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Student antics with cell phones, iPods means heartburn for school IT staff

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Student antics with cell phones, iPods, and social-networking sites means heartburn for school IT staff charged with network security
 
Tags: student antics, cell phones, network security, staff, ipods, school, heartburn, sites
 
 
 
 
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U.K. agency disciplines staff over unauthorized data access

2008-05-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b79ea0 in Network World on Security
 
Over 600 staff at HM Revenue and Customs have been disciplined or fired in a three year period after they accessed sensitive data without authorization
 
Tags: sensitive data, staff, fired, period, customs, revenue, authorization
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma State University Parking Services server is compromised

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2008-05-15 15:08:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...staff and students who had purchased a parking permit between July 2002 and March 2008 Number Affected as many as 70,000 Types of Data names, addresses and Social Security numbers Breach Description Oklahoma State University has discovered that a server under the control of OSU Parking and Transit Services had been accessed from another...
 
Tags: server, sensitive personal information, personal information, information, server administrators, server immediately, server prior, database server, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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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
...staff members who made purchases from the DoIT computer shop Number Affected 205 Types of Data University identification numbers*, email addresses and telephone numbers 205 of the persons affected had university identification number based on their Social Security numbers Breach Description Personal information belonging to University of...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security vulnerabilities, social, include social security, security, identifiable information serves, information security personnel, computer shop
 
 
 
 
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External hard drive stolen from Georgetown University

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2008-01-29 15:54:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...staff from 1998 to 2006 Number Affected about 38,000 About 7,700 of the affected people are current students, 26,000 are Georgetown alumni, and 600 are current or former faculty and staff Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description An external computer hard drive was reported stolen from a locked office within the...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, georgetown, georgetown university, hard drive, information, georgetown alumni, personal data, data
 
 
 
 
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We Dont Need No Education

2008-03-14 14:03:23 by dmortman in securosis.com
 
...staff. The need for training goes well beyond compliance requirements, however. The following examples further illustrate the importance of ensuring that everyone is aware of the appropriate information Users are the first line of defense in the organization and they are most effective when they know what to do. Examples 2 through 6 all focus...
 
Tags: information offsite, information, confidential information, security awareness program5, awareness, information security, security, security threat, group-specific security
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...staff proposes Every Web site where data is collected for behavioral advertising should provide a clear, consumer-friendly, and prominent statement that data is being collected to provide ads targeted to the consumer and give consumers the ability to choose whether or not to have their information collected for such purpose To address the...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Bolton Hospitals Laptop affects cancer patients

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2008-02-04 10:47:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...staff Breach Description A laptop computer containing sensitive personal information belonging to gynaecology cancer patients from Bolton, Wigan and Salford (UK) was stolen from the office of a radiology consultant in October 2007, but only recently came to light Reference URL The Bolton News online story Report Credit Jane Lavender, The...
 
Tags: royal bolton hospital, bolton hospital, bolton hospitals, hospital, relevant hospital staff, hospital staff, patients, bolton, medical information
 
 
 
 
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Queen Mary's Sidcup Hospital microfiche film goes missing

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2008-01-22 12:22:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...staff working at the hospital between 1974 and 1996 and was due to be destroyed Some of the film had been recovered, but most of it was still missing some of it was payroll information, but there were also a number of leavers' forms Evan] I had no idea what a "leaver's form" was. I had to look it up. For the U.S. readers that don't know, a...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, microfiche film, microfiche, film, hospital, information, medical information
 
 
 
 
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Personal Las Cruces Public Schools Special Ed information posted online

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2008-05-09 10:02:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog