Laptop Computer Security

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Tip of the Week: Patches Make Perfect

OK, not exactly. I was looking to rhyme with “practice makes perfect” so I hope you’ll humor me, but patches make a whole-lot-closer-to-perfect, anyway.
This week’s tip is more of an overall computer security tip, not just a laptop theft tip.
Patch your Operating System. All this means, usually, is to run the automatic updates tool that [...]

Identity Theft Expert and MyLaptopGPS: Unsecured Mobile Computers Facilitate Noted Increase in Risk of Data Breaches Following Layoffs

Research recently released by the Ponemon Institute indicated that nearly 60 percent of employees stole data from their former employers. One of the easiest points of entry for unscrupulous, exiting employees is the employer’s mobile computing equipment.

Laptop Theft: U.S. Army in England at Risk

The names, post office box numbers, forwarding addresses, units of assignment and work phone numbers of all 6,000 post office box holders from the U.S. Military Base in Mildenhall, England are currently lost in cyberspace.
All of the information, which originally was stored on a password protected military database, was transferred earlier this year to an [...]

Identity Theft Expert and MyLaptopGPS Note That Rise in Security Technology Spending Needs to Encompass Laptop Computers

(BOSTON, Mass. – March 17, 2009 – IDTheftSecurity.com) Research announced in March shows that IT spending on so-called Identity and Access Management (IAM) technologies is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30 percent. Widely televised and quoted personal security and identity theft expert Robert Siciliano observed that this IAM spending [...]

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 [...]

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.

Nevada Encryption Law Protects Against Identity Theft

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University related in their September study that breach-notification laws have only reduced identity theft by about 2%. This is a pretty alarming statistic, considering more than 40 states have adopted the law. Now, Nevada legislation is working to nudge that statistic up a bit with its newly enforced data encryption law.
According [...]

Laptop Stolen from National Bank of Canada

With the United States facing a financial slump rivaling that of the Great Depression, it comes as no surprise that US citizens have little interest in what’s going on up north. However, up in Montreal, there’s another situation altogether.
In late September, National Bank of Canada reported a laptop that had been stolen. In the Reuters [...]