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Reproductive Medicine Center doctor loses patient data on flash drive

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2008-02-01 16:44:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/30/08 Organization University of Minnesota Physicians Contractor/Consultant/Branch Reproductive Medicine Center Victims Patients Number Affected 3,100 Types of Data Patient information including details of infertility treatments Breach Description A doctor with the University of Minnesota...
 
Tags: drive, flash drive, flash, drive holds details, lost drive, sensitive personal information, information, social security information, data
 
 
 
 
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File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive

2007-10-06 21:22:58 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive What file system should you choose to speed up your thumb drive? Read on
 
Tags: thumb, file systems, thumb drive, ntfs, fat32, fat16, file system, choose, speed
 
 
 
 
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Another VA hard drive lost

2007-02-06 22:50:18 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
 
Ugh. Less than a year after the reported loss of a laptop containing the data of 26.5 veterans, the VA looses another laptop. Oh yeah and in the intervening months they developed processes and procedures to ensure that such data is encrypted; yet this report mentions that there were upwards of 20,000 unencrypted records Here are a couple links....
 
Tags: hard drive, portable hard drive, vet data, data, veterans affairs, veterans, couple links, laptop, report mentions
 
 
 
 
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Review: Flash Voyager GT -- the fastest, cheapest flash drive yet?

2008-04-25 06:20:25 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Corsair's new FlashVoyager GT drive is an encrypted device that offers industry-leading speeds, economic price and plenty of capacity. I downloaded a DVD-quality movie to this flash drive and it took me about four and a half minutes
 
Tags: drive, flash drive, economic price, half minutes, dvd-quality movie, plenty, capacity, device, flashvoyager
 
 
 
 
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Protect Any Hard Drive With This Drive Enclosure

2008-05-15 11:17:44 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Maybe you're a spy or you've got schematics for the next hot gadget locked away on your hard drive, but either way you're going to want to lock your files down
 
Tags: hard drive, hot gadget, spy, files, lock, schematics
 
 
 
 
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Buffalo ships low-cost encryption drive

2008-07-03 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a38 in Network World on Security
 
Buffalo Technology has become the latest vendor to announce a USB hard drive featuring built-in, hardware-backed encryption. Almost as interesting is that is costs almost the same as the same drive without security
 
Tags: drive, usb hard drive, encryption, buffalo technology, costs, built-in, security, announce, vendor
 
 
 
 
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Hard drive encryption has Achilles heel, say researchers

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
If you think that encrypting your laptop's hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University
 
Tags: hard drive, data safe, princeton university, researchers, laptop, eyes
 
 
 
 
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Programmer who stole drive containing one million bank records gets 42 months

2008-03-26 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A former programmer in Alabama stole a Compass Bank hard drive with data on a million customers and used it to commit debit-card fraud. He's going to jail, but why have only 250 victims been notified of the breach
 
Tags: commit debit-card fraud, million customers, programmer, victims, jail, alabama, data, breach
 
 
 
 
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Bull crams crypto chips into bootable USB hard disk drive

2008-04-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b7f048 in Network World on Security
 
Bull has a gadget for businesses worried about the security of data stored on laptops: a bootable, portable password-protected hard disk drive with an embedded cryptographic processor that protects data if the device is lost or stolen
 
Tags: hard disk drive, protects data, data, cryptographic processor, bull, bootable, laptops, businesses, device