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Laptop stolen from the home of a BearingPoint employee

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2008-06-19 15:38:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...rigorous safeguards, however, can not guarantee protection against criminal conduct Evan] Well, I think "rigorous safeguards" needs to be quantified somewhat. What are "rigorous safeguards" and how do they apply to this breach The Company was recently victimized by such conduct and we are writing to inform you that this criminal conduct...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, bearingpoint, store confidential information, confidential information, laptop, information security, independent contractors
 
 
 
 
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Quick and dirty Information Card implementation without SSL

2007-11-29 09:49:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...rigorous operating procedures, SSL isnt even likey to offer much protection against common attacks. We need to evolve our whole digital framework towards better security practices, not just mandate certificates and think were done
 
Tags: ssl, personal web sites, proper security analysis, digital framework, low-risk applications, security tokens, personal blogs, actual monetary, web server
 
 
 
 
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Spaf on Academic Security Research (... Silliness)

2007-12-20 13:07:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...rigorous academic approach, but people still pick their research topics off the dirt pile ... Take security economics, for example Possibly related posts Once More on Failure of Academic Research in Security About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: security, worthwhile security, efforts representative, efforts, security economics, people, rigorous academic approach, academic research, dirt pile
 
 
 
 
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Disable Your Computer's Parasites

2007-08-01 19:23:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...rigorous anti virus programs can scan attachments before you can open them so that your risk against viruses and worms are properly managed However, as an Internet user, you have more to worry about than viruses and worms. Unfortunately, anti virus programs are not designed to detect other types of threats and if you are not careful, you may...
 
Tags: computer, adware, adware continues, internet, internet connection pretty, spyware, anti virus programs, unwittingly install adware, regular computer
 
 
 
 
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Computers stolen from J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines

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2008-02-22 12:06:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...rigorous safeguards, however, can not guarantee protection against criminal conduct Evan] I agree that it is not possible to protect against all criminal conduct, but it was certainly possible to protect against this At this point, we have no reason to believe that the theft was directed at the information stored on this computer Evan] There...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, lohr, lohr vineyards, information, employees, lohr employees, information security dollars, personnel information
 
 
 
 
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Adding webwise.net into the CNI

2008-04-05 14:13:01 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...rigorous security checks before altering any details. We must obviously assume that webwise.net is not at risk from registrar phishing in this simplistic way The more likely way of subverting what webwise.net resolves to is called DNS cache poisoning. There are several ways of doing this (this Wikipedia article provides a helpful summary),...
 
Tags: domain names, purchase domain names, net, dns, dns forgery issue, domain, dns forgery attacks, webwise, net domain
 
 
 
 
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Planning a company social network? Don't forget privacy issues

2008-04-10 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Jay Cline believes corporations need to undergo a rigorous privacy risk assessment before jumping onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon
 
Tags: jay cline, web, undergo, corporations, bandwagon
 
 
 
 
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Sandown Health Centre backup tape is missing

2008-05-27 13:14:16 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...rigorous search for the parcel continues. We are doing everything in our power to resolve the matter and return the package as quickly as possible It is presumed that the tape has been lost, possibly permanently, although all possible efforts are being made to try and find it The tape contains medical records of 38,650 current and past...
 
Tags: tape, health centre, sandown health centre, data verification, data verification company, back-up tape, computer tape, information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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SDL Training

2008-05-29 15:22:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...rigorous research), it does not appear as if the density of general defects correlates closely with the density of security defects. And Microsoft Research found higher code coverage in testing correlates with higher bug rates in the field And so even though people like the idea of defect estimation, and weve got some interesting and...
 
Tags: real behavior change, behavior, sdl, change peoples behavior, security, security guy, security defects, defects, security class
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptop affects thousands of current and former Stanford employees

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2008-06-08 23:12:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...rigorous policies and guidelines designed to protect confidential information, events such as this demonstrate the need for heightened vigilance in this area Evan] Information security always requires a "heightened vigilance". It is a continuous effort Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer Randy Livingston will lead...
 
Tags: stanford, university laptop, university, stanford university, stanford email address, information, personal information, information security practice,