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Missing memory stick turns up five months later

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2008-01-23 16:44:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Manchester Evening News story Report Credit Amanda Crook, Manchester Evening News brought to the attention of The Breach Blog by an informed reader Response From the online source cited above A COMPUTER memory stick holding confidential medical information and personal details of hundreds of people was found in a car park The names,...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security assessments, memory stick, security, specsaver diabetic patients, patients, computer memory stick, manchester patients
 
 
 
 
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Stockport Primary Care Trust flash drive goes missing

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2008-01-21 09:44:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Manchester Evening News Story ComputerWeekly News Story Report Credit Amanda Crook, Manchester Evening News brought to the attention of The Breach Blog by an informed reader Response From the online sources cited above In early December 2007 a member of staff of Stockport PCT lost a USB drive containing limited information on approximately...
 
Tags: senstive personal information, personal information, information, medical information, information security matters, information security, information security management, information line, management
 
 
 
 
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Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks

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2008-01-11 17:15:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Manchester Evening News Story Report Credit Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS Response From the online sources cited above A breach of information security has taken place. Two data sticks containing information relating to 148 clients who have been in contact with the PCTs continuing care service have been reported missing This should never...
 
Tags: information, information lost, personal information, financial information, medical information, information security, data, freephone information line, data sticks
 
 
 
 
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U.K. airport gets iris recognition program

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8afc93c in Network World on Security
 
Manchester has implemented what it claims is the U.K.'s first biometric access control system based on iris recognition. The system officially went live just before Christmas, and is used to control access to secure parts of the airport for airport workers Register for a WAN Acceleration Technology Primer Advertisement This paper explores...
 
Tags: airport, iris recognition, wan acceleration technologies, airport workers, paper explores, control access, advertisement, manchester, system
 
 
 
 
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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk

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2008-02-28 16:10:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Manchester Police took the laptop and disk away but have now concluded their investigation The Home Office the government body responsible for maintaining law and order and fighting terrorism confirmed the disc was genuine and said it was investigating the incident A Home Office spokesman said: "Both the laptop and the disk were encrypted,...
 
Tags: home office, disk, laptop, source home office, home office spokesman, director lee bevan, lee bevan, highly confidential, leapfrog computers
 
 
 
 
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Elliot Health System reports a breach involving health information

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2008-04-16 11:00:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Manchester, NH 03103 603.663.2932-phone Commentary This is just a short and quick breach notification without much detail. Feel free to comment Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: information, breach, elliot health system, elliot, health information, contractor information security, ehs andor ampi, ehs, information security program
 
 
 
 
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Two HSBC breaches with similar circumstances

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2008-06-02 09:40:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Manchester over the weekend The security of our customers' personal information is of paramount importance and we have stringent procedures in place to guard against their loss Evan] Is everyone aware of and following the "stringent procedures Without speculating on how this occurred, something has clearly gone wrong, and we are extremely...
 
Tags: customers, bank customers, bank, bank officials, bank bag, bag, bank branch after-hours, street bank hsbc, street
 
 
 
 
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youve come a long way, baby!

2008-06-20 17:49:41 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Sorry, couldnt resist. Congrats you old timers for bringing what we have today. I know I couldnt live without it clipped from newsvote.bbc.co.uk One tonne Baby marks its birth Sixty years ago the modern computer was born in a lab in Manchester
 
Tags: tonne baby marks, modern computer, birth, newsvote, manchester, sixty, bbc, ago, congrats
 
 
 
 
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SP 800-53A Now Finally Final

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2008-07-01 12:08:12 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
The perpetual draft document, SP 800-53A, has been officially released after 3 years. Check out the announcement from NIST here Now the interesting thing to me is that NIST is working with some other players (DNI comes to mind) on reference implementations of 800-53A. This is big, so big that I cant add enough hyperbole to it Why do they need to...
 
Tags: 800-53a, government docs photo, government, reference implementations, test procedures, compliance, hard time, time, perpetual draft document
 
 
 
 
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Global Dispatches

2008-09-08 05:39:28 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The airport in Manchester, England, tests a facial recognition system as part of a nationwide effort to better control the country's borders; and Sony recalls 438,000 laptops because of a problem that could lead to overheating
 
Tags: facial recognition system, nationwide effort, sony recalls, country, lead, laptops, manchester, airport, england