21 hours ago by sang_lee

According to Der Spiegel, Israel's intelligence service planted a Trojan horse on the laptop computer of a Syrian government official. This act ultimately led to the 2007 bombing of the Al Kibar complex (supposedly a nuclear reactor). One way to have prevented this would have been the use of full di ...

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22 hours ago by datasecurityguy

Do you use encryption software for the hard drive on your laptop? How about a firewall, both on your router as well as the computer? Antivirus software? Have you blocked your ports? Does your computer not start up without plugging in a USB token? If you answered yes to all of this, you’re paranoid. ...

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1 day ago by datasecurityguy

You’ve got laptop encryption on your trusty little computer, so you think you’re pretty well protected, right? You wouldn’t be too wrong. However, remember that encryption can be bypassed if the password or encryption key can be figured out. The evil maid attack (some call it the janitor) attack doe ...

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1 day ago by Saira Nayak

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved not one, but two pieces of data privacy and security legislation. This swift, recent movement reminds us that the members of the Senate Judiciary – in particular Chairman Leahy of Vermont – are eager to see a federal data security law passed this se ...

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1 day ago by datasecurityguy

The 2010 US census is under way, and so are the conmen looking to use this to their advantage. According to the BBB, you should ensure that the person who claims to be taking your information for the 2010 census is an actual census surveyor. Ten basic questions will be asked of census participants ( ...

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1 day ago by Stock Trading Tips

In the future, a visit to your family physician, or any specialist, will begin with a quick scan of the computer screen, where a few keystrokes will tell the doctor everything he or she needs to know about you – all the way from how much you weighed at birth, to X-rays of that bone you broke when yo ...

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1 day ago by sang_lee

A little over two years ago, a laptop computer belonging to the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (DRS) was stolen. It did not use hard drive encryption software like AlertBoot to protect its contents and led to the breach of personal information for 106,000 people. An investigation was sta ...

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1 day ago by DISC

Another stolen laptop puts thousands of people’s personal data at risk but this time it’s the caregivers — not the patients — who are at risk. November 6, 2009 By Larry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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1 day ago by DISC

Another stolen laptop puts thousands of people’s personal data at risk but this time it’s the caregivers — not the patients — who are at risk. November 6, 2009 By Larry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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1 day ago by V. John Ella

In another recent example of a law firm running afoul of privacy requirements in litigation ( See also the discussion of Kim v. St. Elizabeth’s), U.S. District Judge Michael Davis recently assessed a $5,000 sanction against the law firm for electronically filing an affidavit that contained the Socia ...

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