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Spam - still hard to stomach

2008-04-07 11:46:45 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Weekly is giving credit for today. Spam accounts for the majority of email addressed to my organisation's email addresses. Total tally is somewhere around 85% and 90% of incoming messages. For other organisations I know the statistics are even higher and teeter between 95% and 98% of all email. Yes - that means only 2% of incoming email for...
 
Tags: email addresses online, email addresses, spam, email, spam issue, messages, spam accounts, user awareness messages, email alert
 
 
 
 
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Errant email exposed Department of Consumer Affairs personal information

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2008-06-24 17:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Weekly Central Valley Business Times Props to PogoWasRight Report Credit Malcolm Maclachlan, Capitol Weekly Response From the online sources cited above The state Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has sent letters to 5,000 employees, contractors and board members warning them of a security breach that has compromised their names and...
 
Tags: information, email, volunteer information lost, wrong email address, email address, information security, adequately protect information, credit cards, credit
 
 
 
 
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Silicon Valley's Wi-Fi Situation

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2008-07-09 10:11:40 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Weekly exhaustively examines its city's and Silicon Valley's state of public Wi-Fi: The paper looks at the failures of various networks around the valley, the current state of Wi-Fi plans, and how a non-profit, WiFi101, is building (with a grant) a new effort that could be a model for how to offer free service for those without Internet...
 
Tags: valley, silicon valley, palo alto, mentions palo alto, city, city incorrectly calls, offer free service, fiber, wi-fi plans
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...weekly, Der Spiegel , reported that China was thought to have hacked into the computer systems of Germanys chancellery, as well as systems at three ministries, infecting the networks with spy programs. The alleged attacks occurred just before Chancellor, Angela Merkel, visited Beijing. Computers in the chancellery and the foreign, economics,...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Weekly Story RTE Business Story Report Credit The Irish Times Response From the sources cited above A significant error at AIB bank earlier this month led it to send 15,000 notifications to its customers containing the private bank account details of other individuals. A total of 11,000 AIB customers are affected by the move, writes John...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers
 
 
 
 
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See you next year!

2006-12-19 00:00:00 by Blog Editor in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Speaking of Security" the RSA Blog and Podcast will return next year with new bloggers and some fun surprises with our weekly podcast. See you then
 
Tags: weekly podcast, podcast, fun surprises, rsa blog, security, bloggers, return
 
 
 
 
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What can we learn from Hannaford & TJX?

2008-03-30 12:58:07 by Chenxi Wang in Security & Risk Management
 
...weekly or even daily So, what should you consider as your critical assets. Here is a list to get you started Web applications (those that handle online transactions Web servers (those that interface with external Web users Database servers Application servers that serve up your core applications Firewall (between DMZ and the Internet VPN...
 
Tags: hannaford, web applications, critical assets weekly, critical assets, practice companies, applications, companies, practice, hannaford data breach
 
 
 
 
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Dr Beetroot and the Stolen Records

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2007-08-27 14:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
...weekly newspaper in South Africa and they published an article that hinted very strongly that the minister was an alcoholic without actually saying it outright. They worked this out because of evidence that came from her medical records when she was in hospital and had alcohol when she was not supposed to The Minister has not denied the fact...
 
Tags: sunday times, sunday times newspaper, records, information security, information, sunday times controversy, newspaper, public hospital, medical records
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics would not have prevented SocGen incident

2008-03-07 19:25:37 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Weekly Think-Tank on insider threats. Read the full report here
 
Tags: controls, procedural controls, report, report identifies, audit controls, biometrics, security tosh, strong identification solutions, computer weekly think-tank
 
 
 
 
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Saving NGO Security Scenario Videos

2008-04-05 22:22:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...weekly scenario with a YouTube video clip to get you thinking about various safety and security situations Time commitments are going to decrease the frequency of future scenario posts, but in the meantime I want to show you how you can save scenario videos to your PC. These videos are great for classroom training or presentations. Just load...
 
Tags: videos, youtube video, youtube video url, scenario, save youtube videos, youtube video clip, video, save scenario videos, weekly scenario