BALCO case leaks tough to find, plug
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On Thursday, the very same edition of the San Francisco Chronicle that disclosed secret grand jury testimony on steroid use by burly Yankees slugger Jason Giambi also carried another BALCO story
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Boston -- Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system are more widespread than officials have acknowledged, and top construction managers warned as far back as six years ago about problems that could cause waterproofing failures, records show.
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Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters will avoid jail time after a criminal defense lawyer pleaded guilty Wednesday to leaking them secret grand jury documents from the BALCO steroids investigation.
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By By Mariecar Mendoza, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 19--MANATEE -- Workers laid down absorbent cloth along the shore and monitored containment booms in the water at Port Manatee on Monday after 900 gallons of oil used by Florida Power and Light Co. leaked into Tampa Bay.
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By By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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Investigation into media leaks from the boardroom
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By RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press  Company-hired investigators sought the source of a leak.   SAN FRANCISCO -- Investigators for Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Ann Baskins, who spent most of her career with the company, was implicated in the scandal over leaks.
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In corso verifiche, sotto cattedra un tubo con un timer
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Authorities said Monday they are investigating leaks about the child molestation case against Michael Jackson that appeared in news reports.
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Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system under downtown Boston are more widespread than officials have acknowledged, and a new state report suggests tens of millions of dollars
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NASA has decided to replace leaky hydraulic seals aboard the space shuttle Discovery, which might cause a delay in a launching planned for Oct. 23. The leak was traced to the right main landing gear strut, which cushions the impact when the shuttle lands. Early efforts to correct the problem by cycling the hydraulic system did not work as well as officials had hoped, and so âthe decision was, âLetâs just go ahead and bite the bullet and change the seals,â â said Kyle Herring, a NASA spokesman. NASA has five extra days built into the launching schedule, and officials said the work, which requires removing the wheels and brakes, might be completed without causing a slip of the launching date.
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The company's investigation into media leaks has stirred up federal regulators and the California attorney general's office.
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com. Victor Conte, the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) who faces federal charges of illegally distributing performance-enhancing drugs, attempts to shed light
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No one in the business world wants to be held responsible for a breach of sensitive corporate information, but gaining the level of support necessary to allow DLP (data leakage prevention) technology to work effectively remains tricky, customers and vendors confirm.Unlike traditional security technologies that have operated largely within the confines of IT departments and network management teams, DLP projects must include participation from almost every corner of the organizational chart to succeed, according to experts who have worked with the tools.From all the different business units that need access to protected information to human resources departments tasked with following up on potential violations to the highest levels of business management, the issue of data leakage is so pervasive that nearly everyone in a company needs to be involved on some level for critical content to stay under wraps.For DLP technology to have its intended effect, every employee needs to be continually educated about company policies that must be policed aggressively and attached to real consequences for violators, customers said. Simply throwing products at the problem won't work, they claim, because DLP is as much about building policies as it is about embedding IT controls."We have HIPPA considerations to uphold, we don't want to be in newspaper, and we don't want to be embarrassed in today's world for having exposed data accidentally or otherwise -- but it's not an overnight process," said Charles Hibnick, chief systems security architect at AvMed, a large HMO in Florida. "Even though we've been working with compliance regulations for years, embracing DLP is still a cultural change that demands involvement from a lot of people to work."As part of its effort to roll out its DLP program around technology provided by Palisade Systems, AvMed was forced to create a corporate steering committee that included everyone from C-level executives to its HR and compliance officials and even its external legal counsel.If a business is attempting to create a system where employees are expected to follow specific data-handling rules and be held accountable to real penalties when they have violations, all of those parties must be involved, Hibnick contends. "We in IT had to hook up with HR and compliance to make sure that our plans specifically included a review of how the DLP product would be used and ensure that they were buying into the process," he said. "Then the HR director had to communicate with our external counsel to make sure that we were within our appropriate boundaries with everything that we wanted to do and then run it all by the board."Once the plan had been established and the technology's use was approved, one of AvMed's most visible business vice presidents authored a letter to all of the company's employees informing them of the new policies and how they might be punished for multiple infractions, such as sending out sensitive data repeatedly in unencrypted e-mails.The letter was received by employees with some level of concern over "big brother" type monitoring of their work, but making its policies and penalties clear has been key to AvMed's success in keeping its data better protected, Hibnick maintains."You'll always get feedback from users, but when you have senior executives including the CIO saying this work needs to get done, you're not going to get a lot of kickback," he said. "I'd say the two most important pieces of doing this right are aligning the right team to drive it from the top down and making sure that everyone reads that letter and understands the role they play in helping us protect the data."DLP's cooperation requirement in the real world Since getting its system up-and-running and ensuring that employees knew what was happening over one year ago, the company has experienced only a dozen or so incidents that forced it to warn individual users or send reports to those workers' department heads, the IT leader said.Even vendor representatives, such as Palisade Chief Executive Kurt Shedenhelm, concede that the challenging politics of a DLP project often outweigh the technical issues that come into play when working out all the complex data-handling rules that his company's systems are employed to enforce.Some companies struggle to achieve the right level of executive buy-in to force business unit leaders to play ball, while others don't go to great enough lengths to ensure that workers have been sufficiently re-trained to understand new policies, he said. "This issue of internal politics, of who is responsible for protecting the data, who is responsible for educating the end-user, and who is ultimately responsible for enforcement, that's actually the hard part," Shedenhelm said. "In a lot of companies, I think you might find that it's hard to get the business units, HR, and IT people that need to be involved on the same page, but you can't really do DLP without that."In some companies, especially large enterprises, multiple DLP projects may only be put under the domain of IT security and compliance teams, making it harder for those groups to keep their efforts in step without overwhelming end-users.From the issues relating to which business units ultimately maintain responsibility for specific sets of data and who is tasked with enforcing policies, things can get too complex very quickly, he said. "In larger enterprises, where you often have multiple projects looking at DLP from perspectives of intellectual property, compliance, and customer data and information spanning multiple business units, that's where you run into problems," said Shedenhelm. "One of the biggest issues we see is with trouble discerning who is ultimately responsible for handling violations; sadly, in some cases, people clearly don't want to know if violations are occurring on the business side, because then they will be forced to respond."Other experts agreed that the size of an organization often plays directly into its ability to make DLP work with issues of enforcement standing as central disputes.A tug-of-war can break out between security teams tasked with enforcing DLP and those business unit that want unfettered access to data to help do their jobs, according to some industry players. "That's one of the big problems with DLP in general -- organizations are often quite hesitant in enforcing policies, especially when it comes to any notion of blocking secure content and getting in the way of the business," said Uzi Yair, CEO of DLP vendor GTB Technologies. "Businesses want people to be able do their work and don't want interference, but on the other hand, they know they need to weigh that against any loss, which could cost an organization a lot of money these days," he said. "I think it's always going to be about this tradeoff, enforcement versus the fear of slowing down business opportunities, but people need to understand that they all play a certain role."
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By Robert Boczkiewicz, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 6--DENVER -- A judge Tuesday, over objections from Colorado Springs, allowed more instances of pollution spills into Fountain Creek to be added to lawsuits against the city.   Magistrate Judge Boyd Boland of U.S.