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Sprint's Public Safety Deal for Nextel Comes Home to Roost

2008-05-05 14:25:10 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
Sprint seemed awfully clever when it navigated a public safety deal and gained new spectrum as part of its acquisition of Nextel: That's all unraveling now. The FCC and the courts are saying that a 26-June-2008 deadline for vacating its 800 MHz holdings in favor of public safety groups would hold even if the new users weren't on the band. The...
 
Tags: public safety deal, public safety, sprint, cost sprint billions, cost, nextel, reportedly sprint, public safety migration, delay sprint
 
 
 
 
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When do you have an obligation to go public?

2008-05-29 21:13:01 by HASH0x8b01008 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
No, not IPO public, but public about disclosing employer secrets which could provide a risk to the public. My friend Martin McKeay has written an article over the recent firing of an employee of TJX for disclosing in a public forum continued poor security practices by TJX. The same TJX I might add that as a result of slipshod security practices...
 
Tags: public, public forum, tjx, tjx fraud, martin, cryptic, confidential information, cryptic mauler, ipo public
 
 
 
 
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Personal Las Cruces Public Schools Special Ed information posted online

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2008-05-09 10:02:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/7/08 Organization Las Cruces Public Schools ("LCPS Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Teachers, principals, administrators and other LCPS employees. The breach also affected students enrolled in special education programs Number Affected 1,800 1,750 teachers, principals, administrators...
 
Tags: information, lcps, lcps employees, special education students, lcps press conference, special education, specific information, data security, data
 
 
 
 
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Nevada Department of Public Safety applicants exposed

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2008-03-07 10:20:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/4/08 Organization State of Nevada Contractor/Consultant/Branch Nevada Department of Public Safety Crown, Stanley and Silverman Victims Job applicants Number Affected 300 Types of Data Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information required for thorough background...
 
Tags: personal information, lost personal information, sensitive personal information, nevada, confidential personal information, information, nevada payroll information, nevada department, nevada dps
 
 
 
 
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5 Lessons on Public Disclosure From Elliot Spitzer

2008-03-12 17:26:54 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
Regardless of what you think about now former governor Spitzer and what he did, we can learn a lot from how he handled the public disclosure of his err vulnerability Here are 5 lessons you can use if you ever find yourself involved in a public disclosure of a vulnerability on your web site or a disclosure of a massive breach 1. Understand that...
 
Tags: public disclosure, disclosure, response, pretty quick response, cross site, fight cross site, time, law enforcement, incident response team
 
 
 
 
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Call for Public CEP Reference Clients for 2008

2008-07-16 09:42:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Last year The CEP Blog conducted a survey of all public CEP/EP use cases by customers, based on a simple criteria.We asked the various CEP vendors to on various CEP discussion forums, social networking sites like LinkedIn, and mailing lists to review both the criteria and the list , comment and update. We published the resultsin CEP/EP Reference...
 
Tags: cep, cep blog, mention cep, cep vendors, criteria, simple criteria, software vendor, software, cep discussion forums
 
 
 
 
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FCC should reduce or eliminate public safety spectrum license fees

2008-04-22 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Chief Harlin McEwen, chairman of Public Safety Spectrum Trust, said today that the Federal Communications Commission should consider drastically reducing or even eliminating the reserve price it has placed on the public safety spectrum on the 700MHz band
 
Tags: public safety spectrum, federal communications commission, chief harlin, 700mhz band, reserve price, chairman
 
 
 
 
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Public safety spectrum, rural broadband grab spotlight

2008-04-24 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Speakers at the Wireless Communications Association meeting in Washington, D.C., this week threw out a flurry of suggestions to improve both public and private broadband access in the United States, from public investment to holding new spectrum auctions to allowing unlicensed use of TV white spaces
 
Tags: public, tv white spaces, public investment, wireless communications association, spectrum auctions, broadband access, improve, suggestions, flurry
 
 
 
 
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Why making health records public is not a great idea

2008-05-20 07:21:10 by HASH0x8911db8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Fred Wilson has an interesting blog up regarding the new Google Health service. Fred filled out his personal medical information and was disappointed that he was not able to publish this data and make it public. Fred would like to have a sidebar widget for his blog with his health profile. Many people wrote to Fred telling him why Google does...
 
Tags: health, health records public, public, fred, fred wilson, records, health profile, fred feels, google health service
 
 
 
 
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Mid Year 2008 CEP Public Reference Client Survey

2008-08-10 10:30:23 by Tim Bass