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Audit highlights missing laptops. An audit of laptops used by operatives at one of Britain's main intelligence agencies revealed that the agency “lost track” of 35 laptop computers, including three that were certified to hold Top Secret information; a parliamentary intelligence and security committee...

If you attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst between 1982 and 2002, your records might be among those involved in a data breach that occurred last fall. UMass announced August 5 there was a security breach between September 15 and October 27, 2008 in which a single server was penetrated. The...

It started in 2006 with the Office Max data breach. Then, tumbling like dominoes, came TJX, Dave & Busters, Hannaford Brothers and 7-Eleven. According to today federal grand jury indictment, Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez was the hacker responsible for them all. Gonzalez, 28, and two unnamed Russian co...

College students are especially vulnerable to identity theft, and just in time for Fall Semester there’s been another data breach involving students’ personal information to prove it. Usually, when a house is robbed, the problem and headache is limited to the home’s residents. But when the home of a...

If Network Solutions registered your domain name, hosted your website or processed the credit card payments from your online business, bad news might be coming your way--Network Solutions is sending out 573,000 data breach notifications this week. Hackers broke into the company’s web servers and delivered...

You’d think they’d learn, but 85% of all businesses have had data breaches in the past year. That’s up from 60% in 2008. The numbers come from the Ponemon Institute’s most recent of four annual Encryption Trends Survey, for which nearly 1,000 U.S.-based executives were asked about the security of the...

Florida residents concerned about government data breaches and their resulting ID theft risks took another hit last week when the state revealed another security breach. Personal information of nearly 3,000 current or former employees of Florida corporations being investigated by the Florida Department...

I choose a pharmacy based on (a) location, and (b) store hours. However, now that I know more about identity theft and data breaches, I think I’m going to do more research on the pharmacy we’ve been using for the last couple years. I’m going to start by looking into the dumpster out back of the store...

If you’re looking for a job, you already know it’s a tough market right now. Accompanying the bad news about job availability are warnings that identity thieves are reaping the benefits by posing as job recruiters, or hacking job databases. Unfortunately, there’s another example of the latter. Aetna...

Your employer needs your Social Security number. And of course the Internal Revenue Service needs your Social Security number. But do your doctors? What happens if you follow the advice of the Social Security Administration and refuse to give it to them? The Yakima Heart Center will refuse to provide...