The UK Home Office has admitted highly confidential data on a CD hidden in a laptop showed up on eBay. The Home Office is now under "well-deserved scrutiny," says ITPro. "The disc, concealed under the keyboard of the laptop was discovered by a Machester-based PC repair centre when the machine was brought in for a problem to […]
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Shared folders aren’t a danger only in the P2P community. Virtualization technologies such as VMware’s increase efficiency in the use of hardware and help to reduce operational costs through consolidation of servers and desktop system running on fewer and more maintainable hardware systems, says Core Security Technologies. And, it goes on, one of the primary reasons for […]
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Rogue security operators are still a problem even though licensing has been instituted, says a survey commissioned by the Irish Security Industry Association (ISIA). Some 74% of legitimate companies say not enough is being done to police and enforce licensing. “A separate study, done with the industry survey, looked at the impact of regulation on purchasers of […]
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Would electronic monitoring of all visitors crossing European Union borders be a “Big Brother” action? It would, says the European Commission. “Euro-MPs said the prospect of biometric checks, satellite surveillance of all EU territory, and possibly an EU force of frontier guards could breach privacy laws,” says the Press Association, going on: “But EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini […]
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More colleges suffered data-security incidents last year than in 2006, according to a study that analyzed reports on computer security by news and computer-security organizations." But, "many of those incidents were caused by mistakes by college officials or theft of property rather than by malicious computer hackers," says Adam D. Dodge on his Educational Security […]
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How secure is secure? Well, PGP - Pretty Good Privacy computer encryption - is looking good. When Sebastien Boucher, a Canadian living in Vermont, had his laptop inspected at the US-Canadian border in Quebec, Homeland Security agents said they found child pornography files. However, when they tried to again examine computer, they didn’t get to first base, […]
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Hackers rig Google to deliver malware, says a NetworkWorld headline. “The latest malware trend should prompt you to think twice about the links you click next time you search,” says the intro, going on: If last November you googled one of thousands of innocuous and common search terms, such as “Microsoft excel to access” or “how to […]
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The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has decided blogs are the way to go. Says the TSA’s Evolution of Security: “Terrorists Evolve. Threats Evolve. Security Must Stay Ahead. You Play A Part.” Two million travelers come in contact with the Transportation Security Administration every day, posts Kip Hawley, going on, “It is an intense experience all around […]
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