Graham Cluley comments on the stolen USB drive from Lake Ridge Middle School. He draws the same inference I did — that because there is no mention that the drive was encrypted, he assumes it wasn’t. And…. wait for it…. it was stolen from a school official’s car. Speaking of school data breaches, I learned…
Author: Dissent
Ca: Shockingly easy to obtain confidential information
It seems you don’t need “friends in high places” to open doors for you in Saskatchewan. How about a humble data entry clerk? That’s apparently all it took for the Teamsters Union to obtain confidential personal information from the SGI [Saskatchewan Government Insurance] database which it then used to write to the home addresses of…
LifeLock Worries About Employee’s Personal Data, Asks New Times to Alter Published Police Report
Ray Stern reports: Lame! LifeLock, the so-called identity-theft “protection” company based in Tempe we wrote about last week, called us in a tizzy yesterday — worried about the accidental publication of one its employees’ personal data. This is the type of situation LifeLock would never put in a press release, but we’re more than happy…
Scientist ‘infected’ with computer virus
Nick Collins reports: A British scientist claims to be the first human to have been infected with a computer virus after he contaminated an electronic chip which was inserted into his hand. Dr Mark Gasson, of the University of Reading, said the device was programmed with a virus which could transfer itself to other electronic…
Loma Linda hospital patients' personal information stolen
Richard Brooks provides some details on the Loma Linda University Health Care breach in April that we only knew about because it appeared on OCR’s web site this month: A thief has stolen personal information regarding more than 500 surgical patients of Loma Linda University Medical Center, according to hospital officials. A desktop computer containing…
Ie: Opposition rejects need for amendment
Charlie Taylor reports: Opposition parties have rejected Government claims that emergency legislation is needed to get information from the Health Service Executive (HSE) about children who have died in State care. Speaking during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil today, Fine Gael party leader Enda Kenny said that under the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) Amendment…