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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
...Ugh, outdated regulation and bureaucracy He said it is unlikely that people could access the records even if they had the flash drive. That's because the file was a backup copy that would have to be restored, meaning the user would need the same program used to create the file - a program that isn't on many home or office computers. "The...
 
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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...ughly equivalent to a U.K. version of an American Social Security number Breach Description A laptop computer was stolen from an employee of Citizens Advice (UK) that contained sensitive personal information about people who sought advice from the bureau. The laptop was stolen early on December 5th, 2007 and mainly affects clients from the...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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Duke School of Law breach affects 3,200

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2007-12-06 11:37:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...ughn, Executive Director of Communications at Duke University Response From the official incident web page and sources cited above On the Duke University home page Thank you very much for your patience as we continue to work to restore our web site and understand the full ramifications of the attack on our web site and server. The attack...
 
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Wisconsin Dept. of Health and Family Services mails Social Security numbers

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2008-01-08 16:08:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Ugh. The same person is victimized twice by the State of Wisconsin in a little more than a year The Department of Revenue paid more than $500,000 to provide credit monitoring for those affected by its 2006 mailing. No cases of identity theft have been reported to the state as a result of that incident Evan] If the State of Wisconsin is...
 
Tags: wisconsin, social security, wisconsin medicaid, wisconsin department, family services, department, revenue department situation, revenue, health
 
 
 
 
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Self Incrimination or Privacy

2008-01-27 22:32:43 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...ugh one Personally, Id feel very uncomfortable holding up freedoms to save a pedophile, but at the same time, there are all kinds of legitimate reasons I may want to encrypt data (I do it all the time for customers, for instance). But maybe a guy has cheated on his wife and doesnt want anyone to know about it. Or maybe he has a furry fetish...
 
Tags: bad, bad taste, pretty torn, pretty, furry fetish, washinton post, child pornography, time, outcome
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Cross Country Staffing employee

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2008-02-12 12:27:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Ugh! There really isn't any excuse for not encrypting laptops that have confidential information on them Our corporate employee immediately reported the incident to the local police We have no evidence that the information stored on the laptop has been accessed or misused Evan] The incident happened on February 1 and the letter to the New...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, cross country, information, confidential information, employees, cross country employees, laptop, information security breach
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...ugh to protect a computer from most attacks. But as we security consultants (stop looking around the room again!) know, attackers dont target only computers. They target people, often by concealing malicious software inside tempting packages delivered by e-mail or Web sites. We call this the dancing pig phenomenonno amount of self-control can...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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Insignia photo frame virus much nastier than first thought

2008-02-16 22:20:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Ugh, we were already sick of digital photo frames -- and now it looks those now-discontinued virus-ridden Insignia units from Best Buy and several other models produced in China were carrying a much nastier trojan that we'd originally heard
 
Tags: digital photo frames, insignia units, nastier trojan, models, sick, china, ugh
 
 
 
 
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Visa and Mastercard warn of breach at "major retailer"

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2008-03-17 15:27:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Ugh. A "major breach" at a "major retailer", which will probably lead to a "major lawsuit" from which lawyers will make "major money The retailer has not been named by the card companies and the bankers association wants customers to know that this was not a problem caused by banks The data breach is reported to have occurred between Dec....
 
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Another VA hard drive lost

2007-02-06 22:50:18 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
 
Ugh. Less than a year after the reported loss of a laptop containing the data of 26.5 veterans, the VA looses another laptop. Oh yeah and in the intervening months they developed processes and procedures to ensure that such data is encrypted; yet this report mentions that there were upwards of 20,000 unencrypted records Here are a couple links....
 
Tags: hard drive, portable hard drive, vet data, data, veterans affairs, veterans, couple links, laptop, report mentions