SecurityRatty: tag: unique

Highly sensitive medical information found in the road

2008-01-10 14:11:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog

...unique number but said all patients would receive written apologies Evan] This mitigates the risk. Hopefully only authorized personnel understand the number to patient name correlation Many of the documents which have been sent to Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton and the Roehampton Clinic, also included information on those attending...

Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle

...unique bucket ids calculated from the stack trace using both symbols and offset when the information is available. The bucket id was used to name a folder that was created in the file system to refer to a unique application exception. When an exception occurred, we calculated a hash (bucket id) of the stack trace and determined if we had...

Tags: chance exceptions, exceptions, exception handler, exception, divide-by-zero exception, exception code, triage process, process, first-chance exceptions

Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security

...unique phrases for each site, if you wish Web mail: "my dog and i got the mail Shopping: "my dog and i bought some stuff Office: "my dog and i went to work If you dont follow this kind of system, eventually youll start to forget which password you used on which Web site. Ugh, how can you manage it all? How can you have strong and unique...

Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site

ESMNE inadvertently discloses employee financial details

2008-04-06 16:51:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog

...unique in a breach notification The funds should have been deposited into another employee's account as reimbursement for his business expenses. ESMNE has reimbursed that other employee, but would like the former employee to return the money she received in error Evan] More interesting and unique information ESMNE enclosed with the March...

Tags: esmne, information, unique information, employee, personal information, additional information, confidential information, documents information, employee errors

Stealing Phorm Cookies

2008-04-22 17:49:01 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper

...unique Phorm tracking number The Phorm system strips out these cookies when it can, but the website can access them anyway, either by using some straightforward JavaScript to read their value and POST it back, or by the simple expedient of embedding an https image ( ) within their page. The Phorm system will not be able to remove the cookie...

Tags: phorm, cookie, phorm cookie, isps deploy phorm, phorm identifier, identifier, unique phorm, phorm system strips, system

Can I just comment out these lines of code?

2008-05-23 10:53:20 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog

...unique to this situation, and "the system was slow so I turned off this feature", or "I just fiddled around with it and it just started working" are phrases all too commonly heard in many aspects of IT. Some might argue that a commercial development process would likely have prevented this occurrence, but to simply turn this into a comparison...

Tags: process purportedly, process, fix specific process, software development process, commercial development process, code, low-assurance process, development, specific

Whats Up With the Washington Posts Biz Section Coverage of Local Business?

2008-05-23 21:26:02 by David Link in ScienceLogic

...unique opportunity to create a great reputation in covering this space, and my assertion is that the local business community would rally around the Post. Local coverage is so key to business leaders as you work to network at local events and learn about companies working on complementary initiatives, but today we have a real void in our...

Tags: business, post business section, business section, post, post daily delivery, business leaders, post journalist, local business community, blog post