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“Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to lead a consortium researching advanced information analysis and computational technologies to protect the nation. The university’s Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) will head a consortium that will focus on …
Press release: “The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) member agencies today released a frequently asked questions document (FAQs) to aid in the implementation of the interagency guidance on Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment issued October 12, 2005.”
Press release: Ottawa, August 14, 2006 “The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, has officially launched an investigation of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a European-based financial cooperative that supplies messaging services and interface software to a large number of financial institutions in more than 200 countries, including Canada, to determine …
Follow up to August 9, 2006 posting, AOL Data Breach Causes Privacy Group to File Complaint With FTC, news today “the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)…asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate America Online (AOL) and require changes in its privacy practices, after the company recently released search history logs that exposed the private lives …
Industry, Government Fret Over Tactics for Fighting Data Theft, by Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal, August 10, 2006.
Press release: “The World Privacy Forum announced [August 8, 2006] that it would be filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about the posting by AOL of a portion of its users’ search data on the Internet. While the data was not expressly identified by name, the search queries themselves included in some cases …
Press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union announced today that they have returned to court to challenge the constitutionality of the reauthorized Patriot Act’s National Security Letter (NSL) provision. The provision permits the FBI to prohibit anyone who receives an NSL from disclosing that the FBI has sought …
Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Intelligence: Responses to Posthearing Questions Regarding Secure Flight, Full text GAO-06-1051R, August 4, 2006. “This letter responds to Congress’s request for additional information related to Congress’s June 14, 2006, hearing on the progress and challenges of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Office of Intelligence. As discussed in the statement at …
Follow-up to August 1, 2006 posting, Findings of Upcoming Report on Administration Policies on WMD and NSA, see the Final Investigative Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff: The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War, and Illegal Domestic Surveillance. (This Report is …
Special Report | Computer forensics: The new DNA
The Constitution in Crisis: With 26 Laws Implicated by Administration Misconduct, It’s Long Past Time for Real Checks and Balances, by Rep. John Conyers, Jr., August 1, 2006 (26 pages, PDF)
Into the Breach: Security Breaches and Identity Theft/Research Report July 2006 “Security breaches of data files can lead to identity theft. In this AARP Public Policy Institute Data Digest, Neal Walters analyzes 244 breaches between January 1, 2005 and May 26, 2006, and finds that 40 percent were caused by hackers or insider access …
