A report in the Air Force Times indicates a laptop containing personally identifiable information (PII) about 1,000 West Virginia Air National Guard members was stolen during a training trip in November. The spokesperson for the Air National Guard indicated:
“The Air Force uses some of most sophisticated encryption processes to safeguard information on government computers”
…implying the data on the laptop was encrypted, but not coming right out and saying it was.
Today the FTC released their report, “Second Interim Report of the Federal Trade Commission to Congress Under Section 319 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2006.”
Before I comment on the report, as an interesting aside, one of the authors of the report, Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, was named of of 2006’s “Top 5 Influential IT Security Thinkers” in the December 2006 issue of SC Magazine, but I don’t see this issue on their site yet.
Today the FTC released their report, “Second Interim Report of the Federal Trade Commission to Congress Under Section 319 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2006.”
Before I comment on the report, as an interesting aside, one of the authors of the report, Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, was named of of 2006’s “Top 5 Influential IT Security Thinkers” in the December 2006 issue of SC Magazine, but I don’t see this issue on their site yet.
On 11/28 Oracle released new technology standards for safeguarding data throughout the applications data flow called the Identity Governance Framework (IGF). CNET news reported on it November 30. The article points out that such standards would help prevent data leaks and also contribute to regulatory compliance.
On November 27 the Chicago Tribune reported:
“A printing contractor for the Chicago Public Schools said Sunday that it mistakenly mailed a list of names, Social Security numbers and home addresses of nearly 1,740 former school employees as part of a packet of health-insurance information to them.”
Oops! Another privacy breach resulting from a combination of human error and actions by an outsourced vendor.
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