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Foreign Hackers Stealing American Health Care Records

2008-02-20 12:30:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Foreign hackers, primarily from Russia and China, are increasingly seeking to steal Americans' health care records, according to a Department of Homeland Security analyst Mark Walker, who works in DHS' Critical Infrastructure Protection Division, told a workshop audience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that the hackers'...
 
Tags: health care records, health, foreign hackers, hackers, health care data, national security standpoint, homeland security analyst, walker, mark walker
 
 
 
 
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Report: Obama, McCain campaign computers were hacked by 'foreign entity'

2008-11-05 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An unidentified 'foreign entity' stole a large number of policy-related files from computer systems used by the Obama and McCain campaigns, according to a Newsweek story
 
Tags: foreign entity, newsweek story, mccain campaigns, obama, computer systems, files
 
 
 
 
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Even in DC, Authentication is a Guess

2008-12-04 10:11:44 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Foreign Affairs Committee, to finally convince Ros-Lehtinen to talk to Obama To convince her that it really was Berman, she said she told him, Give me the private joke that we share This underscores a point that I make in training , which is that at design time you must separate your authentication logic from your authorization logic. At...
 
Tags: authentication, president, president-elect barack obama, obama, authentication logic, authorization, authorization logic, design time, subsequent call
 
 
 
 
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Business In Thailand - Part 1: The Challenge

2008-09-05 14:16:36 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...foreigners visting or working in Thailand. I can read (slowly) and speak better than 99.99+ percent of all foreigners in Thailand. For this reason, I thought it wasthe right thing to doto redirect my career to a new challenge in the business climate of Thailandas Icontinue to improve my foreign language skills. I wanted to help Thailand...
 
Tags: thailand, visit thailand, thailand progressin, thailand chargethousands, lifein thailand, foreigners, foreigners canown, businessin thailand, business
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...foreign policy gadfly, boasting of his contacts with officials in nations labeled by the administration as "rogue states" such as Libya and North Korea. Weldon's wild claims about a 9/11 cover-up and his sensationalist book warning of an Iranian terror plot, sometimes earned him official scorn and public ridicule, but it was accusations that...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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US Government Detects Attacks on Obama and McCain Computers

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2008-11-07 16:18:05 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
...foreign IP addresses and these watch IPs is then scrutinized for espionage. The pattern of activity flagged would be Microsoft Office documents and PDFs being retrieved or other intruder signs such as an encrypted tunnel with a foreign endpoint This shows that the US Government has the capability to detect some types foreign attacks although...
 
Tags: computers, intrusion detection capability, detection capability, foreign, foreign intrusions, sensitive, sensitive documents, documents, white house computers
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...foreign transactions of people associated with that item -- and then the people who associated with them, and so on, casting a gradually wider net. An intelligence official described more of a rapid-response effect: If a person suspected of terrorist connections is believed to be in a U.S. city -- for instance, Detroit, a community with a...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...foreign, economics, and research ministries were targeted. The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) conducted a comprehensive search of government IT installations, and prevented a further 160 giga-bytes of information from being transferred to China. The scale and nature of the stolen data suggested that the...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...foreign adversaries and other intruders. It will cost billions of dollars, which the White House is expected to request in its fiscal 2009 budget Under the initiative, the NSA, CIA and the FBI's Cyber Division will investigate intrusions by monitoring Internet activity and, in some cases, capturing data for analysis, sources said The...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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What to Worry About

2008-05-01 14:43:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security