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Finland privacy judgment

2008-07-23 15:26:48 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...possibility of unauthorised access occurring in the first place. (Press coverage here A practical and effective protection test in European law will bind engineering, law and policy much more tightly together. And it will have wide consequences. Privacy compaigners, for example, can now argue strongly that the NHS Care Records service is...
 
Tags: privacy, hospitals access controls, effective protection test, effective protection, medical privacy, access, health care staff, care, law
 
 
 
 
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Dan Geer on Security, Monoculture, Metrics, Evolution, Etc.

2008-05-27 06:23:23 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...possibility of sin is a world without the possibility of righteousness. A world without the possibility of crime is a world where you cannot prove you are not a criminal. A technology that can give you everything you want is a technology that can take away everything that you have. At some point, real soon now, some of us security geeks will...
 
Tags: world, security, dan geer, security geeks, bigger, bigger question, possibility, l0pht reunion, metaphysical question
 
 
 
 
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Irish jobs site compromised and personal information accessed

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2008-03-31 10:13:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...possibility of being contacted by someone claiming to be a reputable company and asking for personal details or banking information Brian Honan of online security consultancy BH Consulting says on his firms official blog that there are no mandatory breach disclosure laws in Ireland and that Jobs.ie should be "commended for coming clean about...
 
Tags: jobs, information, personal information, job-seekers site jobs, site, identity, identity theft, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Griffin Electric laptop exposes employee information

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2008-04-11 11:40:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...possibility of identity theft very seriously and, therefore, are sending this precautionary advisory The purpose of this letter is to make you aware of this incident so that you can take steps to protect yourself, minimize the possibility of misuse of your information and mitigate any harm that could result Evan] It is a shared...
 
Tags: information, personal medical information, personal information, confidential information, data, information security professionals, data owner, data encryption products, data custodian
 
 
 
 
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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics employees at risk from stolen laptop

2008-04-16 15:47:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...possibility of identity theft very seriously, we are sending this precautionary advisory The purpose of this letter is to make you aware of this incident so that you can take steps to protect yourself, minimize the possibility of misuse of your information and mitigate any harm that could result Based on what we know to date, we are not...
 
Tags: company, company laptop computer, current data privacy, data, siemens, breach description, breach, siemens healthcare diagnostics, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Staten Island University Hospital notifies patients of December theft

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2008-05-01 15:09:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...possibility of computer theft in the future Evan] Like what? Provide some details. Tell your customers/patients specifically what you plan to do in order to protect the information that belongs to them Without elaborating, Ms. Ryback said that "all you can do is be more security-conscious Evan] Uh, no. This is not all you can do. Being...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security, information security breaches, hospital, island university hospital, protect patient information, island
 
 
 
 
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax?

2008-05-29 01:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...possibility. Our legal and business systems need to deal with the underlying problem -- false authentication -- rather than focus on the technology of the moment. Systems need to defend themselves against the possibility of fake signatures, regardless of how they arrive Bruce Schneier is Chief Security Technology Officer of BT, and author of...
 
Tags: fax, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document, document
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...possibility. Our legal and business systems need to deal with the underlying problem -- false authentication -- rather than focus on the technology of the moment. Systems need to defend themselves against the possibility of fake signatures, regardless of how they arrive This essay previously appeared on Wired.com
 
Tags: fax, fax signatures, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...possibility. Our legal and business systems need to deal with the underlying problem -- false authentication -- rather than focus on the technology of the moment. Systems need to defend themselves against the possibility of fake signatures, regardless of how they arrive This essay previously appeared on Wired.com EDITED TO ADD (6/3): 2005...
 
Tags: fax, fax signatures, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document
 
 
 
 
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Malware and Office Documents Joining Forces

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2008-07-14 11:20:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...possibility of a macro arbitrary text in the body of the instrument Optimized algorithm macro-generation code Enabling this option will lead to the creation macro code, who himself will find a way to unpack and run embedded exe-file. Auto-search finds the current user folder and produces there extraction and launch embedded file. The...
 
Tags: document, document macros, support, enable support, macro, macro viruses, support vba macros, exe-file, extract exe-file