Vassar patients worried about ID theft overwhelm hot line
People concerned their personal information may have been accessed following the theft of a laptop from Vassar Brothers Medical Center inundated a call center fielding inquiries, hospital officials said. "They were overwhelmed with the number of calls tod...
Stolen DOT laptop PC contains personal info on 133,000 Floridians
A laptop containing the personal identification information of about 133,000 Florida residents was stolen from a government-owned vehicle July 27 in the Miami area, Transportation Department officials announced Aug. 9. The individuals affected include: ...
Encryption taken off Transportation IG laptop shortly before theft
The Transportation Department inspector general"s office removed the encryption on a laptop containing the personal information of 133,000 Florida residents about two weeks before it was stolen late last month from a government-owned Chevrolet Blazer parke...
Critical data found on second-hand hard drives
Organizations and individuals are still leaving critical data on disks later sold on through online auctions and computer fairs, according to a new study. The research carried out by BT, the University of Glamorgan in Wales and Edith Cowan University in A...
Privacy Group Assails AOL For Mistake
The World Privacy Forum, an advocacy group, blasted AOL for mistakenly releasing data about 20 million search queries conducted by roughly 658,000 of its users during a three month period from March to May. The records, posted on a company Web page from Ju...
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Researchers at Kaspersky Lab in Germany have discovered a message board with hundreds of stolen credit card numbers and other sensitive data, including ATM and credit card pin numbers, names and addresses of cardholders, email addresses, and other account ...
Top 10 ways to secure your stored data
Securing stored data involves preventing unauthorized people from accessing it as well as preventing accidental or intentional destruction, infection or corruption of information. While data encryption is a popular topic, it is just one of many techniques ...