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Seat Belt Usage and Compensating Behavior

2008-04-11 13:44:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...usage in all U.S. jurisdictions, we analyze how such laws, by influencing seat belt use, affect the incidence of traffic fatalities. Allowing for the endogeneity of seat belt usage, we find that such usage decreases overall traffic fatalities. The magnitude of this effect, however, is significantly smaller than the estimate used by the...
 
Tags: seat belt, seat belt usage, laws, seat belt laws, fatalities, traffic fatalities, inherent risk thermostat, risk, indirect adverse effect
 
 
 
 
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Intellectual Property- what is it and how do we secure it?

2007-12-29 06:43:45 by Editor in Security Links
 
...usage of recorded media (TV programmes/films/music), written works, names and inventions. IP is usually in the form of a patent a copyright a trademark or a design Every country has its own form of copyright legislation. In the UK, the UK Patent Office provides substantial information about UK intellectual property rights (IPR), the Copyright...
 
Tags: intellectual property, treaties, international patent treaties, major copyright agreements, agreements, copyright, rights, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...usage ; Check how the email policy is being implemented by looking at email usage reports. Find out what attachments users are sending and their size. View reports on email policy violations and determine which rules are being violated and by which users. On the basis of this information you can adjust your email policy, tweak your email...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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Is Sears Engaging in Criminal Hacking Behavior?

2008-01-03 11:02:41 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
Join "My SHC Community" on Sears.com, and the company will install some pretty impressive spyware on your computer: Sears.com is distributing spyware that tracks all your Internet usage - including banking logins, email, and all other forms of Internet usage
 
Tags: sears, spyware, internet usage, pretty impressive spyware, shc community, tracks, install, forms, join
 
 
 
 
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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...usage. It collects highly personal and confidential information like credit card numbers, IPs and even addresses. The spyware program gets the credit card entries as the user logs them on a web form or an online application. Some spyware are even programmed to record your usage of the internet, what sites you visit, what files you download...
 
Tags: spyware programs, decent anti-spyware programs, anti-spyware programs regularly, anti-spyware programs, spyware, free, popular free anti-spyware, spyware program, spyware program offer
 
 
 
 
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Awareness in Installing Some Types of Software

2007-08-01 19:14:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...usage in program inclusions, and for the user. While adware is a legal part of the computer's administrative settings, spyware is ironically a deceptive method, that'll not directly pause as illegal for it may be included in some software that fronts acceptance. By the time it reaches the user's end it reacts like semblance of some kinds of...
 
Tags: software, spyware software, computer owners, support adware usage, original computer owners, usage, adware, spyware, adware companies
 
 
 
 
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Central Bank of the UAE reports ATM fraud to lenders

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2008-03-03 11:41:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...usage of the attached ATM cards and 2- Either to replace the cards or change the Pin numbers as deemed appropriate 3- Fully checking all you ATMs to make sure there are no traces on ATM skimming devices or tampering on the ATM It is not known whether the gang has been caught, how much money had been stolen or the exact number of people...
 
Tags: bank card details, card details, bank, bank card, atm, regular card reader, reader, customers, bank customers
 
 
 
 
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iPhone Gains 15 Minutes Free Wi-Fi in 28 Airports

2008-05-02 12:04:16 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...usage is up so far at hotspots that there's an audience there for commercial-based access MetroFi has famously declared free access to metro-scale services paid for by advertising to be unworkable; that may be so, given that they were the biggest proponent of it for a few years, and no other company followed them into that approach. However,...
 
Tags: hotspot, hotspot ads involve, ads, boingo offers ads-for-access, boingo, free wi-fi, wi-fi, access, gain access
 
 
 
 
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Wireless: Using Light APs Across a WAN

2008-05-22 17:45:54 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...usage and a small WAN pipe. Youll find you can quickly eat your bandwidth with your wireless traffic. If its a semi-light solution, the AP can process local traffic, for example a wireless user that wants to send a print job locally Processing local requests at the AP cuts down on the amount of traffic that has to traverse the WAN and is...
 
Tags: light, semi-light solution, semi-light, wan, solution, local, process local traffic, aps, completely light
 
 
 
 
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Companies Admit To Reading Email

2008-05-23 14:40:05 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...Usage Policy. The debate is a huge one, with people expecting privacy when they send email, often personal, from a work account or access personal accounts at the office. Simply put, you have no privacy at the office, and if you get any at all, you should expect very little. Some companies will offer some personal time and allow internet...
 
Tags: email, outbound email, email leak, employee email, people glance, people, non-spam email, access personal accounts, personal