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IT Industry to Congress: Help Needed to Fight Cyber-crime

2007-10-16 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...representatives. Art Coviello, President of RSA, The Security Division of EMC, delivered the industry keynote; U.S. Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH) provided remarks from a congressional perspective. Congressman Chabot is a co-sponsor of H.R. 2290, the Cyber Security and Enhancement Act of 2007, along with U.S. Representative Adam Schiff...
 
Tags: malicious botnet attacks, business software alliance, representative adam schiff, representative steve chabot, art coviello, october 16th, cyber security, industry keynote, media representatives
 
 
 
 
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City of Minneola firefighters exposed on web

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2008-03-17 10:27:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...representative said several firefighters' personal information was posted on the city's web site for more than three days Reference URL Central Florida News 13 WFTV Channel 9 News my FOX Orlando Report Credit Central Florida News 13 Response From the online sources cited above The city of Minneola is being accused of violating federal,...
 
Tags: city, city clerk error, city clerk, city firefighters, information, personal information, firefighters, city council, information act
 
 
 
 
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Presbyterian Hospital admissions rep allegedly steals patient information

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2008-04-14 16:04:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...representative from Brooklyn, admitted he began to access the files and sell information in early 2006 the information was used for identity theft McPherson was released on Saturday under the condition that he not leave the state McPherson was released on $500,000 bail Evan] Whoa! Does this mean that he had to come up with $50,000 to post...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, records, access records, dwight mcpherson, mcpherson, patients, male patients
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Representative at 800-544-9354. We are available from Sunday at 5:00 p.m. ET through Friday midnight ET Although this was Fidelity SPS's error, we at Yahoo! want to ensure that any questions or concerns you have about this event are being adequately addressed. If Fidelity SPS's representatives have not adequately addressed your concerns,...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Spaf on Academic Security Research (... Silliness)

2007-12-20 13:07:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...representative of efforts by hundreds of people over decades, and the expenditure of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars is that the vast majority of these efforts have been applied to problems we already know how to solve Hell yeah!!! More people want to invent NIDS, honeypots and secure OS than I care to see. Why? WHY? W-H-Y? There are...
 
Tags: security, worthwhile security, efforts representative, efforts, security economics, people, rigorous academic approach, academic research, dirt pile
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Reports on Aviation Security and the TSA

2008-01-10 13:58:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...representative to the Joint Terrorism Task Force who retired in 2006, also says he saw problems from the inside. "There was a facade of security. There were numerous security flaws and vulnerabilities I identified. The response was, it wasn't apparent to the public, so there would not be any corrective action I've regularly pointed to...
 
Tags: security, aviation security, security consultancy, doors, double doors, door, consumer reports, secure door, cockpit doors
 
 
 
 
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Fun Info on Pain Rays

2008-01-16 19:43:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Representative quote : "The femtosecond laser they used is not quite capable of causing agony at the receiving end About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: representative quote, femtosecond laser, capable, org, chuvakin, agony
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...representative sample of more than 2,700 Americans before September 2001. After the attacks of Sept. 11, the scientists monitored peoples fears of terrorism over the next several years and found that the most fearful people were three to five times more likely than the rest to receive diagnoses of new cardiovascular ailments After...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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What's in your wallet?

2008-01-30 10:07:53 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
...representative could not understand why I did not want the card. He had not been trained in how to respond to questions about the technological aspects of the card, and instead he tried to follow his (non-relevant) script about the benefits. After he finished subjecting me to that, I spoke to his manager and was able to get my old cards back....
 
Tags: credit cards, cards, credit, credit card, card, card issuer, credit card companies, card account, technology
 
 
 
 
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Prospects Brightening for a Common Event Standard

2008-02-25 08:38:57 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...representative says Mitre plans to begin by seeking comments on the underlying goals and requirements for event standards. But to establish a broadly accepted industry standard anytime soon, Mitre and the government/defense community it servers will have to accelerate overly lengthy document review cycles and possibly streamline handling...
 
Tags: common event standard, standard, event standards space, space, standards, common event standards, standards deliberation, cee, cee web site
 
 
 
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