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• Service Canada Needs Full Disk Encryption Services

  I don’t find this story reported anywhere else, so I’m debating whether it’s apocryphal; but if true, wow—those Canadians are becoming less friendly each passing year. According to NowPublic.com , a civil servant said that “Service Canada did not want... Posted Jul 01 2008, 01:21 AM by sang_lee with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, device encryption, laptop encryption, port control, hard drive encryption, computer data security, information security, whole disk encryption, endpoint security, usb drive encryption, laptop security, power-on authentication, pre-boot authentication

• Disk Encryption Missing From Stolen USB Drive In New Glasgow

  Police in New Glasgow were looking into the theft of a flash drive from the Pictou Country Health Authority office, according to thechronicleherald.ca . Approximately 150 clients were affected, and as of today, about two thirds of them were contacted... Posted Jun 03 2008, 01:23 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, content encryption, device encryption, data security, port control, hard drive encryption, data theft prevention, cryptography software, computer data security, whole disk encryption, usb drive encryption, file encryption, prevent data leakage, usb port control, data at rest encryption

• USB Device Encryption Lacking In UK Police Memory Stick Loss

  Police have recovered a missing USB memory stick containing confidential information, according to an article at The Comet , a newspaper in the UK. The portable disk drive had over 330 megabytes of data, and was found by a passerby in the town of Stevenage... Posted Mar 14 2008, 01:14 AM by sang_lee with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: data encryption, mobile data security, data security, security, port control, data theft prevention, encrypted data, secure digital assets, usb drive encryption, file encryption, prevent data leakage, usb port control

• Hospital Laptop Security: The Potential Consequences or How Patient Information Can Be Misused

  The Star-Ledger has an article detailing how hospital data was used to enable identity theft. It turns out that there were no computers involved in this particular instance, but it shows the potential ramifications of losing an unencrypted data device... Posted Jan 23 2008, 02:01 AM by sang_lee with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, content encryption, theft, device encryption, HIPAA, laptop encryption, data security, application control, security, port control, hard drive encryption, data theft prevention, cryptography software, encrypted data, computer data security, information security, secure digital assets, endpoint security, usb drive encryption, laptop security, file encryption, usb port control

• College Entrance Exam Data Security Breach In Japan

  The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that a personal computer and a memory card belonging to a test writer were stolen. The test writer in this case was writing for the National Center for University Entrance Examinations, which is in charge of creating the college... Posted Dec 19 2007, 03:15 AM by sang_lee with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, content encryption, device encryption, laptop encryption, data security, application control, port control, data theft prevention, encrypted data, endpoint security, usb drive encryption, laptop security, file encryption, usb port control

• When It Rains, It Pours. More Disks With Personal Information Go Missing In The UK

  I’m reading in the Daily Mail that the personal data of 16,000 children was lost at a London hospital (Hmm... The headline says 16,000, the article says 160,000. That’s a huge difference). The data was contained on a computer disk. Thankfully, the information... Posted Dec 12 2007, 10:31 PM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, theft, device encryption, data security, application control, port control, hard drive encryption, cryptography software, information security, whole disk encryption, secure digital assets, endpoint security, usb drive encryption, prevent data leakage, usb port control, cd encryption