http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081201181652253
Army waited to tell of possible security breach
Monday, December 01 2008 @ 06:16 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
U.S. Army medical officials in southeast Germany waited nearly two months before notifying more than 6,000 beneficiaries of a possible security breach regarding their personal information stored on a lost laptop computer.
Authorities know the names, Social Security numbers and health information of at least 26 individuals were stored on the laptop, according to a news release sent Monday from the U.S. Army Medical Department Activity, Bavaria.
However, officials said similar information on approximately 6,000 other patients also may have been on the missing computer, though they don’t know for sure.
According to the release, the laptop went missing on Oct. 4.
Source - Stars and Stripes
[From the article:
Officials believe whoever took possession of the laptop "could not access" the data on it "because of the encryption software program," Spring said.
The user must have connection to a U.S. government network, a secure Common Access Card, and a password to access the computer, the release said.
Is small volume Identity Theft on the rise?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081201074201824
FL: Computer Stolen From State Revenue Office
Monday, December 01 2008 @ 07:42 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
A computer possibly containing sensitive personal information was the only item stolen in a break-in at a state Department of Revenue office in Maitland, police said.
Source - Local6.com
[From the article:
Police said the incident is part of a growing trend in the area.
"Between our area and south Seminole County, we've had some other break-ins to businesses that have been smash-and-grabs -- they throw something through the window and grab whatever they can and leave as quickly as possible," Maitland police Lt. Jeff Harris said.
An interesting way to screw up evidence?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081201153921755
FL: Cindy Anthony Says Someone Hacked Her Email Account
Monday, December 01 2008 @ 03:39 PM EST Contributed by:PrivacyNews
Cindy Anthony says someone hacked into her email and sent out messages and documents containing sensitive information about the case. WFTV reporter Kathi Belich received four of the emails herself, but when she realized something didn't seem right about them she forwarded the emails to the FBI.
Now, the FBI is investigating.
The Anthonys have used their home computer to email their spokesman, their private investigators and others about the case, but they say someone accessed their account when they weren't even home during the holiday weekend.
Source - WFTV.com
For your Security Manager? Where does liability begin?
CBS Web site bitten by iFrame hack
Russian malware distributors launch an iFrame attack on a subdomain of cbs.com so it served remote malware to visitors
By John E. Dunn, Techworld December 01, 2008
... It appears that Russian malware distributors were able to launch another iFrame attack on a subdomain of the cbs.com site so that it was serving remote malware to any visitors.
It's just a thought, but a law like this could have saved tons of paper (political ads) going to the landfill.
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081201170358556
Ca: Privacy breach alleged over Tories' mailing
Monday, December 01 2008 @ 05:03 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Letters sent from Conservative MPs to Prairie farmers urging them to vote for specific candidates in the Canadian Wheat Board's director elections may be a privacy breach, the National Farmers Union claimed Monday.
... "It seems certain that Canadian members of Parliament have unlawfully used confidential information about Canadian citizens to conduct an inappropriate mail-out campaign," NFU president Stewart Wells wrote in the letter to Stoddart.
Source - Manitoba Co-operator
Executive decree is the second best tool in the bag...
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/0026243&from=rss
French "Three Strikes" Law Gets New Life
Posted by kdawson on Monday December 01, @07:54PM from the batter-batter-batter dept. The Internet Government
Kjella writes
"A little over a week ago we discussed the EU's forbidding of disconnecting users from the Internet. But even after having passed with an 88% approval in the European Parliament, and passing through the European Commission, it was all undone last week. The European Council, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, removed the amendment before passing the Telecom package. This means that there's now nothing stopping France's controversial 'three strikes' law from going into effect. What hope is there for a 'parliament' where near-unanimous agreement can be completely undone so easily?"
Presidential Pardons are better...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/0120249&from=rss
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms
Posted by kdawson on Monday December 01, @09:14PM from the courtroom-battles-not-ended dept.
The Bush administration and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are poised to square off in front of a San Francisco federal judge Tuesday to litigate the constitutionality of legislation immunizing the nation's telecoms from lawsuits accusing them of helping the government spy on Americans without warrants. "
'The legislation is an attempt to give the president the authority to terminate claims that the president has violated the people's Fourth Amendment rights,' the EFF's [Cindy] Cohn says. 'You can't do that.
Movie of the week: The little company that would not die!
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/01/1837225&from=rss
Groklaw's PJ Says SCO's Demise Greatly Exaggerated
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 01, @02:48PM from the still-looking-for-a-fat-lady dept. The Courts Businesses
blackbearnh writes
"Last week, the net was all abuzz with speculation that SCO was finally gone and done for. With the final judgment in SCO v. Novell in, and SCO millions of dollars in the hole to Novell, it seemed like the fat lady had finally sung. But like most things in the legal system, it isn't nearly that simple. O'Reilly Media sought out Groklaw's Pamela Jones, and got a rundown of what's still alive, and why a final end to the madness may be many years away. 'Summing up, it looks bleak for SCO at the moment, but let's enter the alternate realm of SCO's best-case scenario in its dreams: in that realm, SCO wins on appeal, which one of SCO's lawyers indicated might take a year and a half or five years, and the case is sent back to Utah for trial by jury, which is what SCO wanted (as opposed to trial by judge, which is what it got), then everything listed above (except for the IPO class action) comes alive again, presumably, depending on what the appellate court decides. Then SCO is in position once again to go after Linux end users, as well as IBM, et al.'"
For the SQL students?
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/01/1457236&from=rss
MySQL in a Nutshell
Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 01, @02:01PM from the read-all-about-it dept. thumbnail
stoolpigeon writes
"MySQL is frequently touted as the world's most widely used relational database management system. Many of the best known web applications and web sites use MySQL as their data repository. The popularity of MySQL has continued to grow while at the same time many were concerned by the lack of many features considered essential to a 'real' rdbms. Such naysayers have done little to impede the growth or development of MySQL. The first edition of MySQL in a Nutshell, published in 2005, gave users a handy reference to using MySQL. The second edition, published in 2008, covers many new features that MySQL fans proudly proclaim as an answer to all those critics clamoring for a better-rounded rdbms."
For my wino oenophile friends.
http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50004637.html?tag=rsspr.6248132&part=rss&subj=news
Video: A toast to online wine
With old-fashioned liquor laws and complicated shipping procedures, selling or buying wine online has never been easy. But as CNET's Kara Tsuboi explains, it no longer has to be so hard.
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