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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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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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Voltage offers public-key encryption without certificates

2008-04-24 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b76610 in Network World on Security
 
Voltage Security has an encryption plan that it says avoids the need for cumbersome databases of public keys and certificates, by making public keys as needed, from users' identities
 
Tags: public keys, voltage security, encryption plan, cumbersome databases, avoids, identities, users
 
 
 
 
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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 in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Our Call for Public CEP Reference Clients for 2008 and on-line research has revealed some expected less-than-encouraging CEP news for 2008.Ina year ofdownwardlyfalling capital markets,acontinuedrecession in real-estate markets,unending war and global uncertainty, we findthere are myriad CEP partnership and OEM annoucements, quite a few...
 
Tags: cep, cep news, myriad cep partnership, mysterious secret tribe, markets, opinions, algo, elders, elders awards
 
 
 
 
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File Sharing Program Exposes Prince William County Public School Private Records

2008-09-01 22:13:58 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) recently learned that certain personal information relating to a small group of students, staff, and volunteers was inadvertently exposed to the public through the Internet for a period of approximately five weeks this summer. It was determined that a school-based employee, while working on school...
 
Tags: public, personal information, school business, volunteers, pwcs, employee, students, home, approximately
 
 
 
 
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Using Metagoofil to extract metadata from public documents found via Google

2007-10-15 01:00:21 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
New Video: Using Metagoofil to extract metadata from public documents found via Google As many of my viewers know, I have an interest in metadata and how it can be used in a pen-test. Thanks to PaulDotCom I found out about a tool called Metagoofil that makes it easy to search for metadata related to a domain name
 
Tags: extract metadata, metadata, public documents, metagoofil, google, pauldotcom, video, easy, domain