TSA contractor sends personal information to wrong former employees
The agency responsible for safeguarding the nation"s airports from terrorists has its own security problem after a contractor accidentally mailed documents containing Social Security numbers of former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees ...
The new reality for IT security
Security executives from around the country converged in Boston this week to hear how their peers are tackling enterprise security and managing risk. The Security Standard conference, hosted by Network World and other IDG publications, examined such issu...
Retailers Take Ostrich Approach to Consumer Data
Despite a veritable avalanche of negative publicity for companies this year that got caught with improperly-handled consumer information, preliminary findings from the Retail Systems Alert Group show that most retailers do not have any formal procedures in...
Credit card companies revise security standard
Five major credit card companies Thursday announced the formation of an independent body to oversee the development and maintenance of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard. American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Wo...
NIST releases draft on cell phone forensics
The National Institutes of Standards and Technology has released new draft guidelines for recovering data evidence from mobile phones. The draft covers phones with features that are “beyond simple voice communication and text messaging and their ...
Chase puts credit card data in the trash
Personal information on 2.6 million past and current Circuit City credit card holders was mistakenly thrown out as trash, a division of J.P. Morgan Chase has said. Chase Card Services said on Thursday that it mistakenly tossed out computer tapes with the...
Don't Keep All Your Data in One Stash
If you put stock in a recent survey from Symantec, the company behind the Norton line of computer protection software, 57 percent of computer users who store personal data on their PC's conscientiously back it up. Those people can feel very good about the...