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Houston law firm threw confidential client information in the trash

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2008-07-17 14:59:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...trash bin in the 9100 block of Jones Road, with box after box of records including personal financial records, documents with Social Security numbers, people's medical files and more When the sheriff's office first arrived, the responding deputies had no idea what to do with the records So, they called the law office from where the records...
 
Tags: houston, weber, weber wishes, houston attorney, bankruptcy, khou-tv news, news, bankruptcy files, william weber
 
 
 
 
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Personal information from two Colorado mortgage companies found in dumpsters

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2008-05-07 22:20:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...trash bin over the weekend Reference URL Denver Channel 7 News Denver Channel 7 News (update Report Credit Denver Channel 7 News Response From the online sources cited above ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office is advising anyone who has used Cove Creek Mortgage to watch out for identity theft after hundreds...
 
Tags: mortgage files, numerous mortgage files, personal information, information, complete mortgage files, personal information poorly, files, cove creek mortgage, cove creek
 
 
 
 
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Employment records in a New Mexico dumpster

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2008-06-05 23:32:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...trash bin behind the state Department of Workforce Solutions office in Roswell Reference URL The Associated Press via Las Cruces Sun-News Roswell Daily Record KRQE Channel 13 News Report Credit Roswell Daily Record Response From the online sources cited above Four boxes of manilla folders with documents containing names and social...
 
Tags: bin, trash bin monday, mexico, trash bin, roswell, employment records, mexico department, records, roswell daily record
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...trash is on a curb or other public property --" because they consider it unethical. They say that the prevalence of former intelligence agents in the field and the rise of unscrupulous tactics have tarnished a business that often struggles with its reputation. One longtime investigator complained that he recently lost business to some...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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Visa Services Northwest caught throwing info in dumpster

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2008-01-28 16:23:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...trash Victim Response This firm was throwing away in a public bin more information than my wife knows about me," Gillett said Evan] OK. Either Mr. Gillett needs to talk to his wife more, or he gave way too much information to Visa Services Northwest They said they had been doing this for the last ten years," Gillett said Evan] This...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, visa services, confidential information, sensitive information, gillett, steve gillett, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Cornerstone Fitness for Women information found in discarded file cabinet

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2008-05-05 14:01:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...trash bin Reference URL KRGV-TV Newschannel 5 The Monitor The Brownsville Herald Report Credit KRGV-TV Newschannel 5 Response From the online sources cited above EDINBURG - A local company that operates several fitness centers across the region could be fined if investigators substantiate allegations it left clients' sensitive personal...
 
Tags: information, secure personal information, sensitive information, handle personal information, personal, credit card information, cornerstone fitness, cornerstone tells newschannel, newschannel
 
 
 
 
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Iowa DNR loses personal information on 7,000

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2007-12-19 14:22:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...trash at the department's office complex in Des Moines Liz Christiansen, deputy director of the DNR, sent a letter to the affected people on Friday The records included information about retirees in addition to active workers Rick Hindman, an information technology supervisor at the DNR, said that Iowa government policy bans the use of...
 
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Your Brain on Fear

2008-01-09 06:10:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...trash can"), it takes great effort and persistence. Instead, fear tends to overrule reason, as the amygdala hobbles our logic and reasoning circuits. That makes fear "far, far more powerful than reason," says neurobiologist Michael Fanselow of the University of California, Los Angeles. "It evolved as a mechanism to protect us from...
 
Tags: fear, brain, amygdala, amygdala hobbles, fear circuitry, amygdala sprouts, brain regions, overrule reason, cortex
 
 
 
 
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The Continuing .Gov Blackat SEO Campaign

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2008-02-18 15:23:38 by HASH0x8bf8e28 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Trash/OnlinePharmacy - 12 pages Who's behind all of these? Checking the outgoing links and verifying the forums the advertisements got posted at could prove informative, but for instance, topsfield-ma.gov/warrant where a single blackhat SEO page was located seems to have been hacked by a turkish defacement group who left the following - "...
 
Tags: gov, pages, gov domains, bridger, gov responds, bridger-mt, cobb county government, freeporn, subdomain freeporn
 
 
 
 
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Secrets of a Road Warrior

2006-10-16 08:34:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...trash cans, and even a stray sock I was stuck I wasnt worried at first. I had endured several hurricanes before, once in a tent ( Alberto , which dropped 24 inches of rain in a single night that cut off all the roads in and out of our base camp on the Flint River; I spent a week wet, living in a tent, and as a brand new lifeguard,...
 
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