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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
When I write and speak about privacy, I am regularly confronted with the mutual disclosure argument. Explained in books like David Brin's The Transparent Society , the argument goes something like this: In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, you'll know all about me, but I will also know all about you. The government will be watching us, but...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer
 
 
 
 
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Power Outages Are A Major Risk That Most Companies Overlook

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2008-07-10 17:31:34 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
TechCrunchIT reported today that a Rackspace data center went down for several hours during the evening due to a power grid failure. Because Rackspace is a managed service provider (MSP), the downtime affected several businesses hosted in the data center When companies think of disaster recovery and downtime, they typically think of catastrophic...
 
Tags: prevent power failures, failures, data center, recovery data center, backup power, backup power generators, power failures, power failure, rackspace power failure
 
 
 
 
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Did the Chinese PLA Attack the U.S. Power Grid?

2008-06-02 06:37:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This article claims that the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army was behind, among other things, the August 2003 blackout: Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information...
 
Tags: government, government officials, august 14th blackout, august, computer, officials, blackout, status computer, computer hackers
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Power Networks

2008-01-22 14:24:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
The CIA unleashed a big one at a SANS conference : On Wednesday, in New Orleans, US Central Intelligence Agency senior analyst Tom Donahue told a gathering of 300 US, UK, Swedish, and Dutch government officials and engineers and security managers from electric, water, oil & gas and other critical industry asset owners from all across North...
 
Tags: power, power companies, companies, cia actively, power outages, cia, cia rumor, disrupt power equipment, attacks
 
 
 
 
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Latest 802.11 Standard Boosts Wi-Fi Power in New Band

2008-06-25 14:01:44 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
The nearly finished IEEE 802.11y could make Wi-Fi more practical over longer distances : Wi-Fi is a compromise. In the unlicensed bands in which it operates, it has to deal with interference from noise sources and other networks, while using very low power, and trying not to make a pest of itself. It's done very well. In the 2.4 GHz band and...
 
Tags: band, power, wi-fi, ghz band, ghz, equipment, wimax equipment, metro-scale wi-fi firm, power output
 
 
 
 
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Indianapolis Power and Light customer data exposed for up to four years

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2007-12-06 09:27:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/4/07 Organization The AES Corporation Contractor/Consultant/Branch Indianapolis Power and Light (IPL Victims Residential IPL customers from 2003 to 2007 Number Affected 3,000 Types of Data Names, addresses and Social Security numbers Breach Description A recent security audit at...
 
Tags: ipl residential customers, ipl, residential ipl customers, information, collect personal information, customers, light customers, sensitive personal information, information affects
 
 
 
 
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L.A. Dept. of Water of Power employees exposed

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2008-02-19 17:11:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/15/08 Organization Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ("DWP Contractor/Consultant/Branch Systematic Automation Inc This breach appears to be related to " Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees " dated 2/12/08 Victims Employees Number Affected 8,275 Types of Data...
 
Tags: employee information, information, information security practices, confidential information, information security policies, sensitive personal information, dwp, dwp officials, represents dwp employees
 
 
 
 
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Group defines cyberattack prevention rules for nation's power grid

2008-01-17 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C., today approved eight Critical Infrastructure Protection standards for the physical- and cybersecurity of the electric-power grid, in spite of concerns from industry about the expense of replacing older equipment that can't be patched
 
Tags: electric-power grid, expense, industry, washington, physical-, cybersecurity, concerns, equipment, spite
 
 
 
 
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CIA says hackers pulled plug on power grid

2008-01-19 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week
 
Tags: cut power, computer systems, internet, criminals, week, hack, cities
 
 
 
 
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CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid

2008-01-21 18:04:45 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week
 
Tags: cut power, computer systems, internet, criminals, week, hack, cities