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Press release: “Google Inc. announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. Postini’s services — which include message security, archiving, encryption, and policy enforcement — can be used to protect a …
Personal Information: Data Breaches Are Frequent, but Evidence of Resulting Identity Theft Is Limited; However, the Full Extent Is Unknown. GAO-07-737, June 4, 2007. “While comprehensive data do not exist, available evidence suggests that breaches of sensitive personal information have occurred frequently and under widely varying circumstances. For example, more than 570 data breaches were …
Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace, Seymour E. Goodman and Herbert S. Lin, Editors, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, National Research Council, 272 pages, pre-publication copy, 2007. “Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace examines the vulnerabilities of the Internet and offers a strategy for future research aimed at countering …
Press release: “Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, Certegy Check Services, Inc., a service provider to U.S. retail merchants, based in St. Petersburg, Fla., was victimized by a former employee who misappropriated and sold consumer information to a data broker who, in turn, sold a subset of that data to a …
Administrative Investigation Loss of VA Information VA Medical Center Birmingham, AL [Rpt. #07-01083-157 6/29/2007] AP: “An Alabama VA hospital that lost sensitive data on more than 1.5 million people in January repeatedly failed to follow privacy regulations leading up to the incident…”
MessageLabs Intelligence Report: Increased Number of Spam Spikes and New Image Spam Techniques Cause Trouble for Businesses: “Analysis of [May 2007] data showed that spammers continue to innovate and employ new methods to elude traditional anti-spam solutions. Rather than embedding images in the body of an email message, spammers are now hosting images on sites …
NEWS.COM Special Report: Wardens of the WebTalkBack: Global security challenge falls to an elite corps, June 25, 2007 “The job of policing the Web has been left to the corporate world by default. The burden weighs heavily on a trio of companies in particular: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft–the three firms with the most traffic on …
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Progress Has Been Slow in Meeting Homeland Security Presidential Directive12 Requirements, June 20, 2007. Reference Number: 2007-20-110 “The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been experiencing delays in issuing new identification cards to employees and contractors that enhance security, reduce identity fraud, and protect the personal privacy of employees and …
Social Security Numbers: Federal Actions Could Further Decrease Availability in Public Records, though Other Vulnerabilities Remain, GAO-07-752, June 15, 2007: “Various public records in the United States, including some generated by the federal government, contain Social Security numbers (SSN) and other personal identifying information that could be used to commit fraud and identity theft. Public …
Hacking the Homeland: Investigating Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities at the Department of Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. [links to prepared statements, testimony and relevant correspondence] Information Security: Homeland Security Needs to Enhance Effectiveness of Its Program, GAO-07-1003T, June 20, 2007. “To protect and mitigate threats and attacks …
Review of the Department of Justices Reporting Procedures for Loss of Sensitive Electronic Information, Evaluations and Inspections Report I-2007-005, June 2007.
Privacy Policy Guidance Memorandum 2007-02 Regarding Use of Social Security Numbers at the Department of Homeland Security, June 4, 2007 (PDF, 4 pages)
