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02 Oct 2007What’s it going to take to encrypt laptop drives?!
So, the latest in the lost laptop world is that 800,000 job applicants of Gap, Inc. now have their personal information exposed. Apparently the laptop was stolen from the office of an "experience third-party vendor". Experienced in what? Not taking security seriously? Apparently the contractor wasn't using encryption which was in violation of an agreement it had with Gap, Inc. You mean contracts aren't enough to protect information? Go figure.Gee ...
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28 Sep 2007
Is Your Wireless Encryption Enough?
After reading this piece about the recently released report on the TJX breach from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, I had a thought about the false sense of security that wireless encryption gives us. TJX was apparently using both WPA and WEP for wireless encyrption but it was the WEP that got them into trouble. The ...
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