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Air Force Chief, Secretary Forced to Resign

2008-06-05 19:08:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Air Force's top civilian and uniformed leaders are being booted out of the Pentagon. Blame a series of nuclear weapon mishaps -- and clashes with the Defense Secretary over stealth jets and spy drones
 
Tags: air force, nuclear weapon mishaps, stealth jets, defense secretary, spy drones, top civilian, pentagon, leaders, series
 
 
 
 
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Ousted Air Force Secretary Looks Back in Cyber

2008-06-19 06:06:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Recently ousted Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne looks back on some of his achievements -- and settles some old scores. Noah Shachtman reports from the Air Force's Cyber Symposium
 
Tags: air force, noah shachtman reports, cyber symposium, scores, settles, recently, achievements
 
 
 
 
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Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes

2008-08-28 06:38:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is seeking to recover millions of dollars her state spent on the touch-screen machines and is urging the state legislature to require optical scanners statewide instead In a lawsuit, Brunner charged on Aug. 6 that touch-screen machines made by the former Diebold Election Systems and bought by 11 Ohio...
 
Tags: election, diebold election systems, diebold, machines, election technology, ohio, ohio secretary, election officials, votes
 
 
 
 
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A breach that hits home with 2008 presidential candidates

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2008-03-22 13:16:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, outrage from the candidates and calls by lawmakers for further probes Reference URL MSNBC News Story Associated Press Story Stanley, Inc. Official Company Statement Statement from The Analysis Corporation Report Credit Associated Press, posted to The Breach Blog through the kind urging of an informed...
 
Tags: stanley subcontractor employees, subcontractor employees, subcontractor, confidential information, information, information security, stanley, personal information, employees
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #50

2007-02-19 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (09:03 Happy 50th Podcast to us! We celebrate our 50th edition with a special interview with Greg Garcia, Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Telecommunications at the Department of Homeland Security . Garcia is the first to hold this position as appointed by Secretary Michael Chertoff last fall
 
Tags: happy 50th podcast, garcia, greg garcia, secretary michael chertoff, assistant secretary, homeland security, cyber security, 50th edition, special interview
 
 
 
 
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Dialogue with America's Cyber Security Czar at the RSA Conference

2007-02-14 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Secretary for Cyber Security and Telecommunications at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was seen early and often at the RSA Conference last week. Given that the Conference is the largest industry-wide event on information security in the world, he had plenty of folks to listen to. And, listen, he did. From my perspective, it was...
 
Tags: conference, rsa conference, cyber security, assistant secretary, industry-wide event, industry, homeland security, greg garcia, solid start
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security #49

2007-02-12 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Secretary for Cyber Security and Telecommunications at the Department of Homeland Security , the first to hold this position as appointed by Secretary Michael Chertoff last fall
 
Tags: conference, rsa conference, secretary michael chertoff, homeland security, cyber security, security blogger, business drivers, week, assistant secretary
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...secretary There are a very large number of questions that will have to answered on Monday. This is either catastrophically lax procedure or this individual is very irresponsible., Liam Fox Evan] My vote is lax procedure and poor practice The stolen laptop contained personal information relating to some 600,000 people who have either...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren't Personal Data

2008-04-21 06:54:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Secretary Michael Chertoff says : QUESTION: Some are raising that the privacy aspects of this thing, you know, sharing of that kind of data, very personal data, among four countries is quite a scary thing SECRETARY CHERTOFF: Well, first of all, a fingerprint is hardly personal data because you leave it on glasses and silverware and articles...
 
Tags: personal data, personal, data, secretary chertoff, secret, privacy aspects, articles, footprints, world
 
 
 
 
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Another stolen Pennsylvania DPW computer, more victims

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2007-12-12 15:10:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Secretary of Public Welfare Estelle B. Richman. "The department is working closely with law enforcement throughout their investigation and is ready to assist every client who may be impacted Evan] I really like this statement from Estelle B. Richman. It feels genuine to me The information on the computers was password protected. The...
 
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