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Please Welcome Dr. Rainer von Ammon to The CEP Blog

2008-02-12 13:57:59 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Sciences Upper Austria. Rainer is still teaching there and at the University of Applied Sciences of Regensburg. From 1998 to 2002, he worked as Principal Consultant and Manager for R+D Cooperations at BEA Systems (Central and Eastern Europe). Prior to this, he was Professor for Software Engineering in Dresden with a focus on development of...
 
Tags: cep blog, blog, rainer von ammon, rainer, cep, von ammon, sciences regensburg, sciences, generation cep software
 
 
 
 
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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
...Sciences Number Affected 3,000 Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description A file containing sensitive personal information belonging to current and former employees of three Texas A&M organizations was inadvertently uploaded to a server that was publicly accessible over the Internet. The file was available on 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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Harvard University warns graduate students about web hack

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2008-03-14 00:25:51 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sciences Victims applicants for admission and housing Number Affected 10,000 Types of Data name, Social Security number, date of birth, address, e-mail address, phone numbers, test scores, previous school attended, and school records Breach Description A Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server that contained...
 
Tags: university, harvard university, harvard university gazette, harvard, gsas administrators, gsas, information, personal information, gsas site
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Sciences, has a computer simulation that models urban panic : "The goal of this project is to develop a reusable and behaviorally founded computer model of pedestrian movement and crowd behavior amid dense urban environments, to serve as a test-bed for experimentation," says Torrens. "The idea is to use the model to test hypotheses,...
 
Tags: peaceful crowd, crowd, test hypotheses, test, crowd flees, models urban panic, major arterial streets, torrens, mass evacuation prior
 
 
 
 
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PayPal buys Fraud Sciences for $169M

2008-01-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b1db70 in Network World on Security
 
EBay's online payments division, PayPal, will pay US$169 million for an Israeli security company specializing in detecting online fraud, the companies said Monday. The deal should close within 30 days
 
Tags: online payments division, israeli security company, online fraud, paypal, us169 million, ebay, companies, monday, days
 
 
 
 
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Network threats develop 'antibiotic' resistance

2008-02-12 00:00:00 by Andreas M. Antonopoulos in Network World on Security
 
...sciences and especially evolution provide some great insights into the behavior of malware, malware creators and malware defenses over longer periods of time. I also see a lot of parallels between the evolution of malware and the evolution of darknets (stealthy P2P networks
 
Tags: malware, malware creators, malware defenses, evolution science, evolution, evolution provide, stealthy p2p networks, biological immunity systems, scientific field
 
 
 
 
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Harvard grad students hit in computer intrusion

2008-03-13 11:21:52 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Though the school's not entirely sure the information was accessed, Harvard's notifying around 10,000 students in its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that their personal data may have been compromised. And they'll cover credit-monitoring services for around 6,600 of those students as well
 
Tags: students, personal data, harvard, school, services, information, sciences, arts, cover
 
 
 
 
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An internal breach at the University of Toledo exposes 6,500

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2008-04-13 21:14:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sciences Campus from 1993 to 1999 Number Affected 6,500 Types of Data W-2 Forms, including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers Breach Description TOLEDO -- A university spokesperson said Sunday that personal information involving nearly 6,500 university employees was accidentally placed on the the university's server last month,...
 
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Charting a Landscape with Wi-Fi Signals

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2008-04-14 13:55:30 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Sciences, said that he used his extended family to help him gather the data necessary to draw real conclusions. "Any time they were going anywhere, I got them to stick the rig to their car Dr. Torrens said that he decided to attack Wi-Fi because it was hard in the geographic field to find a subject area that hadn't been throughly explored,...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi geographies, gather live data, gather, data, wi-fi cloud, data sets, time, space-time topography
 
 
 
 
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Information Security Reading List

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2008-05-16 17:12:39 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...sciences allow us to observe the world, ask why, and receive an answer