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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...warrants a "stand-alone" contract with a company that specializes in information security. My $.02 Past Breaches Unknown
 
 
 
 
 
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42,000 West Penn Allegheny Health System Patients

2007-12-28 17:06:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...warrants. The Windows logon password is easily bypassed in a matter of minutes. If the computer and data were protected with encryption, I would be more satisfied Only home care and hospice patients could be impacted, not patients at the hospitals Patients are advised to put a fraud alert on their credit files and the hospital is offering a...
 
 
 
 
 
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What should done about employees stealing in the workplace?

2008-02-21 05:25:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...warrants for grand larceny and had brought the manager to trial as a defendant. Based on the evidence obtained by our investigators, he plead guilty and received a jail sentence Not all clients will want to go to that extent and many have no intentions of prosecuting an employee. It is still a good idea to pursue a dishonest employee and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Why Some Terrorist Attacks Succeed and Others Fail

2008-02-28 06:25:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...warrants further investigation. Security services may not recognize the context into which a certain piece of information fits, but by sharing with other organizations more parts of the puzzle can be pieced together. Information should be shared laterally, with counterpart organizations; downward, with local law enforcement, who can serve as...
 
 
 
 
 
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PR Storm - Mass iFRAME Injectable Attacks

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2008-03-17 17:54:21 by HASH0x8b5dc70 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...warrants The responsible full-disclosure, namely disclosing and every domain affected, the IPs of the malicious domains used in the redirection, and obtained a sampled result of where are the domains actually leading to, should have had the effect it's supposed to - raise awareness and put responsible pressure on the people involved in...
 
 
 
 
 
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Web Entrapment

2008-03-27 14:46:52 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...warrants based on access attempts This seems like incredibly flimsy evidence. Someone could post the link as an embedded image, or send out e-mail with the link embedded, and completely mess with the FBI's data -- and the poor innocents' lives. Such are the problems when the mere clicking on a link is justification for a warrant See also this...
 
 
 
 
 
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iPass Launches Individual US, Global Plan for Hotspots, US Plan for 3G

2008-03-31 05:00:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...warrants For enterprise users, iPass aggregates dial-up, Ethernet (mostly US hotel), Wi-Fi hotspot, and 3G service into a single login that's integrated with corporate networks to preserve one user, one password, end-point security (VPN, anti-virus, firewall), consistent billing, and cross-corporate averaging of services For now, businesses...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...warrants. We fear flying and choose to drive instead. Why The short answer is that people make most trade-offs based on the feeling of security and not the reality I've written a lot about how people get security trade-offs wrong , and the cognitive biases that cause us to make mistakes. Humans have developed these biases because they make...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...warrants. We fear flying and choose to drive instead. Why The short answer is that people make most trade-offs based on the feeling of security and not the reality I've written a lot about how people get security trade-offs wrong , and the cognitive biases that cause us to make mistakes. Humans have developed these biases because they make...
 
 
 
 
 
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Government wiretapsthe ones we know aboutup 20% for 2007

2008-05-06 01:00:31 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Data released this week on 2007 wiretaps shows that nearly all intercepts are for "portable devices" and 80 percent of all taps target drug criminals. Secret FISA warrants are also up, and no one knows what's happening with warrantless surveillance at the NSA