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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
...PII) names, social security numbers and dates of birth of nearly 100 individuals with the last name beginning with B The employees could have been assigned to work within NSWCDD, at one of the following: Naval Facilities Command (NAVFAC), NSWC Dahlgren, NSWC White Oak, Md., NSWC Panama City, Fla., Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC), Naval...
 
Tags: company data destruction, company data, employees personal information, personal information, destruction, information, information security, employees, employment information
 
 
 
 
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Transparency in Government: Just Give us the Data!

2008-06-02 20:34:54 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...PII, and I know that the typical government reaction is to say not only no, but h*ll no!! I mean, after all, most of our goal in the Government is to keep the data from reaching the citizens and evil-doersgiving away data is a cultural clash Yes, transparent government is a pretty good goal. I think the authors of Freedom to Tinker have...
 
Tags: data, government, raw data, government data, typical government reaction, data sets, transparent government, data presentation, government loses control
 
 
 
 
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I was right!

2008-11-21 09:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...PII (credit card info, mothers maiden names and the kind of things they have been going after up until now) and thus start looking at the business information that they have been ignoring According to usatoday, internet thieves are making big money stealing corporate info Elite cybergangs can no longer make great money stealing and selling...
 
Tags: business information, information, identifiable information, start, cyber criminals start, criminals, information security, credit card info, info
 
 
 
 
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Providing real security to customers

2007-02-17 07:49:58 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...PII (Personally Identifiable Information), this gives an illusion that your PII is being protected, whether it is actually being protected is a moot point 1. Banks and other financial institutions have started to use " sitekey " to protect customers from Phishing threat 2. IE7 has a Phishing filter built into the browser 3. There are sites...
 
Tags: security, customers, real security, security tools, malware web sites, web sites, security holds, customers react, customers embrace
 
 
 
 
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Civilians Ask Whats With All the Privacy Act Kerfluffle?

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2008-06-26 21:51:41 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...PII on individuals You do a privacy impact assessment to determine if you can legally collect this data and what the implications of collecting the data are You build rules about what you can do normally with the data once you have collected it. This is called the routine use You write a report on how, why, and about whomyoure collecting this...
 
Tags: privacy act, privacy act procedures, privacy act deals, privacy act data, privacy, data, data lies, privacy act talks, privacy policy
 
 
 
 
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Review of My 2007 Security Predictions: Too Wimpy

2007-12-23 15:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...PII. New technologies: no credible technology that can alone "solve" the problem of insider threat will emerge (many will try); the insider threat problem is just too broad, diverse and rich to be solved by a single technology or even a single vendor (corollary: if somebody is trying to sell you such a technology that claims to do exactly...
 
Tags: status check iii, status check, status check viii, security, security predictions, status check vii, check, predictions, status
 
 
 
 
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IP Addresses Are Considered Personally Identifiable Information in the EU

2008-01-22 15:39:31 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...PII Tracking Pixels: tracking pixels are used by companies all over the world because its often easier than dealing with their own logs and buying and configuring their own log analysis software (especially if they get a lot of traffic). So Omniture and Googles Urchin could be hard hit here Embedded content: There are tons of bulletin boards,...
 
Tags: information, addresses, identifiable information, people, content, googles business model, party, log analysis software, actual protection
 
 
 
 
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IPs Now Private Info?

2008-01-22 13:49:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...PII collection efforts" with heavy privacy price to pay Now I have to share the dirty, evil thought that crossed my mind when read it: at one point, Google and other companies should just boycott those "' dumb privacy' freaks" and conduct a wonderful experiment: how long those Europeans will survive without search engine "service?" But wait...
 
Tags: privacy, privacy chasm, dumb privacy, data privacy regulators, heavy privacy price, org outline, implication, org, pretty dramatic implication
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...PII), ballot data, etc.), how its handled (gathered, transmitted, stored, and disposed of) and what rights and expectations different stakeholders may have regarding that data. (Tina Knutson gave a great overview on these issues in a previous blog posting Privacy is not just about data security ). Security provides the mechanisms, policies,...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system