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• MTV Security Breach Affects 5000 Employees

  MTV Networks, owned by Viacom, experienced a data breach this Friday, and five thousand of its employees may have fallen victim to the socially‑engineered attack. While MTV is trying to find out what exactly happened, the information so far indicates... Posted Mar 11 2008, 01:32 AM by sang_lee with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, content encryption, theft, device encryption, application control, security, hard drive encryption, data theft prevention, cryptography software, encrypted data, information security, whole disk encryption, secure digital assets, endpoint security, usb drive encryption, file encryption, prevent data leakage

• 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

• Los Alamos National Laboratory: Sometimes Data Security Requires More Than Laptop Encryption

  There is a short article at the AP that makes one wonder what exactly they do at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I’ve read enough technology‑centric books to know that Los Alamos was where the first nuclear bomb was developed under Manhattan Project.... Posted Dec 21 2007, 12:01 AM by sang_lee with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, content encryption, data security, application control, hard drive encryption, encrypted data, mobile data encryption, computer data security, information security, whole disk encryption, usb drive encryption, laptop security, file encryption, prevent data leakage, 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

• Floppy Disks Used To Trounce Data Security In Formula One

  For those who don’t know, this has been a very busy year for Formula One, not in terms of racing, but in terms of data theft. Over the past Thanksgiving weekend I had seen a blurb in a small Brazilian article about McLaren accusing Renault of stealing... Posted Nov 28 2007, 01:56 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data encryption, content encryption, data security, white list, application control, black list, port control, data theft prevention, endpoint security, usb drive encryption, file encryption, prevent data leakage, usb port control