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Missing University of Akron portable hard drive

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2008-01-14 11:33:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...portable hard drive is missing from the University of Akron. According to the university, the hard drive may have been discarded and/or destroyed. The hard drive contained sensitive personal information belonging to current and former students attending classes at the College of Education Reference URL Akron Beacon Journal News Story WKYC TV...
 
Tags: akron, portable, portable hard drive, hard drive, secure data destruction, data, akron beacon journal, university, akron permits
 
 
 
 
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Portable Identity and the BBC

2008-04-29 14:30:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...portable identity ." Good job if they can make it happen - the trick will be in ensuring that the solution is safe to use on a home PC, public terminal, mobile phone and the myraid of other Internet enabled devices we're now being sold. Two factor authentication is a must but it needn't be based on clunky tokens. Any other out-of-band method...
 
Tags: portable identity, identity, user-centric digital identity, bbc, mobile phone, future plans, future, openid, openid foundation
 
 
 
 
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Showcase: Portable Security

2008-05-20 21:23:35 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
At the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco we caught up with MXI Security. In this video you can see a showcase of their offerings related to portable security
 
Tags: portable security, san francisco, rsa conference, showcase, mxi security, video, offerings
 
 
 
 
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The Portable Office: Travel Terrors

2008-07-25 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b32fb4 in Network World on Security
 
As we were putting together our Portable Office series, we asked readers to tell us about some of the worst things that have befallen them when they've hit the road with their Macs. Here are some of the worst of the worst
 
Tags: worst, portable office series, readers, hit, macs, road
 
 
 
 
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5 password utilities for portable freedom

2008-09-30 00:00:00 by HASH0x84739c0 in Network World on Security
 
Password managers are a huge help in dealing with our exponentially growing numbers of accounts. But stand-alone apps introduce a new problem: If you aren't sitting at the PC with the software installed, you can't get to your credentials. Luckily, you have alternatives. These five password tools are all accessible either from a portable device...
 
Tags: stand-alone apps introduce, password tools, thumb drive, portable device, password managers, alternatives, luckily, credentials, web
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...portable computers. According to the 2006 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey, for four years in a row, laptop theft is the most expensive attack weathered by the organizations who responded. The exposure (and expense) isnt the hardwareits the data stored on the computers. This tells me that good-quality full drive encryption is...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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Swedish Army Loses Classified Information on Memory Stick

2008-01-09 13:46:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...portable backup drive. Or my small stack of DVD backups. Furthermore, he could sneak into my office and copy all this data, and I'd never know it Also this . Although why the Swedish Army doesn't encrypt its portable storage devices is beyond me
 
Tags: stick, memory stick, public computer center, computer, public computer, information, armed forces, swedish army, stick belongs
 
 
 
 
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Mujahideen Secrets 2 Encryption Tool Released

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2008-01-21 15:37:17 by HASH0x8b0f9c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...portable. Release I of the "secrets of the mujahideen" the bulletin brothers in the International Islamic Front and the media have registered so scoop qualitatively in the field of information and jihadist exploit the opportunity to thank them for their wonderful and distinctive. And the continuing support of a media jihadist group loyalty in...
 
Tags: secrets, tool, encryption, secrets encryption tool, encryption keys, keys, digital, digital signature files, islamic
 
 
 
 
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Laptop = Cinderella, USB = Drizella? I.e. did the USB beat the rap?

2008-02-19 19:53:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...portable USB hard drive for 250GB! I presume that when one loses their laptops they have as big a chance of losing on of these hard drives or USB keys. And no one is as concerned, since they dont have to notify anyoneif they lose a USB key So answer me this - did the USB key and portable hard drive sneak past the breach notification...
 
Tags: usb, usb keys, protect usb keys, usb key, lawmakers, breach notification lawmakers, rich, breach notification laws, rich mogull