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L.A. Dept. of Water of Power employees exposed

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2008-02-19 17:11:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Water and Power ("DWP Contractor/Consultant/Branch Systematic Automation Inc This breach appears to be related to " Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees " dated 2/12/08 Victims Employees Number Affected 8,275 Types of Data names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, employee identification numbers, salaries, work...
 
Tags: employee information, information, information security practices, confidential information, information security policies, sensitive personal information, dwp, dwp officials, represents dwp employees
 
 
 
 
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Whats next in Data Leakage Prevention - Keeping your barrels out of the water

2008-01-07 00:35:00 by Hugh Docherty in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...water in the first place Data Leakage Prevention products solve a real problem today but you can expect much more than data monitoring and blocking from your DLP vendor in the future. In addition to monitoring outbound traffic, many DLP products are good at finding unstructured data much like a search engine and then classifying it as...
 
Tags: data leakage prevention, data leakage, data, sensitive data resides, sensitive, data-centric approach, dlp, dlp vendors, electronic data
 
 
 
 
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Password Expiration: Like Margarine and Water?

2008-05-27 00:00:00 by Dr. Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...water a day for overall good health. Everyone knows the advice. But no one seems to know where the 8x8 rule comes from or if it is good or bad. So what pieces of conventional wisdom in computer security are like margarine and the 8x8 water doctrine? I'd hold forth password expiration as a prime candidate
 
Tags: water, margarine, password expiration, 8x8 water doctrine, cardiovascular health, advice, substitute margarine, similar dogma applies, health
 
 
 
 
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Babies and bath water

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2008-03-21 16:13:09 by HASH0x8b4bc58 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...water here with all of the NAC bashing. Yes there are companies in this space that frankly don't have the technology or the team to make it. Lockdown is a perfect example. But there are others who have actually built a better mousetrap and the market (the ultimate decision maker) is rewarding them. But if the media and analysts just keep...
 
Tags: nac, cover nac, nac technology, nac sucks, nac solutions, nac companies, live nac, lockdown, lockdown networks
 
 
 
 
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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
...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 belonging...
 
Tags: iowa dnr, iowa, iowa dnr decides, iowa dnr lost, iowa department, dnr, computer flash drive, drive, information
 
 
 
 
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Secrets of a Road Warrior

2006-10-16 08:34:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...water, no flights allowed in or out, etc. and I was worried. It reminded me of several situations I experienced personally Hurricane Ivan was by far the worst thing Ive ever been through, and there have been many In September of 2004, I was working on a project in Montgomery , and had to be there the day before the storm arrived. Things...
 
Tags: home, home tuesday night, head home, call home, road warrior, tuesday, road, night, home friday night
 
 
 
 
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Turning off Fire Hydrants in the Name of Terrorism

2008-09-11 13:59:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...water turned off since just after 9/11 -- something a trade association spokesman tells us is common practice for rural systems These hydrants need to be cut off in a way to prevent vandalism or any kind of terrorist activity, including something in the water lines," Hodges said But Hodges says fire departments know, or should have known, the...
 
Tags: hydrants, fire hydrants, water valves, water, terrorism, water lines, prevent, common, prevent vandalism
 
 
 
 
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Clovis Unified School District employees receive notice

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2008-02-21 01:57:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Water of Power employees exposed " dated 2/19/08 Victims Employees Number Affected 4,000 Over 15,000 total (and counting Types of Data Names, addresses and Social Security numbers Breach Description Computer equipment was stolen from a Clovis Unified School District vendor, Systematic Automation that contained sensitive personal...
 
Tags: district, district employees, school district, district management, school district vendor, school district employees, employees, sensitive personal information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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The Continuing Cheapening of the Word "Terrorism"

2008-08-19 06:09:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...water is terrorism: South Australian Premier Mike Rann says the diversion of water from the Paroo River in Queensland is an act of terrorism during a water crisis Anonymously threatening people with messages on playing cards , like the Joker in The Dark Knight , is terrorism: Giles County deputies arrest two county teenagers they say made...
 
Tags: terrorism, water, people, water crisis, cards, giles county deputies, august 10th, county teenagers, terroristic threats
 
 
 
 
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Innovative spam subject lines

2007-08-19 23:16:14 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...water spurting up in fountains from under their tyres All day sitting down there cursing curses at the dog Implement conditional, iterative, and jump flow control statements and arrays Bilbo was crossing the floor of the hall For some, it would be because they're there Wow, we go from obviously identifiable spam because of its crappy grammar...
 
Tags: spam, identifiable spam, conditional iterative array,