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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 291 days ago
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9062299By Jaikumar VijayanFebruary 12, 2008 ComputerworldA lawsuit filed last week over warrantless searches of laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders highlights an issue that all travelers, U.S. citizens and others, need to be aware of when entering the country, according to the executive director of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE).The suit was filed by the Electronic read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 290 days ago
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514463&in_page_id=1770The Daily Mail14th February 2008A laptop containing personal records of more than 5,000 out-patients has been stolen from an out-patient clinic at a hospital, it was revealed today.Thousands of letters were this week being sent to patients warning them that the laptop containing their names, addresses, birth dates and medical details had gone missing.The theft from Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, in the Blac read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 284 days ago
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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/frontpage/2008/0220/1203371241270.htmlBy Eithne DonnellanHealth CorrespondentThe Irish TimesFebruary 20, 2008More than 171,000 Irish blood donors whose personal details were on a computer stolen in New York earlier this month will be contacted by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) this week.The blood service said yesterday it was very concerned at the theft of the laptop on February 7th and while records were securely encrypted on the computer, there was a "rem read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 284 days ago
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http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39170099,00.htmBy Nick HeathSilicon.com19 February 2008The government has admitted almost 200 laptops have been stolen from various departments, including the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), since 2001.The figures for phone, laptop and PDA loss and theft across government departments reveal the MoJ has had 135 laptops and 56 mobile phones stolen, with a further 34 laptops and 116 phones gone missing since 2001.It was disclosed that other department losses since 2 read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 276 days ago
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39352977,00.htmBy David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk28 Feb 2008The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data disc, on eBay.The laptop had been bought on the auction site then taken to an IT company near Manchester for repairs. The technicians at the repair centre, at Leapfrog Computers in Westhoughton, subsequently found an encrypted Home Office disc underneath the keyboard.Leapfrog sales manager Jonathan Parry tol read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 263 days ago
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http://www.buffalonews.com/145/story/296415.htmlBy Jonathan EpsteinThe Buffalo News03/11/08HealthNow New York has alerted 40,000 members in Western and Northeastern New York that they may be at risk for identity theft, after a former employee’s laptop computer went missing with confidential information several months ago.The Buffalo-based parent of Blue- Cross BlueShield of Western New York sent letters late last week to the affected customers, even though officials are still not certain what, if anything, read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 251 days ago
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http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3442638 By ELISE CASTELLIFederalTimes.comMarch 24, 2008 Personal data on a stolen National Institutes of Health laptop was not secured by encryption measures, as federal regulations require.As a result, medical data on nearly 2,500 patients is at risk following the February theft of a laptop from the locked trunk of a laboratory researchers car.The [National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute] recognizes that such information should not have been stored in an unencrypted fo read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 248 days ago
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DaisyDukes brings memory sniffing to the massesCanSecWest Building off recent research that showed how to extract encryption keys from a computer's memory, a penetration testing company has unveiled a tool that sniffs out passwords, documents, and other sensitive data in a matter of minutes.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 244 days ago
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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152075-1.htmlBy Mary MosqueraFCW.comMarch 31, 2008Despite federal security policy established two years ago, the National Institutes of Health failed to encrypt a laptop that contained sensitive information and was stolen Feb. 23.The incident, made public last week, demonstrates that agencies have not moved fast enough to secure their data, security experts say.NIH.s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute said it has reinforced its information security policies and enforcem read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 244 days ago
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/040108-laptop-complete-with-vista-attack.html[Just as I was getting ready to send this, eBay pulled the auction, for the record I did bid $200.01 hoping for a real good deal on a laptop. :) - WK] By Robert McMillan IDG News Service 04/01/2008The winner of a recent hacking contest is offering the computer he broke into for sale on eBay, possibly with the Microsoft Vista attack code he used intact.In a Monday listing [1], Shane Macaulay is selling the Fujitsu U810 lapto read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 243 days ago
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Do no harmAn eBay listing for the Windows Vista laptop that was successfully compromised at last week's Pwn2