Europe may require data breach notification
The European Commission has published proposals for a law change that would force telecoms firms to notify regulators and customers of all breaches of their data security. A similar law in California has resulted in a stream of data breaches being made pub...
Howard Rice Data on Stolen Laptop
As many as 500 current and former employees of San Francisco"s Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin may be at risk of identity theft after a laptop computer containing confidential employee pension plan information was stolen from an auditor...
Microsoft Warns August Patch Corrupts Data
Microsoft announced it has created a hotfix that patches a bug in one of the dozen August security updates which could corrupt users" data. Customers must contact Microsoft to get the hotfix. The MS06-049 update, which was released Aug. 8 to correct a fl...
A question of ethics
Ethics are of incredible importance in the security field. Scott Granneman looks at recent examples of poor security decisions made at HP, Diebold, Sony, and Microsoft. Joel and Ethan Coen make some of the most inventive and clever movies in Hollywood hi...
B.C. facility loses public"s personal data
Computer tapes containing the private health and welfare records of "hundreds of thousands" of British Columbians were discovered missing from the government"s main data centre in Victoria last year and have never been found, according to a confidential go...
Laptop theft triggers security review
The Florida National Guard was conducting a security review Thursday after a laptop computer assigned to one of its soldiers was stolen in a car burglary. No classified information was on the computer stolen Tuesday from a soldier's personal vehicle, sai...
A Chronology of Data Breaches
The data breaches noted below have been reported because theа personal information compromised includes data elements useful toа identity thieves, such as Social Security numbers, account numbers, and driver"s license numbers. Some breaches that do NOT exp...