Global Security Watch

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[Litinform.com] Morning news roundup: “United Airlines gets FAA approval for wireless internet access during domestic flights, but the FCC still has to OK it. Some international carriers already provide the service — for a fee of course.”

[Tinfoil Tales] Personal Data for 3.9 Million Lost in Transit: All these institutions have reported data breaches in the last five months, affecting millions of individuals and spurring Congressional hearings and numerous bills aimed at improving security in the handling of sensitive consumer information. The fear is that Social Security numbers, when combined with a consumer's name, address and date of birth, can be used by thieves to open new lines of credit, secure loans and otherwise steal someone's identity. [...]

[Litinform.com] Personal Data for 3.9 Million Lost in Transit: In the most recent incident, Citigroup executives say the box containing the tapes was handed over to U.P.S., along with other items for shipping, on May 2, under "special security procedures" that the bank required of the courier. One of those special procedures, said Citigroup's chief operations and technology officer, Debby Hopkins, included scanning the bar code on each package, rather than scanning only the single bar code on the shipment manifest, which is a summary document listing all the packages being moved in one shipment.

[Bigblog.com] Data Privacy @ Big Blog: WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has decided that most health care employees can't be prosecuted for stealing personal data under a privacy law intended to protect medical information.

[Volubis.com] InfoSec News Blog: Personal Data for 3.9 Million Lost in Transit: It was, however, the latest in a series of recent data-security failures involving nearly every kind of institution that compiles personal information - ranging from data brokers like ChoicePoint and LexisNexis to financial institutions like Bank of America and Wachovia to the media giant Time Warner to universities like Boston College and the University of California, Berkeley.

[Waypath.com] Waypath - Blogs on News: Personal Data for 3.9 Million Lost in ...: Ham-fisted management of customer data continues, this time at Citibank, which announced yesterday that data relating to almost 4 million customers had gone missing. Via The New York Times: Personal Data for 3.9 Million Lost in Transit June 7, 2005 By TOM ZELLER Jr In one of the largest breaches of data security to date, CitiFinancial, the consumer finance subsidiary of Citigroup , announced yesterday that a box of computer tapes containing information on 3.9 million customers was lost by United Parcel Service last month, while in ...  

[Findory.com] Findory : Software Marketing Blog: Kelly Papinchak has started a new blog for PR students and newbies entitled 'Beginning a Career in Public Relations".   Eric Tatro has a new blog called Nerve Center covering "high technology, communication and public relations".   Ragan Communications  have created a blog for their corporate communications conference which takes place in Las Vegas this week. ..(read more)

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