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The Professional
An interesting narrative, trapped unfortunately behind a pay wall, comes from the Chronicle of Higher Education – “Chapel Hill Researcher Fights Demotion After Security Breach” A cancer researcher’s database of gets potentially pwnd (two years from incident to discovery), spurring the … Continue reading
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Tagged breach notification, computer forensics, crime, data breach, medical privacy, privacy, security, standards
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Fingertips
From today’s Austin American Statesman, this article discusses the fraud deterrent effect of fingerprinting applicants for food stamps, and if it is worth the delay it may be causing in processing (Department of Agriculture says it isn’t).There are lessons to … Continue reading
Data Rustler
The best thing to come out of the Texas Lege since….ever.A bill passed through the state senate increasing the penalty on hacking at the critical infrastructures we got down here Texas-way. (State jail penalty, no less.) But I’m not talking … Continue reading
Impacted Molars: Pay Hell Gettin’ It Done Edition
Random Eye-tooth:I’ve been reading the Counterinsurgency Manual, and I’m figuring there is some analogue to a corporate approach to minimize the “insider threat.” Extraction:Mr. Loblaw describes a grisly example of privacy abuse in a recent decision du jour, selecting the … Continue reading
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Tagged best practices, crime, fraud, identity theft, insider threat, privacy, ssns, teeth, war
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Dog of War or McGriff the Crime Dog?
So, solider or cop? War or Crime? Or both? I ask this question of my own self after reading (and enjoying) Michael C. W. Research’s recent posts on security framed in the context of Clauswitz. Thinking it through, though, I … Continue reading
The One In Five 