Data Transfer Broke Rules, Report Says
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A consortium that handles money transfers broke privacy rules when it gave data to the C.I.A., a commission said.
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Credit reporting agencies reported a rush of traffic and a few glitches as a new federal law requiring free access to credit data went into effect.
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Department responsible for collecting taxes, administering other services, admits another data loss.
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Spreadsheet with limited data on more than 5,000 wireless subscribers was accidentally e-mailed to other customers.
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Government Computer News is reporting that a 15-page Inspector General's report on time wasted by workers at the U.S. Department of the Interior has raised such a stir that the Dept.'s own servers have seen major slowdowns due to excessive downloads of the report.
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Data tracking and management policies lag behind the risk involved with mobile devices.
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Company: "It's not supposed to be possible to transfer a domain name from one registrar to another without notifying both the current registrar and the current domain owner, and yet it happened anyway."
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A report released Thursday by the GAO indicates that just one-sixth of the 24 largest data breaches reported between January 2000 and June 2005 resulted in actual identity theft. The report could give support to those who want breach-notification rules eased.
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The state of California has warned residents that their personal data may have been stolen from computers at the University of California, Berkeley, after a database used by researchers there was compromised by hackers.
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File will cause portable gaming device to malfunction, company says.
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A May trial run for the U.K.'s e-voting and e-counting systems resulted in crashed machines, confused tech-support staff, and raised concerns about security and reliability, according to a report released by a watchdog group.
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The State Department is  investigating &quot;anomalies&quot; in its unclassified computer system,  the agency said on Tuesday, declining to comment on a report  that the department&#039;s computers had been hacked.
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Software on the Seine, anyone? Backup in Budapest? VTL from Vienna? And why not. Europeans have far more experience when it comes to dealing with data regulatory issues than we do.
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The growth of government databases on children can split families, says a report for the Information Commissioner.
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The information commissioner on Wednesday hit out at a number of banks and government departments for &quot;horrifying&quot; breaches of the country&#39;s data protection rules.
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The drives from LaCie, use biometrics to restrict access to data and will not work if they've been removed from the case and are plugged into another machine.
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A Web site commissioned by the TSA to help travelers whose names were erroneously listed on airline watch lists had security issues, a Congressional report says.