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Waukesha County job applicant data exposed in mailing

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2008-07-15 08:07:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sentinel New Richmond News Report Credit Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Response From the online sources cited above Taunya Thomas was horrified when she got a call from a stranger who knew almost everything about her The woman on the phone told Thomas she knew her Social Security number, where she lived and worked, how much...
 
Tags: job, information, personal information, county, waukesha county, senstive information, confidential information, sensitive information, salary information
 
 
 
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sentinel Story Report Credit Dave Weber, The Orlando Sentinel Response From the source cited above Social Security numbers, birth dates and other information about day-care workers in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties were among the data on five laptop computers that were stolen from the DCF office near Orlando Fashion Square mall in...
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sentinel story United Press International story Report Credit Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Response From the online sources cited above Citizens for Responsible Government Network agreed to dump descriptions from some 6,900 bills that county officials feared included names of people who had court-ordered psychiatric exams, other patient...
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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The Big Announcement

2008-03-13 00:03:25 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...Sentinel (aka NOT a scanner) it is a no brainer WAFs generally struggle in a few different areas, the people running them are not web app. security experts and trying to apply a default deny policy, while a great idea in theory, is pretty hard in the real world . There is just way to much movement in most applications to pin it down. Even if...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities asap, vulnerabilities, app, web app, web application vulnerabilities, vulnerability, sentinel, business, default deny policy
 
 
 
 
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Student hacks Broward Schools and accesses personal information

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2008-03-24 13:22:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sentinel Report Credit Joel Marino, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Response From the online source cited above A high school senior accused of hacking into a Broward School District database may have downloaded more than just the private information of 38,000 district employees as originally suspected, according to court records Investigators...
 
Tags: information, personal information, students, information technology team, school students, school, information security, pinnacle gradebook, pinnacle
 
 
 
 
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The best way to get customer service? Blog or Twit them

2008-05-24 07:44:15 by HASH0x8ba4a90 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Sentinel newspaper this morning (I know who reads newspapers anymore), about how so many companies are tracking unhappy customers by monitoring blogs and even twitter messages. It reminded me of a story that Chris Hoff had a while back about Southwest Airlines monitoring his Twitter message The story in the Sentinel had two opposite...
 
Tags: negative blog post, blog post, customer, spirit airlines, airlines, spirit, post, article, article mentions
 
 
 
 
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6,200 people notified of ETSU stolen computer

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2008-06-09 14:45:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sentinel News Channel 11 Report Credit Knoxville News Sentinel Response From the online sources cited above JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - East Tennessee State University has sent a letter to 6,200 people whose identities could be compromised by the theft of a desktop computer Evan] If an organization is going to allow confidential information to...
 
Tags: computer, etsu, information, personal information, client computer poses, client computer, confidential information, desktop computer, theft
 
 
 
 
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Blamestorming

2008-09-12 06:03:42 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Sentinel newspaper in Fort Lauderdale accidentally republishes a six-year-old news story about the bankruptcy of UAL. It wasn't on the home page, but instead buried somewhere inside the web site Google's news crawler (an automated thing, remember) finds the story and incorporates it as part of its news feed Investors see the story, and...
 
Tags: news, news aggregator, news feed, six-year-old news story, story, news crawler, tribune company, google, successful attack vector
 
 
 
 
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205 University of Wisconsin employees exposed

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2008-01-21 14:44:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sentinel news story United Press International news story Report Credit David Callender, The Capital Times Response From the online sources cited above UW-Madison officials waited more than a month before advising more than 200 faculty and staff members of a potential exposure of their personal information on the Internet last year The...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security vulnerabilities, social, include social security, security, identifiable information serves, information security personnel, computer shop
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Tenet Healthcare affects 37,000

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2008-02-18 10:26:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sentinel online story Report Credit Daniel Brownstein, The Beaufort Gazette Response From the online sources cited above A former employee of a locally connected national hospital chain who was convicted of identity theft had access to the personal information of about 37,000 patients, according to a company spokesman Terrance Brooks, 30, of...
 
Tags: tenet, require, require social security, security, tenet healthcare corp, employee fraud, fraud, letters, tenet notification letters