, risk models, practical risk analysis, strong risk anlayses, generous risk geeks, immature risk analysis, quote chris hayes, chris hayes
 
 
 
 
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Squeezing the Cybecrime Ecosystem in 2009

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2009-01-06 08:06:58 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...owner from the stolen database, neither would his customers base disappear, so stating that it's shut down in reality means that it's currently active at another location which the owner quickly communicates to the customers base. I keep seeing it happen once a sample service gets media attention, and I'll keep seeing it happen The myth that...
 
Tags: credit, credit card shops, cybercrime activities, cybercrime, entire cybercrime ecosystem, credit cards, cybercrime receive, customers base disappear, customers base