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The Phorm Webwise System

2008-04-04 16:53:06 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...system works this is the system that is to be deployed by the UKs largest ISPs to pick apart your web browsing activities to try and determine what interests you The idea is that advertisers can be more picky in who they serve adverts to youll get travel ads if youve been looking to go to Pamplona for the running of the bulls, car adverts if...
 
Tags: phorm, system, phorm assumes, phorm argue, phorm system, extensive technical details, technical details, system anonymises, details
 
 
 
 
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42,000 West Penn Allegheny Health System Patients

2007-12-28 17:06:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...System Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Home care and hospice patients Number Affected 42,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses and patient care information Breach Description On November 24th, 2007 a laptop containing sensitive personal information was stolen from the home of a nurse...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, nurse, home care nurse, patients, home, information warrants, computer
 
 
 
 
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Israel Implementing IFF System for Commercial Aircraft

2008-03-10 12:24:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...system for commercial aircraft, designed to differentiate legitimate planes from terrorist-controlled planes The news article implies that it's a basic challenge-and-response system. Ground control issues some kind of alphanumeric challenge to the plane. The pilot types the challenge into some hand-held computer device, and reads back the...
 
Tags: commercial aircraft, system, hand-held computer device, device, pin, special distress pin, ground control issues, challenge, news article implies
 
 
 
 
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Elliot Health System reports a breach involving health information

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2008-04-16 11:00:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...System (EHS Contractor/Consultant/Branch Advanced Medical Partners, Inc Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data electronic protected health information" "name, procedural dates of service at EHS, name of your insurance company and your date of birth Breach Description A business associate of The Elliot Health System (EHS),...
 
Tags: information, breach, elliot health system, elliot, health information, contractor information security, ehs andor ampi, ehs, information security program
 
 
 
 
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TrueCrypt's Deniable File System

2008-07-18 06:56:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...systems leak information like mad, making deniability a very difficult requirement to satisfy. ABSTRACT: We examine the security requirements for creating a Deniable File System (DFS), and the efficacy with which the TrueCrypt disk-encryption software meets those requirements. We find that the Windows Vista operating system itself, Microsoft...
 
Tags: truecrypt, deniable file system, file system, truecrypt version, system, truecrypt dfs, deniable, truecrypt disk-encryption software, systems
 
 
 
 
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Encrypting The Windows System Partition With Truecrypt 5.0

2008-02-11 01:00:00 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...System Partition With Truecrypt 5.0 Truecrypt 5.0 adds many new features, most importantly Windows system partition encryption. To put it in slightly inaccurate layman's terms, this means encrypting your entire C: drive. Even if you already write your sensitive data to an encrypted space, files are sometimes squirreled away in unencrypted...
 
Tags: windows system partition, system partition, windows, truecrypt, temp space, space, sensitive data, page file, layman
 
 
 
 
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An Optical Scan E-Voting System based on N-Version Programming

2008-05-22 14:32:02 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...system based on optical character recognition technology. Trade-offs in voter training, ease of use, security, and coercion across various systems are considered for the purpose of recognizing achievable improvements. Based on the use of N-version programming techniques, we propose improvements to Demotek, including those in security and new...
 
Tags: system based, based, system, n-version, authentication system, vote data transmission, electoral process, capabilities, electronic
 
 
 
 
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Updated video on "Encrypting The Windows System Partition With Truecrypt 5.0"

2008-02-20 01:25:52 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...System Partition With Truecrypt 5.0 " video. I used Photorec to do some file carving to see how secure Truecrypt's Windows system partition encryption was. Photorec was only able to recover two files, one ASP/TXT file and one PCX, but on closer examination both were false positives. They just contained seemingly random data, which Photorec...
 
Tags: truecrypt, file, windows system partition, real file headers, photorec, photorec mistook, secure truecrypt, data, seemingly random data
 
 
 
 
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UK Two-Tier Tax Security System

2008-02-05 14:38:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...system used by more than three million people to file tax returns is in doubt after HM Revenue and Customs admitted it was not secure enough to be used by MPs, celebrities and the Royal Family Thousands of "high profile" people have been secretly barred from using the online tax return system amid concerns that their confidential details...
 
Tags: security, poor security, file tax returns, online computer system, million people, people, royal family, confidential details, profile
 
 
 
 
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Heartbroken mother of slain children speaks out about the Montgommery County court system

2008-04-06 19:39:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...system needs to better understand mental illness and her case is living testimony to this. Mark Castillo had been diagnosed with depression and had been invouluntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital in 2006 after planning to kill himself One wonders why the courts could not take this into consideration when allowing him unsupervised...