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Swedish Nuke Plant Sealed Off Due To Bomb Scare

2008-05-21 11:42:35 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...plastic bag containing traces of an explosive substance, police and plant officials said Investigators were questioning the man, a welder who was scheduled to do work at the Oskarshamn plant on Wednesday, police spokesman Sven-Erik Karlsson said Plant operator OKG downplayed the incident, saying there was no threat to the safety of the plant,...
 
Tags: plant, oskarshamn plant, nuclear plant, plant operator okg, explosive substance, explosive, plastic bag, bag, plant officials
 
 
 
 
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University of Florida doctor loses job over breach

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2008-05-22 09:47:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...plastic surgeon that their private health information might have been breached after the information was managed and disposed of improperly Reference URL Jacksonville Business Journal WOKV Radio News First Coast News Report Credit Jacksonville Business Journal Response From the online sources cited above JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The private...
 
Tags: medical information, information, information security, confidential information, information security policies, patient information, florida, february, computer february
 
 
 
 
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Wells Fargo Opt Out 800 Number

2008-10-30 18:04:26 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...plastic waste The other day, I was buying my son a sweatshirt in T.J. Maxx, and the clerk popped it into a plastic bag. I said, "Thanks, but I really don't need that bag." He promptly balled it up and threw it in the trash. It makes me sad how so many people just don't get it. If everyone would just think a little bit about this in their...
 
Tags: plastic waste, plastic bag, waste, contact companies, bag, companies, privacy preference line, opt, grocery store
 
 
 
 
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Gunpowder Is Okay to Bring on an Airplane

2008-12-29 07:05:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...plastic baggie magically makes it safe: Mind you, I had packed the stuff safely. It was in three separate jars: one of charcoal, one of sulphur, and one of saltpetre (potassium nitrate). Each jar was labeled: Charcoal, Sulphur, Saltpetre. I had also thoroughly wet down each powder with tap water. No ignition was possible. As a good citizen, I...
 
Tags: plastic bag, bag, messenger bag, tsa inspector, saltpetre, sulphur, plastic baggie, stuff safely, tap water
 
 
 
 
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DRM Scorecard Makes Me Wonder: The Media Industry and the TSA, Sadistic or Incompetent?

2007-08-02 08:19:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...plastic for $20 and when it gets scratched or stolen, we force them to buy a new one because we dont allow them to make backups. Even though anyone with technical skillz can download the same thing for free Oh yeah, well we found a way to make people who cant even change at the gym without flip flops walk around barefoot in public. We tell...
 
Tags: media industry, industry, media industry views, illogical behavior impedes, drm, behavior, drm scorecard, secret, secret internal referendum
 
 
 
 
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When Will the Media Industry Embrace the BORA Principle?

2007-03-22 10:06:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...plastic. Even the stigma of credit cards is completely different today. College students cant survive without credit cards, a far cry from when they were counseled not to have one With this shift, credit card companies began focusing on preventing fraudulent transactions. By using two sets of data, one for CNP and the other for in-store...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, credit card industry, credit card fraud, industry, media industry, cut fraud, fraud, credit cards
 
 
 
 
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Central Bank of the UAE reports ATM fraud to lenders

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2008-03-03 11:41:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...plastic guards to prevent the installation of illicit card readers, camera monitoring of ATMs and regular inspections of machines Most skimming attempts now either target high usage ATMs for a very short period of time to steal the maximum number of card details in a short amount of time, or machines in out-of-the-way locations where the...
 
Tags: bank card details, card details, bank, bank card, atm, regular card reader, reader, customers, bank customers
 
 
 
 
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Mothers, let your sons grow up to be hedge fund managers

2008-04-16 09:07:25 by HASH0x8b53ca0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
When I was a kid it was fashionable to think that your mother wanted you to grow up and be a doctor, a lawyer or some other such professional. A policeman or fireman was dangerous, a sanitation worker did not have much prestige. By the time I was in college, the smarter kids were going to work on Wall Street, instead of going to medical or law...
 
Tags: billion dollars, billion, dollars, wall street, hedge fund managers, million dollars, hedge fund business, kids, smarter kids
 
 
 
 
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Reindeer meat and a new industry portal

2008-04-22 17:58:16 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...plastic wrapper that it came in however the product (the software, not the meat) is good, and it's innovative. And innovative products is something I wish more vendors would have. Another product I liked was from Pinoptic. They specialise in "Visual Probabilistic One Time Password Solutions - Authentication security using symbols, pictures...
 
Tags: meat, desktop product, product, event team, event, product reviews, innovative, dried reindeer meat, industry portal
 
 
 
 
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Spying on Computer Monitors Off Reflective Objects

2008-05-20 10:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security