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What's your data worth? More importantly, to whom?

2007-10-25 06:49:21 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...urge to think about its value to the bad guys when deciding how to secure your data, because if you think your data isn't valuable to anyone else, then you'll probably get the security wrong (that is, you won't have enough If you've got data accessible online, it's valuable to someone -- you! Why else would you put it up? It's logical, then,...
 
Tags: data, data accessible online, valuable, security, security wrong, opposite approach, approach, bad guys, worth
 
 
 
 
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center warns employees

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2008-01-16 09:51:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...urge them to contact their creditor bureaus in the wake of a reported attempt to illegally obtain a credit card using an employees personal information NSWCDD officials were notified on Jan. 8 that four individuals had been arrested in Bensalem Township, Pa., on Jan. 5, 2008, for attempted identity fraud police in Bensalem Township, Pa.,...
 
Tags: company data destruction, company data, employees personal information, personal information, destruction, information, information security, employees, employment information
 
 
 
 
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Months-old Excel exploit goes public

2008-03-24 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An exploit that targets a flaw in multiple versions of Microsoft's Excel software is now widely available, prompting Symantec to urge customers to apply a fix for the vulnerability released last week
 
Tags: exploit, multiple versions, urge customers, excel software, targets, symantec, widely, week, fix
 
 
 
 
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Do you listen to your users?

2008-04-04 21:18:17 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...urge the industry, through selfregulation and codes of best practice, to demonstrate its commitment to this principle. (4.38 8.15. We therefore recommend that the Government explore, at European level, the introduction of the principle of vendor liability within the IT industry . In the short term we recommend that such liability should be...
 
Tags: internet, personal internet security, software, content control software, software vendors, users, software liability, club, ilkley computer club
 
 
 
 
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Cutting through the White Noise

2007-11-09 16:07:55 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
 
...urge to write again. As Ive been reading the news over the past few months, I have been thinking to myself that we have a problem Breach notifications are being reported so often now that they seem to be just creating a constant white noise drone . Sure, there are the standouts like TJX but really, most are just more of the same. To the...
 
Tags: data, data breach story, drop malware, story, drop, engage employees, highlights multiple security, salesforce, life
 
 
 
 
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Some Comments on the EPTS Member Agreement

2008-04-07 04:31:21 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...urge the EPTS Steering Committee to revise the Member Agreement immediately (because the agreement was sent out before soliciting general comments from the EPTS community at large Second, the Member Agreement specifies that every two years, only half of the Steering Committee will be elected. I disagree with this approach and think that all...
 
Tags: epts, epts membership agreement, agreement, epts membership, epts community, agreement specifies, committee, current committee, comments
 
 
 
 
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Shimmy's theory of security company relativity, part 2

2008-04-11 19:57:08 by HASH0x8471f00 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...urge my fellow StillSecure execs to consider merger options
 
Tags: growth, current revenue growth, companies, larger companies, company, security companies, rapid growth phase, hard, merger options
 
 
 
 
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Woule the Do not Track registry work like the Do not call registry?

2008-04-16 14:21:05 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...urge do not track registry WASHINGTON (Reuters Two consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to create a do not track list that would allow computer users to bar advertisers from collecting information about them
 
Tags: track registry, track, list, call list, federal trade commission, computer users, consumer, bar advertisers, lil
 
 
 
 
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Shimmy's theory of security company relativity, part 2

2008-04-11 20:57:07 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...urge my fellow StillSecure execs to consider merger options
 
Tags: growth, current revenue growth, companies, larger companies, company, security companies, rapid growth phase, hard, merger options
 
 
 
 
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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