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Bingo
Best Practice The details are too boring to recount. Impossibly large amount of records “exposed” due to human error. Nothing new, same old. The only reason to watch is to see how the impact plays out. It is Texas Politics, … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken shit bingo, comptroller, dale watson, data privacy day, identity theft, incident response
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Tea Risk
At the Tea Risk conference today. Heard a woman keynote all over me, until my brain sploded. Her talk was divided into two part:1. A retrospective of headlines indicate that there has been no progress in information security in the … Continue reading
Now That’s a Complaint…..
From Concurring Opinions (and elsewhere), a paper by Chris Hoofnagle “Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks.” Hoofnagle is asking the question: How does a consumer or regulator measure the incidence of identity theft from a financial institution? In an attempt … Continue reading
Tonight, We Dine in Utica!
So, despite a workload that would stun an ox, I still manage to read my Internet privacy stories. Like this one from Ars Technica about the University of Utica and their Secret Service data wrangling on identity theft. I click … Continue reading
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Tagged Everyday Privacy and Security, identity theft, privacy
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I Feel That It’s Almost Crime
Imagine Monster put a click-through license on the malware, adjusted the privacy policy a tad (include an opt-out for additional “services”), and voila! It’s not a privacy breach, it’s an additional revenue stream! The 1.6M bits of Monster job hunter … Continue reading
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Tagged breach notification, consumer, disclosure laws, identity theft, privacy, singalong
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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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Go Ask Alec Baldwin
SSL apostate Ian G. refers to an article on estimation of loss due to a privacy breach.I think we are measuring the wrong thing, and operating on these assumptions is dangerous. From the article, a Forrester analyst says: “After calculating … Continue reading
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Tagged disclosure laws, identity theft, privacy, sb1386, security
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One Man’s Trash
The righteous fury of Texas Attorney Abbott was last month stymied by an elite cadre of county clerk ninjas who conjured a shambling legislative behemoth to crush his valiant effort to protect the privacy of Texans.Abbott screwed his courage to … Continue reading
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Tagged consumer, identity theft, internal auditing, physical security, texas
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Auditing Privacy Part 2 – Risk Assessment of Data Loss
The easy way to assess privacy risks is to focus on the impact of data theft to the organization by including the private data as a corporate asset. There are well documented methods to identify the vulnerabilities in means of … Continue reading
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Tagged identity theft, internal auditing, privacy, risk assessment
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Impacted Molars II
OcclusalPanopticonistas Cyveillance say ID theft is so bad, we are all going to die. Seems like shutting down copyright scofflaws got a little too Web 1.0 for them, so they’ve unleashed their vicious crawling spiders on a search for contraband … Continue reading
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Tagged compliance, ethics, fraud, identity theft, privacy, ssns
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The One In Five 