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U.S. Customs Seizing Laptops

2008-02-12 12:23:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Customs and Border Protection seizing, copying data from, or otherwise accessing laptops of people entering the country. But this is very mainstream: Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Asian Law Caucus, two civil liberties groups in San Francisco, plan to file a lawsuit to force the government to disclose its policies on border...
 
Tags: customs, border, border agents, laptop, customs officers, san francisco, strongly recommend, electronic devices, laptops
 
 
 
 
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HOWTO: Travelers Guide to Customs-Proofing Your Laptop

2008-03-14 17:00:51 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Customs officials stepping up electronic searches of laptops at the border where travelers have no privacy or legal grounds to object. Laptops and other electronic devices can be seized without reason, copied, and returned hours or even weeks later. Executives have been told that they must hand over their laptop to be analyzed by border police
 
Tags: electronic devices, electronic, border police, border, laptop, laptops, travelers, legal grounds, customs officials
 
 
 
 
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Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs

2008-05-16 06:10:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other...
 
Tags: customs agent pokes, customs agent, british customs agents, customs agents, agent, customs, entire hard drive, hard drive, data
 
 
 
 
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The Breach Blog November Review

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2007-12-04 13:55:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Customs (3 total), Montana State University (4), Capital Health (2), United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2), and the State of Massachusetts (2). Montana State University reported three breaches and Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC) reported two in November alone The breach reported by Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC)...
 
Tags: breach, breach report, popular breach type, breach blog month, breach blog, november, security breach, single breach, breach offender
 
 
 
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Customs and Revenue (HMRC Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Countrywide Assured pension customers Number Affected 6,548 Types of Data Names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers*, and pension contributions equivalent to Social Security numbers in US Breach Description A "data cartridge" sent from Countrywide...
 
Tags: data, data cartridge, hmrc, lost hmrc cd, prime data, confidential data, hmrc breach, consult hmrc, hmrc encrypts
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...customs form for a third package that wasn't seized indicated that it was sent from Menard to Tarnovsky and also contained electronic goods Tarnovsky was in Israel at the time, and says he didn't know anything about the packages until he was notified that they'd been seized. He thinks they were sent by someone in Nagrastar's camp who was...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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Massive data loss by key U.K. government agency could affect millions of British citizens

2007-11-26 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Customs agency as they were being transferred to the UK's National Audit Office
 
Tags: breach, veterans administration breach, national audit office, million families, million veterans, million people, sensitive data, news reports, customs agency
 
 
 
 
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How Well "See Something, Say Something" Actually Works

2008-01-08 07:53:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...customs because she overstayed a visa in 1995 And lastly, this funny piece of (I trust) fiction Remember that every one of these incidents requires police resources to investigate, resources that almost certainly could be better spent keeping us actually safe Refuse to be terrorized
 
Tags: line, front-line security personnel, calls, hot line, calls led, people, suspicious people, browne, normal people
 
 
 
 
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Highlighting the importance of data privacy... one person at a time

2008-01-11 09:29:07 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
...Customs is Jeremy Clarkson , a TV broadcaster specializing in cars. Despite having no background in finance and fraud, he published his personal information in a newspaper column trying to diminish the idea that harm could come from the data breach. And that has come back to haunt him, as someone set up an automatic debit from his account of...
 
Tags: data, data protection laws, data breach, easy data, lost, protection, account, lost valuable time, bank account
 
 
 
 
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UK Two-Tier Tax Security System

2008-02-05 14:38:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Customs admitted it was not secure enough to be used by MPs, celebrities and the Royal Family Thousands of "high profile" people have been secretly barred from using the online tax return system amid concerns that their confidential details would be put at risk
 
Tags: security, poor security, file tax returns, online computer system,