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Lawmakers Proposing Millions for Elementary School Surveillance Cams

2008-04-15 21:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Federal lawmakers are considering a proposal to let public schools use millions in federal safety grants to install surveillance cameras. The measure, which would up funding to $50 million a year, will be debated in a key committee Thursday
 
Tags: federal safety grants, key committee thursday, install surveillance cameras, public schools, federal lawmakers, millions, million, proposal, measure
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...millions of home computers squatting on kitchen counters and in bedrooms dont enjoy the protection that corporate PCs dono fortified network, no centralized administration and updating, no traffic inspection, no security policies. Rarely do the people in our FFNs possess detailed security knowledge, so home computers are ripe targets for...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...millions in potential revenue, and spent millions more to replace insecure smart cards used in their systems and track down dealers selling pirated smart cards Those smart cards are at the center of the controversy over NDS, a British-Israeli company and a majority-owned subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp. The company makes access cards used...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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GE Money and Iron Mountain unable to locate tape

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2008-01-07 14:01:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...millions and millions of tapes, maybe they should be allowed to lose one (or maybe two). GE Money handles some very sensitive personal information for their customers and encrypting backup tapes in not a new concept Past Breaches October, 2007 - Iron Mountain driver does not follow company procedures
 
Tags: money, sensitive personal information, personal information, iron mountain, breach, hampshire breach notification, information, sensitive consumer information, tape
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...millions of dollars in investor equity in a few short minutes. Amazing Of course, E*Trade is not going bankruptany more than Citigroup is going bankrupt, but the information warfare by Citigroups Prashant Bhatia continues. Here is the lastest On January 7th, 2008, Bhatia changes his cyberattack slightlyand reiterates hisprediction that...
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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Defending the Caveman - Are blogs newsworthy?

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2008-02-29 15:18:25 by HASH0x8b81934 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...millions and put the common man on par with the hereinbefore omnipotent media reporter. But really folks, is there really even a doubt in your minds on this? If there is, here are some links that may help settle that question http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story id=2707&popup delayed=1 Every day, millions of online diarists, or...
 
Tags: blogs, newsworthy, frankly blogs, media, media forum, newsworthy nuzwr, valid news sources, international media, comment yesterday
 
 
 
 
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The Case For Information Security

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2008-03-21 14:08:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...millions and millions of dollars Now that I'm on the other side of the fence, I see why they di dn't care so much. The companies don't care. Okay, so there is a SQL injection. a few dozen SQL injections. what does i t mean to me the CFO or me the CEO ? the loss of a few card numbers ? we already are monitoring fraud losses - and have money...
 
Tags: attack, mdac attack, sql injection attack, card, card data, sql injection, million card, loss, pci
 
 
 
 
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Evolving Schneiers Security Mindset

2008-04-28 12:30:42 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...millions and millions of dollars/identities/trade secrets/whatever in a particularly clever way. It happens every session. Its not a bad thing - but it has to be qualified within the context of the applicable threat community. Are we really worried about an uber-brilliant admin with 20 years at the company and intimate knowledge of the...
 
Tags: mindset, security, security mindset matures, security mindset, security professionals, security requires, security vulnerabilities, applicable threat community, threat community
 
 
 
 
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Security Through Obscurity

2008-06-18 13:13:26 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...millions of dollars, was utterly unalarmed as it was bumped through potholes, squeezed by double-parked cars and slowed by tunnel-bound traffic during the trip to its fortresslike new vault a mile to the north In the end, the move did not become a caper movie The idea was to make this as inconspicuous as possible, said Ute Wartenberg Kagan,...
 
Tags: security, diamond, cullinan diamond, complex security system, uncut diamond, move, ordinary office move, cullinan, huge security