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Lost Memorial Hospital laptop affects employees and retirees

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2008-02-08 14:14:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...sad The laptop did not contain any patient information Employees have to sign up if they want to take part in the free credit monitoring Interesting comments From "Mad employee": I find this situation disgusting. As a medical professional that works there, I feel the hospital staff as a whole are very caring individuals who do thier best...
 
 
 
 
 
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Windows Log Collection Poll Analysis

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2008-04-02 16:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...sad reality of Windows logging: people just do not collect them and then, when needed , they try to desperately reach for the logs stored on each server (and, obviously, often not finding them there). Will Windows 2008 (which does have its own WS-based log centralization system) change that? Probably Fourth , despite the fact that everybody...
 
 
 
 
 
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Fun Reading on Security - 5

2008-07-11 17:57:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...sad, of course :-)) - here is an excerpt: "The complexity in security is not from any complexity in technology but the complexity in motivating people to truly care about security and act accordingly Prediction markets for security? Fun idea Elevator pitch for explaining security risks to executives " by Lenny Zeltser @ SANS In Praise of the...
 
 
 
 
 
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ORDB offline

2007-01-16 05:38:45 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...sad to say goodbye to a good spam fighting effort If you were using ORDB.org to check for spam, it is highly advisable to disable the list in your spam filtering software
 
 
 
 
 
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ARCO gas pumps targeted by fraudsters

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2007-12-27 13:58:30 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/12/07 Organization ARCO Contractor/Consultant/Branch Station located at 4378 N. Santa Anita Avenue, El Monte, California There are 135 ARCO gas stations within a 10 mile radius Victims ARCO Customers Number Affected As many as 100 Types of Data Debit card magnetic stripe data and PINs...
 
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptops affect 337,000 Davidson County voters

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2007-12-29 11:30:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...sad thing is that consumers don't know which category the organization is in. Until consumers demand more, business as usual Past Breaches Unknown
 
 
 
 
 
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Roboticsonline.com customer orders compromised

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2008-01-04 14:51:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...sad when a company collects money online, but doesn't know how to secure the information. I seriously doubt that roboticsonline.com is VISA/PCI DSS compliant, not that this is the holy grail Past Breaches Unknown
 
 
 
 
 
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"High-level" vs Fluffy vs Dumb vs Irrelevant?

2007-11-28 14:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...sad truth is that relative to security, for the most part, they just don't care. So we don't need to dumb down our presentations, WE NEED TO MAKE THEM RELEVANT About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
 
 
 
 
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Evil Silos

2008-01-24 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...sadmins possessing (or, rather, ignoring!) the logs from servers and desktop is not only sad, counterproductive, inefficient and wasteful, but also dangerous Where does such approach to logs (where they are divided by both technical and political chasms) breaks down most painfully? In case of an incident response , of course. This is where...
 
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...sad and true Commentary Maybe this was a sophisticated attack like some are claiming. I just think about how easy it could be to carry out a spear phishing attack either to download and install malware or collect a password of a bank employee (because many people use one password for everything) and proxy the network traffic through...