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15-year-old "hacks" Downingtown Area School District

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2008-05-18 21:54:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...safely recovered Evan] Were all copies of the data safely recovered? How would you be certain? Once information has been compromised, how do you un-compromise it? I don't think you can The district is working to determine how far the breach reached and secure their network from future abuse Evan] People like to put information security into a...
 
Tags: district, school, school district officials, school district, information, personal information, school board, salary information, school information
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...safely assume that you will use a computer to log in which has a keylogger or trojan capturing your keystrokes, and with it your username and password Savvy customers are increasingly turning towards online retailers and financial institutions which provide at least some form of multi-factor authentication to protect against password theft....
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen in Royal Bolton Hospital break-in

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2007-12-19 15:24:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...safely, efficiently and accurately. The NHS Number is now more important than ever. Currently, patient information is stored in a number of places and a variety of ways - including paper, computer and film. By 2010, every registered NHS patient in England will have an electronic healthcare record. - Source ...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, royal bolton hospital, hospital, sensitive personal information, bolton, information, information security, share patient information
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...safely be considered as spam I have numbered each spam characteristic according to the frequency in which it is found in todays spam mails, where #1 is the spam characteristic that Red Earth Software found to be most common. Today I am posting #10 through #6. Keep a look out for the top 5 coming soon in this blog 10. Illegal HTML exists :...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, spam characteristic, todays spam mails, mails, email address, complete email address, detect spam, spam messages include
 
 
 
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...safely at all times. [Evan] Its good to see that a third-party has been brought in to consult HMRC. It is obvious that they need it Commentary What can we say about the people responsible for ensuring confidential information remains secure at HMRC? This is the seventh breach concerning HMRC this year, and the fourth reported on The Breach...
 
Tags: data, data cartridge, hmrc, lost hmrc cd, prime data, confidential data, hmrc breach, consult hmrc, hmrc encrypts
 
 
 
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...safely ignore (because hackers dont follow an operational profile As a security guy, this sounds pleasing: I have a smaller problem to deal with! But the solar system is a lot smaller than the galaxy and it isnt particularly more explorable because of its smaller size. Its only recently, after centuries of study, that we realized there are...
 
Tags: folks, reliability folks deal, reliability, reliability folks, security, bugs, reliability bugs, reliability analysis, software reliability
 
 
 
 
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Windows Live OneCare Firewall and Software

2008-01-10 07:37:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...safely. But one thing that's been bugging me is the outbound firewall If your software is signed with a code signing cert issued by an authority that is trusted on the machine (e.g., Thawte, Verisign, etc.) you're good, because the firewall will automatically allow your software to access the Internet. But if you don't want to shell out the...
 
Tags: firewall, onecare firewall, software, outbound firewall, firewall outputs, windows live onecare, homebrew software, people, highly technical people
 
 
 
 
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Wealthy investor information falls out of DHL van

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2008-01-14 12:04:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...safely back in the hands of the Prudential Letters were being sent out to all of the 200 customers affected, giving assurances that they would not lose out Protection of our customers' data is of paramount importance to us and we are contacting them immediately It was a delivery being made on our behalf to a secure storage facility in...
 
Tags: dhl van, dhl, dhl courier, van, dhl drivers, dhl courier van, secure, secure storage facility, prudential plc
 
 
 
 
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Effective Spyware and Adware Utilities

2007-08-01 19:28:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...safely eliminate malicious applications such as key loggers, remote-control programs, spybots and browser hijackers that may be hiding on your system before they can rob you of your precious personal information, snatch passwords or monitor browsing activity when you go online. By eliminating online roadblocks, McAfee AntiSpyware also...
 
Tags: effective spyware, effective, spyware, adware, adware utilities, potential spyware, spyware doctor, adware tools, potential adware
 
 
 
 
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Risk vs Vulnerability

2007-12-18 17:51:44 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...safely unlocked (a vulnerability) in the suburbs of Boston in Concord, MA. I wouldnt do the same thing in Brooklyn, NY. Same vulnerability, different threat environment. Everyone readily admits that Macs have less risk on average due to their population and user base. This does not mean they are more secure. Move them into a high risk...
 
Tags: vulnerability, risk, vulnerability counts, risk environment, backdoor, backdoor safely, secure, average due, hacker challenge