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PCI, PII, a Roofer and a SSN

2008-06-09 18:00:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...roofer at my rental property to take measurements, see what needed to be done and get an estimate. When we met at noon, it was over 100 degrees there in central North Carolina and we spent just short of 3 hours going over everything The roofer , lets call him Ross, was from one of the larger commercial home improvement stores. This particular...
 
Tags: roofer, social security, security, friendly roofer ross, happy weekend, weekend, true security story, ross, roof andor windows
 
 
 
 
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Security Incident Strikes and You are on the Hot Seat..

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2007-07-27 07:00:39 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...roof and at the point we dont ACT pragmatically since we did not plan for it! We recently attended a friends daughters birthday party. Before heading to the party, I printed out the driving directions from the Internet. hit the freeway in the south direction, when the exit arrived found that the exit ramp was closed for repairs. Using common...
 
Tags: incident, security incident, incident playbook, incident management plan, earthquake incident, sound incident, security incidents, nasty security incidents, plan
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Security = Virtual Performance Challenge

2008-02-14 18:24:44 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...roof of the white house and on the front lawn. This could be called Edge and Perimeter security respectively Now, in the virtual environment HOST based security is VERY expensive from a resource perspective. Imagine having Symantec Personal Firewall/AV on each virtual machine and lets say you have 20 virtual machines in an environment. If all...
 
Tags: security, symantec security applications, network, network based security, security detail, reflex vsa product, reflex, perimeter security, security application
 
 
 
 
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Thalys Hits Glitch in Impressive Train Launch

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2008-05-14 15:50:22 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...roof. Very, very clever, as it jettisons any moving parts Three companies worked on the technology: Telenet, handling the billing and authentication, is a Belgian ISP that also runs hotspots; Nokia Siemens is a well-known systems integrator, and is providing some gear and handling installation and integration; 21Net, perhaps the least-well...
 
Tags: train, service hit glitches, glitches, service, service pulls, train operator, satellite, satellite technology, nokia siemens
 
 
 
 
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Terrorists Attacking via Air Conditioners

2008-05-16 12:03:00 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...roof-mounted air intakes or ventilators Terrorists have considered producing a radiological dispersal device (RDD) by burning or exploding a source or sources containing radioactive material. If large quantities of easily dispersed radioactive material were released or exploded near an HVAC intake or circulation system, it is possible that...
 
Tags: chemical, introduce chemical, radioactive material, volatile chemical agents, external air-intakes, biological agents directly, internal air-circulation systems, adverse health effects, radiological dispersal device
 
 
 
 
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Hurricane season officially begins in 24 hours and many are doing nothing about it.

2008-05-31 03:50:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...roof of the house right after gaining access to the property through the garage. We would urge all of our readers living in areas susceptible to hurricanes to make sure that their garages are well secured. Times may be tight and the cost of fuel is becoming more and more burdensome but there is no point losing your house when you just may...
 
Tags: hurricane, hurricane season, people, weather channel yesterday, rita struck, garages, hurricanes, time, huricanes katrina
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Security = Virtual Performance Challenge

2008-02-14 18:24:44 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...roof of the white house and on the front lawn. This could be called Edge and Perimeter security respectively Now, in the virtual environment HOST based security is VERY expensive from a resource perspective. Imagine having Symantec Personal Firewall/AV on each virtual machine and lets say you have 20 virtual machines in an environment. If all...
 
Tags: security, symantec security applications, network, network based security, security detail, reflex vsa product, reflex, perimeter security, security application
 
 
 
 
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The hidden gas tax

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2008-06-27 12:02:59 by HASH0x8b3ae34 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...roof because of fuel surcharges What about the price of food and other goods? Have you noticed how much they are going up? Bananas were 49 cents a pound and are now 69 cents a pound. That is a huge increase. Our government says core inflation is not going up outside of energy costs and I am not sure I believe that. We are seeing huge...
 
Tags: gas, weekly gas bills, fuel, gas tanks, fuel surcharges, tax, gas prices, price, base price
 
 
 
 
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More Security Controls You Wont See in 800-53: Now in LOLCAT Form!

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2008-07-10 13:16:38 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
With as much overengineering that people do for low-criticality systems, Im surprised nobodys mentioned this idea yet for high-criticality data: snipers on the roof. Now that the cats out of the bag, I figure this will be in the next 800-53 revision Bookmark to
 
Tags: low-criticality systems, figure, cats, nobodys, bag, roof, data, revision, people