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New National Survey on Enterprise Data Security Risks

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Ponemon Institute Releases National Survey on Confidential Data at Risk

  • “Stored data presents unique challenges for enterprise security, and the U.S. Survey: Confidential Data at Risk is a first-of-its-kind study on the topic. Derived from a national sampling of nearly 500 experienced information security practitioners, the survey reveals a number of key findings, including: 81 percent of companies surveyed reported the loss of one or more laptop computers containing sensitive information during the previous 12 months.”

    • Public Interest Organization Joins Litigation in Plame CIA Leak Case Against Cheney and Libby

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    Follow up to previous postings on the Plame CIA leak investigation and indictment, today’s press release: “Former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband former Ambassador Joseph Wilson announced today that they have engaged the non-profit, public interest organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) as successor counsel and Joseph Cotchett and… Continue Reading

    Updates to U.S. Census Bureau American FactFinder

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    “2005 American Community Survey – Wave 1 – Social and Demographic Estimates released on AFF: Demographic estimates include sex, age, race, and more. Social estimates include education, marital status, fertility, disability, school enrollment, and more.” For details on the 2005 American Community Survey data products see: 2005 Users’ Guide to the ACS Data Products and… Continue Reading

    DHS Grant to Rutgers Project to Identify Possible Terrorist Activity

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    “Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to lead a consortium researching advanced information analysis and computational technologies to protect the nation. The university’s Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) will head a consortium that will focus on… Continue Reading

    DHS OIG Audit Report on CODIS Compliance Standards

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    DHS Office of the Inspector General Audit Report GR-60-06-008, Compliance with Standards Governing Combined DNA Index System Activities at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation DNA Laboratory, Topeka, Kansas, July 2006: “The Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of compliance with standards governing Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) activities at the… Continue Reading

    FDIC Issues New Consumer Phishing Alert

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    Consumer Alert: New Phishing Attack Claims to be FDIC “The FDIC is aware of a phishing e-mail that has the appearance of being sent from the FDIC. The name “Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation” appears on the “From” line and the subject is, “IMPORTANT: Notification of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.” This e-mail claims that the FDIC… Continue Reading

    Canadian Privacy Commissioner Launches Investigation of SWIFT

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    Press release: Ottawa, August 14, 2006 – “The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, has officially launched an investigation of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a European-based financial cooperative that supplies messaging services and interface software to a large number of financial institutions in more than 200 countries, including Canada, to determine… Continue Reading

    New Database Tracks Earmarks in FY 2007 House Appropriations

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    Press release: “Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today joined a coalition of groups and websites to launch an interactive online database of the more than the 1,800 earmarks in the House version of the fiscal 2007 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 5647). The effort aims… Continue Reading