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SmartWater Works

2008-01-21 12:17:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...remark aside, a new university study concludes that it works: The study of over 100 criminals revealed that simply displaying signs that goods and premises were protected by SmartWater was sufficient to put off most of the criminals the team interviewed Professor Gill said: "According to our sample, SmartWater provided a strong projected...
 
Tags: smartwater, smartwater products, deterrent, smartwater postersign, reasonable deterrent, deterrent factor, study, strong, strong deterrent effect
 
 
 
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...remark. To me this means that these were employees of a contractor To assist account holders with their questions, employees of the call center have access to information about Target Visa accounts in the course of their normal job duties Evan] I would think that there is a pretty easy way to limit the amount of information that call center...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Salesforce.com unencrypted external storage device

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2008-02-12 13:32:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...remark in almost all breach notifications. IF a company or organization REALLY does take their obligation seriously, then why don't they take the precautions necessary to demonstrate this obligation. In this case, prohibit the use of mobile media for confidential data storage. If the business case for mobile storage media is too great, then...
 
Tags: external storage device, storage device, sensitive personal information, personal information, device, personal information includes, information, salesforce, data
 
 
 
 
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Donor personal information was on Lifeblood stolen laptop

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2008-02-14 10:17:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...remark of any I have read about this breach. PEOPLE NEED BLOOD AND BLOOD SAVES LIVES . At the end of the day, I would trade my Social Security number to save someone's life Commentary We have now reported two blood centers that each stored confidential personal information on laptops (without encryption) and had them stolen. The other was...
 
Tags: mobile blood collection, blood, personal information, memorial blood centers, blood saves lives, blood type, lifebloods blood donors, lifeblood, information
 
 
 
 
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Confidential Texas A & M personnel file exposed on the Internet

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2008-02-18 23:51:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...remark is right on Dave Mayes, a spokesman for Texas A&M) said it appears the personal information was accidentally uploaded to the Internet during a recent computer server update. Only certain items were to be updated, but for some reason the eight-year-old, dormant file that contained the information was linked to the Web server during the...
 
Tags: texas, sensitive personal information, personal information, texas agrilife extension, file, texas agrilife research, information, texas cooperative extension, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Cost of vulnerability

2007-03-05 21:19:05 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...remark. Though it could have easily turned into a heated exchange I restrained myself and walked back to my cube. One among the top management happened to pass by my cube, he looked at the demo scenario and exclaimed "this really sucks!". Eventually the vulnerability was acted up on and a fix was deployed on time The way you react to a...
 
Tags: vulnerability, vulnerability determines, cost, demo scenario, easily, easily hijack, extremely brilliant, preserve company, bullet proof
 
 
 
 
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Elliot Health System reports a breach involving health information

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2008-04-16 11:00:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...remark. EHS should know how their vendors/contractors secure confidential information. Contractor information security must be dictated by policy and/or contract language, then audited on a regular basis. Secondly, does EHS and/or AMPI want people to believe that password protection is adequate As with any such occurrence, we have reviewed...
 
Tags: information, breach, elliot health system, elliot, health information, contractor information security, ehs andor ampi, ehs, information security program
 
 
 
 
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Just a reminder the free ride is coming to a end.

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2008-04-19 15:43:12 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
...remark previously about this. You are responsible for your actions. Banks are refusing to pay up if you dont take steps to protect yourself clipped from www.techconsumer.com Web Safety and Crime on the Internet The latest news from United Kingdoms major retail bankers says that if your online bank account has been compromised and you...
 
Tags: online bank account, web safety, remark previously, solely bear, steps, actions, responsibility, antispyware, crime
 
 
 
 
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Testing Signature-based Antivirus Products Contest

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2008-05-02 06:31:36 by HASH0x8b205fc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...remark - " Security vendors began panning it immediately, saying it will simply help the bad guys learn some new tricks The bad guys will learn new tricks from the good guys modifying binaries to prove that anti virus signature scanning isn't working? There's no shortage of creativity and innovation on behalf of malware authors, and in...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, malware variants, signature based malware, bad guys, guys, proprietary malware tools, tools, alternative malware
 
 
 
 
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Laptop is stolen from the car of a First Calgary Savings employee

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2008-05-20 10:47:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...remarks like this. The actions that led to this breach and the comments afterwards do not support the remark though. Sorry, but they don't We take this event very seriously and I apologize for the understandable concerns this has caused our member-owners, especially the member-owners that were directly impacted I can assure all...
 
Tags: employee, information, personal information, breach description,