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Virginia Tech intros another emergency notification system

2008-08-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b6eb60 in Network World on Security
 
When Virginia Tech's 28,000 students return to classes for the fall on Monday, they will benefit from another emergency mass notification system added over the summer in response to the April 2007 campus killings of 32 people by a lone gunman
 
Tags: virginia tech, students return, campus killings, lone gunman, classes, response, summer, monday, people
 
 
 
 
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More than 7,000 are affected by stolen University of Virginia laptop

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2008-04-18 15:34:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Virginia Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Students, staff and faculty members Number Affected More than 7,000 Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A laptop stolen from a University of Virginia employee contained sensitive information about more than 7,000 students, staff and...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, virginia, information, chief information officer, information security, virginia employee, laptop, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Privacy advocate, ACLU hit new Virginia privacy law

2008-03-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2070c in Network World on Security
 
A Virginia-based privacy advocate who has been fighting to stop county and state governments from posting public records containing Social Security numbers on their Web sites is now preparing to do battle against an amendment to a Virginia law that bars individuals from disseminating any of those numbers, even if they obtain them legally from...
 
Tags: public records, bars individuals, web sites, social security, stop county, virginia law, privacy, amendment, battle
 
 
 
 
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Emergency notification displays to bolster Virginia Tech alert systems

2008-08-20 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Virginia Tech, the scene of April 2007 campus killings, is adding 220 message displays to convey emergency alerts to students who are in classrooms where cell phones are not supposed to be used
 
Tags: virginia tech, convey emergency alerts, message displays, cell phones, campus killings, april, scene, students, classrooms
 
 
 
 
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Be careful what you ask for.

2007-12-08 21:43:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Virginia, has recently highlighted the case of ten investigators who ran afoul of the law for supplying information to a host of clients, including attorneys, to which they were not entitled. It appears as if these investigators and attorneys will now face serious legal action and rightfully so One of the most frequent illegal requests that...
 
Tags: professional investigators association, investigators, professional investigators, law, law firms alike, person, ethical, ethical companies, illegal
 
 
 
 
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D.C. Gun Ban Lifted - Thank You Supreme Court!

2008-06-27 02:23:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Virginia home as they know that Virginians have easy access to weapons Of course this latest ruling does not in any way mean that we'll all be walking around downtown with concealed firearms. Far from it, I am sure. Justice Scalia pointed out that restrictions will still be in place. As it should be. Law abiding citizens do not want to see...
 
Tags: mayor, mayor fenty, supreme court, virginia home, virginia, mayor acted, home, law, guns
 
 
 
 
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Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming added to the state hacking laws page

2007-12-29 11:31:26 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
That should be all 50 states, now I may add some federal stuff
 
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Personal information of 103,000 doctors from 11 states posted to web site

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2008-03-03 09:19:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Virginia Number Affected 103,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, work addresses, and national insurance identification numbers Breach Description Heath Net Federal Services inadvertently posted sensitive personal information to a publicly accessible web server. The breach affects as many as 103,000 doctors from eleven states...
 
Tags: personal information, sensitive personal information, information, providers personal information, doctors, health net, health net employees, 103-thousand doctors, social security
 
 
 
 
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mandate internet safety lessons in schools?

2008-04-09 00:34:08 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...Virginia First To Require Internet Safety Lessons clipped from www.liquidmatrix.org Very nice. It would appear that common sense is starting to catch on! The Commonwealth of Virginia (one of my my former stomping grounds) has come out as the first US state to mandate internet safety lessons in schools. While I find this to be a bang up idea...
 
Tags: internet safety lessons, virginia, online safety, org, hope, schools, common sense, liquidmatrix, defeat threats