Sunday, May 01, 2005

Incident: Florida International University on alert after series of computers hacked

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Once again, a university has been forced to advise students that they may be at risk of identity theft after Florida International Univerist...
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Security problems with hidden data in Acrobat PDF files

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Issues related to "metadata" arise all the time for users of Microsoft Word, but it is pretty rare to hear about problems with Ado...

The Most Overlooked Component of Data Security: Your Employees

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Thanks to Rob Hyndman (via Geoffrey G. Gussis ) for pointing me to a good article on the weakest link in companies that handle personal inf...

Free baby photos: A case study in privacy, consent, expectations and sensitivity

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The blog Boing Boing bills itself as a "Directory of Wonderful Things." It has a huge readership and it often has postings relate...
Saturday, April 30, 2005

Faxing Tips: Avoiding common privacy incidents

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The privacy incidents that have gotten the most press recently in Canada have been related to misdirected faxes. To name just a few: Incide...

Charging fees for access under the Health Information Act

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The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta has sent a pharmacy back to the drawing board after it attempted to charge an additional...
Friday, April 29, 2005

EPIC asks: which digital music service is selling your data?

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This is an interesting series of postings at Boing Boing: Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre was perusing direct ...

Incident: Hackers breach Brigham Young University security using keystroke loggers

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What a day for privacy incidents. Brigham Young University is reporting that some nefarious character (or characters) installed keystroke lo...

Incident: Massive bank security breach uncovered in N.J.

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MSNBC is reporting on what is characterised as the largest breach of security and leak of personal information is US banking history. Employ...

Incident: Georgia Southern University students' personal information compromised by hackers

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Yet another American university has been hit by a breach of confidential personal information. This time, it is Georgia Southern University:...