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WakeMed Emergency Department laptop goes missing

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2008-01-31 01:32:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Skip Kirkwood said Evan] Do you suppose that an identity thief would announce their intentions somehow? Identity theft grabs more headlines now than it ever did, and there are victims every day. What makes people think that the risk is minimal and there is "no reason to believe" that a thief may be interested in the information on the...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, information, medical information, download diagnostic information, emergency department, county ambulances, ambulances, laptop, county
 
 
 
 
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Larry Sutos Paper Drama

2008-01-02 14:53:30 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...skip this post, there isnt any new information in it Somehow I always end up being the center of controversy, even when Im really only vaguely interested in the subject matter at hand. This time it comes from the Full-Disclosure mailing list which is known for, among other things disclosing zero-day exploits in applications. My only problem...
 
Tags: paper, larry sutos paper, scanners, commercial scanners, test environment, environment, test, time, people
 
 
 
 
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More on the necessity of antivirus software

2007-09-25 17:53:47 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...skip, what to visit and what to avoid. I have control over what I choose to open, what I choose to load, and what I choose to run." Do you have similar self-control If you're the security administrator for an organization, you should not make this tradeoff. Again, remember what I wrote about my own self-control; I doubt that anyone could make...
 
Tags: antivirus software, computers, client computers, similar self-control, control, involve tradeoffs, previous post, personal computers, post
 
 
 
 
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Antivirus software -- who needs it?

2007-09-23 04:14:44 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...skip, what to visit and what to avoid. I have control over what I choose to open, what I choose to load, and what I choose to run. And yeah, before the question arises, every four months or so I run a scan, and I've never gotten infected with anything Now don't think that I run totally naked (the other residents of my house probably would...
 
Tags: curious question, question, question arises, choose, malware, experts, security experts, anti-malware, anti-virus software
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...skip this step and come back to it. (Ill come back to the effects of this in a later post I wasnt around when the processes were created, and I dont think theres a lot of value in digging deeply into precisely how it got where it is. I believe the core issue is that people tried to bring proven techniques to a large audience, and didnt catch...
 
Tags: threat, threat models, threat model, reasons threat, service threat, term threat, threat effectively, playsound threat model, development process
 
 
 
 
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Sexy Development Lifecycle

2008-01-30 01:37:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...skip it, but that doesnt make it any more fun right now So what can we do to make security a little more fun? Whats the adult equivalent of a Hello Kitty or Power Rangers toothbrush? For better or worse, I havent been able to think of one. But maybe we can take a different approach to the problem. What if, instead of trying to make the SDL...
 
Tags: developer security, developer security issues, security issues, developer, love developer cons, security, attend developer cons, developer cons, sdl
 
 
 
 
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Fare Timing Attacks on the Long Island Railroad (LIRR)

2008-01-31 11:00:57 by Kenneth F. Belva in BlogInfoSec.com
 
...skip) or have them arrested if they are skipping the fare and refuse to purchase a ticket. If they notice the bathroom is empty upon their return, finish sweeping the cars a third time The major drawback to this issue is time between stations. It may take longer to sweep than travel from one station to another. In this case, we reduce the...
 
Tags: conductor, conductor passes bathroom, railroad car bathroom, car, bathroom, tickets, people purchase tickets, conductor notices, conductor sweep
 
 
 
 
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Quick Note From SOURCE: Information Governance

2008-03-12 22:34:20 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...skip data governance and jump right to information governance Consistent with my last short post , here are a few points on principles for information governance The business, not IT or security, must determine the relative value of information Information classification must represent the value of the information Business and technical...
 
Tags: information, information governance, information security, governance, data governance, skip data governance, information classification, security, information centric security
 
 
 
 
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Dr Beetroot and the Stolen Records

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2007-08-27 14:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
...skip the next little bit - you know this already Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is the Minister of Health and is also known as Dr Beetroot because of her criticized belief that AIDS is cured better through vegetables than medicine. This belief kills people every day and the opposition want her to leave the government because of it The Sunday...
 
Tags: sunday times, sunday times newspaper, records, information security, information, sunday times controversy, newspaper, public hospital, medical records
 
 
 
 
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Predictions and Coverage for RSA 2008

2008-04-04 23:46:43 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...skip this one. Its a Friday, and this isnt my most professional post Virtualization Security This is the one theme I cant argue with. Well see a TON of marketing around virtualization, and nearly no products that actually provide any security. Virtualization is *hot* even if security isnt, and what well see is the marketing land grab as...