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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
...panic. You go to them with consolidated information and do not just throw unqualified data at them," he said. "They said my details have been published on the internet. I asked what details and where and they could not answer Evan] I can empathize with this person's concern and agree with his point. I am glad to see someone (a customer) step...
 
Tags: lloyds, lloyds tsb customers, customers, lloyds tsb, lloyds tsb passwords, internet login details, internet, information, information security professionals
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...panic : "The goal of this project is to develop a reusable and behaviorally founded computer model of pedestrian movement and crowd behavior amid dense urban environments, to serve as a test-bed for experimentation," says Torrens. "The idea is to use the model to test hypotheses, real-world plans and strategies that are not very easy, or are...
 
Tags: peaceful crowd, crowd, test hypotheses, test, crowd flees, models urban panic, major arterial streets, torrens, mass evacuation prior
 
 
 
 
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Pocono Mountain School District "irregularities"

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2008-06-02 12:36:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...panic anyone, but people should just be cautious Evan] Understandable, but some people will panic anyway. This is why its a good idea to gather facts before notification Parents got the letters when their children returned at the end of the school day, and at least one parent felt the school was being rather nonchalant It sounds to me like...
 
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University of California Irvine students are hit with mysterious breach

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2008-04-10 12:14:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...panic, but this is the kind of thing you should be panicked about Evan] I included these remarks because I do agree that this seems like an inside job based on the limited information we know Henisey said outside contractors are being examined as a possible source for the leak, possibly including those involved with health insurance,...
 
Tags: irvine, irvine police department, police, students, contact campus police, credit agencies, credit, irvine police, medical students
 
 
 
 
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Wanted: 10 IT skills employers need today

2008-04-17 00:00:00 by Denise Dubie in Network World on Security
 
High-tech job seekers looking to cash in on the panic created around reports of an imminent IT skills shortage should get schooled on wireless, Web 2.0 and virtualization while also boning up on business basics, say experts from CompTIA, Beyond.com and Foote Partners
 
Tags: high-tech job seekers, skills shortage, foote partners, business basics, comptia, virtualization, panic, wireless, web
 
 
 
 
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More than 7,000 are affected by stolen University of Virginia laptop

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2008-04-18 15:34:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...panic Reed said he was "frustrated" that a UVa employee would keep his personal information on a laptop Too many similar incidents have occurred at other universities and government agencies, he said, for UVa to store sensitive data anywhere other than on secure servers This has happened many times before Evan] Mr. Reed may know more about...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, virginia, information, chief information officer, information security, virginia employee, laptop, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma State University Parking Services server is compromised

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2008-05-15 15:08:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...panic when an adverse event occurs. They know that eventually an adverse event will occur and they will be prepared when it does The server is believed to have been compromised on November 23, 2007. OSU learned of the breech [sic] on March 20, 2008 and blocked access to the server immediately Evan] Wow. The server was 0wn3d (like my 1337...
 
Tags: server, sensitive personal information, personal information, information, server administrators, server immediately, server prior, database server, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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We're From the Government and Were Here to Protect You

2008-04-15 12:02:05 by Posted By: Kristen Noakes-Fry, Research Director in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...panic, he asked one of the people cleaning up the scene, who said, "I dont know. Big City Medical Center, maybe." He found the number and called BCMC, at which point he encountered the HIPAA stone wall He was connected with ER and told that no patient with my name was in ER and that no one from a motorcycle accident had been brought in that...
 
Tags: accident, motorcycle accident, city, city medical center, ambulance, ambulance company, reveal patient information, patient, husband
 
 
 
 
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China quake fake in police custody

2008-06-17 09:24:56 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A 19-year-old computer intruder who broke into a provincial seismological bureau's Web site to place a false earthquake warning could have caused widespread panic in the rattled Sichuan region
 
Tags: provincial seismological bureau, 19-year-old computer intruder, false earthquake, sichuan region, widespread panic, web site
 
 
 
 
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Cisco IPS Jumbo Frame DoS

2008-06-18 21:22:45 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...panic that requires a power cycle to recover platform operation. Platforms deployed in promiscuous mode only or that do not contain gigabit network interfaces are not vulnerable Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability. There is a workaround for this vulnerability Update or workaround? Which is it then? At the...
 
Tags: gigabit network interfaces, vulnerability, service vulnerability, cisco, jumbo ethernet frames, recover platform operation, kernel panic, article link, power cycle