Baich: Data theft problem no easy fix
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Rich Baich knows about data theft. Back in 2005, Baich was where he is now: at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, a published author and star in the tight-knit community of information security experts. Then the roof fell in as Baich's employer, data broker ChoicePoint, revealed that it had unwittingly allowed identity thieves posing as legitimate customers to make off with the financial records of more than 163,000 consumers.
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Security workers warn that encrypting stored data doesn't truly protect it, and you're fooling yourself if you think so.
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As one user found out, crisis may shake management up and send them scurrying to identify disaster recovery solutions that work out of the box, but there's no guarantee by the vendor that they can instantly recover the data with their product.
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Â· Stolen files not encrypted, Browne tells CommonsÂ· Whitehall issues staff ban on movement of data
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The need for accurate risk assessment Dr Neal Krawetz takes a look at the numbers behind reports of laptop thefts and phishing attacks, showing inconsistent metrics and the difficulty in using numbers to determine the real level of threat.â¦
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By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 6--An Ohio University consultant has recovered interview notes and other documents behind its investigation of hacker thefts of personal data from campus computers.
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A new data-protection device will safeguard your passwords and files against theft. The IronKey (available at ThinkGeek.com) is a USB stick with a brushed metal, tamper-and-waterproof shell that simply screams "Mission Impossible."
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Occasionally a computer will become so significantly compromised with viruses, trojans, backdoors, hacked, spyware or malware that it becomes irrecoverable with normal means. Occasionally said computer will belong to a client, family member, friend or otherwise very important person who needs said computer back with data. In most business envrionments user data should be on the server and the following process is not typically appropriate. This process is Windows specific, and will help you deal with Windows less than graceful failures when taken over by viruses, trojans, spyware or has been hacked.    If you do not have data to recover, or an substantial operational need to keep that exact install, then just wipe the drive and reinstall the Operating System. There are times however when you really need to recover a system and format c:\\ is not an option. This process is not intended to be all inclusive, but to give you a starting point so that you can start doing other needed system repairs and or recover files safely. Fundamentally a recovered system that has been owned can be recovered, but never again should be considered known or trusted. It is always better to wipe and reinstall, but it is not always an option.
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A computer forensics expert has found more data that was contained on a state government backup tape stolen in Ohio in June.
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Recovering 736 missing digital images can be arduous -- and expensive. Here's the right (and wrong) way to do it.
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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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Up to 800,000 of the school's students, faculty and alumni may be vulnerable to identity theft.  What went wrong, and what can be done about it?
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The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn't expected to turn around anytime soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information.
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As per suggestions contained in the FAQ: Herein lies a report of two identified and as-of-yet uncorrected security flaws in Scoop. &nbsp;Enough detail will be provided to assist admins in investigating and correcting the flaws, but it is the author's hope that the details of the flaws will be sufficiently obscured to prevent abuse by the undesirables. Executive summary: Through the exploitation of various unchecked privileged operations, attackers may be able to perform admin-level actions leading to data loss. &nbsp;Additionally, well-intentioned security measures combined with XSS vulnerabilities can be exercised to simulate admin-level action, resulting in data loss.
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A spouse and a peer-to-peer file-sharing program appear to be at the center of a data breach that exposed information on 17,000 Pfizer employees -- and maybe other individuals as well. Investigators would like to know why it took the company six weeks to reveal the problem.
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An unprecedented analysis of closed-case data provided by the Secret Service indicates that even an ID-theft conviction provides no better than even odds of jail time for perpetrators. And the median take from an ID theft is no small potatoes, either.
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Identity theft concerns are pushing some counties to take down or black out personally identifiable information from their Web sites but the work remains a challenge.