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U of Texas Health Science Center takes responsibility for mailing error

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2008-04-29 15:55:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Science Center at Tyler The CBE Group Inc Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown Roughly 2,000 medical bills were mailed, but the number of patients is not reported. Some patients may have received multiple bills Types of Data Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers Breach Description Some 2,000 medical bills were mailed around East...
 
Tags: social security, uthsct, uthsct web site, collection agency, collection agency cbe, cbe, cbe officials, uthsct business office, patients
 
 
 
 
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Art vs. Science

2008-06-20 20:56:38 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...science. He wanted to believe that it was completely scientific and could be distilled down to a checklist type approach. I explained that while much of it can be done methodically, there is a certain amount of skill and intuition that only comes from practical experience. You learn to recognize that gut feel when something is amiss. He...
 
Tags: security, security professionals, security professional, tssci security blog, science, test, opcp test, james, art
 
 
 
 
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The Science of Intrusion Prevention Testing

2008-02-27 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
...science, and the market place is filled with vendor claims, product reviews, analyses, and lab test reports. These reported measurements can vary widely depending on the sources, methodologies and tools used. And even then, the results may not be relevant for your environment. Whether you are going to perform your own tests, or read someone...
 
Tags: security products, complex security products, security, science, lab results, webcast, complex science, lab test reports, avoid common pitfalls
 
 
 
 
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A Vocabulary of Confusion

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2008-04-16 08:48:20 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...science of multisensor data fusion (MDSF).He also highlighted the importance of mapping business requirements for event processing to established processing analytics and engineering patterns In addition, Timintroduced anew slide (shown below), A Vocabulary of Confusion, by adapting a figure from the Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion ,...
 
Tags: event, successful operational event, reference architecture, intelligent event, reference, functional, functional event, complex event, complex
 
 
 
 
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Irony: incongruity between expectation and what actually occurs

2007-11-21 08:35:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...Science considered one of the Worst Jobs in Science Well...last month I was invited to interview at MS, did so, was offered a job, and accepted. Some of you may find that ironic in and of itself, but imagine the change in my perception when, with Gmail account, Macbook, and Linux sticker-laden car in the parking lot, I was greeted for the...
 
Tags: science, 10th worst job, popular science, job, 6th worst job, interview loop, interview, gmail account, worst jobs
 
 
 
 
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Fundamentalism in Risk & Security

2008-07-08 13:16:04 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...science misnomer, nor discuss the problems with our various canon (PCI, ISO, CoBTI, COSO, blah, blah, blah). Rather Id like to talk about some essential things I think our industry needs to sort out before it can move on towards a more scientific view of the world. And by sort out of course, I mean agree with me on CANT WE ALL JUST GET...
 
Tags: risk, share, share specific data, data, agree, probability issue, rob writes, rob, security
 
 
 
 
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Personal Internet Security: follow-up report

2008-07-08 13:05:04 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Science and Technology Committee have just completed a follow-up inquiry into Personal Internet Security, and their report is published here . Once again I have acted as their specialist adviser, and once again Im under no obligation to endorse the Committees conclusions but they have once again produced a useful report with sound...
 
Tags: report, committees report, initial report, short report, internet, committees follow-up report, personal internet security, technology committee, banks
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...science and energy laboratory. ORNL was established in 1943 as a part of the secret Manhattan Project to pioneer a method for producing and separating plutonium. Today, ORNL is home to the world's largest civilian science project, the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source, and has been selected to build the fastest unclassified scientific...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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The Checklist

2008-02-07 20:14:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...science. The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is insuring those therapies are delivered effectively. That third bucket has been almost totally ignored by research funders, government, and academia. Its viewed as the art of medicine. Thats a...
 
Tags: secure, develop secure software, software, software development organizations, health, health care delivery, security, checklist, software development world
 
 
 
 
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Systems programmers help people

2007-02-13 13:49:52 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...Science major I had cut my teeth in high school on some Basic programming (on a Xerox Sigma mainframe and a Wang 2200B), then self-taught myself APL and IBM/360 assembly language (paying for access at UR to an APL terminal, and editing object decks on the keypunch to save money while debugging assembly language programs My dinnermate at the...
 
Tags: application programs, programs, system programmers, system, assembly language programs, people, major, computer science major, ibm360 assembly language