From Protection of the Department of Energy’s Unclassified Sensitive Electronic Information, DOE/IG-0818: The Department of Energy and its contractors store and process massive quantities of sensitive information to accomplish national security, energy, science, and environmental missions. Sensitive unclassified data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), official use only, and unclassified controlled nuclear information require special…
Category: Government Sector
MP’s password accidentally leaked
Dizzy of the Dizzy Thinks blog was searching on Google for information on an article by Gisela Stuart MP for Birmingham Edgebaston and found a lot more than he expected. The results returned a link to an entry on the MP’s own web site which included her user name and password for managing the sites…
Govt blip creates credit problems for New Englanders
Holly Ramer of the Associated Press has a fascinating story on how our government is contributing to credit problems for some Americans because of our relationship to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau. It seems that each of them issue their own Social Security Numbers,…
Bits ‘n Pieces
Alpha Daye Bah was arrested last week on charges that he stole at least 20 customers’ data from an unnamed restaurant and passed it to co-conspirators. More. Jason Reed and Derek Edwards were arrested for conspiracy to commit identity theft. Following a — wait for it — traffic stop, the officers found stolen credit cards…
Spam uncovers career center security breach
A spam e-mail uncovered a potentially dangerous security breach. The potential problem centers around a Nashville organization that helps people get jobs and improve their career. One hundred and sixty people are now in the process of being notified over concerns that their names and Social Security numbers were exposed on the Internet. It turns…
Social Security numbers visible on Iowa site
A link to a state Web site was shut down Friday after the discovery that the Social Security numbers of hundreds of Iowa’s top business officials and company board members were accessible by the public. The numbers – more than 2,000 in total – appeared primarily in corporation reports made to the Iowa secretary of…