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Laptop stolen in Royal Bolton Hospital break-in

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2007-12-19 15:24:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...scrutiny committee, added: "I will be asking for a full report to be brought to my committee with regards the storage of personal data by both the hospital and the Primary Care Trust, to reassure the public that all is being done to protect their personal information in Bolton The theft in November is being investigated by the police Victim...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, royal bolton hospital, hospital, sensitive personal information, bolton, information, information security, share patient information
 
 
 
 
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Passport Fraud

2008-01-08 13:59:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Investigative report on passport fraud worldwide. Six years after 9/11, an NBC News undercover investigation has found that the black market in fraudulent passports is thriving. On the streets of South America, NBC documented the sale of stolen and doctored passports, and travel papers prized by terrorists: genuine passports issued under false...
 
Tags: passports, fraudulent passports, genuine passports, venezuelan passports, investigator, corrupt government employees, undercover investigator, passport fraud worldwide, travel widely
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...scrutiny against unauthorised access The Secretary of State will make a statement to Parliament at the earliest opportunity Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said he would be demanding answers from the MoD over the loss of the data and why it was unencrypted We will require satisfactory answers from the MoD about their data...
 
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TSA Misses the Point, Again

2008-01-29 15:13:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...scrutiny of passenger IDs is the latest Transportation Security Administration effort to check passengers more thoroughly than simply having them walk through metal detectors More than 40 passengers have been arrested since June in cases when TSA screeners spotted altered passports, fraudulent visas and resident ID cards, and forged driver's...
 
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Time to wake up and smell the coffee - literally.

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2008-01-18 04:17:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...scrutiny after the parent company, The WACKENHUT Corp., lost a contract to secure 10 other nuclear facilities after guards were caught sleeping at another nuclear facility in PA. We recently covered the case of the sleeping guards in PA in our blog, earlier in the month The facility at Oak Ridge is considered a prime terrorist target as it...
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...scrutiny of government conduct In most cases, because no trial is ever held, few details emerge beyond the spare and slanted descriptions in the indictments. When facts do come to light during a trial, they cast doubt on the seriousness of the underlying case. The "Albany Pizza" case provides a stark example. Known as a "sting case," the...
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...scrutiny. All aspects of government work best when the relative power between the governors and the governed remains as small as possible -- when liberty is high and control is low. Forced openness in government reduces the relative power differential between the two, and is generally good. Forced openness in laypeople increases the relative...
 
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BlackBerry under security scrutiny in India

2008-03-12 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Indian government says it wants the right to intercept e-mail sent over wireless networks in that country
 
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BlackBerry under security scrutiny in India

2008-03-12 00:00:00 by John Ribeiro in Network World on Security
 
Indian government officials, telecommunications service providers, and executives of Research in Motion (RIM) are expected to meet on Friday to work out a solution to demands from the Indian government that it should have access to, and the ability to intercept, mails sent over RIM's BlackBerry service, according to a report on Wednesday in an...
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...scrutiny and bolster other data-sifting efforts, current and former intelligence officials said. "When it got taken apart, it didn't get thrown away," says a former top government official familiar with the TIA program Two current officials also said the NSA's current combination of programs now largely mirrors the former TIA project. But the...
 
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