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- Alumni fume at privacy gaffe
EMAIL gremlins are causing embarrassment at Macquarie University, with graduates up in arms after the university accidentally sent 25,000 email addresses to its alumni mailing list. In what would have to be one of the worst email privacy breaches in Australian history, the university's Alumni office sent every graduate in its database a copy of the full alumni mailing list. The list was contained in an email titled "Macquarie Alumni - enter the draw to win the FREE $1,000 investments and more by NAB!". - Security officials say computer drive lost at Portland airport
Federal Homeland Security officials say a computer storage device that may have held personal information on current and former employees has been lost."We're relatively confident that thing got scraped into the trash, and it's gone," said Mike Irwin, federal security director at PDX. - Energy probes another data loss
The National Nuclear Security Administration is investigating the Energy Department to see whether the Los Alamos National Laboratory is complying with departmental security directives, according to a statement that NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks issued today.The action came after police in New Mexico found what appeared to be information from the lab while arresting a man for possession of drug paraphernalia earlier this month, according to published accounts. - Business data breaches found to be more costly than thought
A new study reports that data breaches may cost companies even more than previously thought. The Ponemon Institute released its annual study on the cost of data breaches and found that they cost companies on average $182 per compromised record. The institute arrived at the number by analyzing incidents involving 31 companies, all but one a Fortune 500 company. Institute Chairman Larry Ponemon said the companies choose to turn over their data on data breaches in hopes of gaining a benchmark of how they were doing. - IP Theft Up In First Half Of Year: Report
Counterfeits and intellectual piracy (IP) theft cost companies millions in the first half of 2006, according to a report released Tuesday. An estimated 760 copyright and trademark intellectual property thefts in 69 countries between January and June 2006 cost companies nearly $700 million, up 7 percent from the year-ago period, according to Gieschen Consultancy's 2006 Mid-Year Counterfeit & Piracy Intelligence Report. The study, based on statistics from the Business Action To Stop Counterfeiting And Piracy (BASCAP), a joint initiative with the International Chamber of Commerce, ranks the United States at the top of the list, citing 205 violations and $51.7 million in losses. - T-Mobile reports ID-theft risk
A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal information of T-Mobile USA Inc. employees recently disappeared, putting as many as 43,000 current and former workers at risk of identity theft. However, the company based in Bellevue, Wash., says there is no indication the laptop contained customer information. - Stolen laptop held personal data of thousands of Allina patients
A laptop computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of thousands of Allina Hospitals and Clinics obstetrics patients was stolen from a nurse's car Oct. 8, prompting alerts this week from the health-care provider to the patients. Company spokesman David Kanihan said Thursday night that there has been no indication any data have been accessed. Two passwords are needed to access the information on the laptop, he said. - At U.S. Borders, Laptops Have No Right to Privacy
A LOT of business travelers are walking around with laptops that contain private corporate information that their employers really do not want outsiders to see.Until recently, their biggest concern was that someone might steal the laptop. But now there’s a new worry - that the laptop will be seized or its contents scrutinized at United States customs and immigration checkpoints upon entering the United States from abroad. - Circle the wagons: Technologies to protect data from getting tapped, leaked or stolen
Government officials need an arsenal of weapons to protect digital assets, including tools that fortify databases, prevent sensitive information from leaving an agency and give laptop computer users secure access to corporate networks. The rise in data security breaches at federal agencies and in the private sector has made security managers aware of the need to do more than secure networks with firewalls and expose intruders with intrusion-detection systems. Experts say security managers must focus on protecting databases and stopping data leakages by tracking the flow of data. - EU building info systems to help secure borders
Like the United States, the European Union is seeking to improve border security without putting undue burdens on travelers or shippers of goods. As part of that effort, the EU is enhancing or developing several systems to replace the aging Schengen Information System. That 10-year-old centralized database has not kept up with the EU's growth to 25 nations, with two more set to join in January. In addition, although SIS allows border agents to check travelers’ identities, it only contains biographical information. Telmo Baltazar, political justice, freedom and security counselor for the European Commission’s delegation to the United States, said the primary new system, called SIS II, will store biometric data and allow agents to search multimedia data. He said the new system will be more modular and flexible to adapt to changing requirements. - Real ID draft regs due by year's end
By the end of the year, the Homeland Security Department will issue draft regulations specifying how states should implement mandatory federal standards for driver's licenses. But several states have already gotten started. Jonathan Frenkel, director of law enforcement policy at DHS, said the draft regulations will better explain the broad mandates in the Real ID Act of 2005. The department is currently reviewing the regulations and will then send them to the Office of Management and Budget and other agencies for their input. - Social Security Administration ahead of HSPD-12 deadline
The Social Security Administration has begun issuing new secure identity cards to its employees and contractors, beating an Oct. 27 deadline imposed under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) by nine days. SSA is also the first agency to issue the cards, according to David Simonetti, a senior design architect at Jacob and Sundstrom, which is assisting SSA in deploying the personal identity verification (PIV) cards. - Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards
They call it the 'Johnny Carson attack,' for his comic pose as a psychic divining the contents of an envelope.Tom Heydt-Benjamin tapped an envelope against a black plastic box connected to his computer. Within moments, the screen showed a garbled string of characters that included this: fu/kevine, along with some numbers. - The U.S. And E.U. Avoid A Mid-Air Collision -- Or Did They Just Postpone It?
The European Union has approved a new agreement to share airline passenger data with U.S. law enforcement authorities. The deal settles, for now, a legal dispute that could have halted or at least seriously disrupted, trans-Atlantic flights between Europe and the United States.This is not, however, the last you will hear about the subject. The new agreement will expire in just nine months -- and while talks on a new, long-term passenger data-sharing pact will open later this year, I would not be surprised if next July brings yet another last-minute standoff pitting U.S. security concerns against Europe's no- nonsense privacy laws. - State to issue notice on passport cards
State Department officials will be issuing a Notice of Proposed Rule Making next week that lays out the architecture of a smart card
