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The Naval Surface Warfare Center warns employees

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2008-01-16 09:51:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...civilian federal workers and another 3,000 civilian contractors work at the base on the Potomac River Victims current and former federal employees who worked at the Naval Bases in Dahlgren, Va., Silver Spring, Md., and Panama City, Fla., on or before July 7, 1994 Number Affected 10,000 Dahlgren Division spokesman Russ Coons said it is...
 
Tags: company data destruction, company data, employees personal information, personal information, destruction, information, information security, employees, employment information
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...civilians as well as by soldiers including computer hacker attacks, trade wars and finance wars During the years, and especially since 9/11, the tipping point acting as the wake up call that asymmetric warfare is also getting embraced by the bad guys, many other niche research papers were published in the context of information warfare and...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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Excel Spreadsheet on the web exposes Army officers and civilians

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2008-04-13 20:23:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...civilians who managed programs within ASC Number Affected about two dozen Types of Data name, rank, program and organization" and Social Security numbers Breach Description A spreadsheet containing a "hidden" column of Social Security numbers belonging to about two dozen officers and civilian employees of one Army agency was left on the...
 
Tags: web, personal information remains, personal information, army, usaascs web site, information, spreadsheet, usaasc response, usaasc
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

2008-05-01 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...civilian attacks -- and defenses -- look the same The traditional term for technology the military shares with civilians is "dual use." Unlike hand grenades and tanks and missile targeting systems, dual-use technologies have both military and civilian applications. Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be...
 
Tags: security, bad guys insecure, guys, non-security, security improves, technologies, dual-use technologies, security improvements, agency
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...civilian attacks -- and defenses -- look the same The traditional term for technology the military shares with civilians is "dual use." Unlike hand grenades and tanks and missile targeting systems, dual-use technologies have both military and civilian applications. Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...civilian attacks -- and defenses -- look the same The traditional term for technology the military shares with civilians is "dual use." Unlike hand grenades and tanks and missile targeting systems, dual-use technologies have both military and civilian applications. Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Fort Lewis soldiers exposed by laptop theft

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2008-07-11 13:44:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...civilian workers, source: About Fort Lewis Victims Soldiers Number Affected 800 - 900 Types of Data personal information Breach Description A laptop computer that was reported stolen from an Army employees truck last week contained personal information on about 800 to 900 Fort Lewis soldiers, said military and Lacey police officials ...
 
Tags: fort lewis soldiers, soldiers, fort lewis, information, personal information, lacey police officials, officials, army, army standards
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...civilian science project, the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source, and has been selected to build the fastest unclassified scientific computer in the world. - Source State Science and Technology Institute Victims visitors to the lab between 1990 and 2004 Number Affected about 12,000 Types of Data Personal information including names,...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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NSA Backdoors in Crypto AG Ciphering Machines

2008-01-11 06:51:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...civilian and military authorities worldwide. Security is our business and will always remain our business And for all those years, US eavesdroppers could read these messages without the least difficulty. A decade after the end of WWII, the NSA, also known as No Such Agency, had rigged the Crypto AG machines in various ways according to the...
 
Tags: crypto, machines, company, swiss company, company web site, century, 20th century version, military messages, countries
 
 
 
 
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Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots

2008-01-28 07:12:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...civilian casualties according to what the Geneva Conventions have promoted and the Just War tradition subscribes to, the result will have been a humanitarian effort, even while staring directly at the face of war