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Cascade Healthcare Community donors affected by malware

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2008-03-07 14:02:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...raise the level of security within the organization, Diegel said. We are working diligently on all levels of security from educating caregivers on the importance of protecting their passwords to upgrading our virus protections Evan] "It is vital that we continue to raise the level of security within the organization". This is one of the best...
 
Tags: personal information vulnerable, personal information, cascade healthcare community, community, information, information assets, employee information, credit card information, credit card
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford and Sweetbay supermarkets announce compromise of 4.2 million credit and debit cards

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2008-03-18 00:07:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...raise concerns and questions for our customers, and we sincerely regret any inconvenience this attack on our system may cause you. As always, we appreciate you choosing to shop at Hannaford. We remain committed to providing you with the finest foods and a clean, friendly and secure shopping experience Evan] This will be my understatement of...
 
Tags: credit, hannaford, breach description, breach, credit-card data breach, carry hannaford products, information, personal information, information security
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 22:08:39 by HASH0x8b4586c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...raised. The tilde squiggly line and the greater than sign are made up by me not to have a specific mathematical function but indicate that the amount of money raised is in relation to the revenue of the company and is the exponential factor involved in finding the acquisition price. I use squared in deference and in honor of Einstein's...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 20:16:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...raised. The tilde squiggly line and the greater than sign are made up by me not to have a specific mathematical function but indicate that the amount of money raised is in relation to the revenue of the company and is the exponential factor involved in finding the acquisition price. I use squared in deference and in honor of Einstein's...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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A Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol

2008-08-20 07:48:56 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...raise awareness about the threats as well as the best mitigations known at the time the reports were published Much of the effort of the security community on the Internet protocols did not result in official documents (RFCs) being issued by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) leading to a situation in which "known" security problems...
 
Tags: internet, assessment, security assessment, security, security flaws, flaws, internet technology, internet operations community, protocols
 
 
 
 
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What to watch for - the Rest of the Fortune 500 Gets Their Software Security

2008-09-18 15:06:51 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Raise the floor one inch, but raise the whole floor Smaller Overall Security Budget I saved the best for last. When the financial people wanted software security, they kept spending on network security and they added dollars to support software security tools and processes. The rest of the F500 can't or wont be able to, this means that for...
 
Tags: software security, security, government customer, government, government people, people, financial people, software security vendors, financial services people
 
 
 
 
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Modelling The Global Financial Meltdown

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2008-10-02 06:33:20 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...raise their lending rates around 500 percent over a two year period As we all know, primarily because of the action by the Fed, the world faces perhaps the worst economic disaster in modern times, while the US Executive Branch and the Congress fight over how to spend $700 Billion taxpayer dollars to inject liquidity into the markets to try to...
 
Tags: simple financial models, financial models, current financial crisis, crisis, simple, technology, wall street, main technology, folks
 
 
 
 
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In response to "Soft tokens aren't tokens at all"

2007-12-11 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...raise some interesting points on which I would like to comment. First, RSA believes that there are always tradeoffs between strength of security, cost and ease of use. The key (no pun intended) is matching the right means of authentication to the right level of risk. This is why we have such a broad range of authentication types and form...
 
Tags: authentication, multi-factor authentication, software authenticators, rsa securid hardware, rsa, form factors, factors, authentication types, blog entry
 
 
 
 
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Lloyds TSB warning may panic some customers

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2008-01-05 00:47:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...raise a "red flag" unless you had something substantial to back it up. Other tips were to educate users with facts and earn trust. I am sure that Lloyds TSB's intentions are noble, but the follow-up is questionable at best. People have a tendency to panic about these things unless they are given facts and assured of an outcome This also...
 
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