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'I have a lost laptop horror story for you'

2008-07-01 00:00:00 by Paul McNamara in Network World on Security
 
The devil of identity theft is in the details: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider
 
Tags: russ jones tells, story, insurance provider, identity-theft protection, identity theft, devil, rare, judgment, ignore
 
 
 
 
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World War II Deception Story

2008-07-29 13:50:05 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...story from an obituary of former OSS agent Roger Hall: One of his favorite OSS stories involved a colleague sent to occupied France to destroy a seemingly impenetrable German tank at a key crossroads. The French resistance found that grenades were no use The OSS man, fluent in German and dressed like a French peasant, walked up to the tank...
 
Tags: oss, oss days, favorite oss stories, grenades, french resistance, french peasant, key crossroads, security story, dagger
 
 
 
 
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Best Western refutes story claiming 8 million customer records were breached

2008-08-25 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Best Western hotel chain said that a story published by a Scottish newspaper, reporting that it had been hit by a massive system intrusion, was inaccurate and 'grossly unsubstantiated
 
Tags: massive system intrusion, western hotel chain, scottish newspaper, story, grossly, hit
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Story 680News.com News Story The Globe and Mail News Story The Register News Story (UK - Good commentary Report Credit Kenyon Wallace, Globe and Mail (CA Response From the sources cited above A security flaw in Passport Canada's website has allowed easy access to the personal information - including social insurance numbers, dates of birth...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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Blamestorming

2008-09-12 06:03:42 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...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 immediately react. When UAL's stock plunged 76% to a low of $3 , Nasdaq shut down...
 
Tags: news, news aggregator, news feed, six-year-old news story, story, news crawler, tribune company, google, successful attack vector
 
 
 
 
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Cashing in on employee theft, or honest whistleblower?

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2008-02-25 14:03:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...story Bloomberg.com online news story MarketWatch online news story Report Credit Chad Thomas, Bloomberg.com Response From the online sources cited above For LGT Group, all the facts now point - despite contradictory statements form sources said to be close to the German intelligence service - to the fact that the data material illegally...
 
Tags: confidential, confidential data, kieber, named heinrich kieber, lgt, lgt trust, data, confidential information, information
 
 
 
 
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Henry Ford and Agility (Once you are secured - whats next?)

2008-06-05 14:04:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...story and both get similar but different conclusions out of the story Andy basically relates the story of how Henry Ford lost out on market share because he was not prepared to make cars of different colours. He was basically so in the make it quick and cheap mindset that he would rather lose out to everyone else than change his beliefs You...
 
Tags: information security, information, henry ford, information security nirvana, henry ford lost, processes, tie processes, information flows, business
 
 
 
 
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Automation Gone Wrong

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2008-09-10 21:00:04 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...story where the tradeoff for speed and efficiency caused a massive stock dump erroneously Apparently, many traders use automation software that trolls the Web for news stories and then, depending on what it finds, executes stock trades automatically. It was United Airlines bad luck that an old article about its 2002 bankruptcy -court filing...
 
Tags: stock, trigger stock trades, automation, story, executes stock trades, web traffic, wall street journal, googles news service, virtual machine movement
 
 
 
 
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Prediction for 2008: Service providers avoid straightforward DTV answers

2008-01-04 21:12:01 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...story is that over-the-air (OTA) analog goes away, replaced by OTA digital. For OTA consumers, its just a matter of getting an ATSC tuner (built-in to a newer TV, or standalone with a government-subsidizied coupon The part that is different for every locality and service provider: what to do with analog TVs on analog cable systems. For every...
 
Tags: ota, digital ota customer, analog, analog customers, analog ota reception, analog cable customers, analog cable systems, analog channels, cheap basic analog
 
 
 
 
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Geeks.com customer credit card data compromised

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2008-01-07 21:34:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Story Computerworld Story Report Credit The Consumerist Response From the online sources cited above The purpose of this letter is to notify you that Genica dba Geeks.com ("Genica") recently discovered on December 5, 2007 that customer information, including Visa credit card information, may have been compromised In particular, it is...