Follow-up to previous postings on e-waste, see this New York Times article, Clearing a path from desktop to the recycler, by Paul Vitello. “The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that people threw away 2.5 million tons of electronic equipment, known as e-waste, last year, about 10 percent of which was recycled.” Continue Reading
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New DHS OIG Reports on Classified Laptop Computer Security
Improved Administration Can Enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection Classified Laptop Computer Security, Unclassified Summary, OIG-06-64 (PDF, 3 pages) November 1, 2006. Improved Administration Can Enchance Science and Technology Classified Laptop Computer Security, OIG-06-63, Unclassified Summary, (PDF, 3 pages) November 1, 2006. Continue Reading
Symantec Releases New Internet Security Threat Report
“The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report offers analysis and discussion of threat activity over a six-month period. It covers Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code, phishing, spam, security risks, and future trends. The tenth version of the report, released September 25, is now available.” Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Volume X: September 2006 (120 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Committee Report Finds Data Breaches Throughout Federal Government
Press release: “In a report released today, Reps. Davis and Waxman summarize information provided to the Committee by 19 federal departments and agencies regarding the loss or compromise of personal information since January 2003. The report finds that every agency has experienced at least one such breach and that the agencies do not always know… Continue Reading
CMO Council Survey on ID Theft Tracks Growing Consumer Concern
Press release, October 4, 2006: “As information security concerns among consumers and other customer constituencies rise, just 29 percent of marketers say that their firm has a crisis containment plan in case of a security breach, according to findings of a major research initiative by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council. Without such a plan… Continue Reading
New Coalition Website Takes Aim Against Cybercrime
Launched today, the Take a Byte Out of Cybercrime website: “Led by the beloved McGruff character, the National Crime Prevention Council, the CMO Council and FAME have joined forces to bring together one of the largest and most influential coalitions of private and public companies whose primary goal is to teach millions of consumers how… Continue Reading
DHS OIG Audit of Agency Laptop Security
(U) Office of Inspector General Laptop Computers are Susceptible to Compromise (Unclassified and Redacted) OIG-06-58 (PDF, 48 pages), released October 2, 2006. Continue Reading
DOD OIG Audit of Information Assurance Weaknesses
Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General — Audit Summary of Information Assurance Weaknesses Found in Audit Reports Issued from August 1, 2005, through July 31, 2006 – Report No. D-2006-110 (PDF) – Date: September 14, 2006. “This report summarizes information assurance weaknesses that the Government Accountability Office, the DoD Office of the Inspector… Continue Reading
Operation Cyber Storm Report Released by DHS
Press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the release of the Cyber Storm Public Exercise Report. The report details key findings from Cyber Storm which was the largest and most complex multi-national, government-led cyber exercise to examine response, coordination, and recovery mechanisms to a simulated cyber event within international, federal, state,… Continue Reading
Guide to Collecting Evidence from a Running Computer
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics – Collecting Evidence from a Running Computer: A Technical and Legal Primer for the Justice Community, August 2006. Continue Reading
China Downloading DoD Data According to Warfighting Info Tech Director
Government Computer News: “China has downloaded 10 to 20 terabytes of data from the NIPRNet (DOD’s Non-Classified IP Router Network),” said Maj. Gen. William Lord, director of information, services and integration in the Air Force’s Office of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer, during the recent Air Force IT Conference in Montgomery, Ala.” See also:… Continue Reading
AOL CTO Resigns Amid Continuing Fallout from Data Breach
Repercussions continue from AOL release of user data — from News.com: Three workers depart AOL after privacy uproar and commentary by Anita Ramastry, Privacy and Search Engine Data: A Recent AOL Research Project Has Perilous Consequences for Subscribers. Continue Reading
