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Castlecroft Medical Practice patient information at risk

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2008-06-19 11:54:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Practice Victims Patients Number Affected 11,000 Types of Data names, dates of birth, addresses, contact details and confidential medical records Breach Description A laptop containing confidential medical records of all 11,000 Wolverhampton patients at a city surgery has been stolen from a GPs house, police revealed today Reference URL...
 
Tags: information, confidential information, confidential information disclosure, confidential information maintain, practice, castlecroft medical practice, computer, laptop computer, adolescent information
 
 
 
 
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Sports stars to practice self-protection?

2007-12-17 18:59:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...practice. Sports stars, like the President of the United States, will continue to be in the public eye. It is unrealistic to believe that they will stay behind guarded walls when they are not on the field. That is why they need security professonals to "watch their backs" as they go about their lives with as little interruption as possble....
 
Tags: security, security threat, security professional, professional security firm, sports stars, hire security, nfl, nfl league spokesman, los angeles angels
 
 
 
 
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Email is a Practice

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2007-07-27 15:50:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...practice, by this we can operate with due care in our profession and that will make us look good. In my earlier job, colleague of mine [a security expert] had sent me an e-mail describing how he broke the weak encryption of an application. Inadvertantly, in his e-mail, he had pasted his own encrypted password! I showed up at his office and...
 
Tags: e-mail, e-mail practice, e-mail food, bad e-mail, security professionals, information security professionals, blog post, expert, blog
 
 
 
 
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How testers can practice bug advocacy with developers

2008-06-30 23:59:00 by Mike Kelly, software testing expert in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Testers can encourage developers to fix bugs they've found using some well-established techniques. Expert Mike Kelly explains how testers should practice bug advocacy, which is ultimately to the benefit of testers and programmers alike
 
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How testers can practice bug advocacy with developers

2008-06-30 23:59:00 by Mike Kelly, software testing expert in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Testers can encourage developers to fix bugs they've found using some well-established techniques. Expert Mike Kelly explains how testers should practice bug advocacy, which is ultimately to the benefit of testers and programmers alike
 
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A Bitter Pill To Swallow: First Generation CEP Software Needs To Evolve

2008-02-09 03:08:55 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...practice everyday, long before it was called CEP). It continues to puzzle me that a few people the CEP/EP community continue to take the we invented EP view. Quite frankly, the history we read is missing most, if not all, of the history and practice of MSDF When we take the current CEP COTS software offeringsand apply it to these working CEP...
 
Tags: cep, cep space, cep softwaremust evolve, real cep capabilities, cep capabilities, real operational cep, cep market, cep software vendors, cep software space
 
 
 
 
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Sandown Health Centre backup tape is missing

2008-05-27 13:14:16 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...practice computer system in the event of a system failure or other emergency such as a fire Unfortunately, the tape has not been received back at the Health Centre, having been despatched by the company through a courier service in March Sent on 11 March, it took two months before the tapes disappearance was discovered by INPS and the PCT...
 
Tags: tape, health centre, sandown health centre, data verification, data verification company, back-up tape, computer tape, information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...practice among medical institutions to plow the ranks of patients for fundraising purposes Hospitals and other health care providers are turning patients into "fundraising free-fire zones," said Dr. Arthur Caplan, chairman of the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine The breach is a symptom, but...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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What can we learn from Hannaford & TJX?

2008-03-30 12:58:07 by Chenxi Wang in Security & Risk Management
 
...practices were considered PCI compliant, yet they suffered a massive data breach. It begs the question whether PCI requirements were sufficient While many companies still lag behind in terms of achieving PCI compliance, quite a few organizations have gone above and beyond to protect their critical operations. I call those "next practice"...
 
Tags: hannaford, web applications, critical assets weekly, critical assets, practice companies, applications, companies, practice, hannaford data breach