DHS: E-passport live test a success
The Homeland Security Department has successfully tested e-passports in a live environment, the department’s second in command announced today. The U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program tested e-passports and ...
Agreement gives HHS access to passenger data: Deal with DHS would allow health officials to track pandemics
The Department of Health and Human Services has quietly made an agreement with the Homeland Security Department to share personal information about airline passengers in an effort to deal with a potential pandemic. A spokeswoman for the Centers for Diseas...
LexisNexis finds disclosure meant less pain in data theft
After a high-profile security breach exposed personal data about thousands of customers, LexisNexis found that being forthright was the best approach, according to a company executive. By being forthcoming with the public and victims the company survived...
Stolen laptops hand hackers keys to the kingdom Peril of purloined PCs
As web apps are becoming more secure stolen laptops have become among the easiest ways to break into corporate networks. High profile firms such as Fidelity and Ernst and Young along with celebrities such as Kevin Costner have lost laptops over recent mont...
Bots increasingly behind cybercrime
Online fraudsters and data thieves are more frequently using bot networks to get home and business PCs to do their bidding, with some estimates of the number of infected systems as high as 47 million.
Most colleges lack online privacy statements
A national survey of privacy practices found that only 65 of the top 236 doctoral universities and liberal arts colleges in the U.S. have privacy notices linked to their home page, in spite of the fact that almost all of these schools engage in practices t...
Security Briefs: Risky IM; Pushing All-In-One Security Management Consoles
Is IM use in your enterprise a security risk? Many organizations can’t answer that question because they don’t know how their employees use IM. For perspective, consider this: IM use in the enterprise is rampant, and the number of IM af...