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Social Security Administration lists live people in the Death Master File

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2008-07-07 08:44:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Administration Victims United States citizens Number Affected more than 20,000 Types of Data Name, date of birth and Social Security number Breach Description The Social Security Administration inadvertently compromised the personal information of more than 20,000 people by listing them in the Death Master File (DMF) while they were still...
 
Tags: information, secure information, social security, social security administration, personal information, information online, dmf information, death master file, ssa
 
 
 
 
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Rhode Island Dept. of Administration can't find HR disk

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2008-03-24 15:36:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Administration Victims State employees Number Affected 1,400 Types of Data Human resources records including Social Security numbers Breach Description A state computer disk containing the social security numbers of nearly 1,400 people has been reported missing Reference URL SouthCoast Today WPRI Eyewitness News Report Credit Associated...
 
Tags: disk, rhode island, lost disk, computer disk, social security, administration, human resources records, department, wpri eyewitness news
 
 
 
 
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Bush Administration to set up national cyber security center; taps Silicon Valley entrepreneur to lead the group

2008-03-20 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Administration's Cyber Security Initiative is expected in the next day or so and it is likely that an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley will head a new interagency group that will coordinate cyber defenses across the federal government. As reported today by Brian Krebs of the Washington Post, "...Sources in the government contracting community...
 
Tags: bush administration, cyber security initiative, silicon valley, top level adviser, government, federal government, homeland security, entire article, washington post
 
 
 
 
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Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration reports a breach

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2008-07-09 11:15:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Administration Victims registered organ donors Number Affected about 55,000 Types of Data names, addresses, birth dates, driver license numbers and Social Security numbers Breach Description TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - State health officials say a security breach in the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry may have exposed thousands of donors'...
 
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Why implementing adequate security challenges LAN administration

2008-08-05 10:11:13 by Michael Gregg in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Learn why proper security implementation challenges LAN administration, in this response from enterprise network security expert Michael Gregg, and how to lessen security incidents
 
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Roboticsonline.com customer orders compromised

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2008-01-04 14:51:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...administration pages of the roboticsonline.com web site and as a result gained access to online customer orders including credit card information Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the official New Hampshire breach notification and...
 
Tags: secure administration site, administration site, credit card information, information, site, credit card provider, credit card, password, evan roboticsonline
 
 
 
 
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Another Wisconsin mailing exposes Social Security numbers

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2008-01-15 13:32:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Administration Victims Wisconsin residents who itemized deductions, received a 2006 Wisconsin income tax refund, AND live in Freedom, Kaukauna, Keshena, Kimberly, Krakow, Lakewood, Lena, Little Chute, Little Suamico, or Marinette community Number Affected 5,000 Types of Data Name, address and Social Security number Breach Description The...
 
Tags: security, taxpayers, taxpayers social security, social security, wisconsin, credit bureau, credit, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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Audit/Monitor Controls or Audit/Monitor BEFORE Control?

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2008-02-28 11:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...administration and 4) audit ." Note that audit which, in this case, broadly includes audit, monitoring and detection, comes last. It seems to be fairly in line with common sense: you audit the controls after you put them in place; you monitor after you have authentication and authorization taken care of and you detect the violations after you...
 
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Afilias and GoDaddy Want to Rule .US

2007-07-31 14:19:04 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...administration or, for that matter, any administration likely to come into office. Yah, they love kids. Don't we all? GoDaddy has had other problems , but their real problem here is image GoDaddy's bad-boy dirty image has always rubbed me the wrong way and I really doubt it gets them a dime of business they wouldn't otherwise get. It would be...
 
Tags: alliance registry, registry, alliance registry proposes, godaddy, registry contract, registry fee, alliance, domain registry, love kids