Laptop Computer Security

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Health Data Security: Where the Data is Matters More Than What Form it Takes

It used to be that health and medical organizations had archaic data-handling practices. Think hard copies. But most long ago made the switch to the obvious alternative: electronic data. But have we made postive gains from this move? Well, the answer depends, but really, not really — at least when it comes to data security.
The lead-off paragraphs [...]

Laptop Theft: FEMA

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, commonly known as “FEMA,” reported recently that a laptop was stolen from the vehicle of a housing inspector.
The laptop computer contained the Social Security numbers, names, and other personal information of approximately 50 victims of the floods last September affecting Gary, Hammond, Highland, Griffith, and Munster, Indiana.
As reported in the [...]

Laptop Theft in Steamboat Springs School District

According to The Steamboat Pilot & Today, a laptop containing the Social Security numbers of 1300 past and present employees was stolen from the Steamboat Springs School District.
In the article, columnist Rob Douglas offers his suggestions to the school district and the public alike, regarding how to breach this important issue.
While Douglas requests that the [...]

Identity Theft Expert and MyLaptopGPS: Recessionary Economic Circumstances Can Greatly Increase Effects of Laptop Computer Theft

A noted identity theft protection expert joined MyLaptopGPS, provider of Internet-based laptop GPS for tracking laptops, in explaining why laptop theft hurts organizations more during an economic downturn.

Laptop Breach in FAA

Federal Computer Week reported an article Monday that the Federal Aviation Administration recently experienced a data security breach, in which 48 files were stolen. Two of the files contained information on 45,000 current and prior employees, including information that could potentially lead to identity theft.
Bad timing for the FAA, since the Office of Management and [...]

Laptop theft and ham… not so much green eggs.

HoneyBaked Ham recently announced that a computer server containing credit card information on most customers who shopped at a store in Indiana any time in late December.
IndyStar.com reported that the computer was stolen on December 24, 2008 — right in time for all those Christmas hams. So, if you were going out to HoneyBaked Ham [...]

Veterans Affairs Department pays dearly for lost laptop

The VA is dishing out up to $20 million after finally settling a lawsuit from 2006. The Associated Press reported that the lawsuit dealt with a stolen laptop and hard drive. A data analyst at the VA admitted that he lost the laptop and hard drive, and that the data within included names, birth dates, [...]

Resolution #1: Protect Employees from Identity Theft

It’s a new year, and everyone is making resolutions. But perhaps the most important resolution you can make this year is to protect everyone, even your employees or third party service providers, from identity theft.
PricewaterhouseCoopers released its sixth annual Global State of Information Security Survey 2008, announcing that businesses nationwide have implemented double-digit advances in [...]