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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk

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2008-02-28 16:10:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...highly confidential Breach Description A laptop reportedly purchased through eBay contained a CD marked "Home Office - highly confidential" under the keyboard and above the circuit board. The purchaser brought the computer to Leapfrog Computers in Westhoughton (UK) for repair where the technician discovered the encrypted compact disc ...
 
Tags: home office, disk, laptop, source home office, home office spokesman, director lee bevan, lee bevan, highly confidential, leapfrog computers
 
 
 
 
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 4]

2007-10-09 13:38:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 3 In this post we deal with habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Please first read the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 1 Please first read the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 2 Please first read the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 3 This...
 
Tags: handle information security, information, past information security, voila- policy documents, policy, information security, policy documents, habits, plan
 
 
 
 
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 3]

2007-09-21 09:27:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 1 Please first read the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 2 This is based on Stephen Covey's book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and in this post we look at how being proactive can help raise the general security of an organisation. This is applicable from a micro 1...
 
Tags: information security risk, information, financial information, security, information security, effective, business, person business, people
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 1]

2007-09-07 07:20:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...Highly Effective People . I have seen the book being used to manage huge companies and I think that the principals in the book are broad enough to be applied to pretty much anything including Information Security I think that the 7 Habits are already built into "Best Practice" already in most cases but this should allow us insight into why...
 
Tags: entire book, book, habits, manage huge companies, highly effective people, aim, principals, information security, finish
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-02 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...Highly Ineffective Terrorists," he discusses, well, seven habits of highly ineffective terrorists. These seven tendencies are seen in terrorist organizations all over the world, and they directly contradict the theory that terrorists are political maximizers Terrorists, he writes, (1) attack civilians, a policy that has a lousy track record...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Highly Ineffective Terrorists," he discusses, well, seven habits of highly ineffective terrorists. These seven tendencies are seen in terrorist organizations all over the world, and they directly contradict the theory that terrorists are political maximizers Terrorists, he writes, (1) attack civilians, a policy that has a lousy track record...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 2]

2007-09-14 07:28:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 1] first Stephen starts his book with the idea of a paradigm and goes to great efforts to explain what it is and why one needs to understand it In terms of Information Security I think that the paradigm shift has been forced upon us on July 13, 2001 but it has taken until now for us to be able to...
 
Tags: security, storm worm, worm, sql slammer worm, information security, paradigm, paradigm shift, application security, code red worm
 
 
 
 
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Highly-critical Vulnerabilities Patched In OpenOffice Suite 2.4.2

2008-10-30 04:35:17 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...highly-critical vulnerabilities that could expose users to arbitrary code execution attacks. The flaws, which affect all versions prior to OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, could be exploited via manipulated WMF and EMF files in StarOffice or StarSuite documents: CVE-2008-2237: A security vulnerability with the way OpenOffice
 
Tags: openoffice, patch highly-critical vulnerabilities, expose users, security vulnerability, starsuite documents, org, emf files, versions prior, cve-2008-2237
 
 
 
 
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Highly Critical Vulnerabilities In VLC Media Player

2008-11-08 01:20:16 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Two highly critical vulnerabilities in the cross-platform VLC Media Player could put users at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from security researchers. An error in the CUE demuxer can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted CUE image file. In second vulnerability, an error in
 
Tags: highly critical vulnerabilities, cue image file, buffer overflow, cue demuxer, error, security researchers, users, vulnerability, risk