The laptops are missing - or stolen. And the number of laptops is staggering. Christopher Null is reporting that in American airports, there are over a half million laptops missing each year:
“…1,200 laptops a week go missing at Los Angeles International Airport, and 12,000 laptops are lost or stolen nationally at airports every [...]
There is a data breach at Cornell University that has compromised thousands of files with sensitive, confidential information. The security breach involves the names and security numbers of approximately forty five thousand (45,000) people.
This incident illustrates one of the pitfalls of data security. Policy set in place becomes meaningless unless there is some [...]
The National Archives is privy to a wide range of sensitive information. It is the nation’s official record keeper. Now the National Archives has had a security breach that has far reaching, national implications:
“The National Archives lost a computer hard drive containing massive amounts of sensitive data from the Clinton administration, including Social [...]
The laptop may cost a thousand dollars - perhaps two thousand dollars. The lost data on the laptop could cost the state of Oklahoma millions of dollars. One million people in Oklahoma are at risk of identity theft:
“The Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) is notifying more than one million state residents that [...]
The New York City police will have a special interest in this data breach. It impacts upon them. Approximately eighty thousand (80,000) former and current members of the police department are at risk of identity theft:
“…According to local media reports, a man has been arrested and charged with illegally entering a [...]
There are a whole host of security procedures that most people put off doing. Here is a list of five basic procedures that should happen with great regularity:
1. update your security definitions
2. run your security applications
3. don’t open junk / spam mail - no, you didn’t win the lottery
4. use [...]
In another incident of a government data breach, possibly 1.7 million people may have had their personal information exposed by the British Ministry of Defence:
“…In some cases this would include data such as bank details, passport, National Insurance and National Health Service numbers, driver’s licence information and details of next of kin.”
link: Missing British [...]
It is touted as a step towards ultimate security. It is an encryption system that protects a network and that allegedly is “unbreakable”:
“…In practice this means using the ultimate quantum objects: photons, the atoms of light. Incredibly faint beams of light equating to single photons fired a million times a second raced between the [...]
It is touted as a step towards ultimate security. It is an encryption system that protects a network and that allegedly is “unbreakable”:
“…In practice this means using the ultimate quantum objects: photons, the atoms of light. Incredibly faint beams of light equating to single photons fired a million times a second raced between the [...]
Staff details are on a stolen Health and Safety Executive (HSE) laptop. It exposes thousands of staff members to the risk of identity theft:
“…Staff were not told for 13 days that an unencrypted laptop containing all their personal details had been stolen from HSE offices at the Carnegie Centre in Dublin’s Lord Edward Street. [...]
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