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Stolen Bolton Hospitals Laptop affects cancer patients

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2008-02-04 10:47:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cancer patients from Bolton, Wigan and Salford Number Affected 200 Types of Data names, addresses, information, their diagnosis and treatment and clinical correspondence between medical staff Breach Description A laptop computer containing sensitive personal information belonging to gynaecology cancer patients from Bolton, Wigan and...
 
Tags: royal bolton hospital, bolton hospital, bolton hospitals, hospital, relevant hospital staff, hospital staff, patients, bolton, medical information
 
 
 
 
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Biotech Platforms

2008-09-04 10:08:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...cancer, that is, drugs that block the activity of kinases in cancer cells. Cancer cells are often described as cells that are out of control: They proliferate quickly, ignore death signals, invade nearby tissues and eventually metastasize to distant organs. These disease onset and advancement are associated with processes such as cell growth,...
 
Tags: drug, treatment, cancer treatment, commercial drug, platforms, drug discovery platform, platform, cells, cancer cells
 
 
 
 
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Blogging as therapy

2008-07-30 01:13:11 by HASH0x8472ed4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...cancer for over 3 years now. It has been a roller coaster ride for both of them and I have seen first hand how much courage it has taken for Mitchell to deal with this scourge, let alone the courage that Mary Ellen has in battling this disease. Though Mitchell has never made a secret of it, he has not made it very public either. That has now...
 
Tags: breast cancer, cancer, mitchell, friend mitchell ashley, applaud mitchell, support mitchell, fought breast cancer, wife mary, battle
 
 
 
 
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Highly sensitive medical information found in the road

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2008-01-10 14:11:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cancer, sexual disease, and hepatitis test results and information on people attending conception and addiction clinics Breach Description On Friday January 4th, 2008 a motorbike bag was discovered in the street near the Kingston Hospital. The bag held hundreds of documents containing sensitive medical information belonging to a variety of...
 
Tags: sensitive medical information, information, kingston hospital, hospital, test results, hepatitis test results, data protection breach, breach, kingston hospital spokeswoman
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cancer, yet we regularly make security decisions based on its risk. What we do is accept that there are experts who understand the risks of cancer, and trust them to make the security trade-offs for us There are some complex feedback loops going on here, between emotion and reason, between reality and our knowledge of it, between feeling and...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cancer, yet we regularly make security decisions based on its risk. What we do is accept that there are experts who understand the risks of cancer, and trust them to make the security trade-offs for us There are some complex feedback loops going on here, between emotion and reason, between reality and our knowledge of it, between feeling and...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...cancer treatments. Drugs? Radiation? Surgery? Its scary, complex, and the wrong choice might lead to a lot of unnecessary pain. You want expert advice, and you want the experts to agree Most of the threat modeling processes previously taught at Microsoft were long and complex, having as many as 11 steps. Thats a lot of steps to remember....
 
Tags: threat, threat models, threat model, reasons threat, service threat, term threat, threat effectively, playsound threat model, development process
 
 
 
 
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Laptop missing from Russells Hall Hospital (UK)

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2008-02-15 14:08:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cancer patients January, 2008 - Queen Mary's Sidcup Hospital microfiche film goes missing January, 2008 - Stockport Primary Care Trust flash drive goes missing January, 2008 - Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks January, 2008 - Medical information found in the road December, 2007 - Laptop stolen from Royal Bolton Hospital NHS...
 
Tags: information, personal information, medical information, data, data protection, information security, data encryption software, russells hall hospital, hospital
 
 
 
 
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Stolen NHS flash drive contained adolescent information

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2008-03-06 11:23:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...cancer patients January, 2008 - Queen Mary's Sidcup Hospital microfiche film goes missing January, 2008 - Stockport Primary Care Trust flash drive goes missing January, 2008 - Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks January, 2008 - Medical information found in the road December, 2007 - Laptop stolen from Royal Bolton Hospital NHS...
 
Tags: information, personal information, medical information, information security, confidential information, information security strategy, nhs, information disclosure, information security program
 
 
 
 
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You never know whose tomorrow it will be

2008-04-07 18:52:27 by HASH0x8ba2a2c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...cancer a while ago. He has undergone surgery and is receiving chemo at Sloan-Kettering Memorial, but the prognosis is not good. Bob is just a few years older than me and his youngest child is just 10 years old. I have known Bob for 20 years. He was always the kind of guy who did the right thing. A good family guy, he grew up like I did on the...
 
Tags: tomorrow, bob, grandmother, guy, life, yankee game relevant, season tickets, people, partner