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More Stolen Personal Information…

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

The Associate Press is reporting a laptop stolen from someones home that contained 13,000 Social Security numbers and other information of workers in Washington D.C.:
Laptop With D.C. Workers’ Data Stolen
This is becoming a recurring them. A laptop stolen from an employees home. I see several problems here. First why are these being stolen from the […]

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PGP and GPG - Email for the Practical Paranoid - Review

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

This week I am reading PGP & GPG - email for the practical paranoid by Michael W. Lucas.
PGP is short for “Pretty Good Privacy.” It is a military grade encryption technology for protecting data and is defined by the The OpenPGP standard. The two most popular programs that implement OpenPGP are PGP (commercial software) […]

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More Credit Card Insecurity…

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

The Boston Globe is running a story with the headline Bank loses tape with personal information of 90,000 customers. In this case the fact that data was not encrypted should speak volumes about how seriously this firm is taking the security of its customers data.

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Mass Identity Theft - an inside or outside job…

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

The headline reads “IDs of 50,000 Bahamas resort guests stolen”. How does this happen and could you be affected?

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Observations on Security

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

A person wrote me recently asking about Swiss-Tech UtiliKeys. He was concerned they would be confiscated by airport security.
I have many customers who travel frequently and some that work in Homeland Security. They use these tools. The UtiliKey is the only tool we sell with a knife blade. The others only have pliers and screwdrivers. […]

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