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Security Assessments as Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

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2008-07-17 21:34:14 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...waste, and abuse What makes me say this is the amount of redundancy in some testing that Ive seen without any value added The way to avoid this redundancy is the concept of common/shared controls. The whole idea is that you take whatever security controls you have across the board and put them into one bucket. You test that bucket once and...
 
Tags: controls, security controls, assessment, shares controls, waste, fraud, security assessment, bucket, control bucket
 
 
 
 
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Australian medical information found in abandoned amusement park

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2008-06-28 13:10:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...waste in the grounds of an abandoned fun park Evan] Confidential medical records AND contaminated waste? Ugh Police said it was likely the container had been there for a decade Evan] A decade? This story keeps getting more bizarre The Health Department is reviewing waste disposal procedures following the discovery at Lansvale in Sydney's...
 
Tags: confidential medical records, medical records, clinical waste, waste, waste disposal procedures, disposal, records, procedures, amusement park
 
 
 
 
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Cisco CSO, Antivirus is Completely Wasted Money

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2008-05-23 02:12:12 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...waste Its completely wasted money, Stewart told delegates He said infections have become so common that most companies have learned to live with them So, he thinks that antivirus is a waste of time and that companies should concentrate on whitelisting. So when the rubber meets the road you wanna guess whos going to be managing that kind of...
 
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A Culture of Compliance

2008-07-18 14:12:01 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...waste collection company earning nearly $47 million for obeying the law. After repeatedly refusing to fire three of his employees over the age of 60 despite ongoing pressure from his superiors, he was wrongfully terminated, according to the jury. Partly responsible for the large settlement were actions taken by his employers after he was...
 
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Iowa DNR loses personal information on 7,000

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2007-12-19 14:22:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Waste water and drinking water worker permit applicants Number Affected 7,000 Types of Data Applicant data including names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers Breach Description An employee of Salem Associates, a contractor working for the Iowa DNR lost a thumb (flash) drive containing sensitive personal information...
 
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Google Spamming Us

2007-12-20 22:11:11 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...waste-age. I started using Google because it was light on my personal bandwidth - so much for that idea
 
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I just *love* cheesy vocal trance!

2007-07-05 18:44:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...waste of time--but it sure rips up the dance floors and it's complex enough (melodies, harmonics, massive drops) that it always captures my interest. I found a place to download--free!--several very engaging mixes of some of the best vocal trance I've heard. Check it out, if you're into this kind of music, you'll definitely enjoy these. See...
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...waste time and force awkward work-arounds. You can pull the band-aid off all at once or endure it a little at a time. The pain is equally unacceptable There is one point I will readily cede to the reliability community: they can teach the security community a thing or two about analyzing data. Metrics are an often-used if still imprecise...
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...waste of effort By the same token, many of the anti-privacy "security" measures we're seeing -- national ID cards , warrantless eavesdropping , massive data mining and so on -- do little to improve, and in some cases harm , security. And government claims of their success are either wrong , or against fake threats The debate isn't security...
 
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Stolen Salesforce.com unencrypted external storage device

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2008-02-12 13:32:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...waste of time The potentially compromised personal information includes your name, Social Security number, and date of birth We are working with law enforcement authorities to recover the stolen device Evan] I suppose recovery could happen, but I'm not holding my breath We take our obligation to safeguard your personal information very...
 
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