Posts Tagged ‘Iowa’
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
A few weeks ago I wrote about recent situation in which the Des Moines public school system superintendent’s career was brought to a standstill (it is yet to see whether it is temporary or permanent) by using the public school email system to exchange 115 personal messages, and including at least 40 cases sexually explicit messages, with her lover, married with children highly decorated Army Captain Hintz. Since that time he has been fired from his position as head of Army Recruiting Command, a Des Moines-based recruiting company. So not only was one person’s misuse of her employer’s email system the cause of her own career downward detour, it also has had ripple effects and derailed the career of the man who was corresponding with her, and likely also further ripples out to damage his family.
More privacy and security lessons
In addition to the lessons from my earlier post, this provides additional lessons: (more…)
Tags:awareness, breach, compliance, Des Moines, e-mail, electronic mail, email, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, Iowa, IT security, messaging, midmarket, non-compliance, Omaha, personal information, personally identifiable information, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, public school, Rebecca Herold, Sebring, security, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, training
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Monday, June 18th, 2012
June 22 update to this topic: Today the judge refused to block the release of the emails as Sebring and her lover requested. See http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120622/NEWS/120622012/Judge-announces-decision-on-Sebring-email-release
In the past few weeks the use of emails at work has been in the news a lot in central Iowa, and the news quickly spread around the globe because of the sex and intrigue involved. Basically, approximately four months before the end of school, the Des Moines Superintendent of Schools at the time, Dr. Sebring, started sending what would end up being over 40 very personal and sexually explicit messages to
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Tags:awareness, breach, compliance, Des Moines, e-mail, electronic mail, email, IBM, Information Security, information technology, infosec, Iowa, IT security, messaging, midmarket, non-compliance, Omaha, personal information, personally identifiable information, PII, policies, privacy, privacy breach, privacy professor, privacyprof, public school, Rebecca Herold, Sebring, security, sensitive personal information, SPI, systems security, training
Posted in Information Security, Training & awareness | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Okay, here’s another example of a ridiculously dumb privacy breach that occurred, in Iowa this time, through a government agency posting information on the Internet…
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Tags:awareness and training, Chet Culver, cybercrime, Des Moines Register, Information Security, Iowa, IowaLandRecords.org, IT compliance, IT training, Michael Mauro, PII, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, security training, social security numbers, SSNs
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Tags:awareness and training, google, Information Security, Iowa, IT compliance, IT training, Microsoft, policies and procedures, privacy training, risk management, security training, West Des Moines
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
There’s been enough interesting information security and privacy news here in my own frigid (subzero) snowy back yard in central Iowa to keep me from looking beyond the state for discussion material. Well yes, I did look beyond anyway…what I found will wait until another day.
Yesterday was interesting in that the Iowa Department of Education announced a security breach into their GED database and the Microsoft versus Comes/Iowa class action lawsuit was settled out of court.
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Tags:awareness and training, government, hacker, Information Security, Iowa, IT compliance, lawsuit, logs, Microsoft, policies and procedures, privacy, privacy breach
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