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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 292 days ago
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080320/NATION/541139809/1001By Bill GertzThe Washington TimesMarch 20, 2008Two State Department employees were fired recently and a third disciplined for improperly accessing electronic personal data on Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, Bush administration officials said today.The officials, all contract workers, used their authorized computer network access to look up files within the department's consular affairs section, whic read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 292 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: obama passport records breached flagged violation comments Discuss  
Private contract employees working for the U.S. Department of State have repeatedly accessed U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's passport records over the past three months ? a breach flagged by the State Department's in-house computer system but subsequently downplayed by the supervisors of the offices in which the breaches occurred. Two of those workers have been fired by their employers. The Obama campaign is seeking answers as to how it happened, and a broader investigation is now in the works. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 288 days ago
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No fakes detected - terrorists all move to BelgiumInterviews for first time passport applicants have been massively successful - because, er, no fraudulent applications at all have been detected since the government introduced the system last May. In answer to a Freedom of Information request, the Home Office said last week that 38,391 interviews had been held to date, 222 applications were currently under investigation, but that so far no application had been rejected.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 288 days ago
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206905232By K.C. JonesInformationWeekMarch 21, 2008Access to personal passport information from presidential hopefuls Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain may not have been preventable, the U.S. State Department said this week.The incident highlights the need for greater data access controls for employees and contractors in the IT sector and the government.Three State Department contractors had taken unauthorized looks a read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080326/NATION/840186493/1001By Bill GertzThe Washington TimesMarch 26, 2008The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security, an investigation by The Washington Times has found.The Government Printing Office's decision to export the work has proved lucrativ read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 236 days ago
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080516/NATION/662238118/1001By Bill GertzTHE WASHINGTON TIMESMay 16, 2008The State Department will soon begin production of an electronic passport card that security specialists and members of Congress fear will be vulnerable to alteration or counterfeiting.The agency has contracted with L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. to produce electronic-passport cards as a substitute for booklet passports for use by Americans who travel frequently by road or sea t read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 187 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:18:47 -0500 (CDT)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.htmlBy Glenn KesslerWashington Post Staff WriterJuly 4, 2008Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. One celebrity's records were breached 356 times by more than six dozen people.The audit, b read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 173 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:46:04 -0500 (CDT)http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2221823/online-passport-check-suffers-4127047By Tom YoungComputing17 July 2008The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has admitted a data breach in its online passport application progress checking service.The incident was formally reported to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) but has not been made public until now."A parent was able to discover the existence of a read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 106 days ago
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'Idle curiosity' spurs celeb data breachA bored former State Department analyst faces up to a year behind bars as a result of his penchant for reading the passport files of celebrities.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 99 days ago
Via: http://voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: software lets users manipulate passport data comments Discuss  
A security researcher has published a software tool that makes it easy to copy and modify identification data encoded onto the computer chips embedded in passports issued by the United States and dozens of other countries. Jeroen van Beek, a security researcher at the University of Amsterdam, discussed his work at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas last month, but only this week released the tool that allows anyone to manipulate data on...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 75 days ago
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RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the U.S. are vulnerable to snooping and copying, a researcher said on Thursday. read more »
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