Rip of the Week: Salvation Army Stolen Laptop Contains Information About Mercy Recipients

This Rip of the Week has good news and bad news. First, the bad news. The Salvation Army in Union, SC was broken into. Three times. In two months. In the latest burglary, a laptop was stolen, which contained information about the people the Salvation Army was helping. News Channel 7 reports, and thanks to [...]

Rip of the Week: Laptop with Secret Super Bowl XLV Content Stolen

Arlington, TX police are investigating the theft of a laptop that contained information related to Super Bowl security, MSNBC.com reports. The laptop contained artwork that was to be used for part of security credential process, and it was stolen outside a Joe’s Crab Shack near Interstate 30. However, police indicate that security for the Super [...]

Rip of the Week: Ph.D Student Loses Crucial Research when Laptop Stolen

This is another one of those stories. Kristin Smith, a doctoral student at The Ohio State University, has been researching detection methods for multiple sclerosis. That research has been ongoing for the past five years. NBC 4 in Columbus reports.
Smith’s laptop, a MacBook Pro, was stolen while she stopped for a $3 hamburger.  In perhaps [...]

Tip of the Week: What To Do If It’s Too Late

Most of our tips over the years have focused on laptop theft prevention, security and data management issues. Now comes a tip for those, and they are MANY, who have already experienced a laptop theft. After all, remember: another laptop is stolen every 12 seconds.
What should you do when your laptop has been stolen and [...]

Can Your Laptop Do This? [WARNING: Violent Content]

Here’s a funny spot that makes one say “what if.”

MyLaptopGPS may not quite go to this extreme, but from your data’s perspective, it does!

Like We Said…Gone in 12 Seconds

Here’s a clever video that appears to be from State Farm (after a little digging). Real laptop thefts can happen just about this fast!

Rip of the Week: Thief Rips Off Laptop, Uses it for Ex-Employer Revenge

Here’s a bit of a new one. The Register reports on the case of Colin Parker, 31, who was fired from CHI and Partners, or at least was an “ex-employee” for some reason. He stole a laptop, then used that laptop to hack into his ex-employer’s database to gain access to personnel records that contained [...]

Rip of the Week: It’s a Data Breach Medley

There are so many high-profile, damaging, data breach laptop thefts (and storage device thefts) in the news right now it seems impossible to pick just one. So, I won’t. Let’s have a fast roundup of several–a Data Breach Medley.
Verse 1: Car thieves get personal data on Portland psychology patients, unemployed Oregonians (thanks to Jake K [...]